Hi, I have a web site: www.x-bytehosting.co.uk (I can't make it a link because live links aren't available to me yet apparently) and I am trying to find links for it. I am fairly new in SEO, however, I know to search on google for links to my competitors, and email them asking them to link to me, but I can't think of how to convince them to link to me as my site doesn't really have any content, it just sells web hosting. What should I do? Thanks for your help
Welcome to DP. Submit to directories, write hosting related articles containing your link and submit them to article directories. Competitors may not swap, but your can try other related niches like web design firms etc where the two services work well together. You may have to buy a few links to rank better until you develop a customer base.
Add more content? There really are no good short cuts to link building. You could write articles and post them on other sites, You could buy links and you could submit to directories. But generally those links aren't worth nearly as much as links you get with an organic link building campaign where people link to you because they like whats on your site.
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Give webmasters out there something to link to. If you write informative and/or entertaining articles about hosting, web server maintenance, etc., you give people a reason to link to you.
Write articles and submit them to article directories. Explain why your web hosting service is the best.
If ou got no content, make sure you have a great service to offer. if people think the deal is good enough, they will link to you.
Thanks everyone, I wasn't expecting such a great result. It's all really helpful. . Just wondering, how much influence would a single pr9 link have upon a site if the page had 30-40 links on, but they were all fairly relevent. I ask because I think I might have just found such a site, they haven't linked to me yet but you never know. gandaliter
request link exchanges from similar sites to yours, add quality UNIQUE content that people will automatically want to link too. its no good putting up content you have found somewhere else on the net because people can find it elsewhere, if you want to get anywhere with SEO unique quality content is the key.
PR9? It will surely skyrocket you and give you a PR of 6-7 from just single link. I doubt very much that they will link to you, though.
Well, we'll see . You're probabally right but still. I'll post back with the result if and when I get an email back.
Best of luck to you. surely you will got lots of benefit from that PR9. wow that's so good to knew if you got it.