DomainMagnate
Dec 21st 2005, 6:10 am
Hello Webmasters,
Just wanted to share with you something from my experience and give few free tips.
One of the biggest problems for a newbie webmaster is getting links and it can be really difficult at first, because no one wants to exchange links with a new PR0 site. So I'll to give you few tips how to make that process much easier and more successful.
I have few well established sites and even though I don't update them much, I frequently receive emails from other webmasters offering a link exchange. What do they look like?
A typical email looks something like this (google and MSN are used to illustrate the point better and just for fun :) ):
Hi,
We've just launched a new search engine www.msn.com and you have a good search engine site too at www.google.com, so please link to us from your site and as soon as you did so let us know and we'll provide you a link back too.
Bill Gates, www.msn.com
While this may seem like a regular link exchange email and may be even a good one, in fact it's really a very bad one.
I'm receiveing few such emails every week, so i'm used to it and if the site has some good content and nice layout, I usually link to it, but most other webmasters don't.
So what's so bad in it?
Almost everything, in fact.
1. If you are offering a link exchange, first provide a link to your potential link partner and only then ask for a link back.
2. Provide full details for your link, save your link partner's time and don't make him think about the title and description for your link. Give him a code to insert in his site, which suits his site's linking structure. It may be just a link, or a link with keyword rich title, or a link with title and description etc.
3. You can get very good results if you say few good words about your partner's site :)
So, how would a perfect link exchange email look like?
Dear Sergey and Larry,
I've recently found your site www.google.com and it's a very useful search engine, so I've added a link here: www.msn.com/links.htm.
Please have a look at my site www.msn.com and if you like it, you can link to it, here's the code for you:
<a href="http://www.msn.com">MSN search engine</a>
sincerely, Bill Gates
When I set up a new site, I usually add few links pages, add all their links and then send out emails to all the link partners and it works like magic! Almost all of them link back to my site within a day or two.
So if you are doing it right, it's actually that easy (unless you're really sending that email to google of course ;) )
hope it helps :) , Michael
Just wanted to share with you something from my experience and give few free tips.
One of the biggest problems for a newbie webmaster is getting links and it can be really difficult at first, because no one wants to exchange links with a new PR0 site. So I'll to give you few tips how to make that process much easier and more successful.
I have few well established sites and even though I don't update them much, I frequently receive emails from other webmasters offering a link exchange. What do they look like?
A typical email looks something like this (google and MSN are used to illustrate the point better and just for fun :) ):
Hi,
We've just launched a new search engine www.msn.com and you have a good search engine site too at www.google.com, so please link to us from your site and as soon as you did so let us know and we'll provide you a link back too.
Bill Gates, www.msn.com
While this may seem like a regular link exchange email and may be even a good one, in fact it's really a very bad one.
I'm receiveing few such emails every week, so i'm used to it and if the site has some good content and nice layout, I usually link to it, but most other webmasters don't.
So what's so bad in it?
Almost everything, in fact.
1. If you are offering a link exchange, first provide a link to your potential link partner and only then ask for a link back.
2. Provide full details for your link, save your link partner's time and don't make him think about the title and description for your link. Give him a code to insert in his site, which suits his site's linking structure. It may be just a link, or a link with keyword rich title, or a link with title and description etc.
3. You can get very good results if you say few good words about your partner's site :)
So, how would a perfect link exchange email look like?
Dear Sergey and Larry,
I've recently found your site www.google.com and it's a very useful search engine, so I've added a link here: www.msn.com/links.htm.
Please have a look at my site www.msn.com and if you like it, you can link to it, here's the code for you:
<a href="http://www.msn.com">MSN search engine</a>
sincerely, Bill Gates
When I set up a new site, I usually add few links pages, add all their links and then send out emails to all the link partners and it works like magic! Almost all of them link back to my site within a day or two.
So if you are doing it right, it's actually that easy (unless you're really sending that email to google of course ;) )
hope it helps :) , Michael