The Ultimate Guide to Getting Lots of Link Love

Thanks Wendy. I completely agree with your points. While I’d be more than happy if my link profile was mostly showing A-listers those ‘little links’ can add up, they can be what ultimately leads to an A-lister discovering you and lets not forget that a well targeted little link may end up resulting in a higher conversion rate.

Thanks too for all the resource links. I already had about half bookmarked somewhere and now have another half to read.

This list is priceless! Wendy is awesome! Glad to have some more great link-building ideas to point my clients to. Great job! Keep up the great work!

-terra
http://www.betterforbusiness.com

I tell you, linking is the thing that is most elusive to me, as I have gotten such different advice. People say that page rank does not factor in when you have people link to you, and then those same people don’t link to me because my page rank is lower than theirs.

Some people say relevant links are most important as it builds a community…..

So my questions are:

1) should you link to people whose blogs you like, even if they have a low page ranking?

2) How do you ever get a higher page rank if people won’t link to you because you rank is lower than theirs?

3) What is more important rank or relevance?

I would love to hear people’s opinions on this!

Excellent post Wendy! I think I have read most of those. I have to go make sure now.

JennDZ ,

My thoughts on your questions:

1) should you link to people whose blogs you like, even if they have a low page ranking?
I always do. Link to good articles, and posts whether they are popular or not. Your visitors will thank you.

2) How do you ever get a higher page rank if people won’t link to you because you rank is lower than theirs?
Ideally that shouldn’t happen. Just write great content and people will link to you eventually. Either that or pay them (just kidding)…

3) What is more important rank or relevance?
If by rank you are talking about page rank, then it’s really hard to tell. Page rank is not necessarily that important anymore. I don’t have access to Search Engine’s algorithm code, so I can’t be sure which one is more important. I would lean towards relevance, but ideally you will get links from relevant sites that get a lot of traffic.

Amazing list! And the list to other articles is so cool!

Fantastic job Wendy, just amazing…

Very good post Wendy, thanks for sharing this with us. And I cannot agree more with what Steve Olson said in his comment: “No link is too small. No blogger is too new. No content is too old”. It should nice if all good bloggers think like you Steve ;)

Very good points and a great list of best post about how to build links.

Great post! I agree link building is a never ending thing one of the biggest things is give people something worth linking to and put in a little owrk on your end and eventually you will have success.

Thanks Wendy!

That is really what I have been focused on – building relationships with people whose blogs I really enjoy. I guess I am just confused about this whole linking thing. But my instinct is if I like certain blogs, my readers will as well.

THANKS for the great tips!

One more thing Wendy. I’d like to share that link love tip with you, Darren and any of his readers that I’m using these days. I’d like to interview you and him plus any of your readers who might be interested in expanding themselves out of their normal bloggy comfort zones. Here’s how I do it.

I’d like for my readers to know more about you via a blog interview with me on MartyBLOGs. It will be composed of open-ended, non-invasive questions. Answer them in detail as if we were talking in person. Include any web/blog links that you want to refer to. If you think any question is inappropriate just let me know and I’ll replace it with another question.

Sound O.K.? If so just give me with an e-mail address that I can send your questions to. Then we’ll work out a time line for you to reply back to me so I can schedule a posting date.

If you wouldn’t mind forwarding this to Daren’s attention I’d appreciate it. Thanks again.

Martin

Wendy,

This is the first time I’ve stopped by this blog for an actual read, and I must say, you’ve hit the nail on the head and even gave me one hell of a list to chew on.

Me thinks you should stick around and post more often. As of this post, I’m now a regular reader. :-)

-Eric Odom

Great resource, Wendy! It’s impressive how consistently Darren finds quality guest bloggers.

Thank you everyone who responded to my questions. I really apprecite the comments. My instinct is to go with relevance and who you like, so I am happy that seems to be the consensus here as well. I have noticed in teh past few days that blogs I frequent have linked to me. So then it would make sense to link back to them?

as always I learn a lot when I come to problogger blog
Thanks for this tips on how to build links
I manage a french blog, (sometime with english post)
Do you think your tips and advises are universal and can work for french blog and all language on the net ?

Excellent post!

I feel that if blog has good content and is relevant to my subject matter then it’s worth a link. I also believe that if you find a blog or post to be interesting, most times your readers probably will too.

And you never know, that link might lead to a valuable relationship down the road.

I linked and I loved and now I am happy!

Thanks to all! And good luck to all!

Thanx Wendy for the useful info. I was preparing myself to buy the links, after seeing this, i’ve changed my mind.

I personally don’t really mind any kind of link, no matter how big or how small the site/blog is. The internet is largely still made up of links, save for a few that don’t require any…because thay are already so big (like this one)…:))

So people, go and link on…its Web 2.0 and Web 2.0 is about bringing everyone closer :)

Thanks for the resources. Some of them I have not seen before.