You might have a hard time getting people to link to the product page for a particular plumbing fitting, but what if you had a plumbing blog? If you post useful information, surely you could get links from other plumbing-related blogs.

Say for example you wrote in your blog about why pipes sometimes make a lot of noise when water goes through them and how to fix it, or why you sometimes get a little sulfur smell when you first turn your water on, or how to replace a copper pipe with flared fittings. There are a million things you could write about that could get you links from other plumbing-related sites.

So you get links to your blog from other sites, and then link from your blog to your store (eg. to the page where you sell a copper pipe flaring tool).

I have mixed views about recip links, my view is if you have a commercail business say selling plumbing fittings, why would anyone ever want to give you a one way link, they may add you to favorites, but why would they ever link. So the only way to get that site picked up is to pay for links or recip link.

So as far as I can see it must be recognised that you have put the effort/time/finance into promoting your web presence. Plumbing fittings isn’t going to be a natural link choice.

What do you think?

Thanks Gary