Creative Link Building And A Pleasant Surprise
As a late Christmas gift I noticed today that we were getting traffic to a new site we are launching plus one of the Missouri.me city sites from a .GOV site.
We all know that .GOV links hold very high regard with Google for SEO purposes, to have one of the first backlinks to a site we have not even launched yet come from a .GOV site is a great way to get ranked well in Google from the start. We have had several links pop up from local libraries and city government sites but had yet to have one of them be from a .GOV (or at least one we have noticed traffic from).
During one of my recent seminars their were several local government officials, afterwards I had spoke to them a bit and they had show much interest in supporting our work and push to help small businesses. Well thanks to them for showing the love with two VERY well placed banners on their site to us. It may seem like a lot of work for a couple links, but we have seen this happen time and time again and even more so than SEO benefits it goes a long way with local businesses.
Now that I think about my comment about a lot of work for a couple quality links, we did close a few deals from the seminar so I guess the links would be considered a side benefit.
Anyway, just thought I would point out creative link building techniques:)
nice… the gift of credibility
Nice to hear that your business is doing great! Make sure that you put in a good word for any optional site of mine to the .gov people next time their around!
Btw. I love that wrapped desk in your twitpics, was it for you?
Dan, thanks!
@Johan – The wrapped desk was my operation guys, my family decided he needed a gift he could keep unwrapping daily:)
Nice one. I am having some success with .edu on one of my sites without any proactive efforts – they seem to be discovering the content. But I really should take a leaf out of your book and get out there in 2010.