In an effort to become more of a manager, I started outsourcing with article writing and have found a good writer which hopefully can write future articles.

I would like to ask re: link exchange. Once you get a list of blogs or potential high ranking websites, do you ask somebody to email the webmasters or do you do it yourself ?

The reason I’m asking this is I’m curious why you outsource the blog commenting, but not saying anything about outsourcing the link exchange just after you get the list.

Thanks
Dian

Just opened a project over at rentacoder.com to build me a list of blogs for my travel site. I can’t believe how cheap you can get things done.

I have people bidding $5-20 to build me a list of pr3 blogs.

How much do you pay for people to make comments on blogs for you?

Dave

1. I don’t use anchor text in blog comments unless the owner encourages it. (Jon Leger for example) I focus on anchor text on quality links and blog comments are really not quality links so I just use my name – that’s how it’s supposed to be. It’s just to get some pagerank…

2. I tried a few but then I am really not doing much blog commenting and researching. If I just happen to come across a dofollow blog in my niche, I bookmark it and then post a few comments in the next week or so.

I really don’t see blog commenting as a really important part of link building but if you have 2 minutes of spare time every day, then it’s not a big deal to add some good content to someone’s blog and get a link for that.

Great past two articles!

Question for you.

1) When you or some does blog commenting, do you link back to your site with a certain anchor text or just http://www.yourdomain.com?

I know where you put your name in wordpress that is the hyperlink so would you put like “Tomaz – Vacuum Cleaner Reviews”

2) Do you use a certain software to help you find high pr blogs in your niche?

Thanks

Dave

I’ve used GAF a number of times. It can be tedious keeping track of some of these people. Even the ones that have high marks. Yet, it’s still a good resource for a variety of projects

I’ve used Need An Article as well. My experience was OK. The problem I have is that I can’t bid on the price for simpler pages.

I’m still looking for the perfect writer, and I too will be re-writing some previously written articles as soon as I can.

Great post as usual. I’ve been using Need an Article recently for a wine site I have, and I really like the ease of use. You still have to monitor the quality though, and it can be hit or miss. I didn’t know about the “choose writer” feature, I’ll have to check that out.

My first site (guitar niche) is still pretty young, so I’m doing all the writing myself for now. I want the business model to prove itself first and pay for the expansion of my sites, not use my “day job” money for the sites.

Thanks again for the all the posts, the insight has been very helpful!

-Devin