First time ebusiness owner here... links question.

Hi everyone, first post. I am a part owner of greatstormgalleries.com, and am looking to build some traffic on our site. We're currently building the links section, because I know that it will help bump us up on search engines.

My question is: do outgoing links from our site bump us up as well as incoming links? Or is it just the links coming in and hits from IP adresses?

Thanks in advance.

Anthony

 

It's the quality incoming links that are the most critical. You can find some to buy in the Link Sales forum here.

 

I have found article and press release submission an excellent way to get a footing in the search engines, along with forums. Also, the long slog of simply asking webmasters to link to your site is one of the best ways.

 

Free web directories can be a good source of links. Try this list http://info.vilesilencer.com

 

Actually, free web directories are usually crap. The only decent ones are listed here: http://www.directorylister.info/free_web_directories.html

 

Welcome.

Here are a couple of suggestions.

Since it isn't directly evident that your domain name has anything to do with the main product you're selling, you might think about rewording your text to emphasize what it is you're selling. Luckily I think the keywords you're looking to target aren't going to be that hard to optimize for.

And although alot of people here will say that meta information isn't that useful, my personal belief is that it still is. So I would make sure to include meta information for your sites pages. (I think this is especially important since you're using a table based layout.)

To your original question. Outbound links (links on your site pointing to other sites) do not affect how your site performs in the search engines. Inbound links do. The more relevant the inbound links the better. In your case you'd want links from sites that are talking about Lincoln, or selling plaques, and such as that. All inbound links carry value, relevant inbound links carry MUCH more value. Relevant inbound links from different IPs carry even more value.

 

Can't a site be negatively affected if it links to too many sites considered to be "bad neighbourhoods"?

 

My understanding is that you are correct. If you link to a "bad neighbor", you are affected, but if a "bad neighbor" links to you, nothing.