An important, but often neglected part of maintaining a painting website is website promotion. Many webmasters build a painting website thinking "Build it and they will come.". In reality, there are many painting websites with lots of useful content and relevant information, but they draw little to no traffic. The reason is that their painting website is deeply buried in the search engine listings.

For the most part, Internet users will only click on the first 10 or so results from a search engine (SERPs). If your website is on page 23, you can forget about getting any people to visit your painting website. The amount of traffic to your painting website relative to your search engine ranking is not proportional, but exponential. This means that a painting website ranked #20 may draw 3 visitors a day, while another painting site ranked #10 for the same search term brings 10 visitors a day. The top ranked painting website in the #1 spot for that same search term though may bring upwards of 200 visitors each day.

If you have a painting related website, you are probably wondering now what you need to do to boost your traffic. In order to increase quality traffic to your painting website, it is necessary to exchange links with other relevant and quality websites in the painting industry. This will help your rankings in two ways. You will not only draw direct traffic from your painting link partners, but also get the added benefit of a boost in search engine rankings for painting related keyword searches.

To be listed in our painting resources directory, please read our guidelines carefully.

• First and foremost, your website must be related to painting or paint brushes.
• Your link to PaintBrushHandles.com must be placed on a domain that you own. We will not exchange links with sites that are homepages provided by ISPs or that have free web hosting on Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod, Netfirms, Bravenet or Homestead, among others.
• The main index page of your website must contain a direct link to your reciprocal links or resource pages.
• Your link to PaintBrushHandles.com must be placed on a static page that can be indexed by search engines. That simply means the search engines are able to spider it properly. Reciprocal link resources using framed pages and most dynamically generated (i.e. asp or php) pages are unacceptable. We will make exceptions for dynamically generated pages at our own discretion.
• Your link to PaintBrushHandles.com must be hard-coded into the page as a direct
  <a href="http://www.PaintBrushHandles.com"> type link. Redirects of any type and JavaScript coded links are unacceptable as reciprocal links.
• Your link to PaintBrushHandles.com should placed be on a page with 100 links or less. This is a specific recommendation by Google, which is currently one of the most important search engines. Google's influence is very high, given that they power search results for AOL, Earthlink, Netscape and many others. If our link appears on a page with 100 links or more, our link must be one of the first 50 that appear within the page's source code. Read more about Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
• Under no circumstances will we exchange links with any website that promotes controversial or unlawful activities. These topics include, but are not limited to copyright infringement, politics, violence, hate, discrimination, hacking, cracking, warez, DOS attacks and distribution of virus, worms and trojans.
• Under no circumstances will we exchange links with any link farms or FFA sites.
• After you have added our information below to your website, please to let us know the location of your link to PaintBrushHandles.com.
  
  

We reserve the right to edit or reject any link exchange request.