If you are the webmaster of a website recently launched, or if your website does not have the popularity it deserves, you should take a look at the following 10-step guide, showing you how to get valuable links and traffic levels improve and overall site popularity:

1. Use the power to link automated management of web sites and directories. This is the easiest and most effective way to get links to your website. Some great resources to start linking to other sites, go to:

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2. Place a link or an invitation to potential link partners. There are many webmasters who visit related web sites and some of them might want to link to you. Make sure to provide an easy and quick start exchanging links.

3. Use high authority websites like Wikipedia to drive traffic and increase popularity of your website. Remember that quality is king at these sites, so do not try to spam or quick solutions. It is part of the community and links will be more than welcome.

4. Become a part of the madness of the blogs. Create your own blog (you can do that for free with services like Blogger or Word Press) and start posting on the blogs of others. Try to include a link to your website where the context permits. Blog publishing is effective and has the potential to send hundreds of visitors every week with well-written comments and some only a few subtle links.

5. Join some forums on the topic of your site and become an active member. Try to create the exact name of the user and the same password for more forums, so you can manage your messages and belongings for the better. Some forums do not allow you to place links in messages - unless they are really valuable forums to try to avoid them, as they are of little benefit.

6. Post to other groups and online communities.

7. Use social bookmarking websites like digg.com or furl.com to generate interest in your website. The more interesting the content of your pages is, the more credit you get people that determine the placement of their links.

8. Yahoo Answers is another interesting source of traffic and links. Make sure to become a real factor for the program, not just someone who puts a link without substance.

9. Offer something of value for free to their visitors or newsletter subscribers. This will generate a viral effect where visitors tell their friends about your website. This will lead to an increase in traffic, plus it will allow more webmasters know that you exist, raising the possibility of a link exchange.

10. Use the power of submitting articles. This is another viral marketing tool that has the potential to generate more and more links to the entrance of your website as items that had ever published on blogs and websites. If desired, recorded in some magazines and directories to submit your article for inclusion, for example:

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