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How relevant is this site?
Ensure that the site is relevant to yours
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What's the quality of the site?
Avoid if the site seems like spam
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How much traffic does the site have?
Make sure that the site gains sufficient traffic
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When was the Site Created?
The older the site the better
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What's the Site content like?
Make sure it's grammatically correct
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Full of Ads?
Avoid if site is choc full of them with litle content
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Bare Essentials in content?
Be wary if little content on site
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Do they regularly update?
You want sites that regularly update
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What is the layout like?
Easy to read and easy to find links make it easier for you
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What's the Page Rank of the site?
Higher PR is better
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How authoritative is the site?
Use Opensiteexplorer/Ahrefs to determine the authority of the site
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Is the site in your niche?
Links in your niche are best
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Would a link from the site bring traffic?
If not, don't use
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Would you be happy to have a link from them?
You're being advertised on there, so don't use if you're not happy with it
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Can your business add something to the site?
Gaining links from alternative areas that can bring you relevant traffic
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How much traffic does the site receive?
Alexa Rankings can be used as a general measure
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Does the site receive quality traffic?
Check that the rankings are low for your area
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Can the site be found easily in Search Engines?
Easy to find can mean potentially more traffic to your link
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Do they have Social Media integrated in their site?
Having integration means they're more likely to have more followers
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Do they share their articles?
Ensure they promote any article from their site
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How many followers do they have?
More followers = more promotion
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Are they active on all Social Media?
More Social Media gives a better chance of more traffic
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How many links do they have to other sites?
Less is more for your link
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How many links do they have on a potential page?
Quality of the link is reduced by the number of links on the page
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How many links do they have to their site?
Like your site, the more the better
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Where is the link going to be placed?
In the main body of the text has the most value
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Use link exchange schemes
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Buy links
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Post on low quality spam sites
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Associate with material you don't want your business to be associated with
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Use link wheels - A links to B, B links to C, C links to A
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Relevance of Site
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85
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Quality of Site
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75
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Traffic of Site
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80
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No. of links on site
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55
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Page Rank of Site
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40
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Authority of Site/page
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70
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SEOBook
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Alexa
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opensiteexplorer
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whois
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semrush
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Thank you! This is helpful! :-)
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