| Linking is a big topic in website promotion today. I | | | | at finding my service or product - that search tool is |
| think and write about linking quite a bit since | | | | the biggest tool to accomplish the job. And the next |
| venturing into the website business. Mind you, I am | | | | you may wonder about. I want to be able to submit |
| an amateur in all respects but I have gained a | | | | my link directly from their website. This is the only |
| tremendous amount of experience. (good and bad). | | | | way that you will guarantee yourself that your link |
| Last month I wrote and published an article titled | | | | gets to that website. You don't need to rely on |
| "Linking - This is it". Do a search on that exact group | | | | replies from bad email addresses. Have you ever sent |
| of words and you will find it at several locations. The | | | | out about 100 emails to addresses derived from |
| point of that article was to identify what we truly | | | | websites . How many actually produced anything? |
| should expect to get from good linking and a few | | | | I will manually go through the whole list of potential |
| little pointers regarding the physical aspect of placing | | | | link partners that my link search produced. I might |
| links on our websites. Also I talked about why and | | | | find 8 out of 80 that I except. The remainder gets |
| how everyone can benefit and receive traffic from | | | | dumped. This is a bunch of effort but the effort you |
| good linking practices. Benefits are not limited to the | | | | expend will not be wasted. It will produce a |
| select 10 or 20 that appear in the first two pages of | | | | predictable result. That is the first method to develop |
| Google. | | | | good links early in your website's life. |
| I need to talk about the practices to get all those | | | | Once you have reached a point where you receive |
| quality links that will actually send us traffic. I like to | | | | some traffic another capability kicks into gear. You |
| make use of a link finding and link page creation tool. | | | | can now move to a link management program that |
| My particular choice is Arelis. I use it to help find | | | | allows visitors to place links on your site directly. Now |
| potential links and then I use it to create the link | | | | you can allow direct link submission to your website. |
| directories and files. I don't use all the features | | | | There is no advantage to this feature until you are |
| available. Finding a whole big list of potential partners | | | | getting some traffic. |
| and sending mass emails just Does Not Work. I let | | | | All of this might sound like a lot of work. It is a lot of |
| the program find those potential partners and then | | | | work. It is not a bunch of wasted work though. The |
| the real work begins for me. I review every website. | | | | results will be predictably positive because you hand |
| I want to see three things or the site will likely fail. I | | | | picked those links and then you submitted them |
| want to see a clear text link that takes me to the | | | | directly to the partners link directory. This guarantees |
| links pages. I want to see a searchable link directory. | | | | you a quality linking program. |
| Directories are usually large now. To have a chance | | | | |