What Extreme Measures Have You Taken To Acquire A Link?
If your in the SEO game you’ve probably at one point in time gone to an extreme to obtain a particular link. While fantastic one of a kind content truly makes link building easier not every client has such a ‘bait’ to make building links easy. So for this weeks discussion I ask you – What extreme measures have you taken in order to acquire a link?
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Now it’s your turn. To what extreme have you gone to acquire a link for yourself or a client?
Nick LeRoy
Nick LeRoy is a Minneapolis SEO consultant offering custom SEO audits & monthly SEO services to clients in all niches. He also regularly blogs about SEO at NickLeRoy.com
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I’ve lied about being a female. I’ve outed spammers and black hat sites. But I’m not very “extreme”.
Joel – I can tell you that a female alias works better then male. At least in my experiences
Right now I’ve been helping a guy curate a resources page by updating it with new links & descriptions, and practically recreating the entire page. It’s already taken me 2 hours to find all the resources to add (and of course adding one of my links as a resource). Not too bad, but I’ve spent a lot of time pursuing a link I might not even get!
That’s a legitimate way to get a link. Your definitely adding value to their website while getting some value back. Congrats!
This is not really extreme, but I have gone outside the norm for scale. The law firm I worked for donated to several local charities. My first thought was to email them all and ask for a link. Garrett French advised me to give them a reason to do that, via his “preciprocation” method.
I created a page on the law firm’s site that highlighted each (around 20) charity’s message and included links to their donation or volunteer pages. THEN I emailed each one asking them to share it with their friends, never even asking for a link. The results were astonishing. Each one was thrilled to share the page with their friends/major donors, that I got an average of 3 links from each attempt. So, no real extremes here, aside from having to think about what I was doing for a change.
Despite angling the charities, I do not feel dirty for doing this because the firm was already donating time and money to the causes they believed in, why should I leave them on the table.
Don – Nice! I love any thinking outside of the box techniques. In this case like you mentioned the firms were already donating so receiving some value isn’t sleezball-ish (at least in my book).
I would hate to see how many people try that technique without reciprocating any value to the charity. though
It happens quite a bit. The mantra from my mentors was provide value and you can’t go wrong. If you wanna talk extremes, I did wear a Blue Devil polo shirt once to get a webmaster to think I was a fan of Duke…. now THAT made me feel icky, but I got the link!