An Hour A Day Keeps The Angry Boss Away

A great deal of effort and time can go into improving a website's rank in search engines, with a majority of the tasks potentially taking days or weeks depending on the size and nature of the pages in question. These large, monumental tasks are a necessary part of any SEO plan, but there are also several smaller, more compact tasks that you can preform for an hour a day both during and after your site's SEO overhaul that can cause a large jump in your page's rank on the results pages of several search engines out there.

These 'hour a day' tasks can, as you guessed, be performed an hour each day to draw in inbound links and drive your website's page rank through the roof.

You can contact webmasters of other sites and request for them to link back to you. Generally, you have to promise something in return, which can range between returning the favor to payment of some kind. Be sure that the website(s) you link to or trade links with sites are infamous for the use of reciprocal links. Thanks to spammers abusing them in the past, sites that participate in a great deal of link swapping may actually be penalized by search engines today, and any sites linking to theirs may drop a few places in search results with them thanks to the association. Generally, it can be easy to spot sites that may do more harm than good to your page rank.

It is also worth mentioning that sites related to your field of business or study linking to your site. As Google and other search engines interpret this as a 'vote of confidence' by the site creating the link, the search engines will rank you site that much higher that much faster. Sites that have little relation to yours creating an inbound link is not quite as helpful, though such links cannot hurt your site.

Getting your site listed in directories is a good way of generating some traffic and increasing your search engine rank, and there are directories focused on every topic imaginable. These, along with the more board directories that host a variety of sites, give you plenty of options for generating inbound links. As with most services on the web, there are directories that will host a link free of charge while others require payment.

Getting blogs to link to your website is also a task that can be performed briefly each day. This task, like the others mentioned above, can bring rich reward – even more so if the blog regularly covers subjects related to your website.

These simple tasks that can be performed briefly each day are a natural fit into almost any schedule, and the potential benefits such tasks have make them worth the time. Not only are such tasks an excellent use of time and money, but the continuing great results will put you in a positive light in terms of how your boss will look at you.

About the author: Rune Risom, a veteran SEO expert from search engine optimization service SEOsupporter.com. Also behind web directory Guide To The Web.

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