Comments on: Link Bartering

By: hadoota

hadoota — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:34:36 +0000

this is wonderful tutorial .. i read it 3 times and get a fantastic results and sure i put a
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By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:57:21 +0000

I wonder how many times I have to repeat myself to make sure I’m understood. /sigh… one more time…

@Sri – In my use of the term “link bartering”, I AM talking about a one way link. I am NOT talking about recip links.

I give…sheesh.

By: Ilia - SEO

Ilia - SEO — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:47:32 +0000

I get approached every day by marketing/seo newbies asking for some help. I usually don’t have any problems helping them out but sometimes I simply don’t have the time. It is a good idea to ask them for a backlink in return for my help and hopefully with my help this backlink will actually be worth it in a year time or so. Hmmmm…

By: Sri

Sri — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:40:27 +0000

there is no secret again backlinks atleast for now. But, link bartering is actually not as good as one way link..

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By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:00:25 +0000

The best thing to gain backlinks is to create high quality content, like lists of things, lists of tips, etc. That way everybody will link to your blog.
For example if you have a seo blog you can create lists of directories, lists of social bookmarking sites, lists of articles directories, etc

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:56:56 +0000

You ask to do guest posts for a backlink and they continue to refuse. Some niches are easy to monopolise if you ask me.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:44:55 +0000

I agree that you have to add value somehow. People need to stop focusing on short-term strategies to get massive amounts of links and start trying to develop relationships. Just like we do as business people in the “real world”.

By: Confronta ADSL

Confronta ADSL — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:20:35 +0000

Nice little article, the term “bartering” is much better than “baiting” 🙂
Thanks.

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:37:33 +0000

Ahh, Diane, so nice when someone gets what I’m saying. Thank you! 🙂

By: Diane Aull (Torka)

Diane Aull (Torka) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:14:41 +0000

This kind of barter takes place all the time in the offline business world.

My husband maintains the sound system for a small-town coffee shop, which keeps their customers happy and saves them having to hire an expensive out-of-town technician whenever anything goes wrong. In return, he gets all the free coffee, bagels and sandwiches he wants (including bags of whole beans to take home).

A community group uses the services of a drop-in child care facility in town to watch their kids while they have their monthly meetings, which increases the child-care facilities earnings and gives them a steady source of income. So the child-care facility negotiated a membership fee discount for their customers and includes ads for the community group in every newsletter they send out.

This kind of “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” approach has been integral to small business operations since Day One.

I’m sometimes surprised so few of them think to carry the concept over to the online world. There are lots of things beyond “another link” that one can exchange for a link — well, if one is offering products or services that are actually of use to others, that is. 😉

Excellent article, Donna! Too bad so many people immediately mentally add the word “reciprocal” whenever they see the word “links.”