Nicole – thank you for your very complimeting reply. I’ll follow your advice: Taking baby steps and allow time to work for me + constant work . . . but I’ll leave the 3 articles per day for a week-part out. I think I might be able to write something like 3 articles per week.

I guess that’s some real baby steps. by yeah.

Thanks.

Hi Jason.

I have two words for you:
“Baby steps”.

You obviously are really smart and have already figured this out.

Try not to think about 1500 articles. Think of writing one per week for now. In a year’s time, you’ll have at least 50 — hopefully more once you get comfortable doing it.

Depending on your work style, you might tackle it in one of two ways…

If you’re easily overwhelmed, then make yourself a weekly list of things you want to get accomplished and have your link-building just be part of that procedure.

If you prefer projects, then sit down and plan to write 3 articles per day for a week and then don’t worry about it for a month.

I’m more of a project person and I work in spurts, so I prefer to tackle things with gusto and then not think about them again for a bit. Hence, my housekeeping is done in large bunches – and my cooking is, too.

Hope that helps!
N

Hi, I’m new here. You have a very nice relaxed talk going on here . . . and I’m just joining in the “brief” fun. I didn’t know you are this marketing savvy, (Mrs) Nicole. I’m brand new (kind of) to the internet blogging thing anyway – and I guess I need some kind of a brake because internet marketing, building backlinks and all is really terrifying me . . . I’m just about at throwing the towel in already.
I wouldn’t nearly write as much articles in my entire life like Willie Crawford with 1500 (I’ll try to do 15 in about 3 months – maybe I’ll manage that) – link building is quite much very tedious and the problem is – once I try to build backlinks – i tend to get to impatient before Google applies them to my blog . . .

It’s all about the relationships in business, isn’t it?

Great point.

Daniel… lol. Leave it to you.

My favorite link building method is blog commenting. Of course the process of visiting my favorite blogs gets me lots of backlinks, but I enjoyed the building relationship with others more than actually getting their links. Over the years I’ve known so many friends through blog commenting so much so that now my first objective in visiting new blogs is not about getting links; it’s about making new relationships.

Honestly, I haven’t tried sharing content but it seems it’s the best idea I’ve learned on your post, Nicole.

What I’m doing (up to now), is just purely commenting on other blogger’s site. That’s it.

Thanks for this great content, Nicole.

Great tips from the experts that was easy to read and understand. Just my kinda way to wade through the info highway! Thanks.

One thing I know for sure…there won’t be any stinkers among these briefs!

More good stuff from some faves of mine brought to you by one great lady.

Sweet and easily digestible. Are these edible briefs??

Dan

Hey Nicole – Great article as always! I really loved the way you included the interviews (ideas) of the guest experts. I have used guest bloggers several times (including you) but haven’t set it up like this before where you are getting several of them at once. I love it!! Thanks, Michele

I always love reading your blog posts. I especially love the resources mentioned & linked to in Susanne Myers response. I’m gonna go check those out right now!
This will help me serve my clients better, thanks.

I just came across your blog and will be sticking around for this series. I like how you interview other people who have been successful as it gives others more than one point of view. Looking forward to learning more!

Hi Cathy,

Yes, it does become a bit trickier since there will still only be 24 hours in a day. And, you do need to manage your time. If you’re splitting your link building efforts between 4 sites and your competition is doing the same effort, but focusing on one site, they’re going to stay ahead and get further ahead all of the time.

So… I’d recommend choosing one of your sites that you feel has the most potential. (Perhaps it’s already making money and can earn more quickly with just a bit of traffic.) Then, for one month, focus solely on marketing that one site using the methods above. After you’ve done that, you can reassess for the next month, but, you should see results quicker that way rather than trying to switch between each site and not really making progress with any of them.

Hope that makes sense.

Warmly,
Nicole

Hi Cathy,

it’s really no different than building links for one site since you will be building links for individual pages. I usually like to focus on 3 or 4 pages at a time. My main goal with link building (other than getting traffic) is to move up in the search engines for a given keyword.

Pick 3 pages or so (which can be all on the same site or on different sites) and build links to those for a week or two. Then move on to other pages. After a few weeks come back and see if you are ranking where you’d like to. If not, build more links to those pages.

Rinse and Repeat

Thanks, Jeanie!

Guest blogging is such an underused method of marketing – and it’s soooo effective.

Do it. Now.

I was surprised what a nice variety of answers we got, too. All with the underlying theme of offering value. Love it!

Thank you for your help compiling this post.

Susanne’s a great one to learn from. You can’t go wrong following her advice.

Hope you enjoy! Thanks so much for commenting.

Very nicely done, Mark. Any time you can find win-win-win scenarios – in this case for you, the other blog owners, and their readers — you’re doing the exact right thing!

You might swing by my mom’s blog: http://www.RemarkableWrinklies.com and form a friendship there.

You’re very welcome, Darren! Come back soon.