Link to us

link to us page

[Crush]

Hi Does anyone have a link to us page with all the code there ready for the person to paste in? Does it work? Does Google look for these page to PR 0 them if the page is called " link to us"?

[ukgimp]

The link to us page would not inlcude code to that page, not if I had anything to do with it. Rahetr it would link to the homepage or another page with sexy anchor text. It may alsoi be prudent to inlcude different types of linhs for them to choose from so they would fit nicely in more pages.

Your aim is to make it as easy as possible for someone to link to you. Make sure you have the code in a form field as it can go pear shaped if you cut and paste from a normal part of the page. Which can confuse the hell out of people when the link does not work.

Cheers

[ozfreedom]

yeah, my links page has the code highlighted in the table, for people to copy directly. That page still has a PR3.

[onedumbear]

Is this what you are after?
<div style="position:absolute;left:10;top:10;width:650;height:81;">
<table width=650 height=81 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr valign="top">
<td><center><font color="#cc00cc" face="Comic Sans MS" size="h5">
<span style="font-size:14">If you would like to link to us, please feel free to use our banner<br>OR if you would like to place a "hotlink" to our banner so you don't use any of your site's server space, just copy and paste this html code<br>&lt;a href="http://www.yoursitehere.com"><br>&lt;img src="http://www.yoursitehere/index_files/ourwwwbanner.gif"> &lt;/a><br>Please do not hotlink to any of the other images on this page</span></font></center></td>
</tr></table></div>

[Crush]

That'll do. I was just wondering if it worked or not.

Thanks

[elklabone]

Isn't a plain text link more effective than a banner?

... guess I'm talking more about Google here...

Banners make it hard to target your keywords, don't they?

[Marketing Guy]

Ive got to say im put off by people who require a link to them before they will link to you and ONLY provide graphic link examples.

I would suggest covering all bases:

1. Title, URL, Description you want used.
2. Actual code for this.
3. A wide selection of banners / HTML code (there is no reason why you couldn't have a small graphic link AND a keyword link within your description! ;)).

Granted, a lot of people probably won't use option 3, but if they do.... :)

Scott

[rogerd]

I include a Link to Us page on most sites, and I've evolved to providing a range of linking options - simple text links with HTML in a text box, DMOZ-style Title & Description links, logos, buttons, & banners. I've even included some topical links to individual directories in a few cases.

Be aware, though, that even if you tell people not to hotlink images, either through laziness or lack of knowledge, some will end up pulling images from your site. Your logs will usually let you spot these quickly.

[onedumbear]

Yes crush, it works for me.
I would like to add that I also agree that you are better off haveing people link to you with a text link. Quite often people will give you a text and an image link.

Marketing Guy, Everything you said..."me too"

[adamas]

Put the images you don't want hotlinked in a separate directory from the ones you don't mind being hotlinked then you can block hotlinking to one while allowing hotlinking to the others.

Shall have to try adding a Link to Us page this weekend.

[creative craig]

I had an email asking for a link exchange for a site of mine, the site has hardly any links pointing to external sites but this site had some very good information so I put a link on one of my pages.

I then got a rather abrupt email asking to me to follow their linking procedure when linking to the site, they also told me how important anchor text is for them... the text they wanted me to use was a 4 lined sales pitch for their site.

On closer inspection I saw their site was new and only had a PR2, I emailed them back saying I understand about anchor text etc but they should be happy with a PR4 link and if they are not then I can remove the link altogether.

Have not heard back yet ;)

Craig

[rogerd]

Overly aggressive link demands are definitely annoying. If I'm adding a link, I'm mindful of the linkee's anchor text needs but I'll avoid overly promotional or hyped language, blatant keyword stuffing, etc. I also anticipate that linkers will alter my links to fit their needs. My pet peeve: webmasters who list the site name, but link the www.mydomain.com text instead.

At least you can make it easy for them by giving them preset code - you are a bit more likely to end up happy with the link.

[creative craig]

In the end they had 4 keywords as their anchor text and also if they are lucky some PR.

[WebmasterFisherman]

Sorry if it doesn't seem to fit here - but what's the "safe" amount of outbound links on a link to us page?

Some posts in this section claim that pages with over 100 outbound links are construed bad by GoogleBot and links there are just not considered therefore can't improve your PR.

If I get this right - you shouldn't post a link on your site to the site with a link to us page containing over 100 links?

[rogerd]

WF, you don't have to have any links at all on a "link to us" page. While some webmasters do combine a links page with info on how to link to their site, I'd recommend separating these functions. Depending on the number and character of your outbound links, they could go on a separate page, be housed in a mult-page directory, or be integrated into the content pages on your site. Overall, if you are trying to attract links you job will be tougher if the page you propose to link from is cluttered with your own promotional info.

As far as links per page, I doubt if I'd go over 50. Smaller numbers of topically organized links will be better; long lists of links get fairly useless, both from a visitor and SE standpoint.

[creative craig]

From Google:

Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.

It only says you may want to break the page donw :)

[sudden]

I have thought about a link-to-us page every now and than, but in the end I always thought people either link to a web site because they think itīs worth it - or they donīt, no matter if thereīs a link-to-us page or not.

Are there any experiences to the contrary? Does a link-to-us page really result in an extra link sometime? Please share your thoughts.

[rogerd]

Sudden, I don't have any split run tests. I do know that by offering a link-to-us page, along with a suggest-a-link form where the visitor can submit his site, I DO get more link requests. I also get fewer "support e-mails" from would-be linkers and the link to my site is more likely to be well-formed. In short, I think it's worth it.

[coosblues]

I too agree that a text link is far better than a graphic link, but I wonder about naming the Link to Us page. These days I shy away from the word link whenever possible and use "exchange partners" in it's place. It perhaps slows down the requests I get because most people looking for links are keying on the word "link". What's the general concensous on the word "link" vs say partnership/exchange?