Thursday 5 June 2008

Finding Bulk Link Exchanges

Finding suitable sites to exchange links with the manual way I've already described can get good results, but it does take a while and can be very unfuitful. You can spend ages searching sites for link exchanges, only to either send emails that aren't replied to or just not be able to find a link exchange page.

So when you want loads of link exchanges, how can you do it? There are many paid one way link exchange directories out there, but I don't touch them. They are expensive and the ones I've seen actually bear very little benefit.

The best way I find is to do different types of link searches. Search for phrases that are often on links pages, and if you want to limit the results, a keyword you want to work on. For example "add link" mortgages would be suitable for my mortgage rates website.

As well as add link, swap links, add site and exchange links etc can all be searched for. Any combination of these typical phrases is likely to find you useful sites. And if the sites have automated systems, then it's a lot more likely that the owner will actually respond and put your link up, or even that process will happen automatically.

And this happens a lot with popular link exchange tools. A lot of people find my site by looking for "powered by linkmachine" or "powered by link machine" (don't forget the quotes). This is because all free versions of link machine display this text once the free trial period is up. Paid for versions don't display it - but I've never seen how to find these sites.

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