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What are other ways to get links besides reciprocal linking?

         

MrMojoRisin

7:40 pm on Aug 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

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What are other ways to get links besides reciprocal linking?

thanks

silverbytes

8:48 pm on Aug 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Became an authority and links will come with time. Of course that's a lot of work.

jaffstar

11:22 am on Aug 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Became an authority and links will come with time. Of course that's a lot of work.

LOL!

Build content and people will link to you :P

Other Sources:

Buy Links
Press Releases

Murdoch

1:14 pm on Aug 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Depends on what your site is on. If it is an interesting enough topic (commerically or educationally) then you can do article syndication. This has worked well but it takes a lot of time, talent and there's always the chance happening that duplicate content filters will take over.

You can build a web tool for your subject of choice and distribute it free with an imbedded link to your site, so that if anyone places it on their site you have an automatic link.

If you have the capital, I will second the notion that buying links is an excellent way to pick and choose your arena, but the upkeep and overhead are particularly painstaking.

Do web design work for people and make it mandatory that your "credit" be placed via a link on their site

Inform bloggers that follow the same subject as you to check out your site and if they write something about it ASK if they can place a link to your site from their blog. Do NOT just try to throw an HTML into their blog. This is not only counterproductive to good business but just plain rude.

All in all, if you don't have the dough, you gotta create hype. Ask friends and family with websites to link to you. Ask random strangers to link to you (works more often than you might think) and remember that reciprocal linking still DOES give you a boost, just not as much of one as a one-way. Recips help quite a bit if you are just starting out, and triangle linking still can throw off the bot, but they are getting much better at figuring this out.

phantombookman

1:55 pm on Aug 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Just build a worthwhile site. All my sites rank top 3 for their most competitive searches with 1000s of #1 matches.

I have never asked anyone for a link, a couple of links from my own sites and submit to dmoz - that's it, let the site do the rest.

I can obviously see that in certain areas, gambling, pharmacies etc, have to play a different game though.
Good Luck

martinibuster

5:24 pm on Aug 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

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  • Buy domain names that are abandoned by their owners
  • Buy text links
  • Instead of doing a press release go to Google News and type in the name of your industry and find articles written as part of a column or section (like the Technology Section, Home Living Section, etc.), gather the email addresses of the writers (many of them, especially at Knight Ridder, are free lancers that have other jobs) and email them with an article idea that features your comments etc.
  • Careful directory submissions (do your research before submitting because there's a lot of garbage out there)

angiolo

6:46 pm on Aug 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

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> Buy text links

It works, but the trend in these days is that you have to pay yearly....( or monthly...).

sugarrae

12:36 am on Aug 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

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>>>Instead of doing a press release

Always love that one MB.

Also, create something worth linking to.... viral do dads, useful do dads, content for use on other sites with a byline, etc.

jk3210

1:23 am on Aug 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

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<<Careful directory submissions (do your research before submitting because there's a lot of garbage out there)>>

Yeah, they might be wearing a kick-me sign on their back. ;)