We know that.
They mean more visitors to your blog from the linking blog. The links boost your Google PageRank (the measure of importance of your blog on the internet). Links give your blog a much needed boost in the search engines.
Okay, you give.
You want to get more links.
But how?
1. Check the link exchange requests in the popular blog message board forums like Blogger Forum and Blogger Talk.
Each of those blog forums has a busy link exchange section. Many good blogs are more than willing to happily swap links with yours. Don't worry about their current PageRank, however. Many are brand new blogs, but with the way some of them are rapidly adding incoming links, they will have very strong PageRanks. Fast.
2. Check the blogrolls and links lists of your favourite blogs. Many of the blogs on those lists are active traders themselves. If you like some of them, add them to your own list of links.
Following that inclusion first, contact them by e-mail and request a link to your blog. Since they will notice that you have already linked to their blog, many will happily link back to your blog. Your courtesy, of linking to them first, will go along way. Politeness counts.
3. Post good intelligent comments on other blogs. By intelligent comments, I mean posts that are on the blog post's topic. By taking part in discussions, in a polite and helpful manner, you will gain the respect of that blog's owner and regular visitors. As a result, many will add your blog to their lists without asking for a link in return.
In the same way that interesting and quality content adds numerous incoming links to your blog, polite and useful comments will do the same thing.
Use these ideas this week, and you will be sure to add at least one more incoming link.
Almost guaranteed.
