Link Building on a Budget Part 2
May 31, 2007
In yesterday’s adventures in Link Building on a Budget Part 1 I talked about “review trades” as a powerful and free way of getting the most authoritative kind of link possible from another site.
Then I left you in the lurch and made you wait until today to see one of the review trade methods I have discovered works well. Hey, I gotta keep the suspense, right?
Link Building on a Budget Part 2
So let’s say you need your site to show up on as many other blogs in your niche or topic group with the keyword “blog marketing.”
You simply start a campaign to get reviewed by people who are already open to doing reviews.
Example: http://www.johnchow.com/make-money-onlin-batch-76/
John Chow is the master when it comes to shameless linking methods. Many purist bloggers make fun of him or even chide him for having no shame when it comes to asking for links.
On the page above he rewards people (see the link list) for linking to him VERY SPECIFICALLY with the term he wants to score for: “make money online”
If you follow his directions to a tee, he will link to you. As you can see, many people are taking him up on this. It is a good method on its own. You should start something like this on your blog for sure.
But I want to point something else out that is NOT so apparent but much more powerful than just taking part in John’s link building technique.
He mentions at the bottom of his post how people scan his 76 batches of links to people who linked to him as a means of easily finding willing bloggers who will link to others in this way.
Why approach people cold when you can find blogs on lists like this to get automatic positive replies to your offer to exchange reviews? You already know they are open to it!
Here’s how I approach people on lists like this:
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I found you on John Chow’s site (put exact URL here). I like your blog and would love to do a review exchange with you. Meaning I will review your site if you review mine.
If you are interested, here is some of the recommended text and the links I’d like you to use. Please send the same kind of thing to me for your site and I will post about you ASAP.
Recommended text to include in your review:
Jack Humphrey is the author of Authority Black Book, Power Linking, and hundreds of articles syndicated all over the web on blog marketing tactics, link building, and authority site building.
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See how I got a couple extra links in there to Authority Black Book and Power Linking along with my main keyword? Why not? Show the person you are talking to that they can do the same thing and recommend text for you to include in your post and they will DEFINITELY want to do it, especially if they are known for doing reviews for links already!
Always write something different for each site you are trying to get to review you, and use the content to send someone else if the person you write to rejects your offer – don’t waste good unique content!
DO NOT send the same recommended text to different sites! They will most likely use what you send them exactly as you sent it and you don’t want duplication.
Do this for a couple of months and set a goal to get on 20 sites in this manner (sites related somehow to your niche, not just random blogs) and you are going to see some very neat things happening for you.
Getting Rejected
If you are looking for a really big site in your niche to review you and they turn you down, consider whether it might be wise to get reviewed by them for a fee. In the case of JohnChow.com in relation to my market, I consider it a deal to pay him $400 for a review because he has a LOT of traffic and influence with his readers.
You can check out the large database of bloggers willing to review sites for a fee below:
More From The FTR Link Building Series:
- Link Building On A Budget Part 1
- Link Building On A Budget Part 3
- Link Building On A Budget Part 4
- Building Links Using Trusted Directories
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Free Targeted Website Traffic
July 4, 2006
“Free traffic” is never free!
You may not lay down hard cash for it, but you earn it nonetheless. Today, a lesson in what it takes to earn that elusive targeted traffic!
First off, get your mind around the fact that there are thousands more scams on the web when it comes to getting targeted traffic than there are legitimate systems.
Everyone with a site at some point wants more traffic so bad that they find themselves making choices they’d never make under normal circumstances.
Below are some of those bad choices:
*Spamming
*Paid advertising you really cannot afford
*Paid advertising that doesn’t work
*Paid scams like guaranteed traffic
*Scams dealing with guaranteed search engine rankings
*Pay per click advertising without knowing anything about how to do it properly
Everyone with a site will go through a bitter deal with one of the above or any of the myriad other choices streaming through their inbox on a weekly basis.
It is almost like you cannot go forward without being taken for a ride so you know what it really feels like.
