Website Linking

[jdubbish]

Alright, so I'm in the process of optimizing my sites for the search engines. Adding image alt tags, titles to objects, etc.

So far my plan has been quite successfuly, with the site coming up in the top 3 for numerous target keywords (though some are very specific) on numerous search engines.

This is all great, but the one thing I'm not sure where to start on is getting quality reciprocal links. I've spent hours making manual submissions to relevant sites, and most never respond.

I have 4 sites that have a pagerank of 4 that I'm hoping to increase to 5 by February, and the only way to do this is building a wide range of link partners. Going from a pagerank of 4 to 5 is one of the hardest leaps to make, and I'm hoping I can get advise from an experienced professional with link exchange experience.

Anyone know of a cheap and/or free service for link exchange that is reliable and provides for great relevancy? Any other suggestions for increasing PageRank are much appreciated as well.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Anyone know of a cheap and/or free service for link exchange that is reliable

Free? Yes! Your TT signature. After putting my page in my signature, it climbed right to the top of a Google search, whereas prior to that, it didn't appear at all!

Dan

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[ChrisHunt]

You should really ask this in forum828 .

I'll make a couple of comments here though.

Adding image alt tags, titles to objects,

Neither of these will do much for your SEO, they're more for accessibility. So resist the temptation to simply stuff these attributes with keywords.

Getting incoming links? Well, you could start by linking to them from this thread - then we could see what you'd done already and what might be improved.

Assuming you're talking about commercial sites, one approach would be to build some non-commercial content that people might want to link to. So if you're selling widgets, write some pages on the history of the widget, reviews of new widgets, advice on picking the best widget for you, etc. Those pages are more likely to attract the "that's cool, I'll link to it" response that PR was originally intended to measure.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[theEclipse]

jdubbish-

I just want to make a quick note about not "spamming" your website with black-listed SEO techniques.

I worked as SEO consultant for a website that had an okay google rank (4, i think). When looking over their site it was so influxed with spam techniques that it took almost 3 months to get it out of all the asp code. Then the page started climbing in rank.....

Robert Carpenter
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