Need Outbound Links

[SlowMove]

I have a shopping directory site. It's a mix of reciprocal links, affiliate links and other store links. Because of the nature of the site, the links are the content.

Since most of the hits from search engines are for keywords in directory listings, I'm trying to fill the directory as quickly as possible.

About half the sites submitted include a backlink, so I don't require reciprocal links. Any suggestions on how to build up a lot of quality outbound links (with content) while staying away from the link farmers and spamdexers?

I've got forms on the site, but I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to speed up the process

[takagi]

It might be against the TOS of Google, but why not use Google to find relevent sites for some topic? Try this:

http://www.google.com/ie?num=100&q=widget

This will give a SERP with up to 100 links with relative few text. Open the source of the SERP in a text editor. The URLs in the source will always be in the form

HREF=http://www.example.com/>

or

HREF=http://www.example.com/sub1/sub2/>

Make some program to filter everything on the line before

HREF=http://

and filter everything after the next

/>

and you have up to 100 quality links. Maybe you need to remove some doubles (2 URLs of same site). Or you might prefer the domain name instead of a sub page. But that is up to you.

[topr8]

having tried the above last year as an experiment - i would not recommend it, unless you fancy a grey toolbar.

[SlowMove]

That's a good idea. Maybe I'll try it with another search engine though. I don't want to get banned on Google.

[Symbios]

<Make some program to filter everything on the line before>

Excel works well for this, do a search and replace on textpad or notepad and put tabs in after http://

Save the file as .txt, drag it into excel, delete the columns you don't want, put in <a href="http....etc into a cell before the first url, do a drag fill, use this method to generate the rest of the code, paste it into textpad, remove all the tabs using search and replace.

[SlowMove]

Thanks for the help. I'll probably run all the text through something like The Dialectizer to avoid that gray toolbar. Great idea!