Well, let me ask you this:  If I build a restaurant in the middle of the desert, will anyone come?  The quick answer is no - unless I do some marketing.

The same thing applies to websites - if you don’t market them, no one will ever visit.  Sure, if you pick a name like the name of this site, where someone might just type it in, you could get traffic, but if you don’t, well, no one will come.  So, in an effort to get a little more traffic to this site, I have been reading about link building strategies to better promote the site.

Some of the link building ideas have been common sense such as forum signatures, directory submissions and article submissions.  Now, these have been the staple way of getting links for quite some time.  But I wanted to find some other link building techniques that would give me higher search engine ranking and a higher page rank.

I found out that you could get high value links by commenting on other people’s blogs that have page rank.  Now, you don’t want to contribute something that is useless, rather, you would post a useful comment and get the benefit of a free backlink too - I had never thought of this before.

So, I will be adding blog commenting to my marketing efforts - I will let you all know how it works out in a later blog post.