How I Became Number 1 - Linking
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Finally, the good stuff: linking. Before you set out on any serious link building campaign, I highly recommend you create an Excel spreadsheet to organize your efforts and to stay efficient. My spreadsheet includes these fields: date, web address, contact information, email #1 date, email #1 response, email #2 date, email #2 response, link request date, link request response. Okay, now you are ready to get started.
Whenever I contact a webmaster with the intent to get a link, I never ask for it in my first contact. Your response rate will be exponentially higher if you adopt this same practice. After an email or two, I ask if they'd mind linking, all while playing dumb to SEO. You will get much better results than, "Hey I noticed you have a site about x, would you please consider linking to my site about x because your visitors will like it I think." This may not be the best example, but you'll get the idea:
Email #1: "Hey so and so, I love your site. Since you seem to be running a great site yourself, would you mind taking a peek at mine and letting me know what you think. I'd really appreciate any feedback or suggestions."
Email #2: "Thanks a lot for the feedback. I worked so hard to build my site and no one seems to be coming to it, so I am trying to find ways to improve it and get people to come."
Email #3: "Good ideas. Speaking of which, would you happen to mind linking to me. I'd be happy to link back."
And there it is, my "secret sauce," so to speak. Just a little precaution, time and patience when requesting links will get the most out of your time.
So, in conclusion, after months and months of decent success with this method, I have finally got the #1 spot, and it sure feels good when the hard work pays off. I've said it before and I will say it again: I fully expect maintaining a #1 spot on this keyword to be just as hard as obtaining it. In case you are wondering, traffic for that keyword has increased 94 percent just from going from #2 to #1. Graph here. Good luck!
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