Published: Jan 23, 2008 - 07:18 am
Story Found By: planetc1 1481 Days ago
Category: Link Building
5 Comments
5 Comments
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I think its a little over obvious what you are saying - much like the relation between PPC Ads and conversions. The Ad has to encourage clickthough but the landing page (design/content) + the relevance between the Ad text and the landing page content will affect user action/ conversion. But do you have any specific advice on how to shape content to be link worthy. Obviously it should be useful and true - but there must be as well a relationship between the content and the medium. Even source and content relationship. Example ... traffic from Digg and traffic from stumbleupon propably react to content differently.
Is anything worth it without really good content?
Personally, Ive fallen into the trap of viewing digg homepage articles rather than thinking about the inbound link potential. Was a good reminder to get back and focus on the bigger picture rather than the quick fix.
I would suggest exploring content linking engines like Arkayne. The widget ananlyzes your blog and compares it to all the other ones it has scanned. It then generates a list of 10 or so pages for each of your pages that are most similar in content. Its a great tool for getting consistent content relevant links (vs the low CTR traffic mentioned in the article) and it gives you a great starting point for figuring out which sites talk about your topics.It works fairly well Im running it on several blogs. At last note the community is up to almost 18K pages. Its free and its customizable.For the curious: http://www.arkayne.com
Excellent point, getting traffic to our content is one thing, getting links to it, thats a challenge.