Why Link Exchanges are Dead-and What the New Move in Free
Traffic Is...
It's no secret-link exchanges are dying a painful death. And why
you ask? Since March 2005 the new Google algorythm has become
very very picky about the quality, quantity and frequency of
incoming links to your website. It now considers reciprocal
linking to be, in fashion terms; OUT!
So what can you do to get legitimate incoming links to your
website to maintain your traffic? The new wave in link building
is content exchanges. It is fairly simple, just submit your
written articles to article directories and webmasters looking
for content.
You've probably heard of "writing articles" for free traffic
before, so why is it called the "new wave" in free traffic? Glad
you asked, let me elaborate. A couple of years ago an internet
marketing Guru named Jim Edwards wrote an ebook titled "Turn
Words in to Traffic". In this ebook Jim explained how to write
and distribute articles as the ideal way to get free incoming
links to your website.
Many big (and little) name webmasters jumped on the band wagon
and started to implement Jim's techniques and see the results.
But after a time, even though the concept and results reamined
the same, many webmasters abandoned writing and distributing
articles for two reasons.
First, some people just can't or hate to write. And second, it
is very tedious and time consuming to go around to the 40+
article and ezine content banks and manually submit your
articles to each site each time you write an article.
So why the comeback? Many webmasters who previously didn't want
to write articles have discovered either HOW to write articles,
or they've hired out their article writing at about $10.00 per
article to ghost writers at sites like elance.com. They
recognized the power of distributing articles and simply out
sourced it.
But the problem remains that it is still tedious to submit each
article to every article bank every time you write a new one.
This new move back to writing articles is fueled by the same
thing that webmasters are using to have their content written;
outsourcing. People simply pay someone else to do this tedious
work.
Companies like submityourarticle.com manually do the submitting
for you, though at a price (and it's not cheap). But if the
traffic is coming in and you are capitolazing on that traffic
it's an investment worth making.
However, for those out there who don't want to pay a per article
fee, an associate of mine, Jason Potash has been working on a
solution to the problem. A solution that is very soon to be
released. Subscribers to my newsletter will get the latest, and
if you aren't keeping up with this ground breaking new trend you
need to spend some time on the internet marketing message boards
to get the latest news.
I don't have all the details yet, Jason is keeping a little hush
hush about it. But in a few weeks you'll probably hear about his
new tool.
The conclusion, article writing has never been totally dead, but
the wave is coming back with a host of new tools and services to
make the process easier for webmasters to capitolize on. Get in
the groove, dust off the type writer and start benefitting from
free article writing traffic.