Patrick of BlogStorm has put together a case study of how he launched his new blog project and with a mix of tools, top notch information, social networking, emailing bloggers, participating in forums and other methods, his site has attracted 10,000 links in only 3 weeks.
And these aren’t crappy links either, we’re talking links from TechCrunch and ProBlogger among the thousands of incoming links tracked by Yahoo.
Patrick adds some tips on launching a new web site:
The first rule of launching a new website is to know your target market. I’ve been involved in internet marketing for a few years now and have become well known on some of the forums and blogs as well as having a few industry contacts who are happy to offer some help on occasion. Unless you can list the top 50 sites in your new niche pretty much off by heart then you are really going to struggle to be able to connect with your target audience.
Learn from the link building master : How I Built 10,000 Links in 3 Weeks
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Pretty impressive! Thanks for turning me on to this one — no techniques that are absolutely “Wow, never thought of that” but great to see that this kind of success really does happen and isn’t really super secret magic.
A case study of a guy who is “well known on some of the forums and blogs” is total rubbish. Lets see someone who is launching a new site in an area they are NOT well known in. Those are the quality techniques that need to be discussed ;)
Todd, I would love to read a success story about somebody who launched a site in an area they weren’t well known in. Unfortunately these are quite rare.
OK Todd, I’m up for the challenge. Will be doing so and will report back in 3 months :)
Sounds like a good challenge — I personally would like some tips for those of us who know theoretically what all the right steps are but keep getting sidelined by “real” work!
This is insane. And I also doubt, that this helps to much. I’m sure that Google and other detect such things. This would be way to easy to claim the top ten.
“I’m sure that Google and others detect such things.”
Rheinboard, what Patrick practiced was extremely natural link building; which is exactly what Google and other search engines reward.
Indeed!
I literally Stumbled upon this site just moments ago.
Small business online marketers/entrepreneurs should seriously look into harness the power of the social media and web marketing design to increase the exposure of their services and products to extend their reach.
Sherman
PS: Nice adaptation of the Copyblogger theme by Chris Pearson.
Thanks Sherman, but Chris designed the Search Engine Journal theme before Copyblogger :)
Well wouldn’t many of those inlinks be from forum signatures?
That is amazing how fast he was able to promote his website.
That’s good..
He indeed got some nice tips there, but not really a case study. He shared what he did, without the details and links. So to most newbies it will be pretty useless.
To us advanced marketers it’s a sign that social media does work. But I still wonder if the quality of the traffic, in terms of visitors->sales is any good. I don’t think so because most visitors would be interested in why you score so high at the social site, Stumble upon it or are opportunity seekers.
Just my 2c,
Dave Origano
10,000 links in 21 days? Isnt’ that like too fast and would search engines penalize you for that? Google says that link building should be natural. I think if my safari blog was new and suddenly there were 10,000 links there would be red flags.
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Great comment guidelines. I think you’re on the right track here. Some of those comments should go somewhere else.
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