Link building to a new site

[Pricefilter]

Hi,

I want to start a link building campaign in the next weekk or so, once the site is complete, how do I pursuade people to link to a new site with no PR? Can I psost the link here?

Thanks
Stuart

[sugarrae]

Hi and welcome to webmasterworld [webmasterworld.com]. You can't post the link here, but I'm sure you'll get varying opinions to your questions. You can start off by getting listings in top quality directories, doing a press release campaign as well as media intros in your industry and by finding good sites to advertise on - to name a few...

[Pricefilter]

Thanks sugarrae,

Going to start with directories, although I wanted to get some good quality links form other sites as well as doing some PR, I know people will link if site is good and has content worth linking to but wanted to try and contact a few sites and ask for links or link exchanges - easier if my site was more established

Thanks again
Stuart

[mack]

At the start your link building campaign can be very slow to progress. It does take time to get going.

What I tend to do is search for suitable sites that I would want to have link to me. I thn store all of this in an excel spreadsheet. I then have a column for email sent with a "1" in it to indicate I have sent a link request email. I then have columns for email reply received and accepted, again I just use the number "1" on these columns. This allows me to e a bit more thorough by following up on refusals, and also knowing what sites are worth emailing in the future.

When I send a link email each email is specific to the recipient. For example I specify what page I believe the site link would be appropriate on. I also explain a little bit about my site and hope they are willing to link to me.

It has got a lot harder in recent times to get links, but if you stick at it it can be rewarding.

Mack.

[Pricefilter]

Thanks Mack.

Great advice I have started making a list

Regards
Stuart

[wolfadeus]

Look up an appropriate category on DMOZ and get suggestions for partners there. Check similar sites and who links to them - they might be very good partners, too.