Comments on: Give Links to Gain Authority Status

By: affiliate marketing forum

affiliate marketing forum — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:59:47 +0000

Linking to competitors’ blog/site..sounds exciting.

“Bite the bullet and link to the players in your niche to gain authority in your niche!”

I just tweeted that line.

By: PlugIM.com

PlugIM.com — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:20:51 +0000

Give Links to Gain Authority Status…

A post on how giving away links will get you more links than most other methods of link building. This is one of the methods Friday Traffic Report uses to get so many backlinks….

By: plugim.com

plugim.com — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:34:45 +0000

Give Links to gain Authority Status

Good article by Jack Humphrey about the importance of linking out to your competitors

By: Kevin OKeefe

Kevin OKeefe — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:11:43 +0000

Thanks for the mention of my post Jack. You’re spot on about blogging to your niche. Linking to competitors is what it’s all about.

By: Tim Linden

Tim Linden — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:59:03 +0000

Just remember to open the links in a new window.. I almost lost your blog clicking on the windows server picture link. First time here so I wouldn’t have found my way back.

By: Why Would I Possibly Want to Link to My Competition? - Healthy WebDesign - Developing and Building Successful Websites for Independent Professionals

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:56:26 +0000

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By: Galba Bright

Galba Bright — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:06:36 +0000

Your post makes sense to me. I’ve been reading Copyblogger for ages. Now I’ve come to your blog, I’ll just add you to my list. And of course, Brian Clark has commented on your post.

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:29:06 +0000

Jamie,

See? I KNEW it would work!

There ya go folks – proof in a real work environment – it doesn’t get any better than that!

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:28:05 +0000

Don,

I actually go back and forth on new windows or same window depending on the link.

It is considered bad form by about 1/2 the blogging community to open new windows, but if I am linking to a resource that I want people to check out, but come back to the post to stay in context of the message, I make the link open in a new window.

People who complain about us using that tactic are extremely anal in my opinion – I am telling a story and want readers to stay focused or the whole exercise is for naught.

When the above isn’t the case I keep the links clean and link in the same window for the most part.

I just try to make it so by the end of a user session on my site they don’t have 50 browsers open.

re: the return visitor ratio – that doesn’t speak to how long they stay per visit – just that they come back – and back – and back.

That’s what you want. Improving your visitor session duration and page views per session is a constant work in progress, but my average page views right now hover around 1.8-2.5 pages per visit.

I’d like that to go higher, but it depends on how targeted the traffic is and my Myspace traffic is killing the average – they are a flighty bunch.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:10:03 +0000

In fact, it was your link to copybloggers’ post (that he had linked to LexBlog which talked about me linking to other folks) that made me find you.

And now you’re added to my RSS…

And it goes on and on and on…