How to Create Your Own Link Campaign

There are many different reasons out there fore creating a link campaign; after all, it can benefit you in so many different internet marketing strategies. In fact, links – especially one way links, but all links do count – are among the most determining factors for your rank among search engine spiders and indexers.

Since links are one of the vital components to the algorithm used by Google and the other big search engines, the creation of links for your website should be a major part of the efforts that you put forward.

The first step to accomplishing this is to understand that there are different kinds of links, all with their own values, strategies, and uses. While all links do have their importance, some create better results than others. By understanding them, you’ll be able to ensure the right kind of link campaign is working in your favor.

• Reciprocal links – these types of links occur when two sites exchange links so that each one has a link to the other’s site.

• One-way links – also known as inbound or in-bound links, these occur when a site links to another’s without receiving a link in return.

One of the most common strategies for links is reciprocal linking. When done correctly, however, this link strategy can be extremely time consuming. It has to do with searching throughout the internet for sites that are relevant to your own website’s cause, and then contacting their webmasters to request an exchange of links.

This communication has to be a personalized e-mail to each and every one of the webmasters, not just a spam-style form letter. Naturally, they will all have the same elements to them, but they all need to be geared directly toward the site in question, or no webmaster will even consider it.

An example of a successful reciprocal link request email can be as follows:

Dear Mr. Doe, webmaster of gwidgetsRus.com,

As I searched through quality sites with topics relevant to my own for a link exchange, I came across your Gwidgets R Us website. I am writing to request an exchange of links between your site and my own. Below is my site’s information. Please feel welcome to have a look at what we are all about before making your decision.

Title: Online Gwidgets
URL: http://www.onlinegwidgets.com

Description: Online Gwidgets provides educational information about gwidgets to its visitors, and sells both gwidgets and their parts for fair prices.

If you are indeed interested in this link exchange, please reply with the precise information you’d like me to post on my site, and where you’d like it placed.

If you are not interested in this link exchange, your lack of reply will be enough to make your intentions known.

Thank you kindly for your attention and time.

Bob Smith

bobsmith@onlinegwidgets.com
www.onlinegwidgets.com

When and if you receive some replies to your email, it is important that you add their links as quickly as you can, and confirm this addition by sending them another email with a link to where they can find their addition.

Of course, you will need to check the sites of your partners as well, to make sure that they have added the link when they said they would. Furthermore, you’ll need to check up on them frequently to make sure that they continue to link you, and that they have not dropped your link over time, or closed down altogether. While the majority of webmasters are completely honest individuals, there are those out there who will try to take advantage of your partnership to create a one-way, not reciprocal link to their own sites.

In-bound or one way links are the most coveted links as they give the best results with search engines. However, many people find them too daunting to try to achieve. The truth about inbound links, however, is that they’re not at all difficult to obtain.

The easiest source of inbound links is by using directory submissions. There are a large number of free directories out there where you can submit your site. This submission is worth the time and effort for as many as you can.

There are also fee-based directories out there. Depending on your budget, this may be worth your while as well, as long as they have categories relevant to the subject of your website.

Press releases and articles that mention your site are also valuable sources of exposure and one-way links. Find free submission sites all over the web and start writing!

Copyright 2006 Mark Nenadic

Mark is the director and face behind FifteenDegrees-North http://www.15dn.com, where you will find articles and resources to help with SEO, marketing and Web design.

How to Pull in Free Traffic and Delight Your Visitors

Content is king and keywords count when it comes to attracting search engines but any old content will not do if you also want to keep your visitors coming back for more (more clicks on your Adsense adverts, more opportunities to buy your products…).

The typical content you get from many sites selling articles (the so-called Private Label Rights or PLR article sites) will have your visitors clicking away from your site faster than the speed of light.

What keeps your visitors on your site and turns them into repeat visitors is quality information.

Can you achieve that without

* toiling for hours researching and writing original articles

* using content from article sites which you pay for with the author’s link (leading visitors right out of your site)?

Yes you can, if you choose your PLR articles with care

1. Use quality articles

Make sure that the articles you select impart useful information. Did you learn anything from reading it yourself? Will your visitor find it helpful or get annoyed at the time they wasted clicking on your link?

2. Keep keywords natural

It’s a good idea to “seed” your PLR article with the keyword or keyword phrase you are trying to target with your web page to attract the search engines. But don’t add so many keywords that the reader thinks you don’t know how to write and the search engines suspect you of spamming them.

3. Add your own ideas

There are a number of dubious utilities around which will automatically add content to your articles “to make them unique”. Actually many add words which make no sense at all in the context of the article. All that means is you can kiss goodbye to your visitor – they won’t be back. If you use these content generators make sure the article still makes some sense.

Far better however is to actually take a couple of minutes to read the article and add to the information given if you can. If it’s a subject you’re not familiar with try and combine your articles in a different way or do a little research to add a new point. Then you really are providing value to your visitors with just a little extra effort.

4. Pay only for what you need

You will generally find that PLR articles are for sale in membership sites where you get hundreds of articles each month and thousands of members have access to the same articles. Unfortunately the vast majority of articles are poor quality and cover subjects which have no relevance to your websites! Instead use a PLR site which offers packs of quality articles to a limited number of people and will let you pay only for those packs you choose to use.

Copyright 2006, Janice Small

Janice Elizabeth Small - EzineArticles Expert Author

Janice is a regular contributing author to http://www.realcontentclub.com where you choose only the quality content you want that is relevant to your niche. Take a look today and download packs of quality articles for a few cents each.

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