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How To Increase Your Web Site Popularity Through One-Way Incoming Links

By: Charles Ryder

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One of the best ways to get free website traffic, as we all


know, is links from other sites which help improve your site's


link popularity. Nothing new there...however now that Google and


friends are cracking down on reciprocal link exchanges and


de-valuing links from non-relevent sites, it's become vitally


important to get 1-way INCOMING links from sites that are


related to your niche.





For example, a travel site would benefit from a incoming-link


from a holiday home rental company or an airline or car hire


place, but there would be NO benefit from getting an incoming


link from an online casino service or one of those ubiquitous


Viagra sales sites we all love to receive spam email from


(not!)... :)





Here's what I suggested to one of my client's (who runs a luxury


accommodation site) as a way for him to get quality incoming


one-way links:





Ideally, it's MUCH better to have a one-way link coming into


your site, rather than having to reciprocate the link and give


them one back. HOWEVER, this is getting VERY difficult to


achieve.





Essentially, you are asking a possible competitor to give you a


link to your website, when they would much rather the searcher


just found them instead. Recipricol links are also starting to


lose their value in terms of link popularity. A one-way link


from a RELATED site is better than 5-10 2-way links from most


sites. So, I believe that in order for you to get as many


incoming one-way links as possible, you need to give website


owners a REASON to be prepared to give you that link for free. I


believe the best way to achieve this is to go back to something


I suggested in an email recently: As a way to differentiate


yourself from all the other sites out there offering similar


content/services to yours, you need to value-add so that it is


compelling for site visitors to make their bookings through your


site in preference to anyone else's - even the actual


accommodation place site itself. As I suggested, one way is to


offer a package of discount vouchers for guests staying at each


place for all the local tourist attractions, and offer them as a


free giveaway to anyone making a booking through you. The more


discounts or specials you offer, the more attractive it will be


for someone wanting to make a booking thru you.





Perhaps on occasions, you might even persuade some companies to


offer free giveaways as an incentive to get tourists to visit


their premises (free wine samples or free food samples, etc.)


However, rather than call them up and just ask for discounts for


possible clients, why not approach them with a view to offering


to give them FREE advertising to your clients, in exchange for a


link from their website (designed the way we specify, and


preferrably placed in a vaguely decent spot on their site). So,


an example might make this clearer... Let's say you have an


accommodation spot in Sydney. You contact all the related


businesses in that region that offer something that may be of


value to a visitor to the area. Say, a winery, a restaurant, a


car hire place, a movie cinema, a chemist/pharmacy, etc. Explain


to them that you would like to offer them free advertising for


clients you refer to their business while they are holidaying in


Sydney, in exchange for a link on their website back to your


site. Tell them you will put their details in a PDF document and


anytime someone makes a booking for an accommodation spot in the


area, you will email them a free copy of the document (sort of


like a digital voucher system) and they can print it out and


bring it with them for use while in the area. In fact, if the


truth be known, you could probably even put a link to the PDF on


your site so ANYONE can download it. Make them have to fill in a


small form to get it (name & email address) and then add their


name to your (upcoming) :-) email newsletter. That way, even if


you don't make a sale so far as a booking goes, at least you


have a good incentive for people to give you their email address


in exchange for downloading the vouchers for the location they


are interested in. Sell it to them on the basis that it WILL


give them FREE advertising. They don't even have to offer any


specials (although if they do, that's obviously a bonus for you


and the client), and all you ask for in return is a one-way link


back to your website. I'm not sure what sort of success rate you


would have getting this, but I would be surprised if it was less


than 1 in 10, perhaps even 1 in 5 businesses being prepared to


say yes. And, you have a WHOLE country of accommodation hotspots


you can call over the next 6-12 months and put this proposition


to, with a view to getting ongoing increasing one-way links to


your site from relevant businesses. Oh, a small but important


point. Get them to provide the text &/or graphics content that


goes in your voucher. Saves you some time & money. I would


assume that many of these places already have some form of


brochures & advertising, etc - just get them to email you the


image in a usable format.





If you have to spend time designing the look and content of each


ad, it will chew up your time, so if they see the value of doing


this, just explain that you will NEED them to email you their


voucher entry (perhaps specify the size and format, etc), and


you just drop it into a word doc (for example) and turn that


into a pdf when you have filled it up. Also, you will no doubt


have some places being concerned that they are going to be in


your voucher "book" with their competitors, which may (in their


minds) devalue it for them, so offer them exclusivity if they


come up with a great special offer for your clients. Rather than


making them pay for exclusivity upfront, get them to pay for it


when someone redeems the voucher, which is good for you AND


them. I believe this will be the best way for you to secure


one-way links from related websites, without having to spend


large sums of money. Once your page rank increases (for both


your home page AND individual internal pages), you will find


your site showing up higher in the organic searches across the


board, which is the ultimate goal anyway.





There you have it. Any business (not just accommodation) can


take this idea, mould it to their specifics, and be generating


great incoming links from relevent sites in days.





As a last suggestion, if you want to speed up the process,


contact prospective link partners by direct mail. That way, you


can get in touch with 10-100 of them in a very short period of


time, and only deal with the ones who see the value in what you


are offering.





All the best with your link building campaign, and remember that


success on the internet takes time and dedication. You won't get


miracle results in 1 week, so be persistent.


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