In the last few months at Inspire Consulting, we've been working with a large number of business owners who are relatively new to the Internet. When it comes to their website, these business owners all have one question in common: how will people find my website once it is launched?

Although specific promotion strategies vary from business to business, they do have a few common elements, one of which involves ensuring effective use of links on your site.

Links are important for a number of reasons. Firstly, they help people navigate your site and find the content they're interested in. Secondly, links from other websites to your own website will help increase your site's traffic. Thirdly, links are one of the central factors in determining how your site is ranked in search engines, and with the majority of Internet users beginning their sessions online with a search, search engine optimization is a really important issue for your site.

Clearly, you need to give some thought to how your site uses links.

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