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Helping Clients See The Bigger Linking Picture

January 22, 2009 by Eric Ward


Good read written by Mike Moran over at SearchEngineGuide titled How do I get links to my Website?

The site in question was an e-commerce site. Skis and snowboards.

Sites that are primarily e-commerce oriented present special linking challenges. Several times each month I get questions like Mike did. E-commerce sites want links. How do they do it? Will I do it? What will it cost? How long before they see improvement in rank?

Owners of those sites are sometimes willing to listen to what I tell them, accept what they are up against, and decide what to do about it. But some want no part of an actual linking strategy. They want a quick fix. They may be resistant to the “let’s add great content” approach, or if they try it, they short-cut the process because they are doing it only because they feel they have to. And even if they have a passion for the subject, they aren’t writers, they are store owners.

One of the more eye-opening ways to show the client the link attraction power of passionate content is to find sites in their niche that have already attracted high-value links as a result of specific content. Show them the links, show them the content linked to. Then show them a search result like this one for snowboard link bait, so they see first hand how advanced some folks are already getting, as well as how silly. How many “snowboard selector tools” does the web need? Apparently 163,000. Seeing that I’d be tempted to go old school and create another snowboard glossary (shudder). Heck, why not just aggregate the already existing snowboard video tips onto one central page, living on your site? Nobody’s done it yet.

After this exercise, show them subject specific sites they may have never thought of, but which illustrate the potential for high trust inbounds in certain niches. I use co-citation analysis, show them a specific example, and then hope the light comes on for them. For the ski equipment site, show them these pages

http://staff.niacc.edu/skiclub/
http://www.crescentskicouncil.org/clubs.html
http://www.scwdc.org/
and
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/student/club/ski/Index.htm

They may not see the multiple and larger strategic linking implications and opportunities such sites present. Do you?

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As many of you know, Eric Ward passed away suddenly on October 16, 2017. Eric is now in the presence of the Lord, and his work here is finished.

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