The best way to get link is by visit a certain web site and email web master to exchange link. Type a keyword or a phrase related to your web site, write down web page ranking below 15. Choose web site carefully. List down web site that is only matched with your web site's theme.Visit their web site one by one then get thier web master email, and email them personally asking for link exchange. Be very careful when write an email for asking for reciprocal link. You would not want your email is labeled as spam, wouldn't you?

Why only web site rank below 15? This is because I personally think these website will not ignore your email because they themselves want to exchange link with other web site to get to top 10 in search engine. For a better result, create a new page especially for exchanged links. Add those URL links in this page, and only after that invite other webmasters to exchange link. But do not put more then 20 links in a page. If webmaster do not want to exchange link, delete his link from your page. Do not forget to record your progress. Verify links on reciprocating web pages and check for dead links every week. You will increase your link popularity, improve your position in search engine and soon watch number of visitors coming to your web site grow every day.

Disallow: /duplicate/

The * after user-agent says that this action applies to all crawlers and /duplicate/ after disallow tells all crawlers to ignore this directory and not search it. For each user-agent and disallow line there must be a blank space between them in order for it to function correctly. So this is how you would create above two commands into a robots.txt file:

# this identifies wayback machine

User-agent: ia_archiver

Disallow: /

User-agent: *

Disallow: /duplicate/

One thing to note that is very important: Anyone can access robots.txt file of a site. So if you have information that you don't want anyone to see don't include it into robots.txt file. If directory that you don't want anyone to see is not linked to from your web site crawlers won't index it anyway.

An alternative to blocking indexing of your site is to put a meta tag into page. It looks like this:

You put this into tag of your web page. This line tells robot crawlers not to index (search) page and not to follow any of hyperlinks on page. So as an example tells robots crawlers to not index page, but follow hyperlinks on this page.

Did you know that Google has its own tag?

It looks like this: This tells Google robot crawler not to index page, not to follow any of links, and not to keep from storing cached versions of your web site. You will want this done if you update content on your site frequently. This prevents web user from seeing outdated content that isn't refreshed because of storage in cache.

You can use tag to specifically talk to Google's robots to avoid complications or if you are optimizing your site for Google's search engine. This concludes this month's article.

Until next article have a great day!

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