One of the main problems of your niche is that it is SUPER competitive. And everyone in this niche knows exactly what pagerank is, how many links you have and what your Alexa rank is.

And it’s very very hard to get quality links to your site from other competitors.

Try using guest posts on related blogs on topics of SEO, internet marketing, working from home and so on. Not everyone will agree to your guest post suggestion but if you send them a quality article they might like it and allow you to link back to your site.

And don’t monetize so heavily – it just turns most partners away.

This post makes me confused about getting traffic.

Do you really think to have a discussion with top PR 2 ranking sites related with my keywords will give a link exchange so easily.

And do I need to ask for a link exchange for all the PR 1 to 10 for the keywords on which I am planning to create pages.

Please explain and clear my doubts.

I am getting frustrated day by day due to my hard work but no result.

There are thousands of webmasters who have no idea what pagerank is and how Google algorithm works. Sure, if you are in the internet marketing niche, then you won’t get many backlinks with PR0; you’ll have to build some pagerank with directory links and article submissions first.

But if you have a hobby niche, then you’ll easily find many bloggers who ramble about their stuff and will be happy to link to you.

MANY webmasters have no idea what is pagerank. They build websites and add content. They may be slightly aware that getting more links might help with their rankings…

If they reject you based on pagerank, bookmark their site and approach them again with your offer when you have gained pagerank. (from directory and article submissions)

Or do you wait until you have at least a decent PR like PR 2 or 3 to trade for link.

TIA

Thanks for sharing the info on Infolinks.

I read some positive reports in the SBI Forums too so I might check with them if they like any of my sites…

There isn’t a clear answer to your question. When you are looking for links you also need to focus on the anchor text and the page the link will point to. That can be your homepage or an internal page. When you get enough quality links to it, this page will then rank higher in Google – depending on your competition.

So when you are happy with your rankings, you can stop focusing on links.

The quality of links is very important. If you get for example a pagerank 5 link with the right anchor text to a page with not too much competition, you can immediately shoot to top 3 in Google. So you might need just 1 link.

Great article! This came at the most perfect time for me because I am currently working on links.

I am just wondering, though…

What is a good amount of links-in to have from each source? How many links should you focus on getting before you really stop focusing on getting them?

I work better with a goal in mind, but I can’t find any answer to this question. And your help is always greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much for helping all of us out, Tomaz

Michelle