How to Select Link Building Partners

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Antidote to Stinkin' Linkin' Thinkin'

Okay so we defined stinkin' linkin' thinkin'. Here's how to approach figuring out what kind of sites would make good link swap candidates.

For starters, in the case of juggling midget circus clowns your list of suitable sites could include…

• face painting
• personal clown sites
• clown training
• balloon sculpting
• clown costumes

Broadening the scope a tad…

• circus companies
• family circus
• ringmaster schools
• circus books and videos

A bit further afield would find…

• juggling sites
• juggling training sites
• juggling suppliers

plus if any such sites exist…

• lion tamers
• trapeze artists
• mime
• fire eating

But I'd even go as far as

• kids entertainment
• birthday party sites
• or even magicians

In fact, why not consider ANY site dealing with entertainment of ANY kind? I sure would.

All of which says our juggling midget circus clown site owner has a vast array of potential link partners that would be able to deliver up appropriate traffic. And even if one didn't flood her site with traffic getting two out of three (PR and Link Reputation) still ain't bad.

Okay but say you're drawing a blank when it comes to related sites. Here's a short cut that can light your linking efforts on fire. Since it gives you a quick feel for appropriate types of sites to approach for links.

Type "YOUR KEYWORD resources" (with the quotes) into the Google search box and hit enter. Obviously replacing YOUR KEYWORD with your focus or theme keyword phrase.

This search will return all sorts of links pages and directories. Clicking on the listings returned will quickly reveal related types of sites others are using as link partners.

For instance entering "clown resources" returned among others this site www.clownresourcedirectory.com/. By itself this one alone would give the owner of the juggling midget circus clowns all the relevant site ideas she'd ever need. Plus it can turn up some decent linking partners too!

So please banish stinkin' linkin' thinkin' from your mind right now! And whatever you do, don't shortchange your linking efforts by thinking small.

Instead think big. Expand your linking universe like we just did here and soon you'll expand the number of links you've got to ride to higher Google and Yahoo rankings.