Links to your site from high PR sites are usually considered to be a serious factor of offpage optimisation. So, you can check websites, that are ranked well for your search terms, check who links to them and write letter suggesting to exchange links. Some software can help you to do this research or you can do this manually. This method - just wonder of anybody had success with this. And can you recommend good examples of this letter, something that really worked. Thank you.
Hello. I am <NAME>, the owner of <WEBSITE>. I visited your site, <SITE>, recently and really liked <WHATYOULIKED>. I have linked to you. You can find the link here: <LINK>. I think my site would be a good resource to your users and would appreciate if you'd link to <WEBSITE>.
It also helps to personalize the email by addressing the webmaster/owner by name, and/or mentioning a specific item of interest that you liked about their site. You'd also want to provide incentives for the link partner to link with you such as waiting till your pages have PR, they've been indexed, have traffic, pages are optimized to accomodate the partner, etc. Our ebook has all the templates you'll ever need included. I would suggest you purchase either our ebook, Aaron Wall's, or another tutorial to get all the info you need. It can save you a bunch of time.
This is exactly what I look at when I get those emails but I also make sure the site itself is the same topic and the links page does not contain off-topic links.
In case of site that has PR4 like Espresso from Nespresso that is online for 5 months or PR3 Fishing Gear for 3 months this should work. But with new sites, should I start at the beginning, or wait until I would be indexed and get some PR.
You dont always need to wait until your indexed or have PR, its really down to the person who you are asking for the link and sometimes they have no clue about this stuff. I had a look at your two sites and to be honest I wouldnt link to them at the moment. The Coffee Mall site links out to a link exchange program sites which is dangerous for you because 1 it has nothing to do with Coffee and 2: If Google ends up flagging the exchange program as bad then you as well get it as your linking to them. Google have done it before and I am sure they will be more than happy to do it again. Your fishing site is linking to all sorts, MP3s, jewelry sites and even digital cameras. You really need to keep that page linking to sites that are topic related, it doesnt do you any favours with Google but also other webmasters who look for quality when linking out. I would also recommend that you do not link these two sites with each other, I spotted the coffee link on the fishing site. Dont forget to still submit to directories but forget about the ones that require a link back to their site - what has fishing got to do with a links directory? You can find some quality directories out there that are free and require no link back.
So, linking to off topic site will harm your ranking? Or it would not add your popularity but would not harm (if the site you are linking to have PR-4 or higher)?
when you request links from people try and make your letter sound like your the one doing them a favour and all the benefits are going to them. they are more likely to look upon your email/letter favourably if they feel they have the most to gain from it.
Yes it will lower the ranking quality of your site but you also need to look at what purpose do those off-topics sites serve a visitor? None really. Now this morning I received a link exchange email request that stood out from the rest, the guy actually had his photo in the email (at least I think it was him). Anyway point is, this guy went to the effort of standing out from the crowd, caught my attention but also got a reply from me.