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[...] Marius Bakken from marathon-training-guide.com – Marius is a two time Olympic runner and he decided to share his passion and help people get [...]

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:20:31 +0000

Fantastic interview. In 1 year from now you’ll be interviewing me. What I really liked was:

1)His play by play as to how he goes about getting links. I am at this point now.

2) It appears that he gradualy added content over a long period of time.

3) His remarks about NOT doing mass article submissions. I never thought it made a difference for certain niches. Especially my very narrow niche.

I would only do it for backlinks and that’s it but I probably will not do it for that either. It seems your time will be best spent contacting webmasters.

4)Over 700 visitors after 1 year. I hope to be there after 1 year.

Imagine having a retail store with 1 employee and you get 700 potential customers….everyday!

Great interview Tommy!

By: Marius

Marius — Sat, 09 May 2009 08:00:45 +0000

Hi,
What I used for that is a seomoz tool. They have two nice ones called linkscape and linkfinder. Now I agree with Tomaz that they are making things overly complicated over at their blog and I am not sure the subscription is worth it just for those two tools (plus it can be (another) disturbance in the sitebuilding focus – you read too much instead of work). Having said that, they do work very nicely if you need to save some time using that link building model.

Marius

By: jerrick

jerrick — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:14:43 +0000

Hi Mark,

Can you share which is the tool you use to get the 200 results? It seems like your only link strategy is reciprocal links? Am i right?

Jerrick

By: Marius

Marius — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:58:19 +0000

Hi Mark,

What I generally do is to look at 1) lists of blogs in blog directories within my niche. Search “blog directory” in google 2) just do google searches on relevant keywords + follow to those sites. I’ve also used a tool where I can search for a keyword, get 200 results fast and then it can be sorted by age of the domain or pagerank. That saves some time as one gets a quick look at how “trusty” they are. I don’t know how much time this takes, I look at it as ongoing work I guess..

Marius

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:41:48 +0000

Hi Marius,

Great post!!
I was wondering how much time you spend per site on this type of link building? Since it’s pretty time consuming work

And how do you find enough high quality related links?

All the best!

By: jerrick

jerrick — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:11:19 +0000

Hi Tomaz,

Thanks for the tip. I have been building content more than building links. Guess this is one practical tip to implement now.

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:40:18 +0000

Hey Jerrick,

Reciprocal linking is not dangerous if you do it like we do it: manually researching link partners and looking for quality links. The amount of links you’ll get like that is not a big number. And you’ll be linking with related sites where these links make sense and the visitors benefit from them.

Reciprocal linking got its bad name because people were linking with any site, typically from links pages and the links made no sense to the visitors. Also, these webmasters exchanged THOUSANDS of links.

No worry if you exchange links with quality sites that make sense to your visitors…

By: jerrick

jerrick — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:22:09 +0000

Hi Tomaz,

Wow, this is golden nuggets of information.

It seems like marcus uses link exchanges as the main method to build links, dropping the rest like articles marketing.

Do you think this is the best strategy forward? Is reciprocal link dangerous?

By: Henri

Henri — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:52:03 +0000

Awesome interview. Learned a few things as well!