If you’re like most small business owners, you always in the market for more back links to your website to improver your website’ position in the organic search results on Google & Yahoo!. In the past, the challenge has been to balance link quality against the prohibitive cost associated with link building. As the old cliche goes – ‘it’s like being caught between a rock & a hard place’! – You either had to shell out a stack of cash for content relevant 1-way links or settle for those temptingly cheap links farms – which bit you in the back later when you were sandboxed by Google for using link farms!
OK – granted there are some economical methods of acquiring 1-way links – article marketing is probably the most effective of these.
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Perhaps the Most Affordable Strategy Ever for Grabbing Loads of Content Relevant, 1-Way Links
1. Identify what Category your Website Is – ie. internet marketing, web development, real estate, day trading, business startups, etc.
2. Google your category(s) followed by the ‘forum or ‘forums’ – ie. If you have a real estate website, search for “real estate forums”, “real estate investors forum” etc.
3. Register as a user on the forums that have a high level of activity.
4. Then in the correct category, post a thread something like this:
Hi All,
I am looking to buy 1 link in your signature on this forum as well as 1 link in your signature in any other real estate forums.
Please pm me details for each forum that you have a link for sale in.
Please send details in this format:
Url of Forum
Your Screen Name
Post per day
Price per month
My site is http://www.yourdomain.com
Thanks!
My Name
5. Buy from users with at least one post per day. In most forums you can determine how many post per day a user makes by click on his or her screenname to get to his/her profile.
5. Expect to pay about $1 per month for each post a user averages each day. For example, if a user averages 5.14 post per day – expect to pay $5 for a link in his her signature for a month. In other words, you just bought 150 content relevant, 1-way links for $5! Generally Paypal.com is the best way to pay.
6. Ask the individual to make a post so you can see that your url & anchor text have been correctly added to his/her signature.
I repeated this simple process, with 14 forum user(1 in each forum) – now I have 14 people making posts on a daily basis with links back to my website. This has resulted in over 2,035 links for me in just 2 short weeks. You don’t believe me do you?! Check here to see that Yahoo! has indexed over 2,100 links to our site. Keep in mind that some forums will have a ‘no-follow’ attribute on the links which mean Google will disregard links in these forums.
An added benefit of using content relevant forums, is click-throughs! Since your real estate link is in real estate investors forums – some real estate investors will actually click-through to your site. So not only do these links help your seo efforts they also double as text ads!
October 26th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Great post man I love this blog
November 21st, 2008 at 11:14 am
There’s so many Do’s and Don’ts out there regarding link building that I have a hard time figuring out which is good advice and which is just twaddle. So thanks for the advice on paid link building.