3.4 Linking to your site

Getting other sites to link to your site is important for a number of reasons.

• It is part of the process of helping users move around good quality information on the Web.



• It promotes networking between related organisations.



• Search engines use linkages between sites as a way of recognising sites that they will want to include in their listings.

Ask other organisations if they will link to your site:

• However check first that they haven't already linked to you.



• When you contact them you will need to send your URL, site title and a brief description of your site and its aims.



• You may need to offer reciprocal linking so check out the quality of their site first to see if you would want to link to them

If you change the address of your site, make sure you redirect from all your old pages, not just the old home page.

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