Links on Websites

[House Advisor]

How can I find out if anyone wants to put their link (if suitable) on my website and vice versa. My website sells eBooks on house purchase and house selling in the UK:)

[tomsk]

Have you tried asking people?

Approach people who you think would benefit from being listed on your site and point out it would be good if you could exchange links with them.

Tell them why it's going to add value and potentially visitors to their site.

Also it can be a good idea to look at who links to your competitors and approach them as you can assume they may be in the market for exchanging links.

[DanHarrison]

How can I find out if anyone wants to put their link (if suitable) on my website and vice versa. My website sells eBooks on house purchase and house selling in the UK:)

There's something else you can do called guest blogging (http://www.blogsynergy.com/synergyblog/about-blogsynergy/) where you write an interesting article on a topic to your own website for another blog. There is then a couple of links back to your website.

I recently started BlogSynergy (http://www.blogsynergy.com) to help people find blogs to write for (as well as writers for blogs). I think we have a couple of property blogs on there. It's currently free to sign up and use.

Dan

[fisicx]

How can I find out if anyone wants to put their link (if suitable) on my website and vice versa. My website sells eBooks on house purchase and house selling in the UK:)
Why do you want to do this? A link on your site means your visitors may well click and you won't sell any books.

[snapshotmedia]

Email them directly but don't sound like a robot. Make it personal. Also, follow it up and make sure they have linked to you.

[Hillary Dale]

How can I find out if anyone wants to put their link (if suitable) on my website and vice versa. My website sells eBooks on house purchase and house selling in the UK:)

You should subscribe to a service such as Link Market. This is a website where you subscribe for free, input information about your website such as the address and basic description, and sit back and wait for people to request links to your website. The only catch is that when your link is placed on someone else's website, you must put their link somewhere on yours. This means you must add HTML coding to your website every time you trade links which can also be tedious and time consuming.

[fisicx]

The only catch is that when your link is placed on someone else's website, you must put their link somewhere on yours. This means you must add HTML coding to your website every time you trade links which can also be tedious and time consuming.
It's also a complete waste of time. Reciprocal links of this nature are at best useless and at worse damaging.

[tomsk]

It's also a complete waste of time. Reciprocal links of this nature are at best useless and at worse damaging.

100 % Agree - And Hillary Dale if this is a method you are using you may want to reconsider.

[david64]

100 % Agree - And Hillary Dale if this is a method you are using you may want to reconsider.

Plenty of sites are still ranking off link exchange. The links just aren't very good. Although there are plenty of big sites that still do link exchange with other big sites - PR4,5,6 links pages.

If you have no money, no time, or can't be bothered to put in a shift, link exchange will work in some niches. For example if you are a local service provider like a plumber.

[eventdomain]

Very tough to get nowadays. Basically, bcos you're asking for a big favour, expecting someone to give up a private/business space on property they own, pay for, worked years for and profit from.

For any decent link of any value, before approaching sites, ask yourself this:

What can I offer first, that's of incredible value. If all you've got or can say is a link back on my PR 4 average biz site, then expect for your mail to be deleted in the majority of cases.

For instance, does your site get 100'000 visitors? that will hopefully tranfer to the linking website...... perhaps your site is a market leader in its field, that may have possibilities and give you bargaining power.

Link power is cutthroat, bcos its potentially giving money away, er- giving a complete unknown a weblink and for no profit, is the same as throwing money down the drain.

Expect to have little success doing this, this isn't to put you off, this is how things have become.

[airforce1]

How can I find out if anyone wants to put their link (if suitable) on my website and vice versa. My website sells eBooks on house purchase and house selling in the UK:)
Hi, House Advisor

I think you could use your main keywords + link exchage and then search on Google. You would get a lot of such resources. :)

Have a nice day,

[LiamZing]

I still don't understand the obsession with reciprocal linking. Google made it clear a long time ago that it doesn't value these links, so at best they will drive traffic from the website you are linking too. On that basis I would only exchange links with websites that are likely to generate business for you, otherwise it's a waste of time.

