Free Quality Links – Market Research Discoveries

When I was scouring the Google results measuring the lay of the land for my topic, I made notes about linking possibilities.

Here are my observations, they should give you some good ideas about how to gain some high quality incoming links, that you may never have discovered if you didn’t do your market research properly.

1. There were several Squidoo pages in the top 10 results for very competitive keywords.

Action step: create a “make money online” Squidoo page with at least some links pointing back to my site. Throwing in a few affiliate links for products that I like wouldn’t hurt either and if the “lens” begins to rank, may provide a decent alternate income stream.

2. There were several eZine Articles pages in the top 10 results for my terms.

Action step: create at least one article, a series would be better, and submit them to eZine Articles. These articles need to target my site’s audience and have a strong call to action in the resource box, with an optimized link back to my site.

3. John Chow has a call for reviews.

Action step: create a review of John’s site and post it with the correct requirement to qualify for his backlink.

4. Can I Make it Big Online has a call for entries into his weekly Internet marketing tips column. His site currently ranks #6 in Google for “make money online” so that would be a valuable link if my tip was accepted.

Action step: create or find an article that is on-topic for his column and submit it.

Those are my action steps for the week. If they are all successful they could net me 4 high quality backlinks all from trusted authority sites. If you were to try and purchase equivalent links on Text link Ads they would likely cost $150-$200 a month by the time they were fully aged.

That’s the value of market research in action!

Bonus tip…if you find any Wikipedia pages showing up in the results for your niche, try and create an article that adds value to the Wikipedia page. Then post it on your site and link to it in the “external links” section. Wikipedia links are marked “no follow” these days but they still may carry some SEO weight and they will also be a source of traffic and establish you as a respected source of information on the topic.

This post was written by Jon Symons, see my short bio. Or use the contact page to get in touch.