My linking experience

[Fred Mercury]

I have 7 affilate sites that are making decent money for me. All are over 1 year old.

For 3 of these sites, I put alot of time and effort into linking strategies. I wrote to 100's of webmasters requesting link exchanges etc, and I spent many weeks on end, submitting to directories. I got into 30 - 40% of directories and only managed to exchange links with about 15 % of webmasters.

I hardly did anything for the other 4 sites except get them into the major engines. On average the sites these sites are getting 50 - 70 % of the traffic that the others are getting.

So I wonder would I be better to concentrate on building sites and adding content in the future and not bother with time consuming linking strategies? Opinions please?

Many successful sites dont bother with recip links

[Crush]

If you are making decent money get someone to do the links for you. Think like a businessman not a one man band.

Why do all that crap yourself when you can pay somone near minimun wage to do it.

[jaffstar]

The definition of fauilure is to try a different approach. In the link game, you will always get low conversions. By changing and refining your strategy, you will get better results.

Once the strategy is done, get a link monkey.

[Yangtze]

I asked a guy in UK about how much for link development, guess how much? $180USD/hour.

I'd rather do it myself!

[Crush]

"I'd rather do it myself!"

Have fun link monkey :)