I live about a five iron outside of DC and made my living on radio. Helen Thomas, one of all-time great White House correspondents, would always be chosen by President Reagan to ask questions at press conferences. Here's why:..She found out that President had a fondness for color red. So, Helen started wearing a red blazer to press conferences and he would always pick her out of a press room packed with other reporters.

So, in other words... put a red blazer on your web site, drop 50 bucks registering your domain name for several years and show Google, along with other search engines, you are serious about sticking around and wanting to improve search engine rankings.

2. Writing reprint articles and submitting them to article directories Writing reprint articles that is on same topic as your site and then submitting them to free reprint article submission sites is one of best ways for you to increase your link popularity plus visitors. This is because you are writing an article about your sites topic and then you are placing your sites link in authors’ resource box, which then means that your link will be on same page as information about same topic as your site. Placing your sites link in your articles also means that it is a one-way link, which is an advantage to link exchanges.

Some article directories have so many articles that they also include an article achieve so that your article can stay in view of major search engines for some time and also so that you can easily navigate articles more quickly by using achieve. For example, articles directory at: http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/articledir.php has an article achieve at: http://articles.simplysearch4it.com , which lists all of articles listed within SimplySearch4it! database in an easy to navigate and read format.

3. Using forums and including your sites link in your signature Using some forums will increase your sites link popularity, but using these is not as good as using some other forms of getting links to your site. This is because some forums use some sort of redirect so that search engines can’t see your link in forum.

4. Adding your sites link to free to submit general and specialty web directories This is a slow, but good way of increasing your sites link popularity and also increasing your sites visitors. This is because many web directories have good rankings within major search engines, which means that your site will also benefit from it.

5. Writing press releases This is a very good way to increase your sites traffic and link popularity. As longs as you can write a good press release you should see a good increase in your websites traffic and link popularity.