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Creating the Library Website — this week’s module discussion

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Hi! Welcome to this week’s module discussion on Creating the Library Website. Our readings for this module include:

You want links. Badly.

Promoting your library website and making it easier for people to find depends on how many other sites link to you. Incoming links that you get from reputable sites lead to better search engine rankings and better chances of people finding your website.

But how do you get other sites to link to you?

Well, there are actually a lot of things you can do to increase traffic to your site and get people to link to you, but the number one thing is good content. Interesting, useful content is what will draw people to your site, make people talk about it and link to it.

Here’s an easy way to sum it up:

good content =
incoming links =
better page rank =
improved search engine rankings =
more traffic

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