Opportunity Knocks Again

**HHI Golf Guy** · 04-25-2005, 10:18 PM

I am looking to exchange links on my Hilton Head For Sale by Owner web site - but with a twist.

Instead of the generic anchor text and description, I am requesting something a little bit different.

Write a short, two paragraph article on your area and or services. You may place one link in each paragraph. For example, in one paragraph you may want to describe your local area and use link text with "your area + real estate".

For a second paragraph, you might want to work in the link "your area + mls". Or if you are describing your own services, you may want to link with "your area + real estate agent".

Please make both links unique.

Take a look at the resources section of the FSBO web site. You will notice that for most of the individual state pages, the Google ads that show up are from that state. Adding your paragraphs (that include the state name) will help add to Google recognizing that page as more of an authority on your state. Theoretically, that should also help your search engine rankings with KW's related to your state. Neat, huh?

Requirements:

1. Your home page must have a Google PR of at least 1 (sorry, no new sites at this time).

2. Your real estate agent links pages must have individual pages for each state. In other words, to include our link you need a South Carolina real estate agents page. We have found that sites that are not categorized in this manner provide very little value to our sites in the SERP's.

3. The page that you place our link on must be indexed by Yahoo, MSN, and Google.

Please send me an email or PM if you are interested. Sen me your narrative as well as the city, state, and county that you service. I will then give you the narrative for our site.

Why do links this way? It seems that the SE's are paying more attention to the words that surround anchor text. I believe that this has far better potential to boost SERP's than traditional links.

More importantly, it's a great marketing tool for people that view the links. I know that our links pages get a lot of page views. Using the two paragraph method gives you a better chance to sell yourself and your services.

**sarahk** · 04-26-2005, 02:58 AM

Hilton Head is in South Carolina right?

I can give you a blurb about why it's important for investors to choose their analysis and management software well in exchange for a link to either an analysis package or a management package. You'd need to create the category, that's all.

I'm offering a similar deal with blurbs with an investing bent. SC is still available.

Sarah

**HHI Golf Guy** · 04-26-2005, 04:37 AM

Sarah,

Thanks for the offer, but in this experiment I am looking to only partner with real estate agent, broker, and company web sites. I'm not even including mortgage or financial services in this test.

While there are still plenty of holes in this methodology (for example, IBL's to my site will come from sites with all kinds of links) I still believe that I will be able to draw resonable conclusions, even with a sample size of only 100 or so links to begin with (especially because I can compare results to other sites with different link tactics).

My goal with some of these tests is to see if I can quantify any results regarding link relevance, surrounding link text, etc. and how they may relate to SERP's.

I have a few sites where we can probably swap links. I will PM you when I get to updating those sites.

**billdisc** · 05-23-2005, 04:34 AM

We are limited in our exchanging of links to sites that only wish to reach Real Estate Agents.

We receive over 2000 visitors a month at our unique website: www.HomePortraitsOnLine.biz

If there is any interest please contact: billdisc@optonline.net

**gemini** · 05-23-2005, 04:56 PM

HHI Golf Guy,

I've been trying to do similar thing with my directory. Each of my listings has detail page (most of them PR3 since the last Google PR update). There is paid option called Featured Areas where realtors can post their own content with links to their internal pages, but this is not what I would like to talk about. Those details pages have very little of content and I just hate to waste all that value, their current and future rankings, so I am providing that space with PR3 for free, but I would like some useful content that will be helpful to our visitors and benfitial to the directory members.

Check it out www.ibsteam.net/wsnlinks/ - you can go to related category and click on "More Info" link under listings to see their detail pages. If you are interested in having this kind of page to yourself with minimum outboud links (I think there are only 5 outbound links by default and a few internal) - I will be glad to look at the content you would like to post. I also would like to have something on your site - link or some content with links. You can also look at the featured areas - similar detail pages but with their own content. You can design your own layout if you want - although my CSS will apply.

Anyone who has real estate related web site can submit their listing for free (free submission requires reciprocation) and contact me - I will review each site personally.

Let me know what you think HHI Golf Guy. If you have any questions I will be happy to answer here.

gemini

**Phoenix Realtor** · 05-23-2005, 05:33 PM

Shawn,

That is a great idea! I'll PM you.

Gemini,

Welcome to the forums! Nice site you have there.

Is it yours, or do you just manage it?

**gemini** · 05-23-2005, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by Phoenix Realtor

Shawn,
Gemini,

Welcome to the forums! Nice site you have there.

Is it yours, or do you just manage it?

Thanks Matt.. that is mine and I do manage it - I thought I've seen you already mentioned it somewhere around here

**Phoenix Realtor** · 05-23-2005, 05:57 PM

right back at 'cha.
Say... how did you get that banner on my home page, I never saw that before...

Of course I hope you put my name in the referrer part when you registered here.

I haven't had time to check I'm having so much fun Spanking SarahK over here.

**gemini** · 05-23-2005, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Phoenix Realtor

Of course I hope you put my name in the referrer part when you registered here.

actually, I was honest about it

**Phoenix Realtor** · 05-23-2005, 06:23 PM

Max,

I drew you here when I asked you to look at some of the threads we were chatting about.

So I fixed your signature! How you like? The truth isn't always easy to swallow, is it.