When will the linkbuilding pay off?

Hi,

I've recently started a new website and I am trying to attract visitors.

- I have submitted my website to about 100 linkdirectories
- Noticed my website on 15 related forums
- Added an article to 20 article directories.

But I still receive about 20 uniques a day, which is faaaar below my websites' potential. What can I do to improve it?

gr caps

 

get links on real sites

edit: by real sites i mean not just web directories, forums and article sites or press releases
get some links on quality pages full with actual quality content related to your site and have the links placed above the fold.. not hidden away on a footer of a page. or a link on a news article which requires the visitor to browse 50 pages before finding your link, dont care one bit about the sites pagerank.. if the site has potential to recieve huge amounts of visitors it probably will sometime in the future.. so getting a link on those types of sites will pay off

have a go at submitting to places like digg, milkandcookies.com
you most likely wont get on the front page/popular list or even close but surely 30 visitors is better than none?

 

tnx munt, I'll work on that . I'll increase my contribution on forums relevant to my website and I send a free SEO article to newly registered members to stimulate them to boost traffic to their site. Are there any other ways on getting linked on real websites? I don't think reciprocial links will work on google anymore.

 

dont care if reciprocal links dont work on google
care if those reciprocal links send you a suitable amount of traffic, if they dont and dont benifit your site then discontinue the recip exchange

the main problem with alot of webmasters is they care about search engines too much!

search engine traffic "goldmine" is pretty small compared to what you can get with quality links

but in saying all the above it REALLY depends on your sites niche

 

If you have a budget then possibiliy use some of it to aquire some high PR links. that would give your site a good base to start from. I also found that being active in forums related to your "niche" website can really help with gainning targetted traffic. also you may want to consider Pay per click advertising until your websites performs better in search engines. But usually you have to be really patient with link building as its takes around 6-8 months for links to mature

 

I personally think it will work when you start seeing traffic through those links. Don't just go and get links for the sake of getting links, find links like stands out for people and the click on it to come to your site.

 

"Don't just go and get links for the sake of getting links." I partially agree with this, don't just take crappy links for the sake of it but unfortunately one of the ways of moving up the SERPS is based on number of incoming links. Keep submitting to directories. Once you get a higher page rank it will be easier to swap links with quality sites.

 

Some people had some success with Text Link Ads

 

try stumbleupon.

 

- I have submitted my website to about 100 linkdirectories
The links may not have been approved yet or the directories have low PR.

- Noticed my website on 15 related forums
Not all forums are indexable. Depends on the admin.

- Added an article to 20 article directories.
Your articles may not have been approved or the pages have low PR.

 

I agree about building quality links.

And as for article marketing, you're likely to get more traction from submitting 20 articles to 1 directory than 1 article to 20 directories.

The bottom line is that link building takes time, and it takes even longer to pay off because some search engines have an "aging" component to their algorithm, where a link to your site isn't fully weighted until a specified amount of time has passed.

 

Try getting links on blogs in your niche .. if they have a strong audience you will get visitors.

 

One thing I still don't fully understand is the function of backlinks placed in dynamic websites. For example, is a backlink from w³.othersite.com to my page of the form

...w³.othersite.com/index.php?option=com_weblinks&task=view&catid=15&id=13

equally effective in SEO-terms (i.e. for my ranking in search engines) as is a backlink placed in a good old static html-page, where my page address shows up permanently, e.g. like the link given in my signature below?

I think that is an important consideration regarding payoff of link building, isn't it?

 

it usually takes a few weeks/months before all those link building pay off. Hang in there and goodluck

 

Exactly. When you submit your links, do not expect any benefits right away. This is a long term strategy that will not yield results immediately.