Larry James

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Studies of the Internet have shown that the majority of people find other relevant sites by clicking on "links" to other interesting sites. While search engines do bring hits to your site, keeping them updated can cost you time and money.

Getting "linked" or linking to other related websites (often called cross-promoting) is an opportunity for your site to be discovered and a much more reliable way to ensure steady traffic to your site.

To some search engines, the more links coming "into" and going "out of" your site make your site appear more valuable when someone is searching for your product or service. This puts you higher in their results list.

Give some serious thought to the economics of collaboration. When we work together to support each other, everyone benefits. There is no competition. . . only insecure people who fear losing someone to another website. AND they will. We are all in this to help others and ourselves. . . in that order. The economics of colaborating in these efforts can be astounding. The inovative trend of trading links will multiply hits to your website.

Read "The Joy of Collaboration" by Ian Percy, CSP - It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are; whether you are an athlete or a couch potato. Being good looking, amazingly clever and highly educated doesn't change a thing. You could be of royal descent, and it still wouldn't matter. No way around it - life is something you do in teams. Life requires collaboration!

Trading links is about sharing information. Our philosophy is that if a person comes to our site and chooses not to stay, we would rather share other quality relationship sites than have them drift off into cyberspace with no direction. We know that they appreciate this opportunity. The fact is that the more links we post to other relationship sites, the more hits we receive on our site. We practice what we preach.

NOTE:  There's a nasty twist to trading links out and about these days. If someone offers to swap links, and maybe already has one in place to you, be sure to check to see that their visitors can find those links to you. A few people are just plain cheating. They put up a beautiful link to your site, but with no path on their home page to this link. The result? You send traffic to them, but get zip in return. For example, if the site is listed as http://www.mysite.com/links, after you have viewed your link, type http://www.mysite.com in your browser and when you get there, check to see if you can see a link to the links page. If not, delete their link trade request.

Read Larry's article, "The Buzz on Being a Shameless NetShaker!" and learn what he considers to be the most important key to shameless self-promotion on the Internet.

For more articles on "Reciprocal Linking," read:

• Reciprocal Links: Who & How to Target by David Callan
• How to Get Reciprocal Links by David Callan
  
• Reciprocal Link E-mail Request Examples by David Callan
  
• Why Do People Link To Sites? by Richard Lowe
  

To find out how many other sites are linked to your site, go to www.Alexa.com and type in your website. It will give you their best estimate. As of , Alexa.com tells me there are more than 837 sites linked to one of my other sites - CelebrateLove.com - that they know of. I have kept track of my "link trades" and know that there are now 3,048 sites that link to CelebrateLove.com according to a SEVENtwentyfour.com report. This is important if you want a higher listing on the search engines.

There is no competition. . . only co-petition!  We are all in this together!

We are currently inviting four specific website link partners (all must have author/speaker related content):

• Sites that offer Author & Speaker products or services (that have affiliate programs)
  
• Professional Speakers sites
  
• Authors sites that include content for authors - Books listed on Amazon.com will be listed in the book store, subject to conditions
  
• Radio, TV, Public Relations and Promotional info sites
  

As a BONUS to professional speakers, we always add there names to the <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT=> section of the source code of the page that features their link. This should be a natural part of a "link trade."

Option A  -  Text Link Only

Example #1   -  www.AuthorsandSpeakersNetwork.com