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1.) Search for sites that my major competitors link to i.e (go to google and type links:www.widget.com).
2.) When I get these links I print them and contact every site and bargain to obtain a link from them.
3.) When I have as much as possible then I approach my competitors for links from their site.
4.) I then embark on a blogging campaign with a target of 500 blogs every 30 Days.
5.) Then I get random links by typing in "add url" or "submit url" in Google and then take as much over 5 page rank sites as possible.
This is basically the strategy but what I cant understand is that a lot of my competitors have internal linked pages that account for almost 80% of their backward links. Some have as much as 350,000. My website is only 500 pages of content with 200 pages being fluff pages.
Is the internal linking that much of a key to any Link Development Strategy?
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JamaicanFood
Internal links and your site's outbound links are half the game. You might want to minimize links to your fluff pages to push PR to your money pages and link to relevant websites that use your keywords, even if you don't get a link in return.
[edited by: Rollo at 7:46 pm (utc) on Jan. 12, 2005]
1.) Search for sites that my major competitors link to i.e (go to google and type links:www.widget.com).2.) When I get these links I print them and contact every site and bargain to obtain a link from them.
This is how alot of sites jump up in the ranks really quickly. It's called "Stealing your opponents backlinks". 99% of the sites that are in the Top 10 on any search engine did this and alot of people still do it today.
You can actually find software to do this automatically for you to save you some time. SEOElite, for example, pulls the top 1000 backlinks to any site for Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Teoma, and then lets you mass mail the owners of those sites to request a link exchange. I haven't actually tried this feature and not sure how reliable the software is (I only played around with the freeware demo version) because it's kinda expensive ($150US?).
3.) When I have as much as possible then I approach my competitors for links from their site.
Asking for a link from your competitors? I'll bet you that most will say no since you in direct competition with them (selling the same products on the same keywords, etc). I don't suppose it could hurt to try, but I don't think you'd have much success with this.
4.) I then embark on a blogging campaign with a target of 500 blogs every 30 Days.
For some twisted reason blogs are just doing wonders for rankings. Actually there is a good reason, but it's not something that I'll reveal here because I use it to stay ahead of some people for certain keywords :p But you've got the right idea.
Just bear in mind that blogging takes alot of time, or you can hire somebody to do it for you, but that's expensive.
5.) Then I get random links by typing in "add url" or "submit url" in Google and then take as much over 5 page rank sites as possible.
I'm not sure how well this would go because I've never tried it. Interesting thought, but I'm sure that most links pages you'll find that will link to you will have 500+ other links on the same page that your link will end up on and be worthless.
This is basically the strategy but what I cant understand is that a lot of my competitors have internal linked pages that account for almost 80% of their backward links. Some have as much as 350,000. My website is only 500 pages of content with 200 pages being fluff pages.
That's because content on a site is more powerful than linking if you know what you're doing. 350,000 pages of pure content is a gold mine for the search engines, especially if you are constantly updating all of it in one way or another.
Is the internal linking that much of a key to any Link Development Strategy?
Internal linking is much more powerful than inbound linking, but you have to know what you're doing. There's certain techniquest that you need to learn to properly use it, otherwise you'll just waste 8+ hours setting up links in your site and it'll have no real effect.
I will be honest my product is actaully an aspect of a greater keyword. Such as WIdgets and I sell blue widgets. So I will actually love to get links to a WIdget site.
Well guys thanks for the help but i actually want to find out if there is anything else that you think will be relevant.
Any further assistance..
JamaicanFood
point no 5 is good. Then I get random links by typing in "add url" or "submit url" in Google and then take as much over 5 page rank sites as possible.
But you need to include your topic/relevant kw's with any negative kw's to exclude.
so instead of just add url in google it should be something like "add url blue wigets -.co.uk" this would bring up a list of all relevant sites, but excluding any of the sites that are a .co.uk domain.
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