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When you are surfing the net and you run across a site that relates to yours, look to see if they have a links page.  If they do, contact them about exchanging links with you.

With blogs a link exchange is now called a blogroll, same process, and don’t forget to leave a nice comment on their blog while you are there.

Message boards are a great way to put your name out as I mentioned before.  There are tons of message boards for almost any subject.  One of the best ones I’ve found is at www.wahm.com They have general discussions as well as “special folders” for all kinds of direct sales companies.

So, you join a board and put your signature in your profile so, it will show up on every one of your posts.  Sounds easy enough right?  There is a catch though.  You will not be welcomed if all you do there is “spam” the group.  You can’t just go onto a message board and start yapping all about your business.  The people there will not like it and you’ll find that out really fast.

You want to add to the discussions on the forum.  By being a good member of the board, you meet others with helpful info and have fun.  Let you signature do all the work, if people want info they’ll ask for it.  There is one exception to the rule and that is, several message boards have a folder just for “ads” this is where you get to brag all about your business and no one is going to give you grief about it.

Message boards serve a two folder purpose.  You are meeting others and the link to your site on your signature allows other members to find you and for search engines to index your site.  Search engines “like” message boards because they are ever changing with new information.  Your signature on a message board can be one of the fastest ways a search engine finds your new site and indexes it.

Have fun, network and the rest will fall into place.

Commenting on other peoples blogs is one way to get your link out on the web.  This serves a two fold purpose.  The first being that other people can see your comment and follow the link to your site.  The second is so that the search engines can find you.  The more a search engine finds your link the more it comes to your website to index your website and the higher you will place when people search for something related to your site.

When leaving a comment on a blog, make sure it’s polite and relavent to the subject. 

Practice by leaving one here for me.

Happy commenting!