The rankings that your site has in the major search engine's results, are the most important factor for the number of visitors you have every day. The good thing is that you can modify your search engine positioning with some seo methods. First of all you should know that link popularity is one of the most important issues in the ranking system. So basically if you increase the link popularity your site's rankings should improve.

But, unfortunately things aren't so simple. It doesn't mean that the one who has the biggest number of links pointing to his site will be the first shown in the search engine's results. In time, search engines have changed their algorithms, and now the nature of the links is very important.

If you want increase your link popularity there are three types of links to choose from: one way links, reciprocal links and three way links. The most effective of them are one way links and reciprocal links. I will try to make a little comparation between those two and show you some advantages and disadvantages.

The website marketing strategy based on reciprocal links was very powerful in the past when only the number of links counted in the search engine's eyes. But now if you don't make your link exchange wisely you won't see any results. You have too look for sites that are related to yours and ask the webmasters to place a link to your site. In exchange for that you'll have to place a link to his site on your pages too. This could be tricky because if you are not careful you could link to some sites that are not quite legit and you could get your site banned in the major search engines. Also, if you make many link exchanges you'll never have the time to check them all to see if they are in order. So you might find yourself in a situation when you are keeping a link on your site and the other webmaster is not. This can be very frustrating.

The things are different when it comes to one way links. Because of the abusive use of reciprocal links in the past, one way links have the power now. The biggest advantage of one way links is that you don't have to link back to anything. This way you are avoiding linking to bad neighborhoods. One way links are also more longevive than reciprocal links. There are also many good and free methods to achieve this kind of links. The best one is writing great optimized articles related to your sites topic and distributing them over the net for reprinting. You can also ask webmasters to put a one way link on your site. Having great content or tools on your site will also bring you natural one way links because webmasters will link to you to offer great services to their visitors. You can also leave testimonials for products that you used or participate in very popular forums.

I can tell you from my experience that one way links are the best links that you can get on the net this times. Although reciprocal links are a bit old they still can get you some results. Both of this website marketing strategies can bring you visitors and great search engines positioning. Choose wisely!