Say no to affiliate links, Say yes to friend links

Posted by multippt

Going over through my (few) backlinks, I’ve wondered if actually getting links from friends would be much easier compared to those who pretty much spent most of their budget on links. Here is my take on this: Get some links from your allies.

Building interconnected sites can be kind of bad (illustrated with Engadget getting penalized for 10 days for unknown reasons), but it does allow all sites to rise as one.

Accumulating links from fellow friends can be actually easy work. You can be surprised at how often your friends actually support you despite being rivals (they are friends after all). There are some nice ways to get “friend” links:
1) Ask directly. Sometimes it works.
2) If they have a blog, ask them go “Do-follow”, then participate in commenting.
3) Participate in their forums.

Though, there is one draw-back. You can never get a lot of links unless you have the same number of friends as the same number of users at DigitalPoint.

A free link from Technorati’s top 100?

Posted by multippt

I’ve just stumbled across an offer on Technorati in the WTF section.

Basically, all you have to do is to post a review of Ezineblog, place a permanent link on your site, and they will link back to your blog (no, not as a trackback, but as a genuine permanent link). This is definately a must-have opportunity to get a link for your site. More »

Imminent Google backlink update?

Posted by multippt

Looks like Google has some behind-the-scenes action. Check out the ever-so-useful Google Webmasters and you’ll see what I mean. Other than a recent revamp, it looks like Google has some heavy server activity, such that it cannot display external or backlinks. Same goes for internal links. What’s unusual is that only these statistics are affected, while the rest are working fine.

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