It's Already 10a.m....Why Aren't I A Millionaire Yet?!? By Dan Reinhold

Greetings and salutations from my posh, elegant home office suite. Here I sit before my state-of-the-art computer that responds to my facial expressions and translates them into my innermost thoughts on my huge hand-carved genuine Egyptian mahoghany desk (all more valuable because it's grown in a Cairo apartment). My prizewinning Russian wolfhound Sasha lies sleeping at my feet. While she slumbers, she sometimes emits a soft voof. (She woofs with an accent, therefore...voof.) All is serene and peaceful as I effortlessly complete my few simple tasks that provide this opulent lifestyle. (Oh dear...spilled caviar on my Gucci slippers...don't you hate when that happens??)

Yeah, right.

By Glenn Canady “Gorilla Website Marketing” http://www.gorillawebsitemarketing.com

I’ve been teaching people virtues of linking right way for a long time in my book, “Gorilla Website Marketing”. However, there are many people out there that just haven’t got it figured out yet. It seems that we are in middle of a “linking crisis” and it’s time that I did my part in helping to stop it before it gets out of hand!

Right now, I’m getting about 20 link requests a day from webmasters that haven’t a clue about right way to link! So I decided to write “Ten Commandments of Linking” to cover all basics for effective linking. If somebody told you to read this article, you just might be violating one of them! If you are, don’t worry about it, you’re not going to go to hell or anything. But you might just get banned on Google and that’s almost worse than going to hell! Your website’s search engine rankings and traffic ALWAYS go up when you do linking right so study them carefully and figure out if you’re doing anything wrong!

The Commandments

#1) Thou Shall Always Put Up A Link BEFORE Asking For A Link

Putting up a link to someone before you ask them for a link is proper linking etiquette and is much more effective than alternative. If you’re going to ask somebody for a link then don’t waste their time unless you’ve already linked to them. This shows that you are serious about linking with their site and haven’t just spammed universe asking for links! And if you tell somebody that you’ve linked to them, be sure that you really have. Otherwise, you’ve just lost your credibility. By way, always tell your prospective link partner exactly how to link to your site. I do this on all my sites. For an example of how I do this, just go to one of my link info page here: http://www.5starshine.com/linkinfo.html

#2) Thou Shall Not Build Link Farms

I’m seeing this commandment being violated more all time. Some people are in such a rush to get links that they try to link to EVERYBODY. They don’t have any type of cohesive theme to their link directories. They are just a mish mash of totally unrelated websites thrown together – in other words a “link farm”!

Think about types of sites you want to link with and build a useful directory that is complementary to what you are offering. For example, my website, 5 Star Shine, sells a unique type of car wax that lasts for 5 years. If you look at my Automotive Link Directory on this website, you’ll notice that I have built a nice directory about anything related to cars. Since I sell a car related product, people that will find useful information in my directory are also a great source of potential customers. I’m building a useful resource and that’s why I’ve been so successful with this directory. Pick some kind of a niche that is complementary to what you are offering and build a great themed directory. For example, if you sell merchandise, you might build a gift directory. That’s what I did with my website, 5 Star Closeouts. Since people that are in my “gift directory” on this site are also potential buyers of my closeout merchandise, it’s a great way to build a useful resource AND let potential customers know about my website. This seems to be working really well.

#3) Thou Shall Not Hide Thy Link Directory!

This one really makes me want to smite somebody! Some guy will ask you for a link, but when you go to his home page, you look around for 10 minutes and can’t find a way to get to his link area from there. Most of these jokers are just trying to be sneaky and not let their customers ever find link directory. My general rule is that I require a link to link directory be prominently displayed on home page. If I can’t find it in 15 seconds or less, chances are nobody else will and it’s of no value to me!

#4) Thou Shall Have No More Than 50 Links On One page.