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Originally Posted by TOSSLLP
My Site is probably about 6 months old. I have added the site to Google link, the exact one you listed. I have also contacted so many sites in re: link exchanging and very little have contacted me back. It's a little discouraging you know....
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you say you have tried everything... I wonder what exactly you have tried...
Link exchanging can work, but I wouldn't hold your breath!
Being a good user of this forum, making regular, interesting posts -and having the url in your sig. is probably more effective than submitting your url to google for inclusion. - Altho... change one thing...
Instead of typing your url as the link, write a one to three word keyterm, and hyperlink that to your site instead... that will give Google a hint as to the content of your site. Blog spammers use this same principle, but do not EVER be tempted into spam etc...
Next, consider joining scooter forums etc... become a valued member... don't spam their forums... everyone HATES a spammer. (I am a mod on a few forums, I know what a pain spammers are!) - But, if you become a valued and useful member of a forum, people will not mind you having a link in your sig. (So long as its allowed in their terms of course!)
Also, some forums may have a services/advertisements thread... many do, it helps keep the rest of the forums sales pitch free!
Using relevant forums gets you on topic backlinks (altho they
may be nofollow) - and also gets you traffic because the rest of the people on the forums will be interested in your site.
AVOID like the plague anyone that tries to sell you blog comments on un related blogs, hundreds of backlinks for a few $, blog
postings where the posts is identical across a whole network of blogs etc...
Check out some free ads places... craigslist, gumtree etc... some allow commercial adverts (this is not that effective, but at first it helps to get the word out, and a bit of link juice)
When you are looking for links, avoid spamming at all costs... check the terms of any site, forum or free ads place and make sure you are conforming to their terms.
Articles can work, to some extent... but use quality ones... in fact, think quality in anything you do! - there are many techniques that are employed by black hat rip off seo's that, if done correctly are actually a good thing. For example, article writing... this can be anything from automatically written or spun articles that make no sense, or are keyword stuffed, to a high quality press release that ranks in google news.
To say article writing, or even blog commenting is spam is like saying that email is spam... with most (but not all) of these methods, it is not the techniques that are spammy, it is the way that they are employed.
Blog comments (I can hear people swearing now!) are not spam. They CAN BE spam, but they are NOT spam in themselves. Why not find some relevant blogs, ideally ones that have pagerank. Your aim will be to comment on the blogs and get a backlink... trouble is, the chances are the blog will have had spam attacks in the past, and so will be cautious... Beat this be taking a personal approach! - look at the page you want to comment on, write a decent, useful comment, and then... DON'T COMMENT. Email the comment to the blogger... get in touch with them, explain that you want to comment on their blog, and that you will give good, (no, great!) comments which will add decent content to their blogs, and you want to know if its okay to get a link back in the usual way.
This may seem long winded, but to my mind, having a decent working relationship with a handful of on topic blogs is well worth the effort! - Consider saying to them that if they like, they can let you know what topics they would like comments on, etc...
Again, NEVER spam anyones blog, its horrible, unethical and counter productive in the long term.
In general, treat your backlinks as if they were a representation of your business. in a way, they are. this is what is missing from most link building... self respect!
Phew! sorry to rant on a bit! hope I have not offended anyone!
Oh, one more idea... its a bit harder than the rest, but why not have a videos section on your site? - If you want you can embed youtube videos... saves your hosting being filled up, and.. and additional benefit that most don't know of yet... Youtube give a backlink to the top 5 referrers of a video... as in, the top 5 people for sending most viewers to the video...
I am not sure what exactly your site could host videos of... maybe scooter reviews or trials, funny scooter video clips? (good for linkbait also!) scooter accidents (not too horrible ones tho!) etc... get the idea? - the other great thign about this is that on the forums you are a respected member of, you can link to the funny video of the scooter race thats embedded on your site... thus a backlink to your site, and traffic. Make sure you have the menu structure on your site still.
The last bit (videos) is quite full on, and will probably require paying a webmaster to do, unless you are good at webdesign yourself. (maybe is you need someone, try this forum, or scriptlance or something?)
Anyways, sorry for all the typos and misspellings, I wrote this in a rush and made it up as I went along, but I hope it helps!
Mike
