Proper Care and Feeding of Your Linklover

Why Give Linklove?  Per Brian Clark’s The Viral Copy Report: “…linking out to others often is one of the keys to blogging success.  It may be counterintuitive, but it is the engine that drives the blogosphere.”  You need look no further than Liz Strauss or our very own Phil Gerbyshak to see the results of effective outlinking.  Both the blog maven and relationship geek dedicate large portions of their blogs to outlinks, which in turn, has resulted in massive personal networks (casts of thousands). 

Common Forms of Linklove Include:  trackbacks, comments, social book marks, tagging, blogrolls, guest writing on other blogs, and blog and RSS directories.

But the Key is to Make It (the link) Relevant:  Peter van der Graaf is a 10 year veteran of Search Engine Marketing. His blog is Linklove. In his March 8th post, RAT link value checklist, Peter demystifies the RAT (Relevant Authority Transfer) equation with a checklist. The checklist contains 18 items and takes some time to work through, but reportedly gets results. I have yet to try it myself, but will soon and will post my findings at Orbit Now! In the meantime, if anyone has walked this list and would like to share their experience with 100 Bloggers, please do so with a comment.

11 More Ways to Satisfy Your Linklover:

1. Blog Tip your linklover
2. Create a link for your linklover in combination with Wikipedia links
3. Create a link for your linklover in your favorite forum
4. Create links for your linklover in Google Groups
5. Create a link to you linklover in your questions or answers at Yahoo! Answers
6. Reference your linklover in your comments at Wired or Fast Company or Motto
7. Mention your linklover in a carnival post
8. Mention your linklover in a meme post
9. Create a Squidoo filter for your linklover
10. Syndicate one of your linklover’s articles at  EzineArticles, GoArticles, iSnare
11. Create a press release for you linklover and submit it to  PRWeb or PRLeap

(This list was sourced in part from SEOBOOK: 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity)

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Related:  Todd Malicoat, the Internet Marketing Consultant behind Stuntdubl.com, offers 12 Different Types of Links and How to Get Them. And here is a suspiciously similar post, 15 types of links and how to get them, by Joe Whyte at Get Rockyfied. Of course, not all links are created equal and different links have different goals.

More: 9 Steps Process for Getting Authoritative Links by Eric Enge; 131 Legitimate Link Building Strategies, 13 Tips on Asking Other Bloggers for Links, How to Get Links from Bloggers, Blogs Need Link Love Too, Blogging Gifts and The Viral Copy Report by Brian Clark of Copyblogger.

Brian’s The Viral Copy Report  is a must read.  In it you will find:

• The Four Viral Content Categories
• Eleven Strategies for Getting Link Love
• Why Headlines and Storytelling are Crucial
• The Counter-Intuitive Rule of the Internet
• Why Not All Traffic is Worthy
• How to Avoid the Dark Side

(Bullets courtesy of Yaro Starak - Entrepreneur’s Journey)

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