By: Jennifer | Source: searchengineguide.com

I often equate good link building with relationship building. Since a link basically serves as an online recommendation of services, site owners have to be willing to stake their own reputation on what their users will find after the click. That’s why good link building goes beyond simply putting together great content or a great product. It focuses on securing a relationship between two individuals so that the link follows naturally.

That’s why I think it’s important to sometimes share examples of what good relationship building looks like.

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By: Jason Lee Miller | Source: webpronews.com

eWeek’s Steve Bryant wondered what Google’s homepage would look like if it looked more like Yahoo’s. The purists look at him like they’re smelling onions, but others look at it and think it’s not such a bad idea.

The mockup has everything a Google fan needs: a search bar; front page access to all of Google’s (often unknown) services; a featured YouTube video; a featured Google video; a personalized Google Reader feed; and a big ol’ Gmail box.

In the past, Google distinguished itself from the portals like Yahoo, MSN, and AOL by its clean interface. It’s all about search and that’s what a user sees when he brings up Google.com. To the hardcore search geek it was pure magic.

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What is Link Popularity?

Link Popularity refers to the number of links pointing to your site, from other sites on the web. The Search Engines consider your site important and rank it higher if several other sites link to your site. Type in your domain name in the box below and hit the ’search’ button, to find out the link popularity of your site.

You can also search for this on Google by typing in the following command -

Link: www.yourdomain.com

The above command gives you a selective list of links, usually from PR4+ link pages. For a more extensive list, you may search the following syntax -

"yourdomain.com" -site:www.yourdomain.com

For a detailed Link Popularity report, you can use our Link Popularity Analyzer Tool, which checks the link popularity of your site across various search engines like Google, MSN, AltaVista, HotBot, Yahoo and AlltheWeb.

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