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When you feel like working on getting links, how do you decide which sites to contact?
I often find my self on related or competitors sites and go through all the sites back linking to them and ask for those important links.
What about you?
Go to dmoz & Yahoo directory and mine the cats for link partners.
Find Associations and Clubs relative to your industry and email them for one-way inbounds.
[edited by: martinibuster at 2:27 am (utc) on May 3, 2004]
When you feel like working on getting links, how do you decide which sites to contact?
I'll start with all those requests in my inbox. They don't all make it, and when I'm done with those I usually feel like going out to find a few good links.
As has been mentioned, I might start in a dmoz category, and work thru the backlinks of my competition. Alexa comes in handy as a source of links as well.
This isn't a job that I can do when I feel like it, however. It's got to be done in secret, under cover of darkness, when everyone else is asleep. Otherwise, I'm obviously just goofing off...
Otherwise, I'm obviously just goofing off
*lol* Grandpa, I got that exact same response - mum came over to watch something I'd video'd for her.. and I kept workin on link hunting while she watched. Ten minutes in I hear "So this is what you call working? You're not even reading anything on those pages!"
As for where I look - - all those mentioned above. But I tend to run directory style related link pages, so instead of searching for my keyword phrase, I hit the SEs and search for keywords from my link directory categories instead. Lets me find a few gems that my direct competitors haven't even thought about.
Find Associations and Clubs relative to your industry and email them for one-way inbounds
Any tips on finding these?
Any tips on finding these?
Ask your customers! They usually know which clubs and industry associations there are. If you're lucky, your industry has more than one, which are competing against each other. You can achieve great bargains when playing them off against each other - be it in outbound links or discounts on print advertising.
