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Backlinks Lesson #4 - Link Popularity Software

How are you? We’re winding down to the end of this short course. But we still need to go over a few things that will help you run a successful link building campaign.

In today’s lesson we are going to talk a little bit about link popularity software that you can use to check your search engine rank, manage and monitor your backlinks.

As you have learned from your lessons, link popularity refers to the number of backlinks you have to your website. You have also learned that this number is important is because the higher your link popularity, the better you look to search engines, the higher up you will appear in search engine results, and the more traffic and sales you will get out of your website.

In you last lesson we talked about doing a quick backlink check in Yahoo. Using link building software is another way that you can check your search engine rank, plus manage and monitor your backlinks as well.

Using the right software can help you find new backlinks and track existing ones. Believe it or not, you could actually be linked to other websites without even realizing it. But it’s important that your know where your links are originating from.

Always keep in mind that you want them to come from quality sources, not link farms or other non-reputable sites. The right software can actually allow you to do the necessary research about which sites to use in order to become more highly ranked by the search engines.

Can you do all of this work without software?

Yes, but it takes a great deal of time and, if you are new to the whole “link building” concept, then you also need to learn quite a bit about how to go about it the most effective way. Software can save you an enormous amount of time and effort. As you let a system do your work for you, you can still continue to learn about link building and have time to do other business-building activities as well.

But as far as business building goes, the concept of link popularity is extremely important if you want to have any kind of presence online. And, in order to succeed in today’s economy, you need to be present online.

Link popularity software can offer you a wide range of strategies for generating traffic as well as for building links. It can help you monitor the ranking of your website in the various search engines, find high page ranks easily and even find the right affiliates to sell your products. It can also monitor reciprocal links on affiliate sites and show which pages are indexed in search engines.

You can choose to go with the free software and then upgrade to other link-building services that the software providers usually offer. However, it’s important to make sure you do your research and take a look at several services before picking one to handle your website’s link popularity improvement.

That’s it for today’s lesson. In your next and final lesson we will talk about buying links and whether or not it will help your search engine ranking.

I’d love to hear from you! Please let me know what you think and remembers if you have any questions or need any assistance please feel free to contact me at anytime.