Tips for finding the best pages to get links from.
Posted Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006. Filed under Google, Internet Marketing Tips, Link Building.
I was training my link team yesterday and gave them a nice tip. If you want a link from Site A to your Site B, which page on Site A should you ask for? I like getting links from subpages rather than homepages, since links off a homepage tend to look like ads rather than counting as an in-content link.
There are two main types of pages to seek. The first is the page most relevant to what you're seeking a link to, found by searching Google for [site:theirsite.com keyword phrase]. The second is the page with the most "power," found by searching Yahoo for [site:theirsite.com], since Yahoo tends to list a site's pages in order of importance.
For example, one of my link team members was seeking an ad from a music site and found that the most powerful page on the site, even more powerful than the homepage, was a subpage about a 2005 contest with backlinks from 4 .edu's. We asked for our ad on both the relevant page and the contest page as a "throw in," and got both.
To recap: skip the homepage when asking for links, aim for the most relevant page via Google's site: search, and aim for the most trusted, powerful page via Yahoo's site: search. This is stuff you have to do by hand — forget automating link building, and keep it under the radar.
May 4th, 2006 at 9:51 am
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May 4th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Jim, this is gold! I will be posting on a related topic this weekend and will definitely link to it… I’ve been linking to your site a lot lately!
May 4th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
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May 5th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Hello Jim,
I found your post very interesting and I beilive fits in with what I posted a few days ago about linking and relevance. I believe the discussion is worth bring to the attention of the community as there are rather different views on the value of linking. I have had very positive results and relate very well with what you are saying.
I believe our users would be interested in knowing more about linking and how to go about it. I have a few posts and a link to a post that says just the opposte on my blog at:
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I hope this helps and would love to hear from you !!
Sante
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May 10th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Jim, Nice reading…thanks for the great infomation. However, my first thought after reading this post was.
What is the tipical fee paid for this type of advertizing. I know it does depend on the site, but what are some good guidlines.
Hope you don’t mind answering this.
Again,thanks for the blog…I have you in my live bookmarks for daily reading!
May 10th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Fees can range from Free….to $5 to $1000….sometimes that’s a one time fee…sometimes that’s a yearly fee…sometimes that’s a monthly fee.
The trick is to buy as much value for what you’re willing to spend.
May 10th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
thanks Jim
May 15th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Jim, Another question!
When placing your ad (Content) on someones web page, do you have a minimum amount of words that you need.
For example: Say i have found a pge that has has links form other sites and seems like a good pick to do the content advertising.
Should i have a minimum of 20, 30, 50 … words in my ad for it to be most effective. I’m sure the more the better, but I would also assume 10 words wold not be any better than just a link. Or am i over analizing this whole thing.:)
May 18th, 2006 at 5:44 am
just for the record zeal has been taken down. is there a similar alternative?
May 25th, 2006 at 2:28 am
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May 30th, 2007 at 5:56 am
I did it on rnk1.com and it wokred great , thnkx, great article
July 15th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I was just thinking about this and search for ‘how to find the best pages to comment’ and got to this wonderful post. Thanks for the tips. I just stumbled this
September 10th, 2007 at 5:47 am
i do agree with you jim.. Its such a wonderful and effective search to do in yahoo and google search engines to find out the quality internal page to get back links. Its really useful tip for finding internal pages to link too. I am sure this definetly increases the website pr and traffic..
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:56 am
Hello Jim,
Too bad you are booked, as I wanted to use your services to find good links for few domains. Could you recommend someone, who you recognize as professional?
I have also a question: If I will buy content link (in-text) does it mean that hyperlinked text should contain keywords I seek high ranking for? It is hard in my situation since my keywords are very niche (name of a person) and there is no such word in texts on other web pages. What to do then?
Cheers!
Alex
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:16 am
Thanks Jim! Very useful information for me.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Kick ass link building technique, thank you!!