Your article on giving a site a professional look and feel resonates also. SBI is great, but our site built on their template looks homemade. Not a good look for an Interior Design site.

So, it’s time to talk to a designer and to start contacting those high PR sites.

All the best,
Kathy

The services you mentioned will probably not do much for your site. I tried similar services a few times and never got any benefit from them.

The links that matter have to be obtained through hard work and direct contact – and by creating really interesting content.

P.S. It took me almost 2 years to earn more than $1000 per month…

Discovered your site yesterday, and it’s the perfect compliment to Site Build It.

We’ve been building our site since the beginning of the year, working hard and keeping the faith that somewhere in the not too distant future we’ll reap the rewards.

We were over 100 uv per day in July, were zeroing in on 150 and then traffic fell by half to two thirds.

We have 50 links, mostly from directories. I read your “Simple link building…” article and it makes a ton of sense. We’re starting today to put that advice into practice.

What is your opinion of the services like freewebmonitoring.com and linkingmatters.com that promise links from PR4 – PR9 sites for a fee. We’d be willing to pay for traffic but not a scam.

Kathy

P.S. No offense, but reading about you going from nothing to $9000 a month in a year is disheartening. Not that I’m not happy for you.

Found this quite by accident tonight, and though I should know all about this topic, I feel this must be a good part of the reason for alot that seems stalled for me at the moment. Also, I seem to opt for the content writing more often than I should instead of doing other chores that need to be done.

Take a look at this article:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/08/google-mojo/

and tell me why techcrunch links out to so many other websites…

thanks for such a wonderful article. But the way u are telling about the incoming links. why should other website owners give a incoming links to my website or any other website. What makes them think and give a link out which is automatically a link backlink for me and for our new online friends who is looking for a successs the way you have
Can u just explain?

You convinced me. My site is 3 years old, 200 pages, and I only have 229 incoming links from 56 different websites. How far I am from 4000!!! links and 200 sites!
I am very down about this because link building is super hard but at least now I know what I need to do…

Thanks.

Great job Tomaz, I enjoy the insightful knowledge that you have shared with many of us. Keep up the success!

1. Yes, age of the website is very important. In my experience, a site will be held back by Google for the first year.

2. If the Google toolbar says unavailable for PR, then there is no PR on that page. It’s won’t be very helpful. Every link counts but you’ll see that these have minimal effect on your rankings and traffic. And no, these would not be quality links.

It’s not all about PR though. It’s also about the age of that website and it’s trust and authority factor. Even if such a site (joeant, botw, …) links to you from a PR0 page, that link will help your site become more trustworthy in Google’s view.