Not everyone understands how search engines decide which pages they will display at the top of a search. It is important to the success of your site to know that some search engines, most notably #1 Google, consider links from other sites to yours as "votes" indicating the importance of your site.

Links from sites related in content to your own, and/or specific to your area, are especially valuable, and links from higher ranking sites, even more so.

Google also pays attention to how much traffic a site gets. The more people visit your site, the more important Google thinks it is, and ranks it accordingly.

Having a link on OCVH will bring you traffic in two ways: directly from the site, and by advancing your rank in search engines. Our listing pages have a good Google ranking so having a link FROM our site to yours, and getting direct traffic to your site from our link both increase the value of your site in Google's eyes.

A link on YOUR site TO us helps us in a small way also. Though most of the sites that link to us do not have our ranking, the number of rentals that link to us helps to increase our rank. Since the better we do, the more traffic and link value we can send your way, it's a win-win. This is why we ask for a reciprocal link before adding yours to our site.

And you can add the link to us from any web-bot friendly page on your site, to either our home page or any one of our listing pages.

So take it from me, as a webmaster and Search Engine optimization specialist, targeted linking is a big advantage for your site.