Simon’s Notes

For most bloggers, inbound links are like solid gold, if you’re a blogger that doesn’t think so then maybe you should look at something else. Blogging is a way to get your views read by the world, it is part of the information future, but the Internet is so vast that simply having a blog is just not enough. So you build a network of inbound links, this would be the equivalent of handing out business cards.

I’m not an expert at blogging, my blog is actually less than 2 months old, so I don’t have vast experience to draw from. But I have managed to rake a Technorati authority of 51, and a rank of 115,000 (this is calculated using your inbound links) so far, which I believe is not too bad for a new blogger. So for what its worth here are some of the things I did or am doing.

• I made a commitment to write quality posts, and to focus my energy on making posts that people would want to link to. I don’t always manage this, but I’m always learning and I’ll get there.
• I had another blog that I had been working on for about 3 months before I started this one. My other blog had accumulated about 35 community members at mybloglog.com, so I sent out a message to all those members offering a link exchange. From this I got about 4 or 5 new links.
• I spent some time googling for link exchange or review exchange offers. This was good because you get all the higher ranked blogs and sites at the top, so the links are quality links.
• I was very happy to find www.reviewback.com, they offer a service where you can exchange reviews with other blogs free of charge. This was quite successful and I got a good number of links this way.
• I sent a message to each member on the blogroll of my previous blog asking for a link exchange. This brought about 5 or so links.
• I spent some time browsing through the blogsphere for other like minded blogs and requested link exchanges from them. This method always brings results. But remember that you want quality links not any old garbage.
• I tried to be as active as I could in the blogging communities that I’m a part of, such as mybloglog.com, and whenever possible I requested a link exchange.
• Eventually I was able to make a few posts on my blog offering link exchanges, which bloggers then replied to. This is where you eventually want to be, now I can’t wait for the upcoming page rank update, hopefully I’ll get a decent PR and be able to leverage that.
• And if your posts are good people will sometimes link to you for nothing. This is great.

There are lots of other ways and methods and each day I learn something new. If you want to hear from a real pro check out this post http://natewhitehill.com/5-ways-to-get-other-bloggers-to-link-to-your-posts/, Nate has been around for a while, and he has a lot of blogging wisdom to impart.

Simon

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