Previously, we looked at some general netiquette in asking for links, and at relevancy. Now we’ll look at a few more points that will help you link the right way.
7. Be careful not to adopt spammy practices when you ask for links. If the websites you send requests to have nothing to do with your [...]
Entries from November 2008
Ten Rules of Linking, Part 3
November 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Income Streams · Niche Marketing · Relevant Content · Traffic
Ten Rules of Linking, Part 2
November 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Last time, we saw the first three considerations in linking and asking for links. Let’s take it a little further and look at relevancy.
4. Avoid putting more than 50 links on a page, and even that many is questionable. Usually that many links constitutes a link farm, but there are situations where the material is [...]
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Ten Rules of Linking, Part 1
November 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
The World Wide Web is named as such because it is really a web of sorts. The whole idea of hyper text was to be able to click on a curious word and instantly get more information. Websites are not meant to be islands, but to link to each other to form… a web.
The way [...]
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Choosing Link Partners
November 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Should you link? Should you pass? We all face that question when we get emails from site owners asking us to link to their website, or when we’re looking for link partners ourselves and think we’ve found a good prospect. It can be difficult to decide if it’s worthwhile to pursue. We ask ourselves if [...]
Tags: Relevant Content · Traffic
Getting Links
November 5th, 2008 · No Comments
If relevant content is king, quality inbound links are queen. If you want traffic, you need links. No one can buy what you offer if they never get to your site in the first place. However, not all links are created equal. Google will consider your site more important if the sites linking to it [...]
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Thin Affiliates
November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
You may be asking “What is a thin affiliate?” Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with whether an affiliate marketer is lanky or lithe. It has to do with junky websites, or rather, those whose content is rather svelte.
In ranking pages, Google also takes into consideration sites that are considered “thin affiliates” and ranks [...]
Tags: Income Streams · Monetization · Relevant Content