I am a graphic artist and satirist and I started with a whole bunch of material that had been generated (mainly) within an on-line literary community and decided that an outside site was required to allow people to access this material in a higher definition format – and it sorta grew from there.

My site is non-commercial so I really don’t give a damn about how much traffic I host, I use Performancing metrics mainly out of a wish to see what is interesting to other people and where those people might come from.

I’d have thought that Nick’s response…
“Concentrate on writing some outstanding posts, or putting together some great resources on your topic”
…was just a matter of stating the bleeding obvious.

I have got some links on my site, but only to sites that I find to be of outstanding interest and quality. Or of immediate utility. To do anything less would be to play my readers for mugs. Wouldn’t it?

James Moylan
the only sane ape in the pack

PS I really enjoy reading these aticles though, they have proved most interesting and I have learnt a great deal along the way.

I’m not sure how relevant random SEO traffic would be so far, given how bizzare some of the search times that people have found me with have been (thanks to the great tracking of Performancing!) but I’d rather build up a core audience of people hearing about me from forums etc and enjoying my post. I won’t name the url (unless asked) but quite frequently my posts are made ‘noted comments’ and from this people seem to follow and enjoy reading what I say. I’ve never bothered with link requests and I don’t think I will, though I might mail some more industry movers and shakers to find out if they’d like to read my content once I have more of it.

“Hi {insert name here, if you can’t be bothered finding their name use their website address}, my name is {insert friendly sounding female made up name} I obviously have never even seen your site/blog but I understand that links bring search engine mojo so I am out begging you to link to me “as a service to your readers” (for my traffic generation and adsense clicking benefit). Please place a link to my v1@gr4 site from your homepage, I have already placed a link to your site from my 10-levels-deep-hidden-from-bots-framed linx0r script generated spam page”.

and occasionally, i link to them.

’nuff said