Asking for reciprocal link exchanges is so boring and the succes ratio is dramatically low, even if you have a pr 3 or 4. So it’s pretty demotivating.

I have really undervalued this way of link building. i will jump into it and keep you informed.

I submit articles at ezinearticles.com for each Tier 2 page. I also experimented with Unique Article Wizard but while it got me a ton of links, I can’t attribute any traffic or PR to them because I’m still PR 1 and only see occasional referrals.

Interviews are a great source for this particular site. I don’t think they would be relevant for Vacuum Cleaner competition bloggers

Besides getting links through interviews, do you try any other link building activities like paid directories links, blog commenting, articles submissions etc?

Cool man 1000 visitors in 6 months using SEO. Totally awesome!

I had a real dilemma about inbound links. Sure, there are some other SBIers with loosely related sites and I contacted them early on. But, I had to find something more. Other product review sites were probably not going to work…I tried

One of the great things about SBI is the Forum. An older thread was bumped to the top a number of months ago. I had either missed it, or didn’t pay attention. It was about getting links by asking for interviews. Seek out interviews of well known people who have websites or blogs, or find the person behind a well followed blog with high PR.

Since my site is about gas grills, I decided to after Barbecue bloggers. Many of them are also competition BBQ’ers so there is alot to ask about. I found out the hard way that asking for a link exchange with them was silly since none of them use “gas” grills. They are charcoal and wood only.

So, I began asking them for interviews, suggesting that my visitors, gas grillers, could use some education into the “purist” way of doing things. The ones I have contacted so far have all agreed, and I’ve made some friends in the community along the way (we also Twitter).

Sure enough, once I posted an interview, they would mention it on their blog because most of them are all about promotion. I never even ask for a link. If they link cool, if not, I’ve still got great content.

As for publishing “not all at once”, the first few weeks I definitely got a lot of content up. I had to get as many Tier 2′s as I could so I could then focus on article writing for inbound links. Now that this is done (with more to come), I can add more content.

If you add it all at once, it won’t be long before the search engine decides it doesn’t need to come back very often and you can lose some credibility.

This is for the long haul, so you don’t need to rush. As it stands now, most of the pages I publish are indexed AND in the search rankings within 10-15 minutes. Either that, or I just time my publishing right

I sometimes do a page a day, but I think Tomaz will tell you he does maybe 1-2 a week. Right now, most of the stuff I see on his vacuum site is being published by his visitors, which is a sweet deal if you can get to that point.

1000 visitors a day afetr 6 months is motivation enough for me!

I have a some questions:

“In-bound links – I wrote articles and interviewed BBQ bloggers to get links from high PR blogs.”

Like Mark I’d like to know the process, techniques, call it what you will, that you used to approach blog owners for interviews.

” Regular publishing of content – not all at once.”
I can see why you’d drip feed the search engines but how much is too much?
I’ve just started a review site at the start of this month (May) and now have 55 pages up. When do you think is a good time to start drip feeding? How many pages did you load at a time? 1, 2 or more pages a day or what?

Thanks, John

Nice post!
I was wondering how you approach owners of a a related blog? Which voice do you use? Can you give axample of that kind of proces.

Good work Mike!