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DEFINITIONS to terms and abbreviations used on this page are HERE.
If you
are not a webmaster you can NOT use this method.
You might
get an inbound link to your company affiliate page, to your QS2W
hosted lead capture page, or to your TrafficWave
hosted lead capture page, by using the techniques I've already described.
But there is no way you can put their link on your website, because you
do not have one. If you want to do link exchanges, you need to get
your own domain and become a webmaster.
Try a link submission
form search on Google
Use the following search phrase:
(keyword
here) "Please also suggest my link to the LinkPartners.com Directory."
Find link partners at this link exchange
website: http://www.linkmetro.com.
They are ranked just like on ebay. Link exchange partners will usually
want a link back from your website. If you are creative, you might
be able to figure a way to get one-way inbound links from high page rank
sites such as these:
(PR 9) amazon.com
(PR 9) ebay
(PR 9) Google Groups
(PR 9) http://youtube.com
(PR 8) Yahoo Answers
(PR 8) Yahoo
Groups
(PR
8) Craig's List
(PR 8) Digg
(PR 8) Facebook
(PR 8) Myspace
(PR 8) PayPal
(PR 8) WordPress
Google your niche.
Do a search on Google to find other
sites in your niche. See who your competitors are link-exchanging
with. You want to exchange links with high PR
sites that are relevant but not directly competitive to yours. A
link exchange must be mutually beneficial. Link exchanging is about
quality, not quantity. It is much better to exchange links with a
few high PR,
relevant websites, than it is to exchange links with hundreds of low-ranking
websites that have no relevancy to the theme topic of your website.
How to approach
a prospective link partner
When you email the webmaster with
whom you wish to exchange links, make your request
in a polite manner and be brief. If his site has a high PR
(and it does or you shouldn't be interested anyway), remember that he probably
gets at least a hundred such requests daily. Put yourself in the
other webmaster's place, because someday you will be. Think of how
you will respond to all the new webmasters wanting to link exchange with
you after your site has obtained a high PR.
With that in mind, below are a few pointers to follow when requesting a
link exchange.
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Don't just ask just
because his website has a high PR.
Look at his website. See what it is about.. In your email to
the webmaster, make it clear that you have actually visited his site and
spent the time to see how its content could be complementary to yours -
and yours to his. If you can find the webmaster's name on his website,
use it to personalize both your email and your subject line.
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As
a show of good faith, link to the other website first on a search engine
friendly page. When you contact the webmaster, you can tell him where
on your site you have placed his link. Of course if he denies or
ignores your request, you can later remove his link. Give him both
the URL of your site and the anchor
text you would like him to use to link back to your site.
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The
exchange should be balanced. Don't expect to have your link in
bold keyword-rich anchor
text on the other webmaster's home page if you are offering
to reciprocate by placing his linkback on an internal "link partners" page
with 30 other links.
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"What's
in it for me?" This other webmaster obviously doesn't need
your link to get higher PR. He has that already. You must look
at his website and reveal to him how his website could benefit from a link
exchange with your site. If you can't find a way you could
both benefit, don't waste each other's time by asking. Just move
on to the next site. For a link exchange to happen, it needs to be
a "win-win" situation.
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Present
yourself as a professional before you approach another webmaster.
Make sure your site is finished (not "under construction"). Make
sure the grammar, punctuation, and spelling are all correct. The
same goes for your email request..
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Realize
that webmasters are very busy. If you don't get a reply, wait
at least a couple weeks before contacting him with a second email which
is just as polite as the first. I have been known to have been so
busy that it has taken me several weeks before checking out a requester's
site.
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I advise against using
link request software or templates. A high PR site might get
a hundred link exchange request emails a day. Make yours original;
in your own words. I used to get template requests. I deleted
them immediately. If you get several a day, it is easy to recognize
them.
Keeping in mind the foregoing advice
against using templates, take a look at THIS
SAMPLE email request for link exchange. This gives you
an idea of what to write, but be sure and change it to make it your own.
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