Then you get serious. And things change in a heart beat.
No longer are there 1001 ways to promote your site. Once you have your bull crap filter on, the world of internet marketing becomes uncluttered and much more simple.
Here are some of the top ways to earn free targeted traffic:
Extremely high quality article syndication
This has nothing to do with spam articles or the vast majority of the junk we all see on the web trying to pass as real content.
Extreme high quality article content is content that grabs a target market by the cahones and gives them a real, expert scoop on something.
It is the kind of content that earns visitors for the author who sign up for newsletters, click on ads, and flow through the links in resource boxes like no other form of article content on the web.
It is also the kind of content that gets picked up and run on the sites most dear to your market. The people whose sites you most want to be on.
Getting your article on a bunch of article directories is NOT the point. The point is to be PICKED UP by publishers FROM those directories and chosen out of thousands to be featured on their sites.
This form of marketing takes full advantage of RSS syndication of your blog content and tons of different linking strategies such as tagging or social bookmarking, posting your “stories” at places like Digg.com (there are tons of sites like this one now), and doing RSS feed exchanges with other bloggers and website owners in your niche.
Blog promotion is so deep and so multi-faceted that it is impossible to get into it in an article like this.
But it is a massive mistake to try marketing anything online without taking advantage of blogging and RSS technology.
I’m not talking the basics here. I am talking about serious study and mastery of some pretty high-end stuff most people on the web know nothing about.
It is an easy way to blow competition away, especially if they, like everyone else, are focused on search engines.
Search Engine Traffic
Search engine traffic is not something to worry about for most people. Most people will never get any more than 15% of their traffic from engines for the life of their sites.
Enjoy passive search engine marketing. Post to your blog frequently and let the engines come to you. It is a far less stressful way of life.
Believe me, aggressive search engine marketing has given more people more ulcers and empty bank accounts than anything else online.
If you are relevant, post plenty of original, topical content to your site regularly, and you actively market everywhere BUT the engines, they WILL come to you and reward you for putting your visitors first.
Finally, find some good quality partners to exchange articles, RSS feeds, and even text links with. And no, reciprocal linking is not dead! It just doesn’t impress Google anymore.
So what? Links are for targeted traffic first and forever, not search engines. The engines didn’t invent how the web works and can lay no claim to how a person should drive targeted traffic to her site.
The only thing you should worry about is if you are going to straight up trade links, you need to make deals where your link (and theirs) go on high traffic pages and not in some link directory.
Tags: Content Syndication, feeds, free links, linking, links, marketing, RSS, syndication, tag and ping, targeted traffic, Website PromotionWikipedia List of Social Bookmarking Sites
June 9, 2006
Here is a massive list of social bookmarking sites on Wikipedia.Tags: Blog Marketing, free links, power linking, social, social bookmarking, tagging, Website PromotionSocial bookmarking is really getting big, Fast!
FTR Subscribers Get A Free Link!
May 30, 2006
Top Sites has been taken down due to massive amounts of spam. Thank your local spammer next time you see them.
It has been replaced with IMNews.
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Just added a Top Sites section to the FTR!
If you are subscribed to the Friday Traffic Report, you may enter all your sites on the FTR Top Sites List.
Categories:
FTR Member Sites
Internet Marketing Training Sites
Marketing Blogs
How to get more traffic from Friday Traffic Report Readers
1. Make sure you install the link code on your site after signing up on the FTR Top Sites page.
2. Put the code in a visible place on your site to get higher rankings.
3. Do not submit spammy, stupid, crappy, unprofessional sites - I will delete them faster than you can say “stupid.”
4. Submit sites that Friday Traffic Report subscribers would be interested in - I will send the traffic, it’s your job to make your site and listing interesting for my visitors.
5. Sites not about marketing are ok as long as they are solid, professional sites that you control and can put the link code on. FTR members use cell phones, toilet paper, drive cars, and go to college, so those kinds of sites will work too.
Got it? Then grab your free FTR Top Sites Listing!
