Building Up Incoming Links

July 16th, 2006

Today I had a look at my stats at UrlTrends, and noticed that although I have MSN and Yahoo incoming links, I have 0 Google incoming links. That sort of disappointed me so now I have started the tedious process of trying to get more links. I started by adding my blog to a couple of blog directories which I’ve listed on my links page. I know, there’s only 2 listed there so far, but I’m tired and will continue after a good night’s sleep.

The next step is to try and exchange links with other sites containing complimentary content. That’s going to take up a lot of time but I’m very leary of other methods of getting links and I’d prefer not to have to pay for getting linked.

Another option is to write a few more articles and submit them to various articles directories…that seemed to work for me before.
So now all I have to do is think of something interesting to write about. That’s number 1 on my to-do list.

Of course, I’m also open to suggestions. If you know of a alternate way to get incoming Google links, by all means, let me know.

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6 Responses to “Building Up Incoming Links”

  1. Frits Says:
    July 16th, 2006 at 7:38 am

    Maybe put some static content on the home page,
    switch to a 3 colum layout, put the blog in the 3rd colum and shift it to the middle.
    I just read that on
    http://positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/anyorder
    :-)

    Oh, wait… :-)
    Better?

  2. Karen Says:
    July 16th, 2006 at 10:40 pm

    thanks, Frits…
    I’ll think about your suggestion. ;)

  3. Brent Says:
    July 20th, 2006 at 12:03 am

    Bear in mind that Google is notorious for not showing all links to sites. You may have some that they just aren’t reporting.

    I’ve had sites that show in excess of 10K links friom Google one month, 3-4K the next month, and then back up to 10K again the following.

    Just keep exchanging links with quality, like-themed sites and all will be well.

  4. Karen Says:
    July 20th, 2006 at 2:00 pm

    Hi Brent,

    Thanks for your comment. I appreciate your input! :)

  5. Danny Weiss Says:
    July 23rd, 2006 at 11:03 pm

    Karen -

    I’ve found the URL Trends data can take a quite a while to reflect the search engine stats and that the search engine’s themselves take a while to pick up links. When I do link:www.karenblundell.com on google it shows a health number of links to your site. When I do it for my own site, it shows a completely different result than URL Trends indicates for google. Bottom line: you’re probably doing better than you think.

    -Danny.

  6. Karen Says:
    July 24th, 2006 at 9:29 pm

    Hi Danny,

    thanks again for your support. It definitely is encouraging if I check my links that way…I totally forgot about that!