Link Building - Please give feedback!!!

I posted in another group but I want to see if I can get traction for
this question in here. I want to find out what everyone's view is on
the subject and get as much feedback as possible. I am an SEO marketer
and one question that has come up to me was how do you measure the
success of a link building campaign? I wanted to post to see what you
guys think. One way I can think of measuring results is to keep track
of visits, but what if your campaign is driven to build relevant links
and not drive traffic? What I mean by that is what if your link ends
up on a blog and your traffic has an initial jump, but dies off
shortly after? Another alternative was to keep track of the SERPs.
Does anyone else have any ideas on how to track success of your link
building campaigns? Your feedback is greatly greatly appreciated.

Thanks

"Chugga Chugg!!" <DGKwong (AT) gmail (DOT) com> ...

how do you measure the success of a link building campaign?
One way I can think of measuring results is to keep track
of visits, but what if your campaign is driven to build relevant links
and not drive traffic? What I mean by that is what if your link ends
up on a blog and your traffic has an initial jump, but dies off
shortly after? Another alternative was to keep track of the SERPs.

Link building is one part of SEO; and a shrinking part at that. It is never
an end in itself (unless you've sold it that way - silly old you!).

Many of my sites have just a handful of links, usually including a Quality
Directory or two, and I don't worry about 'link building' in the least - I'm
just happy in the knowledge that my sites routinely outrank sites with
*thousands* of crap links.

You measure the success of your *SEO* by conversions and return on
investment; nothing else matters, though it can be useful to track serps for
key phrases when you have concerns about a site (eg it's new).

Link building is stone age SEO - get with the program!
--

Andrew
seo2seo.com
sick-site-syndrome.com

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On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:25:40 +0100, "Andrew Heenan"
<andrew3 (AT) heenan (DOT) net> wrote:

You measure the success of your *SEO* by conversions and return on
investment; nothing else matters, though it can be useful to track serps for
key phrases when you have concerns about a site (eg it's new).

All well and said, but if your clients stock it over-priced or crap,
then it doesn't matter how good of a job you did at SEO, the customers
won't purchase and go elsewhere.

On May 23, 5:11*pm, canadafred <canadian_... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

ya

been there done that on braith...s jewellery the client says "we're
getting loads of hits but no sales" i had to say "with respect your
jewellery is overpriced and really awful" it didnt go down well. lol

check the site

mark

On Sat, 24 May 2008 01:46:10 -0700 (PDT), mark r <markrush (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

been there done that on braith...s jewellery the client says "we're
getting loads of hits but no sales"

Yep, got the same thing.

i had to say "with respect your jewellery is overpriced and really awful" it didnt go down well. lol

LMAO

check the site

On May 24, 3:09 am, Paul <customerservi... (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

On Sat, 24 May 2008 01:46:10 -0700 (PDT), mark r <markr... (AT) gmail (DOT) com
wrote:

been there done that on braith...s jewellery the client says "we're
getting loads of hits but no sales"

Yep, got the same thing.

i had to say "with respect your jewellery is overpriced and really awful" it didnt go down well. lol

LMAO

check the site

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it.