We all want the same thing, productive traffic. The thought that
someone followed a link from one website to ours is exciting and
when that click turns into a person that interacts with out site
we are very pleased.
Often when you are looking to promote a new site you just visit
every free link source you know and submit url, title, descript
and leave it at that. You are missing out on a prime source of
quality links that will be spidered by the major search engines
as well as get human surfers to your site.
Lets take my site for example http://www.webmasterearnmoney.com
There is no cost to you to sign up for a membership there and
its not like you have to spend all your time there. With a free
membership you get a profile with a link to your site as well as
setting signatures that will display in all forum post.
So things to do that promote your site from my site, post in my
forum. Often sites have a spam forum and a place to introduce
yourself. Look at the most recent post and see if you can
contribute anything relevant and useful. These post will have
links to your site from the signature you set up earlier.
Submit any content that is relevant and use the “resource” or
“about me” section at the bottom of each page to promote your
site and urls. Content submitted like this are valuable to our
sites and provide links back to you that are far superior to
directory listings and resource page links.
Contact webmasters about reasonable and fair link exchanges.
These often involve putting a link to them on your main page in
exchange for a similar link. Many sites you visit have a
“Partners” section where they put such link trades so if you see
one then they are likely wanting to hear from you. Such link
trades should be of equal value.
By equal value it should be kept in mind your site with a google
PR of 1 might be turned down by another site when you are asking
for a link on a PR 5 page. Most webmasters I have contacted want
relevant link exchange of similar value and many want
non-competing links as well.
Some sites owners will consider creative partnerships. From my
site (link near top of this article) if you browse to forums
then notice at the bottom of forums listing a section called
“Hosted Partners Forums” with a “Go Get Links – Support” forum?
This is a creative partnership between of my own sites. Many
webmasters would find great value in trading traffic and links
with partnerships like this.
This type of partnership allows you to have a place to promote
yourself from a different domain and update information about
your site. Every time you post in “your forum” you would also be
increasing the links back to your site. This kind of partnership
gives the host of your forum content so the site remains active
and the search engine spiders stay interested.
There are many ways to develop linking strategies from one site
to another the reason why you should take advantage of them is
obvious when you search google for information. Most searches
turn up a few forum post and articles on the first page of
results. I know I often find relevant information when I follow
a link to a forum post and then to another website.
Keep in mind that all the ideas suggested here are in no way
intended to be high maintenance projects. These are just things
you can take a day to do at a few sites and then revisit the
more productive sites and add more as you see fit.