{"id":297,"date":"2008-07-08T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/six-dominant-ways-to-find-link-targets\/"},"modified":"2008-07-08T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T10:32:00","slug":"six-dominant-ways-to-find-link-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/six-dominant-ways-to-find-link-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Six dominant ways to find link targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.Pit your referrer logs<\/strong><br \/>Check for your referrer logs each day. Cut and paste that day&#8217;s websites you referred into an Excel spreadsheet and then review it once a month. Take the sites that refer to most traffic and do a backward link search for similar sites that you could also approach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.Find out who is linking with your competitors<\/strong><br \/>Logic tells that if sites link to your competitors, they can also link to you. But do not stop at just sending &#8216;me too&#8217; link requests. See carefully at the sites that are linking to your competitors. Which market sectors do they come from? Are there any surprises there? Is there a niche market that you did not thought about. Again for each useful site do backwards links search.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.Pierce down through the directories<br \/><\/strong>You can start with DMOZ, Yahoo and Looksmart. Look particularly for information sites or industry specific directories. Try to be comprehensive and explore as many relevant categories as you could.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.Scan for the blogs<\/strong><br \/>Search engines always love blogs for the reason that they are full of fresh content and extensive links. They&#8217;re useful for linking since:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogs are huge pointers to useful interesting sites<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>When you are making a comment, you often get a link back to your site<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>You will get a feel for the real news of the day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the top places to look is DayPop, a specialized search engine that will crawl more than 59,000 news sites, RSS feeds and weblogs at least once a day. You could find more blog search engines in The Search Engine Journal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.Look out for the ezines<\/strong><br \/>Ezines usually provide more in-depth content than the blogs and they are published less often. Cumuli Ezine Finder and EzineDepot are good Ezine directories. You could also do a Google search so that if you&#8217;re looking for ezines on photography you just enter the search term, &#8216;photography ezines&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.Develop journalists<\/strong><br \/>Find the traditional media in your market sector and watch what they are doing online. Start to maintain a record of key journalists and the type of story they cover. Make some searches on Google News &#8211; and note the latest news in your industrial area. If you are finding this useful you can also sign-up for Google&#8217;s news alert service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.Pit your referrer logsCheck for your referrer logs each day. Cut and paste that day&#8217;s websites you referred into an Excel spreadsheet and then review it once a month. Take the sites that refer to most traffic and do a backward link search for similar sites that you could also approach. 2.Find out who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}