I wanted to share my link building strategies so others may avoid my mistakes and perhaps recommend better ways of getting IBL's.
Here it goes.
(1) Bought links on Ebay.. very expensive, I averaged about 4$/mon and $6/mon for PR4, PR6 respectively. Expensive, and don't recommend it.
so then I tried:
(2) Outsourcing from >>getafreelancer.com. The idea was originally apealing because I thought I could get relavent IBL's for around $1 a link.. at least that's what was promised.. out of the 8 providers I tried.. the only one who came close cost me about $2.5/link.. a mix of PR1 to PR4. The forst 6 providers gave me nothing but grief. Poor guys were plagued with personal problems, and unforeseen circumstances. I literally spent about $3000 during the last 5 months on that approach.
(3) Exchanging links and buying from other forums.. less expensive than Ebay, but still the monthly charges are eating at my marketting budget. I'm not so sure what's more cost effective, higher monthly charges on higher quality sites, or permanent links from non-banned just ok sites. I won't mention theother forum because the last time I did on a post John replied with **** ridden reply.. lol..
(4) Manual link exchanges with other websites.. the hardest to do, but I devote time to finding good quality link exchange partners.. is it the most time and cost effective?.. I'm still not convinced. There's a lot of link exchange partners that removed my links after a few months.. or the reffered page was not linked from the home page or any other page (orphaned).. so every month I go and check my link exchange partners and remove about 5-10%..
(5) Automatic link exchange software ( I wrote myself).. simple but works ok, but same results as (4) with the exception that 99 out of 100 are not on topic.. so I decline to exchange links on most of them. I've been getting about 100 link exchange request a day 99 of them are spam ( I need to filter IPs).. One thing that is nice is that the program automatically checks the reciprical links for me and culls the dead ones. I recommend this, because reduces the tedious monkey brained act of looking them up..
(6) I bought an existing sports related forum (yea I know, already a stupid idea). It had over 50,000 posts and 5000 members.. and impresive daily page views.. great keywords for sports etc.. I purchased the forum thinking I was going to place a big fat juicy link to my main link builing program.. WagerX and WagerLineSports. Massive forum wide footerlinks that over time would compensate for the forum cost. Since I didn't do my homework, I didn't realized that the majority of the members are underage.. That is a significant deal, because i'm not so sure what the rules are on underage internet users.. I use common sense and don't place my gambling links (Like I originally wanted to).. I'm going to put adsense on it and see what happenns. Long story short.. most of the members soon went to another forum.. I guess I could not relate to them.. ohh well.. I really don't recommend buying a forum you know little about, and don't have the time to maintain. I thought it would be a lot easier than it was..... NOT
Conclusion?
I really don't have one.. I'm in the position that I feel that incomming links are important, but so far I haven't found the best way to get them. OR is this just the inherent reality behind being a webmaster?
What's the best way you guys have managed your link builing?
How about for your sports forum, get one or two of those teenagers and make them your moderators and let them run your forum for you ? Have weekly meetings or something like that and a subforum for you and these moderators.
Award them as well if things are looking up. Do not underestimate these teenagers. A link to your sports forum, can also be a link to your other sites.
That is a well written post and I'm glad you shared it with us, but it kinda made me sad
So what are you going to do now? Have you tried hiring content writers to add value to your site so people will want to link to you? Have you thought of doing contests?
I've never liked buying links, I'd rather just buy the site and build my web portfolio.
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:There's a lot of link exchange partners that removed my links after a few months.. or the reffered page was not linked from the home page or any other page (orphaned)..
.... This unfortunately is just the way it is. It happens to everyone actively trading links. Not to mention people eventually redesign websites and often ditch their old link pages.
Wow.... Adrien your looking for casino / gambling related IBL's right ?
As I have seen, the older websites and more reputable ones, the ones that already have high rankings and have not changed management, will never remove their partners links.
I always tell clients that the best way to get links is to be link-worthy in the first place. Personally, I would rather spend my time creating a website (or better yet, a blog) that was incredibly useful, interesting, helpful, original, etc. than spending endless hours hunting for links.
That way, your core product improves while also increasing your linking profile almost without any proactive effort. People link to sites they like without having to be asked ... all they need to do is know the site exists.
If a site is not worth linking to, link building will be a long, hard and expensive process.
Another one of my favorite link-building tactics is to write a great article on a topic related to my site. Then I'll find hundreds of sites that publish content similar to that and exchange the article for a link. To succeed with this strategy, you have to go beyond the article directories. They're a good place to start, but the best link opps will require you to actively seek them out.
Bought links on Ebay.. very expensive, I averaged about 4$/mon and $6/mon for PR4, PR6 respectively. Expensive, and don't recommend it.
Well, cheap links are not always good. If I have to buy links, I'd first check the quality of the links - PR of the page(s) where my link would appear and how many outgoing links are present on the page(s). I'd not mind paying a higher price if the site can link with anchor text of my choice and has less than 10 outgoing links.
I also would not buy links from a site which could be traced by the search engines selling links - for example sites advertising themselves on reviewme.com
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