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I love to show people
how they can actually get up to 1 million hits per month
using reciprocal links. People are doing it right now
all over the web and have the live server log files
to prove it. And you probably are thinking, “Yeah they
are on top of the search engine lists! Actually, top
listing on the search engines is not the cause of their
hits! It’s a side-effect.
Reciprocal links alone put them in the Million-a-Month
Club. Reciprocal links, good ones, can do much more
for you than any search engine ever will.
Wow Jack, that’s a bold statement, got anything to back
that up?
How about the server logs of people getting over a million
hits per month who did nothing more than seek out link
partners and ONLY submitted to each major search engine
ONCE? Would that convince you?
Well check it out. Here are two sites that use reciprocal
linking almost exclusively with all other forms of advertising
bringing in a relatively negligible amount of traffic.
When looking at their live server log files, pay attention
to the following things:
1.) Qualified traffic from reciprocal links.
Look at the Refers Report and check the section labeled
'/'. Underneath you will find which links and search
engines are sending these websites traffic.) Search
engine traffic to the sites’ Link Directory pages.
In the Refers Report, find the headings that start with
/links/, with the name of the Link Directory pages directory
after. Search engines send lots of traffic to these
pages. These pages were never submitted to the search
engines!
Example 1: CTEX CD Replication holds the number
one keyword placement on Yahoo for "CD replication."
How did they get there? Link popularity! Check out their
live server log files at: http://www.ctexinc.com/stats/l
Example 2: Toolady.com is a website that has
been using reciprocal links for a long time and her
web site traffic was generated completely reciprocal
links! In four months it became one of the most heavily
trafficked bird web sites on the internet. No other
form of marketing was done. Check out her server log
files here:
http://toolady.com/reports/log_bird.html
So you tell me, are search engines the almighty savior
you thought they were a minute ago?
Relevance of Your Links
Relevance has a lot to do with how a search engine robot
will treat you nowadays. That's why I always talk about
the importance of building a link list or "theme index"
for your site (call it a reciprocal link exchange) that
closely resembles the topics or products you deal with
in your site. (But not those, of course, in direct competition
to you.)
Now the FFA and Link Farm people are going to be mad
at me, but this is the truth!
Here's a test. If I fail it you may publicly scorn me!
Go to any FFA page on the web and look for Yahoo.com.
Try Amazon.com, or CocaCola.com... There must be TONS
of their links on FFA pages - EVERYBODY knows those
guys! Go ahead and check it out, I'll be here when you
get back!
Glad you're back - how many links did you find? None?
Yikes!
Now go to Altavista.com and type link:yahoo.com in the
search window. What happened? Well, I just did it and
it said: We found 6,670,578 results. (By the way, don't
you love how the search engine will report millions
of links just like it reports none? Doesn't it seem
like they would be like "WOW, six million links!!!")
That's 6,670,578 links pointing to Yahoo.com!!
And not a single one from a link farm. Now don't go
getting ideas in your head about getting 6 million links.
You don't need that many to flood your site with enough
traffic to keep you selling widgets, or informing the
public on the effects on the ozone layer from methane
gas produced by cattle. (What? hey its late, that was
the best example I could come up with! How do I know
what you’re into?)
No, you need far fewer links than that to get 1,000,000
hits a month. And, with a million hits a month, how
many methane gas-to-oxygen converters do you think you
could sell to farmers to mount on the backs of their
cows to protect the ozone layer? I'd say at least a
whole heap!
There is automation software out there that people are
using to drastically optimize their link lists and I
highly recommend checking them out. The best and first
of its kind can be found at webmastertraffictools.com.
This software has a fully functioning demo that will
spider the web, set up your link directory, AND upload
it to your server. It also does a mail-merge function
to personalize all your link requests to other webmasters
and mails for you. All in the DEMO version!
You CAN do all this manually, but it is highly recommended
that you at least check out the automation software
demo above to see what the best of the best webmasters
are using to get those million hits per month.
(Author’s note: It has not yet been proven whether methane
produced by cow emissions affects the ozone layer. Example
above is fictional.)
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Jack Humphrey is the Author of "Power linking 2: Evolution"
which hit the net this week to rave reviews. Grab your
copy
before your competition does at
http://power-linking-profits.com
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