Elevating the "Link Popularity" Factor.

Crucial Success-Question: "WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLITICAL ELECTIONS AND A SUCCESSFUL INTERNET BUSINESS?"

Answer:
"Actually there is no difference. In both cases votes are the inoculation; Politicians get the power by popularity, and Web businesses receive traffic, higher search engine rankings plus visitors, by link popularity."
George Papazoglou, October 15 2001. 
Web-site-promotion.gr 2001 Agent seminars:Thessaloniki/Greece.

The comeback is obvious. Looks like that the most prevailing businesses' secret on the Web, just like the real world, is link popularity. 

Google also has a very specific answer on "What is Link Popularity?".

Text taken from the Google site:
Google explains quite characteristically its ranking algorithm (Pagerank in name):
"PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
As you probably know, Link popularity can be enhanced via:
->Link exchange strategies
->Site popularity services
->Site popularity promotional tools
Link-farm services (not recommended)
->Associate programs
->Posting articles

Putting all the above into a strategic schema, your web site's popularity will surely improve. But here's the catch-22 again...

Your almighty competitors are already using these tactics and they're using them good, actually severely good.
As the Web grows at incalculably paces, you'd need far more than saturated, conventional methods.

What you really alarmingly necessitate, is unconventional methods to drastically promote your business in the battlefield of severe competition.

Your business *screams* for unused and "Virgo" site-promotion schemes to march your business to the next level, and skip-over profligately programs, which millions of disaster-prone business models are gummed to.

Elevated Link Popularity is your roadway to a fruiful online business.