Help :)

[Mike]

Ok, so I'll go on about my msn emotions site again (msn-emotions.net)

I have a small problem with it -- competing with other sites. It seems noone has got one of these sites just because they like msn emotions, they're all quite knowledgable on seo etc and know that the market is a goldmine if you get top.

So this means it's hard to get free links. In fact, it's not hard, it's impossible. The only way to get links to your site is to exchange, which is what I've been doing.

However, it doesn't seem to be working. Exchanging links just seems to build a large link section at the bottom of your page, and not affect your ranking.

So what could I do to improve this sites ranking?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks,
Mike

[incka]

I'm having problems too... The reason I'm not as low down as you is because I've got all of my other sites linking to it... The goldmine of being on top with these smiley central ads... Mmm... $$$$$... Mmm... For now adwords have to do...

[Chris]

Drop the free site links.

[Mike]

You mean "thefreesite" button on the left?

[cameron]

Being linked with the free site probably brings in a lot of traffic. I'm not sure how long they would keep your link around if you took down their link.

[incka]

2 months.

I know free site is blocked but the traffic it brings...

[AndyH]

Drop the free site links.

If not remove it, get rid of the border made by the image being a link and also move it into the table row with the copyright. Where it is now is to noticeable for something that isn't required to be.

[intelliot]

What are the smiley central ads?

[Mike]

The freesite link gets me around 500 uniques extra a month, so I'm not sure if I should take that down.

I've done what you said Andy, thanks for the idea

[michael_gersitz]

just block it from google....

[michael_gersitz]

use out.php?id=1 then put out.php in your robots.txt

[Mike]

They gave me code to link with though, so I'm not sure if they'd like it.

[intelliot]

actually, i'm sure they wouldn't "like" it ... personally i do not think it is a problem.

[incka]

They don't pass on PR anyway and as they are PR9 I don't think any freebie site is going to beat them in the search. Use a redirect thing.

[Jaffro]

Yea TheFreeSite gives a fair load of traffic so dont worry about it, just make sure it doesn't impact too much on the design on your site. I dont know if they'd even notice if you took the link down or moved it to another page on your site.

Its all about links, hard to find but if you do then you score. Its almost impossible to find new links but you just have to keep looking, I'm sure there's some sites out there still, i remember finding loads of 'msn' based sites to link with before i started but I simply cant find them anymore!