No matter how you go about finding link exchange partners, a core principle of marketing applies: it’s many times easier to sell to your customers than to find new customers to sell to. Similarly, the easiest people to set up link trades with are people who you’re already trading links with!
If you’re setting up link trades by email, as soon as your trade has been approved, send another email suggesting that you each add links to a few more pages. If someone emails you requesting a link trade, request multiple links in your original response — they’ve already pre-approved the trade, so there’s no reason to waste time getting to the point.
If you’re using LinContEx to manage your link exchanges, first, you’ll want to be sure you’ve registered multiple exchange pages. (If you’re using LinContEx Remote and the WordPress plugin, that’ll happen automatically). Then, when you click “request an exchange”, if you see that your partner has multiple exchange pages too, submit the first request and then come back and request another — or even several more.
Just be sure that the topics of all the feeds and the pages they’re displayed on matches.
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Thanks!
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:15 am
Hi Antone,
I read somewhere that Google ignores all but one of the links when there are multiple links to one website on another. I’m not sure but I think it was in a Stompernet email that I saw it.
What’s your take on it?
BTW Carp Evolution rocks. I have had it for years now and it works great.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:17 am
I find it hard to imagine that they’d ignore all but one link site-wide. Perhaps they meant that if there’s more than one link from one page to another, they ignore all but one. Maybe even if there’s more than one link from one site to another page, though even that would seem a little odd. But all but one link from an entire site to an entire other site? That would discount the value of so many legitimate links that it’s difficult to imagine they’d do that.
Glad you’re getting good use our of CaRP Evolution.