Link Development for a New Site

What is the best way to proceed?

[BirdyAtl]

Hello,
I am just starting off and ready to promote a site. What is the best way to intitiate the links. Is the software that useful?.

How did you guys start off and build the link relationships. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks A Great Deal,
BirdyAtl

[edited by: martinibuster at 6:45 pm (utc) on Aug. 25, 2005]
[edit reason] Tos#7 [/edit]

[guitaristinus]

Welcome to webmasterworld.

I link to it from other sites I own. Find other sites that are about the same subject as yours and ask the owners to link to you. Try getting it listed in ODP (that may take a long time.) I've never used any software.

[Roadkill]

I'm in kind of the same boat. My site has been up and running for a while now. But I have just started to look into and want to try linking. Really dont know what I'm doing, or who to trust.

My site has 3500-4000 uniques daily wich puts page views in the millions.

The only exchanging I've done as of latley is a banner exchange program. which seems ok, I guess.

Any how to or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[Jackblack]

Yeah I too am considering buying seo softwar. the one I am looking at for the moment is somthing called Submit Wolf by Trilion I think is the company. I was wondering how you guys go about submiting your webpage to the various search engines? Like were do you start? I have done google, MSN and a fe others but it is hard to find them all. Plus i refuse to pay to get listed.

[studentcomp]

I think you should get sample codes from the internet or books and you understand it and modify it to your own. in this way, you will learn from different codes just like what i did

[vaib]

Ill advice you to get the site in all the SE friendly directories .... that can get you some good back links...

Either you can spend some days and do it yourself or can use a manual directory submission company.

I have used the second option many times and have experienced good results from the same.

[sugarrae]

Honestly, the links that can usually do the "most" for you in the search engines are the ones who actually are the best for your site in general if engines didn't exist.

Work on promoting your site as a marketing effort and just be mindful of SEO attributes those promotion efforts should contain. Get a link because it can bring traffic or exposure (marketing effort) - be mindful to make sure that link is a direct link and uses some desireable anchor text (SEO attributes).

You can go on a mass link campaign, but the sites I've seen last the longest and survive most algo shifts are ones where the link building makes sense wholeheartedly from a marketing standpoint and take SEO into concern.

Promote yourself with articles, tools, swaps within content, in directories that have traffic - there are a ton of ways to get links. You just have to get ones that make sense. If it would make a user go hmmm, then it likely would an engine as well.

Link smart or link hard - link for tomorrow or link for today - it all depends what you want to achieve.