Evaluating the Best Approach For Reciprocal Link Campaigns
by Matt on , under Web Development
I’m not too fond of emailing webmasters, pleading for a link. I must be overly shy or something, even on the Internet! Up to now I’ve avoided this as much as possible – I instead opt to place a link on my websites to ones that are related by field, hoping that they will see my URL in their Referral logs and reciprocate.
This probably isn’t the best approach, especially nowadays – since so many splogs spoof referral urls to fool you into believing you have a backlink. It’s highly probable that the webmaster in question won’t even see your backlink.
So how can I overcome my shyness? I guess if I continued to build upon my site’s content, I wouldn’t feel ashamed asking for links off more established blogs. It’s best seeing it this way – a reciprocal link is for the future-good of both parties involved. You are providing someone else with an opportunity as much as they are paying you with a favour.
Most webmasters won’t bite your head off either! Heh.
November 23rd, 2006 on 3:20 pm
I agree with you, Matt. I was worried when I asked you for a link exchange, but like you said, webmasters won’t bite your head off. Good luck in getting your link exchanges, Matt.
November 23rd, 2006 on 11:33 pm
Thanks
December 9th, 2006 on 12:35 am
I guess you can’t pull my styles and just leave comments on their sites with links back your own. It helps that I actually find this blog interesting, but my primary motive when I found your site on google, was to get a link back to my own site. Funny that you have an actual post about this.
Have you gotten over your shyness yet? I think it will always be hard to just ask for things that are self serving in nature. But here goes: can I put my link down here, under my name?
Zach
take more photos
December 11th, 2006 on 8:06 pm
Nope, I still haven’t gotten over the shyness
Blah. Hopefully it’ll get better over time 