How I would/will go about it

[webjourneyman]

Hi, I´ve been reading the forum for a couple of years and this is how I´m going to go about building links when my site is ready.

Begin by giving links.

Find higly relevant sites for my site and link to them from my main links page.

Find higly relevant pages inside other sites for each article I publish and link to them from same page as article.

Send out an e-mail to everyone I link to and ask permission to link to them. In the letter I´ll say I just wan´t to be perfectly sure its ok but in reality I´d be getting their attention, In 6 months I´ll send another letter asking them to link to me possibly maybe?

And it goes without saying that I'll try to make the content as useful, interesting or funny as possible. A webmaster who links to another only does so (link swapping aside) if he thinks his readers will be thankful that he did. And they will only be thankful if the content linke too is either real useful, interesting or funny.

Besides from this I´d follow the advice given in Brett Tabke´s (he´s like the guru here who seldom speaks, besides from owning the joint) post called : Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone
available at: [webmasterworld.com...]

Basicly what he says in regards to link building is sending out one request per day and keep at it, search engines being wary of sites that get loads of inbound linds all of a sudden, much prefering sites that mature ower time ...

So have I got the gist of it?

[cnvi]

not bad... You have the fundamentals down pat. Update us here in six months to let us know how the fundamentals of link building are paying off.

My only other suggestion/reminder would be to keep email correspondence with potential link partners concise and cordial.

[webjourneyman]

Yes, I see this is where the tough and sarcastic guys hang out ;) And your right on both counts, I should get my lazy ass towards actually doing something about these brilliant strategies I think I´ve come up with daydreaming about the life online.
And in regards to keeping it real with the contacts, not appearing a fake and rather make fewer real contacts than a list of gazillion emails for sending auto-generated link requests. Bearing in mind that each webmaster has probably more than the one site you found a long time relation is a much better idea. And is of course what one should do for real, getting to know other people, especially in same genre/market.

[martinibuster]

Try at least twenty one-way link requests per day. Not everyone will say yes.

And be sure to check out the Library
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