“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” — Tallulah Bankhead
If you answer YES to any of the following, then you need to read this article I wrote quickly: Does your linkspage suck?
>> You have more than 100 links on your linkspage (outbound links, also known as external links)… links pointing to other peoples sites.
>> You do not have categories and subcategories on your linkspage. Means you have just one page or several of them with tons of unrelated links.
>> You do not link to your linkspage (the main page) from your homepage. If you have categories and subcategories you should link to that page. Also known as the index page of your linkspage.
>> You use the nofollow tags on the links, block the linkspage using meta tag or robots.txt or some other way to block spiders from crawling and indexing the links page.
>> You have a ton of pages all named like links1.html links2.html, etc, etc… instead of categories and subcategories.
These are all tiny things you can fix, making your linkspage more visitor and seo friendly. Which means they are neat, attract more link partners, and overall improve your website.
Such things like blocking the linkspages and not linking to it from your homepage – will repel possible link partners…
…I seen sites like that and was going to ask them for a link exchange, but changed my mind.
There is a debate going on about Link Exchanges as well. Effective or not? Waste of time or not?
Personally, I always suggest you learn from your (or someone else) experience? Your positive experience may also NOT be like my positive experience?
I mean 50% of people say link exchanges are not effective and the other 50% say they are. And I bet most of them are newbies, clueless – they just SAY what they hear others say…
In my positive experience, link exchanges are a GREAT way to get lots of backlinks… quantity is important just as much as quality.
You need to get both quality links but you need also quantity. If you are not going to use link exchanges to get the quantity of link you need – there is NO OTHER METHOD available to get the quantity of links you need…
…bottom line is – you either use link exchanges to get the quantity of links you need – or you HAVE to pull out a BIG FAT cheque to pay for one way links (quality)… which still quality alone is not enough to conquer high competition keywords.
Moderation is the key!
I never said go and start getting link exchanges – hundreds upon hundreds.
In fact I always said getting 15-30 link exchanges a day (but keep doing it daily) is the RIGHT way. While at the same time get quality one way links (from article submission or other sources).
There are many methods to get one way links (which are the quality links)… that 15-30 link exchanges a day are also VERY IMPORTANT.
You won’t get 30 one way links a day. Not even close, practically impossible as long as you are not Bill Gates – who can pay for one way links as if paying for chewing gums.
So get this straight:
Link exchanges are the method you have to use to get quantity of links. One way links are the method you have to use to get quality links.
One thing cannot survive without the other – use both for maximum effect, maximum impact on your rankings.
You link to me and I link to you is honest as well. Some say Oh, that’s sounds like cheating. But the truth is, if your website is about porn I won’t link exchange – if your website design sucks I won’t neither.
So the bottom line, it means your website is of good quality the more links you get.
To get this message through I want to tell you my story.
You see, I studied hard search engine optimization techniques. I started getting backlinks for my first website. I did well, I got indexed then I started applying other link building methods.
I just could not get the quantity of links I need to get the high rankings. I mean I had one way links from directories, from article directories, from lots of places. It just was not enough.
(For havens sake that’s enough to get high rankings for a low competition keyword – but not worth it – low competitive keywords means also few traffic in 99% of the time).
Then I started searching for link partners. That’s how I got a TON of backlinks – a LOT in fact it was very easy to get backlinks.
My rankings started to improve.
I got the first position for my chosen keyword, plus hundreds other keywords all ranked on first page of Google.
All this in a very competitive niche of anti adware and spyware.
I used to find the links manually – at that time there was no OutRankSmart, otherwise I would have got the high rankings even faster and easier.
That’s my short story on how link exchanges are very effective to get high rankings. The story I told you happened in 2007-2008 (not like 10 years ago). They still work. Period!
I talk honestly, from experience and you will expect results if you follow my tips.
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Talk to you soon,
