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Please feel free to forward these Marketing Tips to friends and family! If your friends are not subscribers to Advanced Access, they can sign up for our Weekly Marketing Tips RIGHT HERE. How POPULAR is YOUR Website? Chances are you have a competitor in the same town. Is their website doing better than YOURS? You better find out! It's always a good idea to be aware of where your competition ranks with regard to their Internet presence so you can ensure that YOUR WEBSITE compares FAVORABLY. As we are poised at the beginning of a new year, NOW is a good time for you to learn more about your competitor's website! Discover the sites on which your competitor's website is listed, and arrange to have YOUR site listed there as well! Then, go through Advanced Access' list of recommended real estate related websites and make sure you are listed there too. Make your website POPULAR! Although it may require an investment of your time, and in some cases, money, it's fairly easy to achieve link popularity and DEFINITELY worth your effort. Best of all, we are going to show you step-by-step how to take the first steps in making your website more popular. What
is link popularity? Why is it important? Many of the major search engines now factor Link Popularity into their relevancy algorithms. As a result, increasing the number of links to your site can actually improve your search engine rankings. There is still no one "secret trick" to getting good rankings; however, boosting your site's popularity may give it the edge it needs. Knowing who links to your site, and increasing the number of links, is an important part of any web site promotion effort. How to Check your OWN Link Popularity First, go to: www.LinkPopularityCheck.com Enter in your URL (don't forget the HTTP://) and underneath your own, input the URL of some other websites that you know are doing very well in Link Popularity. Then you can see how you rank by comparison. After you find out how your site is doing, let's work on it a bit! To begin improving your Link Popularity, here are a few sites to visit. It is necessary to SIGN UP with each service before your site will be listed. Some of the sites will list you at no charge, and some charge a fee. Another idea for improving your link popularity is to approach Realtors® in different areas and request reciprocal links for referral strategies. The more links you have TO your website from outside sources, the better! In our opinion, this is
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