Title: Build Links, Increase Page Rank, Increase Traffic Word Count: 554 Summary: Search Engines in the last couple of years are giving more weight to one way links with a similar theme, these links are a vote of trust and confidence for your website, they are so important that they help your site in the rankings of search engines. One search engine in particular uses link popularity, that search engine is Google. When you improve your link popularity it will eventually move your site up in the serps, this is the goals of every webmaster. Incoming links... Keywords: one way links,link directories,reciprocal link exchange,link exchange,buy links,link popularity,rank Article Body: Search Engines in the last couple of years are giving more weight to one way links with a similar theme, these links are a vote of trust and confidence for your website, they are so important that they help your site in the rankings of search engines. One search engine in particular uses link popularity, that search engine is Google. When you improve your link popularity it will eventually move your site up in the serps, this is the goals of every webmaster. Incoming links are votes to your website; more links does not mean you are the most popular, a combination of links and quality links are considered very important. Think of it this way, if you have 1000 poor links pointing to your site compared to 100 quality links they 100 links are more important to have Search Engines are changing their algorithms all the time and they are becoming very advanced, now they are able to detect natural and purchased links. Link popularity is very important to most major search engines, so when conducting your link marketing campaign try to concentrate 95% of your time on this. Before you start your link campaign make sure your site is a quality site with good content. A Link exchange is a great way to market your website in a very cost effective manner. Inbound links are important because search engines see them as being indicative to quality. To build links for you website it is important to list your site with directories, and write articles, by using these methods you will increase link popularity to your site. Getting one way links to point to your site is gold, but you need to make sure that the links that point to your site are quality links. If you can get one way links and quality links pointing to your site this will help your link popularity and move your site up in the serps. However, filling your website with content may not be enough to increase your web traffic. Furthermore, as your content grows, you will be viewed as the expert in your field. Having lots of useful content on your web site such as informative articles, online tools, facts and just good content will make other webmasters want to link up to your site, by linking to your site this will create more traffic plus help you link popularity. Valuable one way links back to your site Targeted traffic to your website from the directory In most cases you choose the anchor text for your link Human edited directories are great place to place your link, these directories have some editorial standards and are great for advertising. If you are have link on website with high PageRank (PR4+), you will benefit from it and your ranking will boost. You can get the page rank of your site by going to sites online that look it up for you or by downloaded the Google toolbar. The Google toolbar is used to show you page rank of websites, the page rank is calculated by many factors but one of the most important factors is inbound one way links. Surprisingly, writing articles on your topic can lead you to a wealth of link popularity. The more webmasters that write articles the more links you will have pointing to your website.