Barney Garcia asked:


Well now you know what makes a good link, so let’s go over the methods available for getting links to your site that you have been instructed to promote. There are many, and each comes with its own positive and negative attributes. Generally speaking, the more links you get to the sites you are promoting, and the higher the quality of the links, the more benefit to you.

[] Homepage/Subpage Links: A link featured on a website: The best way of getting this type of link is email submission. It is extremely hard to get a website to give you a link without getting something in return….such as money or a reciprocal or three-way link. mentioned above.

[] Articles: This option is only available to Advanced linkbuilders. It is basically writing a “fresh” chunk of content on a topic that relates to the site you are trying to promote. The article is between 250-500 words long and is submitted to 1 or more article syndicated websites

[] Link Directories: This type of link is obtained by searching for a relevant “link directory” browsing the topics and submitting the link of the site you are promoting for approval. This typically takes 3 days to 3 months to actually get the link accepted and displayed. It is also one of the easiest types of link building. You don’t get any points if your submission is rejected, so power of numbers is the way to make sure you make money. The point system is outlined below.

[] Forums: Find a forum related to the topic of the website you are promoting. Sign up and edit your signature in your profile. Edit it to any of the sites you wish to promote. (You can put up to 4 links in your signature) Now you go back to the forum and post a question or answer some one else’s question. When you post your signature will create a link. You can also place a link directly in your context.

[] Misc:

-MSN Myspace -Newsgroups -Others

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Things to remember: Not every site will give you a link, often sites are a waste of time, it will take some time and experience to become efficient, but it is important to remember that the power of numbers is on your side.

Lets set up an example:

You are given a list of 10 websites to promote: You are given a list of everything you need except page urls. You should now go visit each of the websites you were instructed to promote and gather 20 deep-page urls and start a list for yourself. Beside each url you should come up with around 5 anchor texts or titles to use. This shouldn’t take you more than a hour. Now you have a list of 200 pages you need to link to, and enough anchor texts to link to each page 5 times. So basically you have 10 000 links. This is more than enough to get you started. You now break up each group of urls into sites and than further group them into general categories. So for instance you had a hair removal site, a acne site, a air purifier site and a cancer site, you could group those into a Health Category. Once you have all of this laid out you can start. Use the keywords given for each site to search all three search engines to find either forums, link directories and blogs. By putting the word “directory” or “blog” or “forum” beside the keyword when you search it will help you find the right type of sites. Start now by manually browsing through each site, one by one, and quickly decide if you can submit a link for free, if you can comment for free or if you can sign up and post for free. Check to see if the sites have any features that might result in a negative point by linking on them. Check to see if it is even possible to have a link on the site…as Some sites wont accept free submission, they might not allow comments, or they might not allow links in your forum posts. Every site you determine to be a potential – copy the url down into a text and move on. This is call the initial reviewing process. You want to review a few hundred sites at least…and Before you stop you want at least 50 potential sites you can add a link to for each main “category” that you grouped your sites into earlier. This will probably take a few days. especially if you follow the figures correctly. So after probably 25 hours of work you should have 10 000 links ready to be “builded to” and around 250-500 “potential” sites. You will be provided with a rough draft list of potential websites to build on.

Now start submitting your links to appropriate categories, start signing up on forums, and keeping track of every place you submitted to, what you submitted to it, and any other helpful info. Keep track of the type of forums and topics they discuss. Keep track of high page rank sites, or sites that accept free link submissions very fast. basically organize yourself so that you are most efficient. By time you have visited and submitted a link and posted some posts on all 250-500 “potential” sites you found…you Should have at least 75 backlinks…if Not 250…depending On how well you did your initial review. Whats even better….you Have a list of 75 or 250 sites that accepted your link submission or allowed you to place a link on there site or in your comments.

David Fishman asked:


Many sites link back and forth to each other simply because it makes good business sense to do so. Search engines still count reciprocal links but they are not valued as much as one way links. By establishing reciprocal links will help your site move up in the search engine rankings. For a very long period of time all the webmasters traded links. But now, because of the new search engine algorithms, reciprocal links are not as powerful as they once where.

Consider paying for submission to some important directories. For a fee, these directories will index your site in their database within two to five business days. Links from any directory that is not popular is not going to help your overall link popularity, but as these sites grow in popularity you will receive more and more relevant links which will bring your link popularity up.

Writing articles and submitting them to article directories is one of the best ways in creating one way links and increasing popularity to your website. Search engines index text links a lot easier because a text link can be analyzed for certain keywords and it can check for relevancy of the keyword with surrounding words.

One way links are more favorable than reciprocal links; Google assigns different weight to one way links and reciprocal links, usually the reciprocal links are lower. If you have a site that is on the same ip do not link to each other, search engines to count this as a link.

Writing articles is very popular now and if you are not doing it you need to start producing articles and distributing them among article sites. Your articles should be of good quality, helpful to the audience and display to the internet world your knowledge and expertise. One way links will really push you up in the search engines. Writing articles is the best and easiest way to get one way links. Creating a bio and including your links at the end of the articles is a great way to rapidly grow your one way links. Writing articles is the easy way to get one way links.

It’s like a voting system. If 100 sites think your content is worth linking to, then search engines like Google will take notice. The link anchor text is more effective if the page receiving the link has the anchor text in its title tags, and even in the page unique URL. Of course, the on page content should include the keyword phrase at the appropriate density. Writing articles and posting them to article sites is one of the best ways to generate traffic to your site, it takes time but it is worth it. As everyone says “content is king” everyone is wants new original content on their sites to drive traffic to it.

Obviously, the higher your website is ranked in the search engines the more visitors will click on your site and the more traffic you will have. The best ways to get good targeted visitors are search engines. Reciprocal link exchange is not dead, if you provide links for the benefit of your visitors. Linking for the sake of visitors is a win-win scenario.