Powerful Link Building Strategies - part 2
Well, they say that you have to look for quality link
partners. Maybe there’s some truth to it when you see that
Google are giving ‘ranks’ to websites with their PageRank.
And they also say that you have to find related website.
When you say related, I would say that you have to look for
websites that are NOT directly related.
Why?
Well, if you have a website about Nokia cellphones, do you
think that another website about Nokia cellphones is going
to link to you? If I am the other website owner - I won’t.
Why - because you are a competitor.
In that case, where do you look for quality link partners?
Now, here’s my strategy. Earlier I said about NOT directly
related. How is that? If you have a website specifically
about Nokia cellphones, look for websites about Motorola
cellphones, or Samsung cellphones or something like that.
You can even look for websites like PDAs, mobile technology,
GRPS, SMS, ringtones, or anything like that. Cool eh?
In most cases, when you go with a strategy like that, those
websites will never be competitions. You don’t mind linking
to them, and they wouldn’t mind linking to your. Since both
of you are targeting for different keywords, it’s possible
that both of you will succeed at it. It’s a WIN-WIN
situation.
Now, here’s another tip for looking for quality link
parnters. The easiest way to look quality link partners are
through … DIRECTORIES.
And when I say easiest - I really mean it. In just a few
clicks, you can end up with hundreds of quality websites
that you can ask links from.
All that you have to do is browse to the related category in
that directory. Browse for the SMS, ringtones, GPRS, Java
games directories - and before your eyes - hundreds of
sites! How easy is that.
Now what directories can you go to - hundreds of that are
available everywhere. Here are some suggestions.
Open Directory - http://dmoz.org
Yahoo Directory - http://dir.yahoo.com
Zeal - http://zeal.com
Joe Ant - http://joeant.com
Jayde Directory - http://dir.jayde.com
GoGuides - http://www.goguides.org
Skaffe - http://www.skaffe.com
Seven Seek - http://sevenseek.com
Linkopedia - http://linkopedia.com
Uncover the New - http://www.uncoverthenet.com
Blue Find - http://www.bluefind.com
Those are resources for great websites. You should drill
those down for your link partners.
Here’s another great place to look for link partners - LINK
EXCHANGE DIRECTORIES.
Do you know that they are directories out there that was
built specifically for link exchange. When you go to these
directories, websites that are listed in there are eagerly
waiting for link exchange requests. When you ask them for
link exchange, the response rate is very high.
How do you look for link exchange directories. One way is to
just search for ‘link directory’ in any search engines. But
to get you started, here’s my list for you.
- http://www.linkexchanged.com
- http://www.linkmarket.net
- http://www.linkpartners.com
- http://www.link-exchange.ws
- http://www.gotop.com
- http://www.123exchangelinks.com
- http://www.linkateer.com
All this while - we have been talking about searching for
quality link partners. How do you get people to ask for your
links instead? That would be easier, right?
Easy - the same way that you looked for those link partners.
You need to list yourself into those link directories.
Getting a listing from the link exchange directories are
normally free of charge. So why not go there and list your
website. The response that I got from Link Market has been
overwhelming. Link Exchanged is not bad at all.
Listing your website not only attract more link partners,
you are also getting an incoming link from that directory.
For a more quality incoming link, you can also add your
website in the commercial directory that I listed earlier.
Zeal, Linkopedia, SevenSeek all require that you pay a small
listing fee. I don’t how good and bad this is. If you think
that you can afford it, why not. Yahoo requires an annual
of $299 review fee - meaning, they will not guarantee a
listing if your website is not up to their standard.
I guess, this is it this time. Actually, I have more about
all this link building, among others - how to get one way
links. That’s right - no more reciprocal links.
I’ll continue again later.
