Researching sites to buy links from?
I was reading a post from Aaron Wall’s Blog yesterday that gave me a unique search engine marketing idea and I would like to share my thoughts (thanks Aaron). You see, Text Link Ads has created a tool showing websites what links (potentially) would be worth ( $$ money wise $$ -based on the current market ) if they were to sell some real estate from thier pages … Also, showing you information on where placing the ad could effect the money you get. Its called a text link ads calculator (go ahead and play with it — don’t know how realistic it is, but its fun to play with!)
I was thinking about being able to use the tool for marketing purposes. Let me explain: This tool shows you how much money you could charge (another website) for a link. This kind of information could be huge when trying to find good sites to get links from. For example if you go to www.uscity.net and put thier addy in this tool, the current price for a link of thier homepage (up top) could cost you $297 for a single page-single link for one month. A site-wide link (up top) would run you $342 a month. You compare that to a new directory I just found http://www.thalesdirectory.com that will cost you $18 for a site-wide link. Do you see where I am going with this? Its telling you which one would pack a more powerful punch! (Yes, its the one that is worth $342) if you were lucky enough to talk them into a text link…
Some sites may not know the power they have, and credibility with search engines. What you can do is find a “normal” non-text link, seo-ed site that packs a powerful dollar punch like the $342 example above (so you know the search engines love em) and contact them and offer them $25 - $50 if they put a link to you. (Obviously you would make sure they allow anchor text) Its money well spent if it could help you climb the rankings for certain key-phrases. Much cheaper and easier the free and paid directories as well.
I have not gone and tried any of this … like I said I was just thinking about it after hearing about this new calculator tool. A single site-wide link on the top level of my site (in the content) could be worth $69 a link. So, 10 of these could be worth $690/month residual montly income on this one site alone. If I were to actually do that on my homepage I would probably opt for selling one person a link for $500 a month as to not take away from the power of that link. (or would I want to whore my site out)
I got a kick out of this tool cause if you put in a site like Google just to see what it would run (for fun) it says stuff like “ha ha very funny” and “fuh get about it” … In other words no chance in hell of ever getting a link from certain websites… Anyway check it out it could be informative AND fun!
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