Niche News Journal

Let me share a little something with you I discovered one day when I was over at scriptlance.com. A few months back, I was looking to hire someone at scriptlance to to get me link partners for two websites I just finished.

Just for those that are a little in the dark about what a "link partner" is... simply stated, a link partner is basically someone whom you have done a link exchange with -- you've put a link on your site pointing to someone else'ssite and they've done the same. Usually, the page where yours and your link partner's links point to is the "important page" -- the page that you want to rank well in the serps (Search Engines)

Make sense?

I'm not going to take the time to explain the details of why getting link partners is important because I assume that most of you already know this. But incase you're in the dark about this too, then I recommend you read "7 steps to massive website Traffic" by my friend Brad here: http://www.nichejournal.com/seo/report/
As soon as you're done reading it then come back to this when you get to the 'link partners' part ;-)

Ok, moving on to my discovery. I was at scriptlance.com looking to hire someone to find me link partners. If you know anything about scriptlance you know that it's basically a place where you list a "work order" with a detailed description of something you want done and people come along and bid on the job.

Scriptlance is a great place to have pretty much anything done from software developement to hiring a Ghost writer to hiring someone to sort through an excel file to help you with your taxes. Check it out when you have time!http://www.scriptlance.com/cgi-bin/freelancers/r.cgi?nnj

I got several several bids the 1st day for my "link partners" listing most of which said they would charge me a fixed price for getting link partners -- anywhere from $2 to $5 for 15 or 20 link parterners.

These seemed to be the going rates for hiring someone to do this task for you. However, I like to find the best deal so I decided to wait a few days as the listing was for 5 days anyway.
On the 3rd day this one guy gave me a quote of $40 and said he could get me a 'boat load' of link partners. He gave a little bit of a description on how he would do this and he even left a URL which I think was a little mistake on his part because I was getting ready to accept this guy's bid UNTIL I went to the URL.

At this URL I discovered something very interesting!
I found that this guy was right! He could get me a bunch of link partners using a "free to join" site. It just so turned out that this site belonged to the guy who was bidding on my lsiting at scriplance. For whatever reason, he may have been looking to make a little money on the side or just build up his membership base. Either way,it's still a pretty interesting little site and IT DOES get you link partners fast -- A TON at that!

How does it work? It's really quite simple, after you sign-up you just add your website's info ie; a little detailed descriptionof your site and what you want to say in the link anchor that others willuse to point your site.After you finish adding in your website and relevant info you'll be issued a little snippet of code in a few different languages PHP, ASP, etc.I use PHP becasue it's easiest for me.

You create a seperate page -- maybe call it "Links" or "resources" or something to that effect and you simply put this snippet of PHP codeon your new page and put a two-way link from this page and your homepage. Once you do this, then you go back to the site you got the code at then enter the URL of your links page where you put the snippet of code and click "validate" or "Check".

You'll get a "Success" message and then something very unique happens! Your new page that you just created you put the code on, fills up with link partners from other site members instantly. I have tested this for the last 4 months to see if there would be any negative effects but so far everything keeps rolling ahead with more and more link partners being added daily.

I also tested this on 2 seperate sites using nothing but this technique to see what my indexing times would be and the quickest out of the two is 3 days!The other one took 7 days.
Check it out www.linkdiy.com

They also added a couple of new features since I find it:
= Keyword Filter which excludes those keywords you don't want to link exchanges with.
= Option to Deny entire categories.

If you don't have the time to devote to getting link partners here's quick and easy, automatic way. www.linkdiy.com

-Scott Foster
Niche News Journal