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By: PLANETwebfoot

PLANETwebfoot — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:21:53 +0000

Great tips. I agree with other commenters that this is definitely not the route for everyone, however with some time and effort this could be very successful. Thanks for the article.

By: Jesper Åström

Jesper Åström — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:58:23 +0000

@collentine – this blog post would have been six times as long if I would have covered all aspects of making relations online. This time I talked about people who has the sole purpose of building links. I would probably not use this method alone if I would build lasting relationships with influential bloggers. The risk you take with each blogger is too high as you might go busto at any time. So, I would suggest a more cautious approach.

Thus I agree with your comment, but I will need a couple of more posts in order to build that complexity to something understandable. Please stay with me and come back with more comments as I am highly inspired to write more!

@Christian – as I said to @collentine – if you target high value bloggers you need to be more careful. Thats all I’ll write a post about it.

By: Christian Rudolf

Christian Rudolf — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:56:35 +0000

This linkbuilding and some traditionell linkbuilind is probably a very strong combo!

However, you might view this as more of PR or advertising. Connecting with the rigt people might get u massive secondary effects. I have been inside one of these storms and seen it

Also, I might ad, this type of linkbuilding is fun, very social and u actually meet people!

By: @collentine

@collentine — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:53:27 +0000

Very good post and written in a clear, easy language:)

Creating relations with more influentual bloggers should work the same way. If you put down the time for getting the exposure then why not go for the value of a link on a popular persons blog instead of aiming at google-rank?

By: Jesper Åström

Jesper Åström — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:41:23 +0000

@Christian – I agree with your assessment as well. About the data –> I will share this with you when I see you on Saturday. I am not going to post it in my blog. I am not that transparent yet … But I can show it to you when I see you.

You can scale this method to a certain degree. Ie. How many contacts can you handle? Secondly you train and get better at giving people things they can share with others. If you have 10 contacts in a certain group, with sharing you could probably learn how to get at least 10 good links out of these people and their friends. 10 links to a single post is more than most web pages out there.

Combine this with some automated link building as well as some social bookmarking and you are in a good position. How much time you spend on each post is dependent upon how much the potential revenue for that post is.

I also agree with your assessment of how manipulative this process is. However you need some tough skin if you work in certain verticals. One of them being the one described here.

By: Christian Rudolf

Christian Rudolf — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:19:59 +0000

Also, I forgot a relevant question. How do u scale activities like this. Difficult, yes, impossable, no. Ask the question and start to think about it!

By: Christian Rudolf

Christian Rudolf — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:16:42 +0000

I have some feedback!

1. Linkeconomi. Sure, you can get links but links is also about economics and your strategy have a alternative cost. You touch this issue but I belive this part needs more attention

2. Do u have data you can share for campaigns like this. It would be very interesting to check

3. People might find this very manupulative but the person linking to you actually gets a lot from your relatiobship. This is not a one way thing. You have to offer him value in his life, just as he has to offer value to you. This is us humans. This is how we work. If you think this is manipulative. you have really high thoughts about yourself. That you are diffrent from the rest of us.

By: Jonas delade grejer / 2009-11-05 | You. Me. We.

Jonas delade grejer / 2009-11-05 | You. Me. We. — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:30:37 +0000

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By: Jesper Åström

Jesper Åström — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:49:17 +0000

I couldn’t agree more Björn.