Saturday, May 06, 2006

Promote your language lessons 1. Importance of Links. How to build links.

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Links are very important
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Every link that is pointing to our site brings more people to it. This is how it works:
  1. First, people are browsing internet, they are coming to a language website of a directory (see for example this page: http://www.hedir.com/education.html ) and they see a link pointing to InternetPolyglot and they like the description that comes with this link and they decide to click it. So they come to our site.
  2. Search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo - they also go to those sites and if they see a link pointing to InternetPolyglot they decide: aha! this site is something good since some other site is pointing to it. And then they (search engines) increase the rank of our site and move it closer to the beginning of the search results visible by other people. And the closer our site to the beginning of search results the more people come to our site. Ask yourself - when you search something on Google - how many pages you go through after getting the resutls? One, two, maximum three - so that is why it is so important to us to get as close to the beginning as possible.
To re-cap it: we need more links pointing to our site so that more people come to our site. In the following articles I am going to describe what we can do to increase the number of links pointing to InternetPolyglot.

How to build links to your lessons.

Now let's talk about what the link to your lesson should look like. Let us say, for example, that your are the author of Spanish lessons. The code for Spanish is es and the links to your lessons will look like this:

http://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-es-en - Spanish-English lessons
http://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-es-fr - Spanish-French lessons
http://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-es-nl - Spanish-Dutch lessons
http://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-es-ru - Spanish-Russian lessons
http://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-es-ja - Spanish-Japanese lessons
and so on.

These are the important rules that you need to follow when you build a link to your lessons:
  1. It should always start with http:// - this way search engines find it better and idex it better
  2. It should always contain www. - although you can type the address in the browser without it, it is again very important for search engines.
  3. Always check that the link points to the right location after you place it anywhere - click on it and see that it opens the right page
Below are the codes of all languages that currently are supported by InternetPolyglot:


Albanian sq
Arabic ar
Belarusian be
Bulgarian bg
Catalan ca
Chinese zh
Croatian hr
Czech cs
Danish da
Dutch nl
English en
Estonian et
Finnish fi
French fr
German de
Greek el
Esperanto eo
Hebrew he
Hindi hi
Hungarian hu
Icelandic is
Indonesian id
Italian it
Japanese ja
Korean ko
Latin ln
Latvian lv
Lithuanian lt
Macedonian mk
Norwegian no
Polish pl
Portuguese pt
Romanian ro
Russian ru
Slovak sk
Slovenian sl
Spanish es
Swedish sv
Thai th
Turkish tr
Ukrainian uk
Vietnamese vi

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