The first question many people have about one way links is why are they so important? If you compared two websites that had exactly the same content but one of them had one hundred one way links versus none on the other site you would see that the site with one way links had a much better ranking with each search engine. The primary reason for this is there is no reason for one site to link to another without a reciprocating link other than that site determines that the website is an authority on it’s given niche.

A one way link is when a website links to another site without asking for a reciprocal link back. Search engines regard these links highly because they demonstrate that the site that is linked to must be an authority site.

Essentially this means that if a site links to you and you don’t link back to them you may very well be an “authority website” Of course the more of these links the better in the eyes of the search engines. You can easily see why. If you are a website owner with a good page rank you most likely receive dozens of reciprocal link requests daily.

The problem that arises is that how do you get people to link to you without reciprocating? The answer is based in your content. Is your content unique, is it cutting edge etc.? Not everyone has cutting edge content and not everyone has unique content unless you write all of your own articles. There is a simple way to get a form of one way linking that just about anyone can do, it’s called article writing and distribution.

Over the past several years search engines such as Google and Yahoo have placed a great deal of importance on one way links. Included in this category are “back-links,” which are created when your articles are published by another site. The back-link is in the author’s information box where you have placed a link back to your website.

Search engines reflect what they observe. If there are a lot of links to website A from other websites in A’s industry than A must be a subject authority. This is simple logic.

Of course along the way some marketers have figured this out and have created some “back-door” activities that short cut the process. These are called “black hat” and range from auto-linking software to Three-way links: A links to B, B links to C, Clinks to A. There are a lot of processes like this. They aren’t necessarily “black hat” but when the search engines figure it out they penalize you.

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