Sunday, January 25, 2009
Why In God's Name Would Anyone Link To Your Site?
Sometimes you really need to step away and take a good hard look at your sites without being emotionally attached to it. You need to ask yourself, what makes my site so special that anyone would ever want to link to it? Is there any special content, reviews or articles that would entice someone to link to you? It is no secret, that some of the best backlinks you will ever get, are backlinks you never ask for or do not know you have gotten. This is harsh reality to most new webmasters. If you are just a store front and are not doing paid advertising, then natural backlinks will show up very very slowly. If you have a site that features movie posters and have articles about how to care for movie posters, or the top selling movie posters of all time or the making of a particular poster: odds are someone will find it useful and link to it. Sure MSN Live and Yahoo can still be manipulated with perfect SEO, link directory submissions and article directory backlinks, but rest assured there will come a time when they too will use some sort of page rank or value system of backlinks. Great SEO can be learned, but solid natural backlinks must be earned. Make that your new motto. Next chance you get, ask yourself if your site deserves being linked to. If not, you deep down inside already know the path you need to take to get it where other people WILL want to link to it.
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Rest assured you've earned it with your blog Dave! I enjoy it and have been reading for a few months and am grateful for your insight.
Totally agree - you've gotta earn it.
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