Comments on: Link building I – Gaining direct traffic

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Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:24:15 +0000

[...] well as promotional emails and paid advertising, you should also have a link building strategy. Get your site out there. Get people linking to it. Communicate with bloggers operating in your [...]

By: Martin Reed - Blog Author

Martin Reed - Blog Author — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:20:06 +0000

William - Yes, I think it definitely helps to have your desired keywords in your domain name and I covered this issue in my article Building a new community: Choosing a domain name. Eric - All good points; thanks for your comment. Leonardo - I don't agree that article marketing is a better promotion method than ensuring you are in relevant web directories and linked to from popular, relevant sites. Article marketing gets you backlinks - they aren't always relevant, and they aren't always from popular, authoritative sites. Both strategies complement one another, I wouldn't categorically state that one is better than the other.

By: Leonardo Medina

Leonardo Medina — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:45:33 +0000

Submitting the site to web directories and link exchanges are effective ways to get backlinks. No doubts.

But i think writting articles and submit it to article directories is a better and easier way. Most web directory owners take a long time to review a website. While article directories can review and approve your article within 3-7 days, in most times in 1 day.

By: Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:12:33 +0000

I have some points to consider to get traffice and i am also applying these points

1- select keywords getting direct traffic
2- try to get the domain name with that keyword
3- write good quality researched content including that keywords

i hope to get more traffic to adopt these points

By: William

William — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:50:01 +0000

Well what i think we need to select keywords with decent traffic and the domain name if you could get with the same name of keyword, than it would be more easier to rank.

By: Martin Reed - Blog Author

Martin Reed - Blog Author — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:40:54 +0000

John – Thanks for your comment, I am glad you enjoyed the article.

Smiley – Nothing wrong with nicknames; just as long as you are identifiable with a name, it doesn’t matter what that name is (within reason!).

By: Smiley

Smiley — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:52:08 +0000

Agreed, Martin.

I go by ‘Smiley’ as my username as it’s grown on me, but at the bottom of my forum signature, e-mail signatures and the “Real Name” field in my chat client profile all says Tom.

I find it makes users feel more important somehow to call me by my real name.

By: John

John — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:52:05 +0000

I agree with most of the comments here, getting a community site off the ground is very VERY hard and needs tons of work by promoting and advertising about it.

Good Luck.

By: Martin Reed - Blog Author

Martin Reed - Blog Author — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:28:03 +0000

Kouji – Well, if you are anonymous and don’t use your name online, it is unlikely that someone who emails you requesting a link exchange will use it (they won’t be able to find it)! If you do use your name online though, I think most people feel more comfortable being personally addressed by it.

By: kouji

kouji — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:58:04 +0000

tricky though. i get a bit creeped out by the idea of a stranger addressing me by name. then again, i guess that’s because i try to remain anonymous online.