If you have created good anchor text for your incoming links, search engines value those links highly if they are relevant to your site. A link with strong and relevant anchor text will be treated as a “vote” of your site’s relevance by the search engines giving you higher page rankings and traffic to your site. As well as having strong anchor text, the search engines look for a high quantity of incoming links as well. Just remember though, make sure all the sites you link to are relevant in one way or another to your site.
Search engines only want to provide quality and relevant results to search enquiries made through them, so they (search engines) rank sites according to relevance and importance. If the search engines did not monitor the links and available information that is accessible to them, the results they give would not be as relevant as they could be and people would stop using the search engine that was giving poor information.
Search engines have literally millions of websites to rank and they do this by using several ranking factors, one of which is incoming links. Good quality incoming links help the search engines figure out which sites need to be placed high in their rankings.
While the search engines value, and rely, on quality incoming links, they are also wary of them. Some people, for marketing reasons, try to trick the search engines by doing things like building several irrelevant links. While this type of trick may work for a short time, the search engines are very diligent in checking the validity and relevance of links, and these people are found out sooner or later.
As long as you are careful with your anchor text in your incoming links as link up to quality relevant sites, your web marketing will be successful in generating a higher page ranking through the search engines.
For your web marketing attempts you really need to link your site the way search engines want you to these days. What is that?
Honestly.
Link your site to sites that share a common interest. Include quality anchor text and make your link interesting so someone visiting another site will want to click on yours.
Search engines value incoming links because the help the search engines find out what people are looking at, and for, on the web. Why is this important to you? Well, while you may not want to be the most popular, or viewed, site on the net, you definitely want to be in the top ten most popular sites on the net in your category or interest, and using good incoming links can help you achieve that.