An Hour A Day Keeps The Angry Boss Away

Much time and effort can be spent improving a website’s search engine rank, with the majority of tasks being large jobs that can take days or even weeks to accomplish depending on the nature and size of the website in question. While performing this larger tasks, you should not neglect to perform those smaller tasks that can yield massive results and improve a site’s ranking dramatically.

These ‘hour a day’ tasks focus on ‘off the page’ factors and the creation of inbound links that generate traffic.

One of these ‘hour a day’ tasks is contacting other websites requesting inbound links. In return, there could be some form of payment negotiated or you could return the favor, linking their site from yours. While link swapping can be useful, it should be known that they can have a negative effect if overused. This is thanks to spammers abusing this method of traffic generation in the early days of the Internet. Trading links with a site known by search engines can also have a negative impact on your SEO efforts, but such sites are usually very easy to recognize. As long as you pay attention to who you’re dealing with, this potential pitfall can be easily avoided.

It is also worth mentioning that sites related to your field of business or study linking to your site. As Google and other search engines interpret this as a ‘vote of confidence’ by the site creating the link, the search engines will rank you site that much higher that much faster. Sites that have little relation to yours creating an inbound link is not quite as helpful, though such links cannot hurt your site.

Having your website listed in several directories is also a good idea, as directory links can increase traffic and raise you search engine rank fairly quickly. With directories available on the Web for every subject imaginable today, there is no shortage of potential inbound links you can generate with a little effort an hour a day.

Soliciting links from blogs is also a brief, hour a day task that can potentially yield massive benefits. This is more true of highly viewed and respected blogs that cover the kind of service your website offers.

These tasks can fit into almost any schedule, and the potential benefits of such tasks are worth the hour a day you can spend performing them. Not only are such tasks an efficient use of time and money, but the continuing positive results can be an encouragement to yourself and keep you in positive standing with management, as increasing website traffic is what your boss is paying you for in the first place.

About the author: Rune Risom, commited SEO innovator from free seo service SEOsupporter.com. Also behind web directories like BestLinksAround.com and GuideToTheWeb.net where you can submit free links.