“It's
easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”
~ Tom Brokaw ~
“Search
Engine Optimisation To Improve Website R.O.I.”
Practical
steps for generating targeted search traffic to your website.
A
Whitepaper by Paul Miles – Dec 2003
Executive Producer, PiXEL iNK MEDiA Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Off-site
SEO
Off-site Search Engine Optimisation focuses on factors external
to your website, to drive traffic to it. Reciprocal linking –
where your website links to another site, and they link back to
you – is an important strategy for link popularity, which
is a key factor for achieving high search engine rankings.
Every major search engine
uses link analysis as a major part of their ranking algorithms that
evaluate your website's credibility. For them, it is a useful means
of determining which pages are more relevant because it’s
very difficult for websites to fake quality links.
New visitors arrive at your
site from the reciprocal links on other websites. The more links
you have on other quality sites, the more chance of increased traffic
visiting your site. If you build a good links page on your site,
visitors are also more likely to bookmark your site and return again
and again to use it as a reference source of locating other good
sites.