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Using Link Bait To Attract Massive Free Traffic

January 24, 2023   RSS / Link Popularity   No comments

Here is a technique I have long used to attract massive free traffic to some of my websites. Recently, more and more people are discussing this largely intuitive technique, and giving it a variety of names. The name I most embrace is “link bait.”

“Link bait” is anything that you put on your site that encourages others to link to your site, and then drive massive amounts of free traffic to your site by telling others about it. It’s some feature that by it’s very nature makes others reference your site and want to tell others about it.

Examples of this could be a service that they need to visit your site to access, or an outstanding article that they have to visit your site to read, or even some type of list that they need to visit your site to access.

Examples of link bait that I can think of (actual and hypothetical)… things that would cause other webmasters, publishers, and just people in general to send you traffic include:

– The site http://formatit.com/ has a software utility that formats emails for free. This is where I format all of my ezines and emails to a max of 65 characters per line 😉

– The site http://selfpromotion.com/ has a program that allows you to semi-automatically submit your sites to all of the major and minor search engines and directories for free.

– A site that has a listing of all the major blog directories.

– A site that has a listing of all the major places to “ping” when posting to your blog.

– A recipe conversion chart on a cooking site.

– A chart showing calories burned during various exercises.

– A listing (with hot links) and maybe reviews of major internet marketing forums.

– A list of 100 top rated directories to submit your ezine articles to.

– A list of the 100 most popular baby names.

– A list of foods considered aphrodisiacs… and why they work.

… you get the idea!

If you can incorporate something similar to the above on your blog or site, then after the word gets out, it will be natural for people to link to you. They’ll feel good linking to and telling others about your site. People enjoy appearing “in the know.”

You should do some brainstorming today, and see what ideas you can come up with for link bait to add to you site and then tell the world about.

As I said, it can even be an article. For example, an article on how to really optimize a website, 20 top traffic generation methods, some type of webmaster tricks, etc.

As an example, I recently wrote an article, which I expanded into an ebook called “20 Insider Techniques Of A Super Affiliate.” I recently decided to post these techniques as a 20-part series to my blog at http://WillieCrawford.com/blog/

Once people start referring to this series, it will attract traffic to my blog for a very long time. The key then is to have links in my blog’s navigation that make it easy to locate this series even months from now!

Go ahead… do some brainstorming, and then put some link bait on your site. Then tell a few others and ask them to help spread the word. After all, link bait only works if the word gets out. Once it does, the flow of traffic will become unstoppable.

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Are you taking on Goliath with your Website Linking Strategy?

January 19, 2023   RSS / Link Popularity   No comments

When it comes to your website link building strategy are you taking on Goliath?

Lets look at the search engine ranking you are looking to get to your site for example if you are looking to get to a number one listing under the keyword ‘Internet Marketing’ in Google. Is the target you are aiming at a Goliath? As in a lot of well established competition?

I know David won the mythical battle, but wouldn’t it be better to have the best odds possible?

A website Link building Strategy with focused keywords, which is achievable, is going to bring a focused visitor ready to buy rather than untargeted “traffic for ego”

To do this properly you need to research the words you think that you most likely customer and research the competition in this area.

And also look at the facts about the top listed websites:

1. What page rank does it have? 2. How many links does the site have pointing to it? 3. How many pages does it have listed? 4. What type of site is it eg: Normal, Blog or Wikipedia? 5. Does it exchange links?

A search under the term “internet marketing” – shows all the different types of sites mentioned above- the competitive terms are good for showing what works.

Some webmasters say that you should vary the “Anchor text” – this is the text that displays in a text link on another site, linking to your site. Some webmaster software programs automatically insert the same text in every page they display.

Lets look at a real time example:

1. Search for “Reciprocal Link Software” without quote marks, in Google 2. You should find the program Autolinks Pro 3. Go to the demo version 4. You will see that the software generates pages, with the text “Reciprocal Link Software” in every page.

Now that’s the same text, on every page, of every site, of every user online. Now there will be others that will link with something different, for example the domain name, but the majority of the links say what the site is about. That’s logical enough for both Humans and Google!

Seeing a number 1 ranked website out of 1 million results, on a focused keyword site is enough proof for me what works!

From here you need to develop a conclusion. Focused 2 – 3 words that helps you avoid taking on the Goliath’s of search engine results. The more targeted the visitor, the more likely he is to stay and take the action you want.

This is not to say that you cannot take on a Goliath, there just needs to be and understanding of the effort of time and resources of taking on a giant! Understand the battle field!

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Article Marketing – Boost Your Link Quality and Link Popularity (Page 1 of 2)

January 16, 2023   RSS / Link Popularity   No comments

Article marketing is one of the hottest web site promotion strategies to get your message out to your target market. Did you know it also improves your link popularity and link quality? Read on to learn how these two offpage search engine optimization factors can be positively influenced by article marketing.

Search engine bots to scour the internet and index the vast number of web pages using complicated algorithms to determine the relevancy and ranking of each web site. One way to positively influence your web site ranking is through offpage search engine optimization tactics. Offpage optimization tactics focus on improving link popularity and link quality. Search engines use these two offpage optimization factors to influence your ranking. Generally speaking, link popularity refers to the number of links point back to your web site. Link quality refers to the importance of the web sites that are pointing to your website, whether the content of the site linking to you is related, and the anchor text in the back link. To improve your search engine ranking, boost your link popularity and the quality of incoming links.

Article marketing is a proven strategy for boosting your link popularity and link quality. Here is why. Each article you prepare for promotion will include a short resource box at the end of the article. This is where you should add at least one link back to your web site. Submit the article to multiple article directories and you receive a link back to your web site from each of those article directories. If other web site owners looking for content use your article on their web site, blog, newsletter or ezine, you will also get a link back from each of those sites as well. The more compelling your articles are, the more they will proliferate. As your articles proliferate, you get more back links. Think about it. This proliferation improves link popularity.

The second benefit of article marketing is to improve link quality. You can positively affect link quality through the article text and article resource box. Your article text should relate to your web site content theme and use your primary keyword phrases sparingly within the body of the article. Write articles on topics that are related to the theme of your website. If your website is about kitchen remodeling, publish articles about flooring, custom cabinets, countertops, lighting and other themes related to kitchen remodeling. Search engines will know these topics are contextually related or frequently associated with your primary theme of kitchen remodeling. You can positively influence the quality of the links pointing to your site in the resource box at the end of each article. There are two objectives you should focus on when writing the resource box text. First, include a catchy phrase that draws in the reader and encourage them to click through to your web site. The secondary objective of the resource box is to positively influence your link quality. This is done through the anchor text and words surrounding the anchor text. Anchor text is the text a user sees and clicks when clicking a link on a web page. Choose your anchor text wisely. It affects link quality. Vary the phrases in your anchor text to use theme related keywords and phrases. This will positively affect your search engine ranking for those keywords. As an example, if your website is about kitchen remodeling you want the anchor text to look like those below. (Note: replace the square brackets with angle brackets):

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