by warner on March 6, 2010
Marisa Tomei Looking Fabulous
Any popular event is a link bait opportunity. Link baiting can help a site gain links and traffic. The creative challenge is how to connect the event to what you do. Say your website was about your portable toilet company maybe you could write how the Academy Awards are a load of crap. That would be a controversial spin. Taking any side of something people have strong feelings can be a good link bait piece.
Say you had a site about your chocolate truffles company, you could write “How to celebrate the Academy Awards in style” If your company site sold real estate you could figure out how many acres of red carpet are used for the Academy Awards and write about that, maybe “The red acres of the Academy Awards” . Kind of piques the curiosity and relates to what you do and could capture some of the interest surrounding the event.
Like I will do with this post you can put it out on whatever social media you use. Sites like digg, mixx, reddit, propeller and newsvine can work well and offer additional opportunuties to show up in search engines or news. If you gain some trackbacks and re-tweets you could see your traffic and link profile grow. Stumbleupon, Amplify.com, Facebook can all be used to get an initial push off. You can also look to target sites that connect to the niche, in this case maybe Zimbio or glam.com.
You can ask people you know to add a comment as well. If your post is imaginative enough it will pick up momentum. The challenge is to connect to the event with a creative connection. I do offer link bait writing and promotion as a service, message me and I will let you know what I can do for you.
by warner on February 8, 2010
When you are submitting articles you may as well put them in the highest trafficked and highest PR Article Directories. After all it takes just as much work as when submitting to article directories that have little traffic. When other sites pick up your articles you get more links.
After a few weeks rub a paragraph from your article in copyscape and see who published them. If the site is a good site then contact them and offer them more original articles under the same terms that they have a link (or 2 or 3) of your choice in the article. It may benefit you to write some articles that are likely to have broad appeal than strictly focus on just your main niche keywords.
In fact you can even check articles by other authors in your niche in copyscape and see where they were published then contact those sites and see if they want original articles.
Putting articles in hundreds of directories is usually a waste of time. It is becoming more and more important to get higher quality links.
Ezine Articles PR 6 Alexa 131
Articles Base PR 5 Alexa430
Buzzle PR 5 Alexa 1,266
SearchWarp PR 4 Alexa 5,826
Article Alley PR 5 Alexa 3,149
GO articles PR 6 Alexa 1,611
Article Dashboard PR 5 Alexa 3,039
Idea marketers PR 3 Alexa 4,204
Article Click PR 5 Alexa 8,792
Web Pro News PR 6 Alexa 2,092
Amazines PR 5 Alexa 4,310
Article City PR 5 Alexa 7,997
I checked Alexa Feb 2010. I thought it was interesting how all the sites are getting more traffic compared to the older list.
Link to this post and you might find a quarter near the parking meter next time you park.
by warner on January 24, 2010
This
Amplify.com clip
http://warnercarter.amplify.com/2009/10/13/seo-manefesto/ I did for the post SEO Manefesto (misspelled, oops) is #3 for that search and the twitter tweet of that amplify page is #8, and one of the tags I used, link building is #9. For the correct spelling of the word Manifesto it is #4.
The original blog post? Too many pages deep to keep looking.
EDIT: After I corrected the spelling of the word Manefesto to Manifesto when I first wrote this the post is now on page one for SEO Manefesto…
The way it works is you clip parts of anything you find then also make a commentary about what you clipped. This kind of describes how one of Dan Theis’ “Leverage Engines, the “Index Driver” functions. (A Link to Dan’s free blueprint report)
I set up my Amplify to automatically post the title to Facebook, Twitter, Tubmlr, Delicious, and Diigo. If I wanted to I could drop a link into Ping.fm and send it out to an additional set of links (though a few would be duplicated) I could see this as a possibly useful tactic for doing reviews of things that have my affiliate link. Guess if I did that I would have to add the disclaimer. I am so glad the Government knows I am too stupid to read a review and not consider the person writing it could be getting paid. I will have to call them next time I can’t find my car in a big parking lot.
I also like how the Amplify page shows a link to my listing in http://wefollow.com.
On Wefollow you can list your twitter acct with 5 related tags and you can also search tags and find people who use that tag for themselves, (this can be really useful to find people in your niche to follow) even obscure long tail niche targeting tags.
