I have a proposal that requires the involvement of 10 WMs. I plan to build a database of some 10,000 prospective webmasters willing to exchange links. In order to achieve this, I'd like to propose a mutual collective. Each party brings 1000 (fully profiled) prospects to the db. By fully profiled, I mean (at a minimum): URL, email address, category, description, anchor text. As to how we manage this and ensure the advantages remain mutual, I'm open to any ideas, but at the end of the day, there should be 10 copies of the full dataset (10,000 entries), for the respective WM's to use in future campaigns. Given we have a strong SEO/WM community here, I feel this would be the best way to knock over our Recip Linking needs. I already have a database with over 15,000 WMs, but the profiles are somewhat incomplete, and I feel it's downright rude to expect a WM to come to my site to fill in a form, then return to their own site to make mods. Instead, with established descriptions and anchortext, along with categories, the prospective WM's need only add a link to their pages - which makes uptake far more likely, and campaigns in general more successfull. Provided we can agree on a way to manage this fairly, I'll seed the database with the first thousand profiles. Please PM me if interested. Cheers JL
Very funny.. Do you think I'm aiming a little high ? I may well be doing that, I don't know - I've never really surveyed ppl here to see what the average collection size would be. Maybe the figure needs reducing a touch
= Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off I like the idea. I know somebody who tried to pull off an automated network of interlinked sites and ended up running into google's IP ban. However running a link DB with actual content sites participating on hundreds of IPs is somewhat different. I would want to give it a try, although 1000 is probably aimed too high.
Perhaps our lines are a tad crossed I'm not talking about a network of centrally managed sites (or an exchange network like shauns coop). I'm just talking about a collection of profiles of WM's interested in echanging links - basicaly a database of WM's who can be contacted via email with link exchange requests. I already have such a database, but it's mostly incomplete (for the most part lacks info such as descriptions and anchor text used by the prospective WM's - rather has email addresses, URLs and categories only). I can contribute 1000+ complete profiles, but figure if a bunch of us got together and shared our info, we could all emerge with a large enough db (say 10,000 complete profiles) to make reciprocal linking a snap regardless of what topic future campaigns may be for. It's just that I know how I react when other WM's ask for reciprocal links, but expect me to do all the work (ie visiting *their* sites to submit my data - when they should have done their homework and added it themselves.) I can't be the only one who sees the potential here. And i know there's alot of ppl about who already have this info on hand. I mean really, it's just an export from LM for some - though that's not what I'm personally offering to contribute. Anyhow - do let me know if you're interested (PM me). It's pretty straight forward, and would benefit all concerned. Cheers, JL
I have around 4000 emails and proabably a dbs with around 3000 or so webmasters I guess I have contact with most of the agressive link traders on the internet
Yeah, that's handy, but what about their links ? Do your profiles include the anchor text, descriptions, and categories for each of these sites ? That's what I'm hunting for. My db is large enough, and if emails, URL's and categories were all that mattered, I'd be set. But todays WM's don't like to be asked to do all the work. They expect you to have their URL's/Descriptions in place at your site before aproaching them (they don't want to be visiting your site to submit their details). This approach sees far greater uptake, and works for all
if you have their URLs why won't you just write a little script to get their Title and Description from the meta tags - I see people doing it all the time. Then just send a request to all those webmasters with their link details with url to special form with their info - leave an option for them to change the linking info or to delete it from your DB. That's it. You will have all the info just from the meta tags and whoever want it to correct will do themselves. I think this way you can update your DB very fast and easy.
"your profiles include the anchor text, descriptions, and categories for each of these sites ?" yes they do