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Careful,
Hand-Tailored Link Popularity services to build the flow of
targeted, paying customers to your site and improve your search
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Frequently
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Our
experience covers more than three dozen industries.
Our in-house link popularity team help announce your site,
get you properly linked within your niche market and help
improve your placement with the major search engines and
directories.
Together we bring you over twenty years of in-the-trenches
experience conducting marketing and networking campaigns for
businesses ranging in size from one-person shops to
multi-national and global corporations.
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"How
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Our service
is to seek out sites in your market niche online that are
highly relevant to your target audience and have excellent
link potential, then contact and request links from each of
them individually.
This is a time-consuming process which must be done by hand,
one at a time.
Carefully targeted link requests will be made on your
behalf, and a page of potential link partners will be
generated for easy uploading and integration with your Web
site.
There are no shortcuts, and no automated software is
used.
The goal is to establish a professional and mutually
beneficial relationship on your behalf with the right link
partners for your business.
Here's why this is so important to your Web business today:
If you're not linked online to your target audience, they
cannot know you are there and will not find you. If you have
no traffic, you will have no sales.
Additionally, 19 of
the top search engines and directories today use
link popularity from within your niche market to determine
your positioning. In other words, if there are no targeted
links to your site, your search engine rankings will suffer
dramatically.
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 improve your placement with
the major search engines and directories, here's what we do:
o Our service
begins when we look through your Web site in detail. Then,
based on your site content, keywords and intended
audience, we seek out and find key link partners in your
niche market.
o The initial link
partner identification process will take approximately one
month, during which time we look for the best link
partners for your Web business on the major search engines
and directories. Because most of our clients seek to
improve their Google positioning, this is where we
concentrate our energies. We also look through vertical
industry portal sites (vortals), discussion lists, edited
Web guides, ezines, Webzines, eDigests and print yellow
page Web directories.
o During this period
we go through each potential link partner site
individually, measuring their market relevance by site
content, search engine positioning and traffic. Our
selection criteria includes:
I. Web sites that are a match for your site content
and objectives
II. Web sites that are not 'link farms'
III. Web sites that actively seek site submissions
IV. Web sites that represent a strong chance for
inclusion
o To determine link
potential we explore each site to see if they currently
provide you with networking potential, including outgoing
links to other sites in the your niche market. If they do,
they will be made aware of your Web business via contact
through personal email or an online form with a link
request.
o We then develop an
HTML page listing each of these key sites. This page will
be delivered to you for easy uploading and seamless
integration with your Web site. As soon as this page is
posted and we are notified of the exact link page URL, we
complete the initial contact process by notifying each
potential link partner individually about your site. In a
personal email we detail exactly why they should
reciprocate with a link from their site to your site.
Please note:
o Not all sites will
link back to a site seeking link popularity, and many will
not link back immediately. Expect to allow the same time
frame as an SEO campaign after posting the links for full
results from your campaign to manifest and all incoming
links to be established. Our job includes continued
follow-up, without additional charge to you, on this
ongoing process; additions of new link partners to your
links list and removal of non-linking sites.
o We do require the
same time frame as an SEO campaign from the day you post
the link page on your site and notify us for each and
every link to appear. For larger campaigns of 100 or more
targeted links, this can take even longer. We will
continue to pursue more link partners on your behalf to
meet the Linkagexpress guarantee - at no additional cost
to you, of course. This gives us the requisite time needed
to allow all links to manifest for your campaign, keep the
links list updated, contact new potential link partners,
remove the 'deadwood' and so forth so that we can bring
everything to a successful and powerful conclusion.
This is the most targeted, professional way to announce
your Web business and build awareness for your site within
your niche industry and marketplace online.
We GUARANTEE a specific number of carefully targeted link
partners for your Web business, but please note:
Our GUARANTEE is for the minimum number we have
contracted to deliver for your campaign. Because we actually
pursue far more link partners than the minimum guaranteed
number you have asked us to pursue, our process has the
strong potential to generate a much higher number of
targeted link partners for your site.
Our experience demonstrates a high percentage of carefully
targeted sites in a link popularity campaign will be glad to
link to you if you offer content of value. This is in
their best interest, just as it is in yours.
Please note that over and above the specific number of
GUARANTEED links you receive through your campaign, the
additional number of link partners we generate for you
depends entirely upon the perceived value of your site for
the particular link partners pursued. That's why it's in
your best interest to include content of value on your site.
Content may include:
a. Free "how-to" articles,
reports or newsletters pertinent to your clients
b. Topical information such as local news or updates on
your particular industry
c. Downloadable software
d. Clips: video, photos, graphics or sound
e. Links to other value-added sites (that's right:
links bring you more links)
In terms of a traffic increase, sites we've worked with
often experience a significant increase in traffic. As
you'll read in the testimonials on the left of this page, in
some cases this has been as much as a 300% traffic increase.
This increase will continue building over the months to
come.
Traffic will come from sites linking to you directly, and
will also come 'indirectly' (but significantly) from
the search engines and directories as your positioning
improves.
The effect on your search engine positioning can take up to
2 months (or longer, depending on the particular search
engine). Please note: the search engines must
find your incoming links on their own as they spider the
sites linking back to you. These search engines will also
continue to consider other key elements in the ranking of
your site for a given search phrase, including your site
content as well as the use and placement of your keywords.
