When I looked at who was linking to me i noticed that alot of websites in my industry have linked to me in their resource section. My website is a good resource for people and i would obviously like to take advantage of this. So my question is, How do i get more of these links? Is it as simple as figuring out which sites in my industry arent linking to me and wrting them emails? Do any of you have any experience/strategies for this type of thing? Any insight is appreciated.
You can always write them an email and explain to them how a link in their resource page to you would benifit their users. Usually doesnt work though.
I think that for a lot of webmasters, "resources" is just a synonym for "links". So I wouldn't read too much into it. Of course being a resource has always been a solid way to attract links without having to ask. You just have to have something rare and/or useful to offer.
Because of Google webmasters tend not to link to great sites as they did years ago. Most are affraid of pr leak now. Too bad.
Good thread. think adobe reader.... the free reader is a resource - and over a million sites link back to adobe by way of those darn "get acrobat reader" icons. google "click here" and you see that adobe is #1 If you ccan offer a tool, resource, anything - do so, and post it in relevant forums ...link to your website, and on there, post the code you want ppl to use to link back to your tool...
Free SEO-friendly directories are a great and easy form of resources. You will find that if you start one of these you will get hundreds of backlinks in a matter of days.
good point snowblind, but but really, this sort of negates the purpose - Like with my reader example, adobe has millions of incoming links, and probably next to zero outgoing - thats more valuable than having some link directory - of which there are already thousands of usless ones out there already.
It's only useless if you're trying to build PR, rather than improve your positions in the SERPS. A directory could give you hundreds of backlinks to the websites of your choice - the fact that they're linking to other sites as well only decreases the value gained through PR. Ultimately, improving your positions in search engines so you can get traffic is what you're after -- right? We can't all design and create programs as popular as adobe, so building small-scale alternatives is not without purpose.