Tuesday, May 16, 2006

The Testimonial Trick

One of the most popular methods of traffic generation is the link
exchange. Not only can they generate fairly targeted traffic from
other related web sites, the number of quality links to your site is
also a major factor determining your web site's ranking in major
search engines like Google.

The problem with link exchanges is that they require you to give a
reciprocal link in exchange for linking to your site. This inevitably
means that there will be a limit to the number of links you can
tastefully place on your site without compromising your layout,
content, and credibility. Links to other sites also provide extra
temptations for surfers to leave your site. Also, search engines place
more importance on the quality than the number of sites linking to
your web site. It is of course difficult for small web sites to
convince large, successful web sites to exchange links with them.

An incredibly simple, but little used so is to use testimonials to
gain a link on large successful web sites, WITHOUT having to place a
reciprocal link on our own site! No webmaster, no matter how
successful, can resist an honest, glowing compliment to their
creation. The trick is to write short, flattering testimonials for the
content, design, functions, products, services etc. of many web sites
and send it to them as a sincere "feedback".

Many webmasters will feel so flattered and want to publish these
"unsolicited" compliments to reinforce the credibility of their web
site and products. To make the testimonial credible, they must
naturally mention who it came from.

This would be your opportunity to request a link to your web site. At
a minimum, you should be able to get a link in the form of "yourname,
webmaster, yoursite.com ". This is really a beautifully simple, no
cost way of getting links in many high quality web sites.

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