Creating a great post = massive inbound links
Posted on May 24, 2007
Filed Under Internet Biz
Commenting on other blogs is a great way for bloggers to market their blog and generate traffic and comments. On our post on using comments to create inbound links and increase site ranking talks about using the Top Commentators plug-in to your advantage. While it is certainly easy to go to other blogs and make comments, this is a very time consuming activity. You must actively comment weekly or even daily to keep your blog up on the top commentators list. One just cannot continue to do this just to keep their inbound links active. While I do believe that this strategy is great at the start of a blog, it cannot be an ongoing strategy.
The great thing about the mass commenting campaign is that I browsed about 100 blogs. I have bookmarked about 35 that I liked and will continue visiting daily. The owners of these blogs have in turn visited this blog and left comments.
The most efficient use of time to get inbound links is to create a great post. A great post will provide you will permanent inbound links from bloggers discussing it or linking it from their blog. One great post can generate hundreds of incoming links. One example that comes to mind is Paula’s post about the Top 50 blogger salaries. This post has been linked into and reposted like crazy. (Paula, here’s another link to your post) That one post had over 18,000 page views in 3 days.
If you are trying to get more links to increase your Technorati authority, Google PR or Alexa rank, you don’t need to spend money buying links, just use your mind, sit down and write a great post. Just think of how much your one great post can help you make more money. Boosting all your rankings equals more money from selling ad space and Text-links-Ads, the ability to charge more for Review Me, the ability to write more expensive Payperposts… The list goes on. You won’t believe the return on your investment.
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Hey, thanks be to God for giving me the idea in the first place for Paula’s List of Blogger Salaries.
I kept thinking about doing something like Al at Self-Made Minds’ Feedburner List that went viral, and I knew people loved reading about other people’s income, so somehow the Lord dropped it in my Spirit somewhere to combine a list of differing salaries — and praise Him for all the attention!
Yeah, it helps me to step out of the blogosphere once and a while and get quiet and listen to Him, because I know He can give me ideas no one else can.
And that post (coupled with my Robin Thicke rantings) got the 18,000 pageviews in 3 days, but I wonder what it’s up to now. I’d better check my Google Analytics.
I love the links!
Bless you and Happy Thursday,
Paula
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Good point. Like this post you made; it got listed on weekend links for PureBlogging. I had several of my posts on JTP’s blog, and several on PureBlogging.