How to get High PR backlinks

[ppokyh]

I own a poker affiliate site and I want to put this in for unique content. I just wrote it tonight, any thoughts?

Getting High PR Back Links
Kyle Healey

Let’s face it there is a certain way you need to approach high quality sites

when asking for a link exchange. This is important all the time, but especially

important when you are a new site with a low or 0 PR. PR stands for Google

page rank. It represents how popular your page is viewed by Google. When

you get back links to your website from high quality websites with a high

Page Rank, some of that PR is transferred to your website. The more high PR

websites that link to your site the higher your PR likely will be, and in turn,

the better off your website. Now we will go over a few tips on how to attain

high traffic, high PR back links for free in the very competitive poker industry.

1. This is the most important rule – Have a site worth linking to. Create your

poker website with pride, poker affiliating can be the best job in the world, so

put your maximum effort into the look and feel of your website. Create

unique content, clearly state what your website is about, and have a clean

layout where users will find it “friendly” to surf. All of these factors can

increase the chance a more authoritative site will link to yours. The first rule

is closely linked to the second, something that will automatically get your link

request trashed.

2. Never expect a link to a “banner farm” website. If all your poker website

includes is a bunch of banners to various online poker rooms forget it. You

may get link trades with other banner farms but they are doing you very little

good. You need links from respected, high traffic and quality poker websites

to increase your own targeted poker traffic and search engine ranking. I

guarantee you that 99% of webmasters won’t even get back to you if you

are running a banner farm. It goes back to the number one rule “Have a Site

Worth Linking too” – a respected webmaster is not going to hurt his/her

rankings in the SERP’s by linking to a “bad neighborhood” when you have very

little to offer them.

3. Have a clean and clear Resources Page – a) never have more than 40 – 50

back links on one page – the fewer the better. Make it look nice and clean,

and clearly describe each website using the anchor text and description they

provide. Make the font sizes easily readable and space each entry apart to

maintain the clean look. Finally, place a link to the resources page from your

homepage in a place that is easy to see. Name it something like “Useful

resources” or “Partners”, but never “Links” or “Link Exchange”. After all, you

should only be linking to useful quality sites.

4. How to find the best link partners – This is easy. Simply go to Google and

type in all of your intended keywords and industry related keywords one by

one. Contact the top 20 sites in every listing returned. If they have a

contact form especially intended for back link requests use it, otherwise use

the approach below.

5. The Approach a) if you can help it, don’t say Hello “webmaster” – if their

personal name is somewhere on the site, find it and use it. This is very

important as some busy webmasters chuck out every e-mail entitled “Dear

webmaster”.
b) Show them where you have already linked to them.

Never write to a website saying you will link to them if they link to you. You

will get little to 0 replies like this. Take the initiative and place their web link

on a links page like we described earlier in this article.

c) Be polite – As obvious as this is, many webmasters

do not follow it. Always end your e-mail with something like Sincerely, or

Yours Truly followed by your FULL NAME. It helps if you use your real name

too, poker affiliates are intelligent people we can smell a fake American name

when we see one.
d) Make it personal – Compliment something unique

about this particular site that “caught your eye”. It will help if it is something

you found 2 or 3 pages deep in the website. This will show the webmaster

that you have actually took the time to look over the site you are asking for

a link exchange and may actually flatter them – both increasing your chance

at getting a back link.

e) Do it right and Move On – Don’t be afraid to ask every

High quality poker site for an exchange – Do it right, move on , and forget

about it – You can check back in a month or so and remove any links from

your website that didn’t link you back if you want – although if they are good

resources for your web users you may want to leave them anyway. Getting

link exchanges is a numbers game, and surely the more requests you make,

the more positive replies you will receive.

Using the above tips, your link request success % is sure to go up.

Don’t get discouraged, and always remember how important the links you

receive are.

[kensavage]

tooo much reading IMHO

[bcombs]

Overly concerned with PageRank, IMHO. Properly constructed links is much more important.


Brian

[Webfu]

Yeah it is a lot of reading, but for the person that is in the dark like a new affiliate it could shed some light on a couple things. Trading links is a pain in the ass unless you do have some PR to lend out. Unfortunately, thats just the way it is. I try to think about it in terms of just getting my link popular instead of " I need to get more PR."

Kyle you might want to add in something about developing internal link popularity within in their own site.

[ppokyh]

Thanks, I am taking these into consideration. When I put it up on my site I will take it off of here, if that is cool

[vangogh]

The length of the article is fine. It's just poorly formatted here so it appears longer than it is. Single space with an extra space beteen paragraphs and it will be fine.

The information is all good though I agree with Brian that it's overly concerned with PageRank. PR is a less important than many people think and it's better to go after links from quality sites related to your website's topic.

It is true though that many webmasters will only exchange links based on PR, mistaken though it may be. You may want to mention that PR isn't the be all and end all of links. Exchanging links with unrelated sites even sites with high PR can possibly cause just as much harm as good.

Overall though the article has some good advice.

[GoWFB_SEO]

ask the webmaster if you can buy a link there or have really really good quality content to make them link back to you voluntarily

[Kasparoff]

Pretty good article. Though, it doesn't really mention the strategy on how to build "HIGH PR BACKLINKS". The author speaks only about exchanging links with quality competitors, but no mentioning about getting high PR links... Thus, since article doesn't answer its TITLE proposition, it's not worth to read. Author more focuses on numbers, rather than on quality of backlinks, so it contradicts the TITLE of this essay.

I think the answer to this TITLE on how to get HIGH PR BACKLINKS would be plain and simple: Just go a buy them. There are no high PR backlinks in the web given for free.

[Manish Pandey]

Too big... do you think anybody has that much of time to read... make it small and good to read...

Take care

Manish