If the Brady Bunch Were a Links Page . . .
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If the Brady Bunch were a links page, how would you know the Bradys had jumped the shark?
It is necessary for Link Building to be about as time consuming (and exciting) as trying to set the teeter-totter record. After all, you cannot judge a room by its beaded entrance. You have to check out each site, but if you are going to be efficient, you must train your eyes to easily catch the least groovy characteristics of a links page and move on.
So here are some Link Building thoughts inspired by the one day when the lady met this fellow.
- Don't waste time looking for Tiger if you go to his site and get a 404. Just find a new dog.
- If Greg invites you to his room but takes you to his dad's den, assume the worst. A redirected links page is a bad sign!
- Vacations bring bad luck. If you see links to travel sites (and you are not in the travel industry) avoid it like the Brady Tiki.
- Just one Cousin Oliver link can kill. A page linking to a gambling, payday loan, or adult site bears the kiss of death.
- If a site looks like it took a football to the nose, assume it is not being updated or damaged goods, at best.
- A Marcia Marcia Marcia links page has the same keywords repeated too often and is considered Spam Spam Spam.
- Like a bathroom occupied by 6 kids, you never get your due and proper on a page with too many links. Just go somewhere else.
- It looks like somebody stole the playbook when you start to see the same links section duplicated on many different sites. Don't get involved, unless of course it was DMOZ's playbook.
- If you cannot easily find a site's contact information, consider him George Glass.
- Paying someone to date your sister is wrong, unless that person is Yahoo or an established, relevant directory offering link text.
You see kids, a gift is only a good thing when the giver has given thought to that gift. But when the gift the giver gives gives grief, then that gift should give the givee regrets.