[eventdomain]

I still don't understand the obsession with reciprocal linking. Google made it clear a long time ago that it doesn't value these links, so at best they will drive traffic from the website you are linking too. On that basis I would only exchange links with websites that are likely to generate business for you, otherwise it's a waste of time.


Exactly.

But what Google says is it prefers relevance over 'any old link'. unfortunately, this is the trick everyone misses. They think 'Mass' anything brings results, what they don't realise is their plonking their links onto resources that the user is fed up with. and trying to convert an untargeted, angry user is too difficult for most.

Its incredibly easy to get 1000 links, too easy. But getting related links is tough, bcos webspace is too valuable, especially on major portals, and industry or niche websites.

Okay, you try getting on CNet, I know what they'll say to you hehe.

Trick is (actually there is no trick) to keep things targeted, that's it! But mass of links/results, ahhh, now that's something else..........

[BackyardsWebMgr]

thanks for the valuable information on this thread. I spent a good month trying to swap links with other websites with little success.

This was after I spent hours on the web figuring out how I was supposed to promote my website. Most of what I read was obviously out of date.

I personally think Google etc are always one step ahead and continuously trying to outsmart those that try to artificially promote their websites.

[Hillary Dale]

The best approach is to ensure that you have targeted the correct keywords that is relevant, has enough search volume, comparatively low in competition (and ensure that the competition is weak) and that are "buying" keywords. Then you get buy one way links from linkvana on those keywords, build up pages and put them on ezinearticles to get links to boost your search engine rankings (that will also provide additional traffic) and put blogs on an sites with good PRs.

Help that helps.


thanks for the valuable information on this thread. I spent a good month trying to swap links with other websites with little success.

This was after I spent hours on the web figuring out how I was supposed to promote my website. Most of what I read was obviously out of date.

I personally think Google etc are always one step ahead and continuously trying to outsmart those that try to artificially promote their websites.

[eventdomain]

and ensure that the competition is weak

Only if you're dealing with kids, and if that's all your competition is, then you will have no worries. Otherwise, rest assured the competition will be strong and gunning for you - they will not sit back and let you win.


Then you get buy one way links from linkvana on those keywords, build up pages and put them on ezinearticles to get links to boost your search engine rankings

You can do this until you develop RSI, it won't do any good, bcos while your keyword stuffing articles, your competitors will work out that buying targeted links is the only way forward. The clever ones will invent viral ad solutions which will make toast out of your out-dated, free link methods.

Be careful of the advice on the web. You follow webmaster advice and willl be left with a hunk of webcode, trafficless and with no sales, sitting in cyberspace and is not a very nice club to join.

But rest assured the membership is a large one, and at least you'll have company.

[AndreyW]

Hi,
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Your link will be placed at:
1)dB2B.info Business Database - Niche Directories and Articles - For business websites in different categories.
2)Adventure-Travel-Vacation Directory - Tourism - for travel websites.

Requirements:
- The page on which our link is placed must be indexed and cached by Google
- Your website must provide useful content to our visitors
Please feel free to contact me at Website Promotion Costs
Thanks for your interest.

[Snippa]

What about three-way linking? If say, I put your link on one of my sites, you put my link for a different site on yours? That works as a one-way link for both sites and not simply a link exchange. How does that affect ranking, etc. or getting in trouble with the search engines? :o)

[AndreyW]

Hi Snippa,
you can mail me at "website-promotion-costs.com/about_us_and_contacts/"

[fisicx]

What about three-way linking? If say, I put your link on one of my sites, you put my link for a different site on yours? That works as a one-way link for both sites and not simply a link exchange. How does that affect ranking, etc. or getting in trouble with the search engines? :o)
Do you really think the search engines haven't thought about this? They can detect 3, 4, 5 way linking and at some point in the chain there will be a link farm or spammy site and the next thing you know you site has dissapeared out of the index.

The only reciprocal link that works is one where there is mutual benefit and relevance: widget maker <> widget painter <> widget distributor.

Don't try and fool the search engines unless you know what you are doing. Even the cleverest of blackhats know their tricks only have a short lifespan and are constantly changing the way they do things.