Get more links to your web site
My friend has been telling me about this service Got Links for months now. The idea is that Got Links helps you develop link partnerships so you can drive more traffic to your web site, and hopefully boost your search engine rankings. I always thought it was too complicated and didn’t want to take the time to look at it. Thats actually the opposite of Got Links which makes it easier!
Got Links is a link exchange where you find quality sites to share links with. You can select specific categories and only share links with sites on topics relevant to your visitors. You can also review people who want to link with you and decline anyone that doesn’t meet your standards. You can see an example of my gotlinks pages here.
The cool part is that Got Links helps manage everything. I just put up a single web page with some special code Got Links provides. Then I add my sites and start looking for link partners. As a free member I can request up to 75 link exchanges a day. Meanwhile other members will start to request links exchanges with me. The whole process probably takes 15-30 minutes a day at first, but as you build up a large link base you won’t need to do as much work. Maybe 15 minutes a week just approving link requests you have received.
In my first day of using Got Links I already have 17 new link partners sending links to my site. A few days later I’m at 34 link partners.
A word of caution.
YES, some of these people are cheaters. Be careful. Check out their sites. You’ll notice a few of them use the same template over and over and simply create a ton of sites for use with Google AdSense. I don’t link with those guys. However there are hundreds if not thousands of quality sites in the Got Links index.
Also keep in mind that the whole point here is NOT to automate everything. You should NOT go in and select all the sites within a category, or select all the categories. The best thing to do is find some sites and categories that are on topics similar to your web site. That is the way to build good link partnerships.
If you build erratically and link with anyone who wants to link to you, you’ll end up linking with cheaters and may end up with some crappy links. You may even end up having some problems with search engines like Google.
To play Devil’s Advocate here I also want to point you to a blog post at Web Guerrilla entitled The Truth About Reciprocal Link Networks. Greg is a search engine optimization consultant and talks about one of his clients who has gotten bad results with Google recently. They speculate it was because the client went out and developed over 7000 links using GotLinks. I’m not sure that was the only reason this client has been having problems. As I said he linked with everyone, and didn’t select specific categories to link with.
So now that I’ve played Devil’s advocate I can tell you I really enjoy Got Links so far. It really makes the job of managing my link exchanges much easier.
Heck you could use Got Links and not even seek out link partners. Simply use it to manage the links on your site and only approve people who seek you out to trade links with you.
Got Links, its free , setup your account and request a link exchange with me!
- Ben
Ps. Thanks to Jack Spirko of the Dallas Internet Marketing Blog for another great tip!
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I have a few things to point out Ben when reviewing the comments made by Greg.
1. Then entine post is flawed from the get go as he state this client had over 7 thousand links from got links. Simply because there are not 7000 members in got links but about 6000. So the initial premise itself is just flawed.
2. There is not doubt that the VALUE of resi links has been discounted by google in the last 3-phase update, however there is NO EVIDENCE that any punishment has been handed down against them. Nor would anyone expect that it would.
Here is what I have seen, some optimizers lost good rankings and it happens to be that some of the same optimizers were using exchanged links. The people who always said they were bad are quick to jump on this and say see, look, I told you.
Yet a lot is being left out in jumping so quickly to this conclusion.
First, were the orginal ranking obtained primarly due to the recopicial in the first place. In many cases yes indeed! So these people are not being penalized for recopical links they simply stopped working as good as they did before.
Second, did the orginial ranking rely heavily on on page factors? If so not only did recopicial linking take a hit in jagger but off page factors became more important then they already were.
Third, did the optimizer go do what this guy did and get a few thousand links in one week. If so the fact that the links were recopicial is far less important then the alarm set off by how fast they were acquired.
I am a fan of Got Links myself as you know for the right sites with the right expectations and if used properly.
On the sites were I use it I generaly build links for a week (20-30) then quit for a week, then start again. It seems to do well in bringing ranking up in Yahoo and very well with MSN as for Google it seems to have little if any effect.
Sometimes I think SEO folks need to stop seeing Google as the most important thing in the world. While they do drive more traffic then MSN or Yahoo they in no way drive as much as MSN AND Yahoo. Very few folks seem to understand just how signifigant that little factoid is,
Jack Spirko
SEO Specialist
MasterLink, Inc
Hey Jack,
Thanks for the feedback. I like your idea of only doing 20-30 links a week. Basically take one day request 40 or so links, because only half will get approved.
Thats the great thing about GotLinks is that it doesn’t take a lot of time to use their strategy.
- Ben