Link Development Forum

I was interested in this comment:

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Hired someone to do this and have picked up about 50 links this way, but haven't seen any traffic from them and I don't the the SE's are picking up the majority of them".

I have had the same problem, ie I don't see the SEs picking them up hardly at all. I'd be interested to hear some thoughts on that.

BTW: how the heck do I get that quote thing to work when I am using "reply?" to a post?

Where can you find a list of RSS aggregators to send feeds to? Is there a list somewhere?

Donate your skills to helping a non-profit redesign their existing website (or whatever donation you want to make) in exchange for a backlink.

Think of a way that your website may be of use to universities, and how you can squeeze a link from them.

Build a blog about your industry. Collect inbound links. Feed it to your website.

I feel your pain.

When doing link requests, what I do is perform a search of sites linking to a top-ranked competitor. I use the results as a list for link requests.

I find this group more successful than just random requests because right from the start, they are willing to link to sites like you.

(For newbies, this type of search is simple. See below)

On Google
link:www.competitorsite.com

On MSN
link:www.competitorsite.com

1. Adobe has a PageRank of 10 because of all the sites linking to the Acrobat Reader. Create a mirror site for FTP downloads and find opensource developers who will appreciate the bandwidth donation. Many people will link to the mirror sites. Just be careful about bandwidth, and try to choose software with a large fan base.

Here's the strategy:

1) Take a story, product sell sheets, press ideas and other copy relevant to your site, business and products, and parse them for real, relevant Press Release content and ideas.

An example is a client of mine had a 1,200 word article recently crafted around their manufacturing systems in China, providing 90 day turnaround on custom stained glass products... with architectural integrity.

We worked with the PR writer and had him break it into 3 press releases
-Quality Stained Glass with Architectural Integrity
-Mass-Customized Stained Glass made for 1/3rd the cost
-Chinese manufacturing systems flattening the world of commerce

2) Take a press release of your content, and put it on PRWeb with $80-$250 in contribution (try to get positions 1-24 for best results)

3) Do that once a week for 12-16 weeks.

You'll receive from 150-350 backlinks for every release 7 days from it's launch. many of these links will be PR5-6-7-8. Divide the contribution by the number of backlinks to find your cost-per-link (this helps when developing ROI strategies down the road).

CUMULATIVELY (this is the progressive link strategy), each new press release carries with it a link to the old press releases. So after 12-16 weeks of this, you have your legacy press headlines within clicking distance of any given release.

We find that after 2 months, we have 10,000-20,000 backlinks.

By month 6, if we just do 2 releases a month in addition to the 12-16 week period, we have 50,000-65,000 backlinks, and a ton of printed and distributed articles that link back to our sites.

Yes, this is only one strategy... but after paying $1000-$5,000 a month in Google Adwords for just better than breakeven sales results, we've found this to create long-term results that are measurable and easy to implement. (and we'll get better at AdWords as well... it was more our lack of experience in landing pages than Google not performing).

OK, gotta' go now, as I have 2 press releases to complete tonight!

I hope that's helpful.

best,
ME