Our service is an important step in a long-term, committed
effort on your part toward effective site promotion and
networking. Simply put, if you are not linked, you're
invisible. No-one will know your Web site is there.
The goal is to establish or add to your network of incoming
links in order to increase the quality and quantity of your
traffic directly AND to improve your 'link popularity',
which is now a key factor in achieving your best possible
positioning on the major search engines and directories.
Our link popularity campaign will give you the foundation
you need to reach your target market on other key sites, but
we strongly encourage you to continue the linking process we
have started, whether on your own or with additional
targeted LinkageXpress campaigns. As the Internet expands,
you need to keep expanding your reach as well.
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"Do you
guarantee the number of links to my site?" |
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YES.
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"Do you
link me to my competitors?" |
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NO. We look
for complementary sites that serve your market and appear on
the search engines under your keywords of choice.
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"Do you
link me to FFAs or 'Link Farms'?" |
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NEVER. We
look for individual niche-specific sites, not
software-generated link clearinghouses. Linking to the wrong
type of site can damage your search engine rankings, and we
avoid them like the plague. That's why we take the
individual, one site at a time approach - so we can find you
the best possible link partners for your Web business and
generate lasting link popularity for your site.
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"Do you
have experience in my field?" |
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If you sell
through direct response or to business professionals,
chances are good we do have experience dealing with your
type of product or service - or with something very similar.
Please review our list of clients.
Do they seem 'right up your alley'? If you are looking for
something more specific please give us a call at
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be happy to discuss your unique requirements in detail with
you. There is no obligation for an initial
consultation.
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"What kind
of link popularity campaigns do you handle?" |
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We cover the
full spectrum. About 85% of our business is for
business-to-business and consumer
sales companies.
The rest of our work involves link popularity and marketing
campaigns for membership organizations.
We are selective in the businesses we serve, and reserve the
right to refuse service to any site we feel has zero link
potential or degrades the Web and Internet. These
include sites we personally consider to be offensive or
negative, non-professional sites hosted on free services,
and 'cloned' affiliate sites. Because we conduct our
campaigns entirely by hand, we are limited in the number of
projects we can take on at any given time, and work on a
'first come, first served' basis.
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"How long
will it take you to complete my link popularity campaign?" |
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We will
require up to one full month to complete the research steps
of your campaign from the date it is scheduled. It will take
several months to get the full benefits from the campaign.
During this period we ask that you remain patient. We will
send you monthly reports detailing our progress.
As mentioned above, we conduct campaigns in the order they
arrive in our offices. If you have an immediate need, we
encourage you to contact us now
to schedule your link popularity campaign right away.
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"Is it
important to host a reciprocal link page on my site?" |
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Yes.
Today it's essential. Most sites expect you to offer
a reciprocal link in return, so start planning for this now.
You must link to this page from a primary page on your site
- preferably the index page, because that's what your link
partners most want. We will generate this links page for you
in basic HTML so you can easily integrate it with your
existing Web site design. This links page empowers you to
become an outstanding portal resource for your industry
niche, with visitors coming back repeatedly to use your
links.
There are other benefits you need to know about. For the
search engines, it is extremely important that your site be
heavily networked across the Internet within your subject
matter. Link trades enhance your positioning in the top
search engines which increasingly look for sites with high
'link popularity'.
If you are worried about losing traffic, please remember
that the value of links is clear for the Web's biggest
sites: AOL.com, CNET, The New York Times, HotWired,
Netscape, Yahoo!. None of them hemorrhage traffic despite
pointing to other sites.
In the words of Submit-It founder Scott Banister, "Yahoo is
a big link to elsewhere, and they're worth $billions. Links
work."
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"Is it
necessary to review the list of link partners in advance?" |
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No. We work
with you closely before we start your link popularity
campaign. In this way we'll generate the optimal list of
potential link partners for your needs.
We seek link opportunities with the best possible partners
for your Web business. Because we do our preparation
properly in advance, your campaign is guaranteed to generate
links that increase the flow of targeted prospects and
customers to your site.
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"How do I
order your services?" |
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Putting us
to work for you is easy.
Simply contact us by email ,
phone or fax with your project. We'll need the information
filled out completely on our online
form to conduct your link popularity campaign
successfully. Please click the link below and we'll get
started.Begin my link popularity
campaign today!
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"What's
the bottom line?" |
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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 improve
your placement with the major search engines and directories
is:
US $625 for 25 GUARANTEED links
US $1060 for 50 GUARANTEED links
For campaigns over 50 links please
contact us. We want to make sure that we are able to get
quality links for you.
Payment is required to schedule your campaign.
We accept business or personal checks, and
credit cards processed
online in 100% security through Authorize.Net. We will
begin work upon receipt of full payment for your project.
Because our process is 100% hands-on, complete payment is
due in advance.
We do accept checks, but will schedule your campaign only
upon receiving your check in our office. Checks made out to
LinkageXpress, Inc. can
be postal mailed or sent overnight to:
10251 N. 77th Place
Scottsdale, AZ 85258 USA
Credit card orders can be
processed online immediately through Authorize.Net, or
can be taken in person over the phone or +01
(from overseas)].
To discuss your specific link popularity needs in detail,
please contact us today.
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