Promotion Tips

How To Trade Links?

Link trades are easy and can make you a lot of money. The best thing about link trades is they are free!! What you need to do is contact at least 100 webmasters a week asking to trade links. You need to do some every day, seven days a week! Or if your time is limited, devote a good 4-8 hours on the weekend to trading links. Ofcourse, the more people you trade with the more your site will be listed through out the Internet, which is more chances someone will come to your site and buy. This is your first step in obtaining your goals.

The following is the standard letter asking for a trade that you may to send by email to sites that you want to trade with.

Dear Webmaster,

I understand that time is money and that couldn't be any more true if you take the next three minutes and review our website. We are currently looking for link partners and thought that a link trade would be mutually beneficial based upon our traffic simillarities.

My site is MY WEBSITE at http://www.yoursite.com.

If you are interested, please email me and we can work out the details.

Thanks for your time..
Your Name
Your Website Name
Your E-mail address

You will want to keep a copy of this letter in your computer so that you can just copy and paste it or you can do the same from this page. MAKE SURE TO CHANGE EVERYTHING TO FIT YOUR SPECIFIC SITE AND CORRECT SPELLING ERRORS. No one has confidence in a webmaster that can not spell. DO NOT SEND SPAM. DO NOT SEND SEVERAL HUNDRED E-MAILS TO A GROUP OF RECIPIENTS. YOU MUST KNOW WHO YOU ARE SENDING TO BEFORE YOU DO IT!

Don't insist on reciprocal links. Don't say, "If you link to mine, I'll link to yours." Not only is that selfish, it's rude and it doesn't work. But do provide a reciprocal link to any and all websites that link to yours, provided its the kind of website with which you want to be associated.

Don't bother with the automatic link sites either. These disorganized, sometimes totally random, listing of websites are not going to provide you with any worthwhile traffic. You can spend your time and energy on many of the other more worthwhile pursuits outlined above to promote your website.

Do request reciprocal links. Reciprocal links are the word of mouth advertising of the internet. Other sites providing links to your site are extremely important in getting your website the kind of exposure that generates traffic to your website. I stress that you be generous in providing links to other websites because a smart webmaster will recognize the favor you are doing him and he is more likely to put a link to your website on his website. On the other hand, if a website has no links to other websites on its pages, why should someone bother to do him a favor. Those kinds of websites are obviously isolationists caught up in their little private world. Let's leave them alone.

Link trades will make you money and they are free, but you must keep up with sites that you trade with to make sure your link has been put up! It may take a couple days for them to put your link on their page so keep checking back! The best thing to do is to go down the link page on your site once a week or every two weeks, and go to those sites to look for your link on their link pages. If your link is not up, print out your link list on your site and mark out those who have not reciprocated.

Who Do I Trade With?

This is easy. Go to your favorite search engine. Enter keywords that reflect your websites content. Look at the list of websites that come up. These are websites that are closely related to yours and will be receiving the same kinds of traffic.