I am trying to contact some blog owners, who have blogs in the category of my site to see if they can link to my site. However, I do not know how to see which ones are the sites which can bring most traffic to my site. I am interested in traffic, not PR. I was thinking of selecting them by their Alexa Rank. However, I am not too happy doing it this way since from experience I know that the Alexa Rank can be misleading (especially for certain blogs). How do you choose high traffic sites for link building purposes? Any other ideas or suggestions? Thanks.
Depending on your niche, you can get high PR, high traffic links for timely content from Gawker blogs. Here is a list of niches they cover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawker_Media
Thanks airraid81. I checked the Gawker blogs & they are a little off my end. I am looking more at blogs which are succesfull but are owned & managed by individuals & not too proffesionalised, in the range of 500-1000 uniques a day of traffic. Whatever the Gwker blogs request to me (if anything) I will probably not be able to pay.
I just search google for the key search terms to decide who to ask for a link from. They rank highly there - they're bound to have decent to good visitor numbers as well.
Thanks kh7, the only problem with that is that when I put my keywords in Google, I find mostly competitors (I have an ecommerce site)... no blogs. The first blogs I find do not have too good Alexa numbers (and although I am no big Alexa fan, it is the only number I am considering so far for reference). Just surfing, I have run into much better & more appropiate blogs... so I was wondering if there was a better way of finding them, together. A site which gives the different blogs grouped by topics & ordered by traffic figures. I have used some lists such as: http://blogpond.com.au/top-100-australian-blogs-index/ These are a good source & when I check them, the numbers seem more appropiate than those I find from Google, but I do not find enough on my niche. I have tried also Google blog search, with not very good results....
They don't require money or exchanges. They just link to a lot of content from other blogs. So, if you write something good, you can send them an email with a short summary and a link, and they might post it.
That's mainly from Australian blogs. Btw. Do these blogs have nofollow links or are these valid backlinks that they give?!
My advice is to aim high Approach some of the bigger blogs, you've got nothing to lose. Once or twice I have given blogs some tips on how to improve their SEO or conversions and they have thanked me with a link. Most people in the world will help you out, if there is something in it for them Hope this helps
Thanks for the tip, I may give it a try... I am not looking for a normal link, but a good & quality link... so I see it difficult... but I may give it a shot anyway... got nothing to loose... Thanks. Torsten, I think most do have nofollow links. However, at this point I am not interested in comments but on getting a good & quality link, relating their content & my content.