Link Exchange

[Jog On]

Go to this site and register at the free directories:

http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php

You can also go through the catagories and look for sites to ask for links from/exchange links with and publish atricles for.

Check who is linking to similar sites by typing link:http://www.domain-name-of-similar-site.com and see if they will link to you as well

Writing 400-700 word articles (with your URL in the resource box at the end) and publishing them to directories is a great way to get one way in pointing links, here are some article directories:

http://www.articledirectories.info/

Put up a blog and publish an RSS feed to get the SE's attention, they love RSS and fresh regular new content. make sure that your blog is part of your domain so that when the engines pick up on your RSS feed they will spider the rest of the site, submit your blog and RSS feed here:

http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/

Write interesting, topical and quirky blog posts and submit them to social bookmarking sites like digg.com, reddit and stumbleupon - this is my favourite form of SEO because it's fun and creative - it's called link baiting and you can read about it here:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/anatomy-of-a-super-digg

Try and make sure that your keywords are in the anchor text for any in pointing links.

The best way to go about 2 way reciprocal linking is do it on a blogroll - engines like that a lot more than having a 'resources' page stuffed with links.

There is a lot to linking and how they view them - higher pagerank is better, although if a link comes from a page with 500 other links on it (a resources page) it's nowhere near as good as a link from a page with no other links on it.

Don't link to link farms or off topic sites, you can't control who links to you but you can control who you link to.

Try and avoid outsourcing linking - I did this one and ended up being linked to from porn, casino sites and link farms with names like getpagerank.com - which incidentally has no pagerank - go figure.

Avoid buying text links as well as the engines are getting wise to that.

It's very easy to get caught up in obsessing over SEO, my rule of thumb is to just do all of the above and avoid anything that involves trying to guess algorithms or overly complicated 'secrets' - there is a huge blackhat SEO culture that spends 60+ hours a week trying to crack the secret code - they come up with an exploit, then the search engines update their algorythms (this is called 'the Google dance'), and on it goes. Just get into link baiting instead it's much more fun!

When you start getting some serious traffic - slap some google adsense ads and affiliate products up there!

Oh yeah -press releases are good as well!

HTH

[chicane]

I think it was done in Dreamweaver (take a look at the Javascript functions). And I believe, but may be wrong, that Dreamweaver still uses tables for positioning.

Dreamweaver allows you to use tables for layout, but you're also just as free to use CSS for layout. After all, both are just different ways to apply HTML & CSS technology.

Not anymore

My site http://www.athousandthreads.com while it's not gonna win any design awards is fully xhtml complaint and accessible. This is a pre requisite for any site I build, but sadly it's still not taken seriously by alot of people.

It actually does use tables for some layout also, which I need to change.

Why change? Unless it's for your own personal fulfillment or there is some tangible benefit to the viewers of your site (and don't go telling me that the blind will be able to use screen readers to view it).

I'm fully up to speed with CSS-based layouts (having done this various large-name clients) but to this day am unsure as to why I do things this way. It certainly doesn't shorten the development timeframe.

[Ardesco]

Reminds me I must get round to changing my table layout to a layer layout


BTW you can be xhtml compliant whilst using tables.

I would happliy link to you if you like daveB let me know if you want to.

[dotnetter]

I think it was done in Dreamweaver (take a look at the Javascript functions). And I believe, but may be wrong, that Dreamweaver still uses tables for positioning.

Not anymore

My site http://www.athousandthreads.com while it's not gonna win any design awards is fully xhtml complaint and accessible. This is a pre requisite for any site I build, but sadly it's still not taken seriously by alot of people.

It actually does use tables for some layout also, which I need to change.

[Burdock]

Looks good on the surface, but have you looked at the code? Arrrrggghhh!!!! All tables for layout with spacer graphics and images used for navigation. Good luck viewing it on anything with a horizontal resolution less than 829 pixels (ie, anything other than a PC). Never mind the fact that there is no alt-text on any of the images making it impossible to navigate by a blind person - which I believe is actually illegal now for commercial sites.

I think it was done in Dreamweaver (take a look at the Javascript functions). And I believe, but may be wrong, that Dreamweaver still uses tables for positioning.

[Cowboy Bob]

This one came in at £300 including licensing the images etc. I'm have absolutely no clue about web design these days. The last time I tried it was in plain vanilla html about 10 years ago. If you pm me I'll give you the addy of the guy who did it for me. He's very good and very helpful.

Looks good on the surface, but have you looked at the code? Arrrrggghhh!!!! All tables for layout with spacer graphics and images used for navigation. Good luck viewing it on anything with a horizontal resolution less than 829 pixels (ie, anything other than a PC). Never mind the fact that there is no alt-text on any of the images making it impossible to navigate by a blind person - which I believe is actually illegal now for commercial sites.

[DaveB]

I heard that Google got wise to link exchanges a long time ago. It might do your site more harm than good.

From what I've been able to find out it Link Farms that they have got wise to. Large groups of self referencing sites that all link to each other. Not planning anything like that, just trying to increase the number of unique links to my site which is one way to raise it's profile.

[DaveB]

Sorry for the off question , how much is a site like that ?

This one came in at £300 including licensing the images etc. I'm have absolutely no clue about web design these days. The last time I tried it was in plain vanilla html about 10 years ago. If you pm me I'll give you the addy of the guy who did it for me. He's very good and very helpful.

[chicane]

I heard that Google got wise to link exchanges a long time ago. It might do your site more harm than good.

[scotspine]

you could try this site i finished for a client some time ago...

http://www.linkexchangeetc.com/

there is a free option. supposed to be google-friendly. is that really the case? dunno.

[Toad]

Nice site but ...

managing information and its’ supporting technology

sorry to nit pick.

[Sockpuppet]

Free is you make it yourself.

[2uk]

As you may or may not have noticed I finally got my Co. webtulipe up and running and stuck it in my sig here. In a desperate, and probably fruitless, attempt to improve it's currently non-existent ranking on Google I'm trying to get some link exchanges going.

So, if any of you with business websites want to exchange links, I'll stick them on the resources page under appropriate headings, pm me with your details and one or two lines of blurb to go with them.

Sorry for the off question , how much is a site like that ?

[DaveB]

As you may or may not have noticed I finally got my Co. webtulipe up and running and stuck it in my sig here. In a desperate, and probably fruitless, attempt to improve it's currently non-existent ranking on Google I'm trying to get some link exchanges going.

So, if any of you with business websites want to exchange links, I'll stick them on the resources page under appropriate headings, pm me with your details and one or two lines of blurb to go with them.