The Importance of Supplier Listings
Gaining supplier listings for SEO
One of the top ranking factors in how a search engine will rank your website is external link popularity based on the quality and the number of links pointing to your site. Quality is always better than quantity and gaining a link to your website from one of your suppliers is a really easy way to gain a great quality link, in turn giving you some great link juice!
The majority of brands and supplier names are well known in the world; their websites can be a hive for traffic and sometimes the first place people will go to when looking for something specific. Most brands have a supplier listings section on their websites that list who they supply to and often will include a link to the website.
People tend to have a good relationship with their suppliers but if you haven’t had much contact with them – not to worry. Just go through a list of your suppliers and check to see if they have a supplier listing section on their website. Drop each one a quick email or phone call asking them to add your details to their list, and ultimately they will link to your site.
This is a really easy way of gaining top quality links to your website, which in turn will do you wonders with the search engines as well as driving a vast amount of quality targeted traffic to your site. It may take a little while contacting your suppliers for listings but the results will definitely be worth your time.
Just another quick and easy tip brought to you by your SEO team at Intelligent Retail.