The Competitions’ Links
They have inbound links. We have inbound links. How can we get some of the traffic that goes to the competition? Links are only part of the traffic-building puzzle. How the competitions’ sites are optimized for keywords, how bot-friendly their site structures are (i.e., if bots can follow all the links easily), and the effectiveness of their advertising are also factors. By studying the links to competitors’ sites, we can learn from and emulate them:

What directories they’re listed in
What other sites and types of sites link to them
What types of content are linked to the most
What customers are saying about them

How to find out what sites are linking to the competition
Some commercial SEO packages can produce lists of inbound links of other sites, for example:

SEO Elite
SEO ToolSet

The above packages offer more than being able to find inbound links. On the other hand, if the competitions’ inbound links are …

Tips from a Web Hosting Provider: Content Syndication on your Website and Link-Building
This article includes tips from a web hosting provider and how content syndication can help build links on your website.
Do a little Google research and you’ll quickly discover that there are a million e-books, seminars and webinars about building links to your site. If your site isn’t plugged into the grid – a stand-alone – you’re all but ignored by search engines because your site has no context. Search engine spiders can’t determine your site’s taxonomy – the categorization of the site into a class or group based on the site’s topicality.
Search engines look for links to and from your site. If you have a lot of reciprocal links (link exchanges), you score some points but you’re not knocking ‘em dead. Spiders know a link exchange when they encounter one so a reciprocal link has less value than …

Get Inbound Links from Authority Sites – Web Hosting Provider
Do you want to have your website rank well in search engine results? Create good content — and get authority sites to link to it.
Search engines treat links to other sites as votes for the sites linked to. But not all links are equal. More weight is given to inbound links from sites that search engines recognize as authority sites. Such links can aid greatly in having sites rank well in search engine results.
However, acquiring those links requires more effort than simply asking the webmasters of those authority sites to link to your site. If a site is seen as an authority site, everyone wants links from them.
What are authority sites?
Websites that a lot of other sites link to as a source of authoritative information are recognized by search engines as authority sites. They have some or most of these characteristics:

Content …

Links Building Strategies from Your Web Hosting Provider
If you’re just starting out in the world of e-commerce and search engine marketing, you might not recognize the importance of site links – connections from your site to other sites. However, links are an important weighting factor as far as search engines are concerned, which is why building links with other sites is such an important part of your new job. This article is provided by your web hosting company and will address some of the more successful link building strategies.
Search Engine Rankings
The number one most visited site on the world wide web is Yahoo.com. How do we know that? Search engine rankings and Yahoo ranks at the top and Google, itself, comes in at number three.
Search engines, like Google, Inktomi (used by MSN) and Yahoo (inventor of the search engine) use complex mathematical formulas called algorithms to rate and rank …

Links Buying: Traction or Tricks
If you’ve been in the search engine marketing business for more than five minutes you know the importance of links – in-bound links pointing to your site. Search engine spiders like sites that are plugged in and linked up. In fact, you can buy links at auction (there are several large link auction sites, the biggest being LinkAdage) where you can create auctions, bid on links from higher ranked sites and create some web buzz about your site that keeps showing up as a link off sites with the same topics.
You Don’t Have to Start at the Beginning
Starting an online business is a time-consuming chore for many people. It’s the adventure of a lifetime for others. If you don’t have the time or inclination to start from Point A, but would rather start at Point B, you can buy existing web links from highly-ranked web sites …