Comments on: A handful of link building ideas for web hosting resellers

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:24:52 +0000

Great article, especially since I’m on the brink of offering hosting to clients. Certainly makes it easier for me to deploy/content the sites if im fluent in the hosting arrangements/features.

Maybe thats an extra +ve about reseller hosting you should add to your list. I’ve had heaps of trouble creating websites for clients clients sites, and then not working on their choice of (inferior) hosting. The <3 Reseller just makes much more sense to me.

By: Frank Strong

Frank Strong — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:41:07 +0000

Hi Matthew, sound advice, and glad to hear that online news releases are part of you overall strategy. Thank you for mentioning PRWeb in this piece. Here’s a link on the impact of news releases on search that might be of interest: http://bit.ly/D3znk

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:48:39 +0000

Davide,

That must be very frustrating. Maybe you could put together a small “Beginners guide to SEO” brochure (as a PDF) for people who are new to the topic to explain in simple terms why SEO is so important?

Matt

By: Steve McGrath

Steve McGrath — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:39:12 +0000

Just a re-iteration of Marks comment, a lot of people think by posting comments on blogs, they will get link juice, but most competent blog owners put ‘nofollow’ attributes on their blog comments – just like Heart

By: Neil Mani

Neil Mani — Fri, 28 May 2010 08:36:00 +0000

Nice article
Here are few more:
Article submissions
Blog Commenting
Social Groups – Twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc
Social Bookmarking
Directory Submission
Classified ads
3 way Link exchange
Forum posting
Press release

By: Davide

Davide — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:17:46 +0000

Good Post Matthew – The problem I find is educating clients in the importance of website SEO and maintenance: we have a client that pays only £50 a month for her maintenance and wants to stop it so that she can advertise and I have told her that she has the best for of advertising, her website. Getting round this we are finding hard at the moment

By: Mark Reynolds

Mark Reynolds — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:46:19 +0000

Good article Matthew – another one similar to your tip on forum posting, is to post in comments on blog articles. But as with posting on the forums, use this technique to get involved in the conversation rather than for directly promoting yourself or your business.

You will find that the majority of blogs use ‘nofollow’ for any links created in the comments, meaning that link juice isn’t passed on through the link, some don’t even allow links. But if appropriate, you could post to an article on your website, but make sure that it will give even more value to the post that you’re commenting on.

If you think it’s appropriate to post a link, then it could help in promoting your article/blog/website to others who may link to it without a nofollow from their own blog. However this should not be your primary use of blog comments, you should use comments to build relationships with the blog author, other comment writers and the blog visitors. You never know which of those will give you a good link in the future, but of course to do this they have to see value in what you have to offer.

By: Digital Agency - Mediamake

Digital Agency - Mediamake — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:38:14 +0000

Another great article!

I often find encouraging other websites with similar target markets but different products writing blog posts about each other works a treat!