If you are doing pro blogging, you certainly want to increase your google page rank or alexa rank for your site to get more traffic. Google Page Rank and Alexa Rank is the traffic indicator for your site. If you have google page rank high or alexa rank low, it means that your site receives lots of traffic.  Google page rank index is from 0 to 10. The higher google page rank indicates that your site is popular and receives more traffic. Facebook has google page rank 10 and it is indeed a very popular media social site.  Alexa rank indicates that sites with lower number are the more popular site and receive more traffic.  Sites with rank below 200,000 in alexa rank are considered popular.

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I believe that every pro blogger is working on links building for their professional blog.  Links building is part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to bring a higher page rank for your professional blog. If you have many sites link to your blog, your blog crawls to higher rank in the search engine and your blog will receive more traffic.

Conventional Ways of Links Building

The conventional ways of links building that most bloggers do are:

Exchange Links. Exchange links with other blogs to generate two ways links. Of course, you favor popular blogs to exchange links with your blog but the owner of popular blog is often reluctant to exchange links with new bloggers. So, this is an obstacle for a newbie.

Submit Your Blog to Blog Directories. A good blog directory such as Technorati may take months to review your blog especially if your blog is new.  Other blog directories require you to put banners on your blog as an exchange link.

Leave Comments at Other Blogs. Choose popular blogs in your niche to leave comments. Be the first to leave a comment so others will see your comment. Give a constructive comment so others will appreciate your comment and they will be attracted to find your blog. You can leave your blog signature or hyperlink text inside the comment box as long as the hyperlink text is relevant and not spamming.

Using conventional ways of links building will make your professional blog is crowded with a long list of blogroll and plenty of banners. It also takes time to look for popular blogs and leave comments.

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