10 Indirect Ways to Get to the Top of Search Engines
By Chris Towland
©2005 All rights reserved
There are millions of web sites trying to get listed in the top 20 spots of the major search engines. That
amounts to an awful lot of competition and even after spending hours and hours on Search Engine Optimization
techniques you may still not be able to achieve a high ranking for your competitive keywords!
However, if it proves too difficult for you to get high rankings directly, there are still ways that you can get
to the top... indirectly!
So, just how do you do this?
Firstly, look up the top 20 web sites on the major search engines under the keywords and phrases people would
find your web site. If you could either advertise on those sites, or get a link from those sites to yours then that
would be nearly as good as having a top listing yourself.
The most expensive way to do this would be to buy ad space on those web sites. However, if you don't want to spend any
money to do this, you could use the ten strategies below.
These strategies may not, of course, apply to every web site but I'm sure there'll be at least two or three that you can
make use of straight away...
1. Participate on their discussion boards
You could post questions, answer other peoples questions, and join in on conversations. Just include your signature file
and link to your web site at the end of your messages.
2. Ask the web site owner if they would like a free e-book to giveaway to their visitors
You could have them link to your web site or include your ad in the free e-book.
3. Submit content to their web site
You could write articles for their web site and include your resource box and link at the end of the article. If they publish
it, you'll indirectly be at the top of the search engines.
4. Write an excellent article review of their web site, products or services
Then publish the review on your web site. E-mail the web site owner and tell him or her about it. They may link to your
web site so their visitors read it.
5. Ask the owner of the web site if they would want to trade advertising
If you don't get as much traffic as they do, you could throw in some extra incentives.
6. Propose a cross promotion deal with the web site
You both could promote each others products or services together in one package deal. This means a mention and link
back to your web site.
7. Give the web site a testimonial for their product or service
Include a little text link for your web site with the testimonial. You never know; it could end up on their ad copy.
8. Post your advertisement on their free classified ad section on their web site
You want to be sure you have an attractive headline so they will read your ad.
9. Sign their guest book
You could leave a short compliment about their web site on their guest book. Just include your signature file and link at
the end of your message.
10. Tweak your own web site so that your pages are search engine friendly
There are steps that you can take that don't take long to implement but can dramatically improve the traffic you get from
the likes of Google and Yahoo! Look at our free course detailed below for the simplest way to do this.
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