It is not how good your site is, it is how good the sites are that link to you. This still holds weight with search engine favoritism. It’s about who links to you. Blogrolls, pingbacks, and trackbacks help you link to other people, which gives them credit, but it also helps them link to you, connecting the “links.”
The number of incoming links your site has that have been recognized by Google can be checked by typing link:www.yoursite.com into Google (other search engines have similar functions).
Other ways to generate incomming links to your site include:
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- Add your site’s url to your signature on forum posts on other sites.
- Submit your site to directories.
- Note: Leaving comments on blogs will not help with this, since all modern blogging tools use the rel=”nofollow” attribute. Don’t be a comment spammer.