Hi, would you link to my site?

I’ve got a brilliant new promotion method for my “B-2 Bomber” site – the highly targeted niche content blog site that started as a hobby but quickly surpassed all my “real” sites in traffic. This comes after much experimentation with directory listings, search engines, links in signatures at forums, etc. It will astound you with its complexity, its subtle wisdom, its sophisticated expertise.

I write to them and ask for a link. No, seriously.

It started when I was visiting blogs with relevant content to my own, and leaving comments on them with my site URL. That gave me an automatic link from their site, and generally at least one person will come along and click them. That’s not exactly “ooh, get a dedicated server” traffic, but it’s something.

Then I realized I had another option: email them and ask for a link. In the case of B-2, I’m also asking people to contribute articles (go on, build me some free content, I dare ya!). So far, it’s working, and what’s really cool is: a surprising number of them don’t even ask for a reciprocal link.

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