Register your own website (for free) and find out your pagerank and number of existing links. On the registration webpage, you will be asked for your website address, email address, password (twice for confirmation). Your email address and password will be required for logging in on later occasions, and your email address will be used for messages from crosslink builder advising you of your current google pagerank and reported links, plus other messages.

Optional items that can be filled in on the registration webpage are name, postal address, telephone number, mobile telephone number and description of your website. The optional contact details give crosslink builder more ways to contact you if necessary. If description of your website is filled in, then an entry will be placed in the public directory on the crosslink website advertising you website, email address and name only to invite anyone who wishes to exchange weblinks with you.

Once you have completed registration, you will be taken to the control webpage. This shows a list of websites (if any) that you are thinking about exchanging links with, plus various options in green boxes.

The fastest way to start adding a link is to type in the website address you wish to exchange links with in the FASTTRACK box and then click on the button "FASTTRACK build a web crosslink NOW!". This then takes you to a "Create and send an email" webpage. Here you will see an email message filled in for you ready to send. You can change the email address, name, subject and text before clicking on "Send email now" to cause the email to be sent off. After the confirmation screen, you will be taken to the contacts webpage where you will see that this 1 contact (an email) has been recorded against the website. Returning to the control page, you will see the website listed. Note that the outbound link is set to remain effective for 30 days, giving sufficient time to get conformation of an inbound link from the other website. If this confirmation is received, then you can click on "update this link" to set the expiry to be indefinite.

A slower method but with more options is to click on "add a new outbound link from by website" in the green box. This takes you to "Add outbound link" webpage. Again you put in the website you are thinking of linking to. You have the option of putting in anchor text - this is the text that will appear in your new "useful sites" webpage on your own website, which will be clickable and will click through the the website. Otherwise the website itself will be shown as text and will be clickable (hyperlink). An optional descriptive paragraph can be entered - the text will appear to the right of the website link, and will not itself be clickable. You can select an expiry date for the outbound link from non-effective, or some days or weeks duration, or indefinite. Finally you can record the proposed webpage destination of the return link, i.e. where you want the other website to link to you. If left blank, it will assume the home page of your website.

Show my registered details button will allow you to see your details as entered on your registration form.

Update my registered details button will allow you to amend your registration details.

The control page will show one line for each website you are thinking about linking with. Each line has some options. Clicking on Update this link will allow to amend existing link details. Clicking on Contacts brings you to the contacts webpage. This show any existing contacts recorded, and you record a new contact within the green box and click on Add new contact. You can also click on "Create an email" to send out. You can also click on Create and email on the control page.

You can click on the green up and down arrows to change the order of the websites - this will change the order they are shown in the "useful lnks" webpage which cab be set up in Step 3 below.