SMX Advanced
Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques
@smx
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 AM
RM: use adwords to find heavyweights and scan their backlinks
student, professor pages from universities
charitable organizations donating can often get you link
Jay Young
JY: suggests using down town to buy links from person you are sitting next to ;-)
JY: you need guts and and money (PC version) to compete
JY: link directories still work and you should keep using them and dont forget DMOZ
JY: also suggesting charitable contributions also for tax write off's
JY: suggests getting social media expert who know what they are doing and make it work
JY: says text link brokers and sellers still work
JY: niche and specialty brokers can help with presell and specialty links
JY: don't be afraid
JY: linkbait and admires the effort and links from recent times.co.uk story
JY: you need to do what it takes to get links don't get hung up on the ethics and morals
JY You're not a moralist. You're a marketer.
JY: co-citation outbound links has become more important in last few months
JY: use college kid to hand spam to create comments spam
JY: widgets, templates, template sponsorships, contests (free iphone) content trades
jy: hire bartenders, avoid link buys from forums, hidden, use moderation, & common sense
JY: link sabotage ... it works
Next up Stephan Spencer
SS: go after high value link pages
ss: sponsor links and pages from high pr sites
ss: become part of conversation with comment links that have noffollowed linsk w/o being a spammer
ss: blog carnivals and group blogs
ss: doesnt suggest buying abandoned blogs at all
ss: doesnt suggest WP plugins that inject links
ss: be like amazon do conditional redirects
ss: if you run an aff program demand each aff link to you striaght and make it a legal requirement
ss; go to conferences or events that link to atendees
ss: contribute to wordpress with plugins and profile page