An Hour A Day Keeps The Angry Boss Away

by Rune Risom | 8th November 2009

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.

One of these 'hour a day' tasks is contacting other websites requesting inbound links. In return, there could be some form of payment negotiated or you could return the favor, linking their site from yours. While link swapping can be useful, it should be known that they can have a negative effect if overused. This is thanks to spammers abusing this method of traffic generation in the early days of the Internet. Trading links with a site known by search engines can also have a negative impact on your SEO efforts, but such sites are usually very easy to recognize. As long as you pay attention to who you're dealing with, this potential pitfall can be easily avoided.

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.

Having your website listed in a directory can be a great way of generating some traffic. There are many directories out there for a variety of topics, with some being rather broad while others are more focused as to the subject matter they will link to. Some will list your site for free, while others charge for the service.

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.

The performance of these tasks can fit into any schedule, and the benefits such tasks can yield are very much worth the hour you should spend in doing them. Not only are such tasks an efficient use of time (and therefore money), but the continuing positive results can give you the motivation to continue working on your personal site, or make holding your job easier if you are working on a client's site.

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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