{"id":283,"date":"2012-02-07T12:09:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:09:40","slug":"inbound-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/inbound-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Inbound Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s becoming a familiar song.\u00a0 Build links.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not glamorous, nor quick.\u00a0 It takes time for one link, but it still works.\u00a0 Perhaps because it IS a bit tedious.<\/p>\n<p>Organic search results are still the best for everyone&#8217;s Internet experience.\u00a0 Recent tests say 88% of users never click on paid ads.\u00a0 We&#8217;re still looking at the organic search results.\u00a0 That means opportunity for small budgeted businesses.\u00a0 Pay attention to your websites ranking organically.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a links page consider asking your web designer to create one and mange the links.\u00a0 It&#8217;s important to make the links page part of your website, and not let it become a link farm, which will have an adverse effect on your website ranking.\u00a0 Check each website you&#8217;re considering reciprocating links with, both aesthetically, but more importantly &#8211; industry related and their page ranking, make sure they are not a link farm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When submitting your linking information they will want the anchor text (your business name most likely), a description (keep it short but keyword heavy) and\u00a0 the page you want them to link to (typically your home page).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One small step at a time, but it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s becoming a familiar song.\u00a0 Build links.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not glamorous, nor quick.\u00a0 It takes time for one link, but it still works.\u00a0 Perhaps because it IS a bit tedious. Organic search results are still the best for everyone&#8217;s Internet experience.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/inbound-links\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,154,155],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallbusinesswebsite","tag-inbound-links","tag-link-exchange","tag-reciprocal-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}