Linking from other web sites is now king of exposure!

Linking to and from other web sites is best way to have people find your web site. And it is not as difficult as you might first think.

First of all, it is important to be linked to sites with like interests. If your web site is all about cars you do not want to bother linking to a site that is all about cats.

Visit your favorite web search engine and do a keyword search of sites that are most similar to yours. Take time to actually go to each of top 20 or 30 web sites returned from your keyword search and have a look at your future promoters.

If their content is similar to yours, use their email contact to send owner/web master a SHORT note. For a FREE Request A Link Swap form letter that you can use, send a blank email to: mailto:request_a_link@emailexchange.org

In your note, you explain that you found them by keyword search via "NAME_THAT search engine". Tell them what you like about their site so that they really know you have visited and you are not some wayward spammer.

Then ask if they would trade links.

I have been busy promoting my web site by submitting ads to a lot of FFA sites around Internet.

I have learned that you need to submit to a lot these site to get very much traffic, and you have to resubmit often.

Another thing I have notice. Most of FFA sites I have visited offer you a FFA page of your own. Most are free, but some of them have a paid version that charge you a monthly fee.

My question is, how does owning one of these FFA pages benefit you? And if there is some benefit, what is advantage of signing up for paid version as opposed to just taking free page?

Signed,

Just Wondering

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Dear Just Wondering,