Comments on: How Are You Going To Get A Link If They Don’t Know You Exist?

By: Andy MacDonald - Blogging & Marketing Tips

Andy MacDonald - Blogging & Marketing Tips — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:44:02 +0000

Personally i think the content i write isn’t that bad, i had an article the other day get 53 diggs in less then 2 hours, which for a new blogger, i thought wasn’t too bad. of course, thats crap in comparison to large sites, but for the small guy, i thought that was pretty good going.

Ill just keep creating quality content, and hope that it will go viral. Then again, i like Lyndoman’s linkbaiting services, so if i cant do it, i have every confidence that he will!!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:47:34 +0000

Content by itself will still leave your website without visitors, but really good content can be what makes your marketing efforts really work. Great content can help greatly increase the effectiveness of your other marketing methods.

That’s a truth most of us could use more… :-)

By: JoeJustin

JoeJustin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:42:18 +0000

I agree with you all the way. It seems that I am always talking to folks about stumble traffic specifically and I hear the sae thing over and over. It’s not targeted traffic, it’s only spikes of traffic, it doesn’t stick. I am here to tell you that some of what people say might be true, however, a lot of the traffic does stick. Every time I get the so called “spike” in traffic my stats double as an end result.

Like the your headline says “how are you going to get links, traffic, etc if they don’t know you exist. ” Ok, so I added alittle. Keep up the good work!

By: nishu

nishu — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:04:11 +0000

Its ok to write interesting stuff to get links. But what if something that interest others and not me ?

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:35:14 +0000

Just yesterday one of my posts got on del.icio.us front page, and as a result it has received some 6000 visitors and more than a dozen links so far. Not bad for reaching the front page of only one social media site. I wonder what would have happened if it went hot on SU and Digg too?

Yeah.. I know my server would have gone down ;)

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:01:28 +0000

It’s simple yet complex for those that can’t take off their blinders to what the user they are targeting really want to read and value (looking beyond the sales pitch). But I guess that’s what keeps certain people in business.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:38:36 +0000

I agree. The combination of content, social media and links have made a big difference for me. My search engine traffic is continually increasing as a result (or at least partly due to this). Creating unique, interesting content isn’t easy, but it’s well worth your time.

By: smoMashup

smoMashup — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:32:31 +0000

Hmmm. Perhaps I should take on some side work as a copywriter? I do think that Kat is correct here. Thought I’m not as qualified at English as one might like, I know my way around the ins and outs of SEO. It is an open market at the moment. I know of a couple clients (at least) that are paying around $100US per article.

Content is still king but linking just got a smidge more interesting…

By: david

david — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:23:27 +0000

Do you know of any social networking geeks =)?

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:35:38 +0000

Thanks Kat.

@ Caroline, I agree, you have to keep plugging. Each time you learn a little more until you build up a wealth of knowledge of what works and what does not.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:00:51 +0000

I’m still hoping to be able to create some content that ‘goes viral’. I’ve had some minor success on StumbleUpon but I don’t see very many incoming links to my stuff – a ‘good’ post gets just a handful, less than half a dozen. Still, I’ll keep on plugging :)

By: KatFrench

KatFrench — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:28:33 +0000

… and IMO, that’s why any copywriter worth her/his salt should be getting her/his hiney out of print and onto the web. Online is where the ability to wordsmith = the Power Supreme.

Excellent points, as I’ve come to expect over the month or so I’ve been reading your stuff.