Good places to get links?
Hello, I just started a new site with affiliate program reviews, etc. Right now, I'm looking for ways to get it off the ground. I figure once it's really up and running the ad programs on the site will bring in traffic.
Any ideas for good ways to announce a new site? Any suggestions for places to find people who might want to exchange links? Any other suggestions for getting ahead of the competition (as it's pretty stiff in this category)?
The site is http://www.thegreattrafficexperiment.com (I'll post it in the critique section as soon as I evaluate the mandatory 3 other sites).
Thanks!
Tom
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iuploadhere posted this at 23:15 — 10th March 2006.
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Best way to exchange links i've found is emailing other websites that are has similar content and form a ring. But remember reciprocal links aren't what they used to be and one way links are way better now. So you'd might wanna look into trying to get people to blog abount your site or if you can write content submitting articles to ezines for others to use.
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SystemCentral posted this at 11:17 — 28th March 2006.
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I think you really need to look at trying to get a few links on sites with high pageranking. You might say that's easier said than done but even by participating in forums such as this one you are increasing your backlinks.
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Megan posted this at 14:57 — 28th March 2006.
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Actually, I've heard that they are placing less importance on that now. I know I find that most of mine don't come up on link: (not that I'm posting in other forums for the link!! It just happens to be there
). Actually, now I can't find any from forum postings!
One idea would be emailing an announcement of the site to some people who run blogs on similar topics. I'm not sure if they would consider this to be spam or not. I don't think it could hurt - if they think it's spam, they'll delete it. If not, they could respond by blogging about your site. What I've found helpful is to email the person regarding some other aspect of their site (hey, I found your site, it's really good, some comments on something they were blogging about, by the way, I have this site, what do you think?). Flattery might be helpful.
For link exchanges, just find sites that you like and are on a similar topic and ask them. This is tough because there is SO much out there. I have the same problem myself. Tons of siies out there, but very few that I'd want to be associated with.
I think getting in on the blogs and word of mouth in that sense would be a really good way to get ahead of the competition. Of course, that means you have to have a great site that people are genuinely interested in - that they will like enough to tell others about.
Good luck!
Megan
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teammatt3 posted this at 00:12 — 29th March 2006.
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There aren't really anymore after reading all thoses posts. One way that hasn't been posted is submitting a press release. PRWEB.com and PRfree.com are good places to submit. If you write a good one, other sites are bound to pick it up.
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