Mining Your Inbound Links

Once you've established a relevant keyword set for your website, a great place to start putting it use is in your site's inbound links. Inbound links are an important element of achieving high search engine rankings. Search engines take into account both the quality and quantity of inbound links directed to your site. So what makes a link of better quality? Links from site's of subject matter similiar to your company, that consistently add new content and have lots of quality inbound links are a great place to start.

To check the number of inbound links to your site, use this query in the search box on Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com or any other search engine:
link:www.yourcompanyname.com

Here's a great article on the "Fundamentals of Link Building" - http://www.audettemedia.com/blog/link-building-fundamentals - to help you get started.

Try to set a goal for yourself like adding 1 link per day, and you'll see results add up quickly.