'Why a Good Linking Strategy is Crucial for Your Web Site'
-article by Terry G. Plank, Academy Web Specialists

A good linking strategy is crucial for your Web site for three reasons.

1. To establish site popularity (the number of quality sites pointing to your site).

2. To drive high traffic to your site from relevant URL's who's users have some interest in your product or service.

3. To finding good sites to approach for becoming affiliates.

Effective linking strategy requires that you have high traffic, "same industry" sites linking to you. NOT just any site that asks for it. How do you find those sites? You can research them on your own or you can save many hours by hiring LinkageXpress to do it for you.

The concept is simple. You turn over your linking needs to LinkageXpress, and they'll find related and relevant links for your site. Even better is that they're practiced in selecting "key" sites that already rank well with the search engines. And, they target sites that are both relevant to your target audience as well as already "popular".

These are the precise factors that are likely to elevate your own site's link popularity. Stated another way, LinkageXpress applies a professional personalized approach to solve what is otherwise a difficult and time consuming search engine optimization problem.

End result? ...they remove the drudgery and guess work from the equation while you get the results you are looking for.

Here's how they did it for us. First, I returned the information to them they requested so they fully understood us and our target markets. They researched the best URL's and compiled a list for me to put into a Webpage to place on our server. I liked this, because when they then wrote a personalized email request to the targeted companies, those companies could go and see that we had already made the link to them. Finally, they gave me a list of all the email contact individuals for each URL so I could follow up personally over time.

Want to see the list of URL's?

http://www.academywebspecialists.com/resources_additional.html
The first group are those that sent me back emails confirming linkage. The larger list are the one's to follow up with. Those I determine are linked, I will move up into the top location and cull them out those that are not interested.

Cost? Currently LinkageXpress offers 4 programs. The fee for a campaign to announce your site, get you properly linked within your niche market, bring you pre-qualified site visitors that are prone to buy what you offer, and help improve your placement with the major search engines and directories is:

US $497 for 25 GUARANTEED links
US $900 for 50 GUARANTEED links
US $1250 for 75 GUARANTEED links
US $1500 for 100 GUARANTEED links



Additionally, you will receive PromoMinder as a value-added bonus to maximize the profitability of your campaign.

Learn more about LinkageXpress here.

Best regards,

Terry G. Plank, Director of Marketing

Academy Web Specialists www.academywebspecialists.com Online Web Training - Search Engine Optimizer 101 E-Business Tips - Global Positioning Training Onsite Positioning Training