Tags: free links, free listing, FTR top sites, linking, submit your story, top sites, Website PromotionPower Linking 2005 Redefines Website Promotion & Traffic Generation
June 7, 2005
(PRWEB) June 7, 2005 — Web site owners are realizing Jack Humphrey’s Power Linking isn’t just another typical traffic generating program or another seo software application. Unlike most courses that are written in three days, Power linking is the culmination of three years of the best practices, honest, proven, tested strategies, & hard core results for thousands of customers worldwide. It is pushing the limits of web site owners allotted bandwidth each and every month.
Jack Humphrey’s Power Linking 2005 proves that most experts are completely wrong about linking. This course teaches how you can get your web site traffic in a matter of weeks. Hundreds of happy website owners have been emailing in every day with their success stories; here is what one fellow website owner has to say,
“Take Action! He has given given me the secret of all secrets for anybody marketing online or offline. I put into action one simple technique that Jack shared with me in one of his amazing articles that proved successful in the first 24 hours that I used it!”
These results are all possible because Power Linking 2005 is affordably priced under $100; well under real value. Unlike most traffic generating courses out on the market that run in the hundred’s of dollars. Web site owners are saving thousands by avoiding other costly promoting tools that have a much shorter shelf life and less affect.
The Power Linking 2005 course is nothing short of brilliant. When receiving the course you given written & video instructions that takes you by the hand & shows you step by step, the blueprints to achieving success with all the targeted web traffic any online business owner would ever want.
Linking is the only constant in web site promotion. It was the first form of web site promotion & it will always & forever will be the core of any successful web site promotion campaign.
The new cutting edge version of Power Linking; released June 1st, is available to everyone at www.digitalbookz.net/power-linking/index.htm .
Power Linking 2005 is a product created by Jack Humphrey & is available for all online busineses & web site owners.
www.digitalbookz.net is run by a online marketing firm & resource center out of Chicago.
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Tags: free links, internet marketing, jack humphrey, linking, power linking, pressPower-Linking-Profits.com Experiences Unprecedented 3rd Quarter Growth
October 20, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Richmond, IN (PRWEB) October 20, 2003 - Jack Humphrey’s “Power Linking” series of digital marketing courses for webmasters and small online businesses experienced record sales growth this summer.
Despite a sluggish economy, or perhaps because of it, sales for onlne marketing courses like “Power Linking” and “Power Linking 2: Evolution” have been growing steadily this year.
Several thousand web site owners, from small mom and pop businesses selling antiques or ebooks to larger operations selling B2B services and products, have caught on to Jack Humphrey’s Power Linking system in a big way.
“I am delighted. I never thought I’d see a quarter like the last one. And this quarter promises even more sales than last” Humphrey said.
When asked what the biggest contributors to the recent increase were, Humphrey replied “From the feedback I get from customers, it seems ike a lot more people are looking for a second income or full-time income from the net. The best way to accomplish this is to have a great product that is in demand, and the traffic it takes to make sales.
“When it comes to bringing any website a lot of targeted traffic, people are finding that it pays huge dividends to invest in the education needed to dominate their market online.”
As more people find themselves out of work or in need of additional income, many are plugging into the internet as a great place to learn about and run a small business.
“Local post offices are becoming crammed with small business owners who sell exclusively online and ship hard goods to customers. In talking with some of them, the common thread in our conversations always involves website traffic. Everyone wants more exposure and they are willing to pay for insider information to gain it” Humphrey said.
Humphrey’s site, http://power-linking-profits.com, has seen a 360% increase in traffic in the last three months, according to Alexa.com. The site currently holds an overall rank of 14,686. Reported sales increase for third quarter 2003 was 153%.
For additional information on Humphrey’s Power Linking course surf to: http://power-linking-profits.com
Power Linking 2: Evolution, 2003, Digital course and software.
Power Linking is a product of Jack Humphrey Marketing and Tale Chaser Publishing.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Jack Humphrey
Tale Chaser Publishing, Inc.
http://power-linking-profits.com
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