Your writing Web site and links - beware linking schemes
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If you’re a Web writer, you need a Web site. You can also become a Web publisher, with many Web sites - some writers are making five figures a month, creating sites in their spare time. Creating your own sites is a fantastic additional income stream.
However, there are snags for you to be aware of. One of the snags is linking schemes. Links are the currency of the Web. Your sites need links, but do beware linking schemes - they can have tragic results.
Over the past month, I’ve cautioned several writers about linking schemes they wanted to take part in. The schemes are pushed by various Internet marketers, and they work in round-robin fashion, between any number of linkers, from three to 300 and more.
The big challenge with these schemes is TRUST.
As Eric Ward says in Don’t Blame Google For Your Own Linking Failures: “Google’s focus on trusted sources is your worst nightmare. At the heart of the trusted link model is the word trust. But the mistake I still see being made is missing the true origin of that trust. It was never the page itself that was trustworthy. Nor was it the domain. Nor was it the IP block, or the number of co-hosted web sites present or some other silly metric. Trust originates with the steward of the content. The page editor. The author. Trust originates from people, and manifests itself on the web as links. The engine that figured that out first was Google, and others followed.”
When you join linking schemes, you have no idea of who you’re linking to, who’s linking to you, and who they’re linking to.
This is dangerous. A Web site you love can sink without a trace in the search engines, simply because it’s become associated with a “bad neighborhood”.
Forget linking schemes: they may work for a while, but sooner or later they’re toast.
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[tags]Web writing, Web sites, writers Web sites, links[/tags]
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