Acuiring New Link Partners
LinkAssistant boasts some advanced importing capabilities, which will save your day when you'll need to import a zillion of links from an external source. But wait, there's more to LinkAssistant import features than just that. LinkAssistant can also search the Web a variety of ways to find brand-new link partners for you, and let you import them easily, with a few mouse clicks.
To invoke LinkAssistant's Import facility you can simply hit the Import Links button, or choose Tools -> Import Links from the menu.
Click The Import Link Partners Button
To Find New Link Exchange Partners
After that the Link Partner Import Facility wizard appears presenting you with the available partner acquisition options. Just be sure to pay attention to the wizard's explanatory messages, and you will find it real easy to find new link exchange partners or import URLs from a file or project.
LinkAssistant Allows Plenty Of Ways To Find New Link Partners
However, some options may require additional explanation, and so found their way into this Tutorial. So let's consider some of these tricky options one at a time.
Search for new partners on the Web.
You can search the Web for link exchange partners using one of the three available options:
– scanning the specified search engines by keyword,
– finding web sites that link to your direct competitors,
– identifying sites that already link to yours.
When playing with the keywords, remember to pick up the ones that accurately describe you website's theme. Try to wear your website visitor's hat and imagine what keywords would he or she use to find whatever you're offering on the Internet.
Identifying websites that link to your direct competitors is an extremely powerful and useful feature. Just imaging: your competitor's web site is ranked higher than yours on, for example, Google search engine. What should you do to get better rankings? Right, find all the competitor's link partners, exchange links with those websites and - voilà - now you are the leader!
Finding websites which already link to you is very helpful in the very beginning. Import all the linking sites into your newly created project and you'll be able to keep an eye on them constantly by scanning them for compliancy from time to time.
Anyway, nothing difficult here, so let's move on.
Harvesting URLs from a website.
By harvesting URLs from a specified web location you can quickly and painlessly obtain hundreds of potential partners to exchange links with. Just sit back, relax and watch LinkAssistant scanning a web site for links. Before you do that, be sure to configure the scan depth limits. If you let LinkAssistant happily process every webpage in existence linked to the starting point, it will do just that - process every linked page until you exceed the traffic limit with your Internet provider :). So choose one of the available scan limit options, they all come with pretty sensible defaults, or change the limit values to suit your needs.
Importing from a plain-text list.
This requires a plain text list of URLs with one URL per line. If you have a list of URLs in some binary format such as Microsoft® Excel, you can strip your file down to plain text, or simply copy and paste from Excel to LinkAssistant.
Importing link partners from another LinkAssistant or ARELIS project.
Obviously LinkAssistant is able to import all information from one of its project to another. But there's more - some good news to former ARELIS users (as you might already know, ARELIS used to be one of the most popular link-exchange tool before LinkAssistant was created) - you may import your link partners from ARELIS projects into LinkAssistant with a few clicks.
