Comments on: How a Domainer Does Link Building

By: BF

BF — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:35:45 +0000

Elliot,

I’m glad you’ve mentioned Twitter as part of your strategy. Using Social Media has now become essential.

My main intention is to use social media to become a ‘thought leader’ in the related topic. In your case, in all there’s to know about Lowell, etc…

The power with Twitter lies on the ReTweets (RT). As you build a good reputation and devoted followers, your tweets – WITH SHORTLINKS – get retweeted by your followers, and all of that person’s followers see it….and you get that awesome viral effect in the response of traffic…

A great post on this here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/14/for-techcrunch-twitter-traffic-a-statistical-breakdown/

By: Elliot

Elliot — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:33:20 +0000

@LD

I agree with you on that.

By: LazyDomaining

LazyDomaining — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:31:59 +0000

Many fail to understand that link building doesn’t have to be reciprocal always. Just because you linked to you a website doesn’t mean you will get a link back. The best way i see is that you should link to a website if you feel it will be helpful to your readers and vice versa.

By: Elliot

Elliot — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:18:23 +0000

@Todd

The idea behind WB and NBC is that many people either have plans to be in the studio audience or want to make plans to be there, and I would like them to see that Burbank.com can help them find accommodations while at the studios in Burbank.

By: Todd Mintz

Todd Mintz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:16:21 +0000

Elliott…first, forget about PR when linkbuilding…that metric now is of minimal importance. Focus on thematic relevance between your site and theirs…and also remember that having too high a percentage of reciprocal links won’t serve you well because Google could see that as unnatural.

Also, it has been said by smart people (not me since I’ve never tested it) that getting “local” links will carry more weight than almost any other category of links…so reaching out to Burbank businesses to link to your Burbank site is really excellent strategy.

I would kinda doubt though that NBC & the Ellen site would be considered local for your purposes though…not that they aren’t desirable links to get.