Why should anyone link to your SORRY old site?

Oh no he didn't

Well I am not so much asking you about your site as I am asking about my sites. In 2010 I asked myself that question many times. I mean I build backlinks. Won't tell you no but I did realize some time ago that I wanted to get natural links as well.

Honestly who wants to be running backlinks software and dropping links forever. Theres a time when you want to own a web property where well its kind of like Warrior Forums - the traffic sustains itself. Best of all if I can build a loyal community around my business (if not maybe I am in the wrong business?).

So I realized I need a site that kind of ranks itself. Can't say I am there but I finally am on my way. Some lessons I learned.

A) no one much likes to link to articles anymore. Yeah I know someone will fly in and say that they get ton loads of links to their stunning irressistable well written content but by and large those days of that dominating the link graph are gone.

B) People link to the noteworthy , the resourceful and the entertaining. Ocassionally an article goes viral. Videos goes viral almost every day. How often do you see people refer in these forums to really great articles compared to people referring to aweber, scrapebox or articlerobot.
We really do talk more about resources online and off.

C) if you want to have a site that interests people enough to link to you you need to build more than a single page site. prefrably you should be able to add alot of interesting features to it without having to become a programmer.


Earlier this year I showed in a thread here that you can rank a site just as well with straight HTML as with Wordpress. Technically I found out this was correct but later on I found that for a site that really has options and features that can gain attention straight HTMl wasn't reallythe way to go.

Wordpress allowed me to add many features and so did Joomla which I finally decided to go full throttle with along with a lesser known platform called Umbraco. In 2011 I plan to ak the question above alot and figure out what features, videos and resources I can offer to really grow my site.

If you can't think of a reason why someone should link to your site then why should they? If you don't build something that people are even a little fascinated with then you will be dropping backlinks when you are 84 while your teeth soak in a glass.