Link Popularity – Free Tool

As you probably know, getting links from other related websites that have similar content to yours is one of the most important techniques you can use to get visitors (traffic) to YOUR website. If you do it just right, you can get extremely TARGETED traffic, meaning that the people visiting your site are already interested in the type of site that you have.

Backlinks

Getting links is also important for another very good reason. Search engines such as Google and Yahoo (and all of their related sub-engines like Alta-Vista etc.) are primarily interested in RELEVANCE. In other words, how ‘related to the search-term used’ is the website (the Keywords the people are using being the search-term).

Therefore, when the search-engine spiders (the crawler software that continually scans the web) see that there are lots of links to YOUR website, they will rank you higher and you will find yourself being listed in the earlier results-pages.

Quality Of Backlinks

How much better will your ranking be? Well, that depends upon how many links you have, and the quality of the links (links from websites that THEMSELVES have links to them).

But how do you KNOW how many links you have? And WHO is linking to you?

There is an excellent free tool from MarketLeap called Link Popularity Check. You can find it here:

Link Popularity Check.

WHY do you need to know how many sites are linking to you? Because you will then know which type of marketing is working for you, whether it’s your articles, your press-releases, your blogs etc.

The tool also shows you who is linking to you.  If you click on the actual number (showing you the quantity of links) this will take you to a page with the actual sites that are linking to your site, so you can go to their website and see how they linked.

This is a VERY cool tool. It isn’t 100% accurate, but it’s FREE, so I would urge you to take advantage of it.

Luke