Comments on: Link Building Letters

By: deep links

deep links — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:10:59 +0000

The trick, if there is such a thing, is variety. Make certain you collect a steady and varied collection of links

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:09:09 +0000

The response for link exchange is much less compare to the earlier days. These days you will receive 1 or 2 response if you send 50 letters. It may vary a little more if the letter is well written but not much

By: Leila

Leila — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:04:17 +0000

I’m glad the article helped some of you

@Web Talk I’m not sure what you mean?

@SEO Mumbai The success rate would depend largely on the people you target and how well you hone the letters you send out to each person.

By: Tertius

Tertius — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:58:04 +0000

Great post. Adding this to strategy will start to come in handy for some projects that I have lined up.

By: DStudioBali SEO

DStudioBali SEO — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:40:33 +0000

Yes, link building is not a simple thing, and using letter you mention above I think will work. ‘Cause I got so many email link exchange and they look like a sales later or auto generate letter, when I read it I refuse them

By: Web Talk

Web Talk — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:00:29 +0000

Nice article. Yes, link building is not a simple thing even though it is rather easy to accomplish. Anyway, as far as keywords are concered i wanted to ask. many seo experts dont reply on keywords anymore. Thy prefer link building thechniques? what’s the truth?

By: SEO Mumbai

SEO Mumbai — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:59:12 +0000

Thanks Leila for this tip on linkbuilding.

Could you tell us what is the approximate success rate in this approach?

Is such mass mail sending feature available in any SEO tools such as Web CEO or IBP?

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:41:51 +0000

Superb article Leila. Out of most I’ve read, they don’t go into actually asking for a deep link as you have.

By: Yura

Yura — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:22:51 +0000

If you are pretending to be focusing on the value, at least
- use the right words: “resource”, “article”, “post” instead of “link”
- focus on educating the recipient on the benefits of sharing an awesome resource, not on actually “putting a link to your page from the links page” and how you follow this principle of showing the great stuff to the people

Also, though I don’t practice these letters (well, maybe once or twice, when stumbling on relevant sites), it’d probably make sense to write short letters. It saves time, makes sure that the letter is read fully and *possibly* increases the chances of the conversion.

Overall, viewing link building as a beneficial process of linking great documents together would probably be more straight-forward, than attempting to link build to get PR and other benefits.

Why I think it’ll work better, even tho I don’t do this often? Because it focuses on the core reasons for sites to exist: to provide useful stuff to the visitors, not to be “links pages” or entries in a link building report.