Most
widgets will take
traffic away from you - as well as many
blogrolls - when i do a search for my
website using the site name the many other sites come up because that sitename is
embedded in theirs as a link - so your
pagerank goes up from such
reciprocal linking but not in the sense of
Deep Linking and other sites get to take some of your result standings (positions) through use of yout site name or
link word used
embedded. I sugggest that you use your sitename
embedded in links on your own site too and also to embed your
keywords as links to your sites in
forums and other
websites and
blogs (comments) that receive lots of
traffic - as well as including the url of your website in your
profile or
signature, this will increase your
traffic greatly. Of course, you should also post on
relevant sites that are topic related to yours, so the traffic that visits your site is
optimized, and will be interested in the content of your site.
Reciprocal linking is great for
pagerank and also traffic (if the site linking to you displays your link visibly to a highly visited page), but it also has a disadvantage of stealing
page position in the search results from you.
Deep linking however also gets you in the search engines, and brings you direct traffic if posted in the right places at the right time, and on the relevant subjects. :)
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