1. Use one of your blogs and sign up for a lavalinx account.
2. AFTER setting up your account install the Lavalinx Wordpress plugin into the same blog.
3. The plugin will ask you to verify your Lavalinx account – use the same email and password you used to create your Lavalinx account.
4. Any additional blogs must be first added in Lavalinx, and then have the Lavalinx plugin installed.

This will make it so that you can login into one interface to manage all your link trades. It will also allow you more advanced functionality for updating Sending Pages and finding relevant link partners.

1. The Wordpress plugin has functionality built into it that pulls posts from other sites to trade with that match your either your site’s categories, or your page’s tags. Because of this it makes it really important to tag everything properly so that you can facilitate relevant link trades. Contextual links related to the content will always give you the most bang for the SEO.
2. When a link trade is accepted you may need to wait a while for the links to post. The reason for this is there is caching functionality that is only updated periodically through the day. The blog that you trade with may also having additional caching functionality. It would be wise to give 4-8 hours for a trade to complete. However, many blogs will post links within minutes.
3. If you want the Lavalinx plugin, do NOT sign up for an account through this website, just search for the Lavalinx plugin from within the Plugin section of your blog.
4. There are some SEO plugins that interfere with the plugins ability to post links. For example the default SEO tool in WPzoom prevents the links from posting.
5. Links that are posted on blog pages are DYNAMIC. This means that if you update your Receiving Page details, those link details will be updated on all the blog posts that contain your link.

I will update this post with other helpful tips as we move forward

We now have a significant opportunity with Lavalinx that wasn’t available to us a couple years ago. Because of the advancements in the technology and functionality of Wordpress (WP), we can now create a Lavalinx plugin that will allow a WP user to do all social and contextual link exchanges in the WP interface. We can utilize the WP’s UI, look-and-feel and styles to create a plugin that will function and look like every other WP tool.

We plan on growing the Lavalinx network dramatically by catering to WP. Here’s why:

1. There are about 50 million WP sites http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
2. Most if not all SEOs use WP
3. There is no social/link exchange plugin available for WP
4. Guestposts have been one of the fastest growing SEO methods in the last couple years. With Lavalinx we can accomplish the same links without the cost and man hours required to write an article and find publishers
5. As mentioned above, the plugin will allow a WP user to do everything in WP, it’ll be fully integrated
6. WP can provide Lavalinx with all the information needed regarding posts, tags, titles, descriptions etc. making signup and integration easier than ever
7. Every SEO knows that contextual, keyword-based links on a relevant page is the best link they can get

The key factor to link trading is not the amount of time you spend doing it (although, time can be a huge factor to those who have none), it’s the way you go about link trading. You have to do your research and prepare a plan before you begin trading with just any site. Your effective site plan always begins with on-site optimization.

You may be starting this whole process without currently having a domain. This is not a bad thing, in fact, this allows you to research different domain URLs and decide which one will best match your niche. There are different types of domains out there from .com, .net, .info and even .gov domains that can usually be purchased for around ten dollars. However, if you are looking for a specific URL, or if you are trying to purchase an older domain that already has link worth pointed to it, be prepared to pay some serious cash. Either way, keep in mind the target audience of your site, and try and pick a URL with the keywords that you would like to go after, which we will go over in another post.

Now that you have a domain, it’s time to discuss the SEO optimization that needs to be done in order to maximize the effectiveness of your link building campaign. One of the most overlooked (and possibly most important) things you can do is add H tags throughout your entire site. These tags are one of the first things that search engine spiders will see upon entering your site, and they also help your user to understand the content that will be on that page.

A good practice is to place your top two key words first on the H tags, and your site name last. This is because you will already be getting “weight” for your site name from the URL so it’s not as important to have that be first. Another good idea is to always add meta descriptions and meta key words to your pages, for the same reasons as the H tags: it’s going to be some of the first info search engines retrieve from your page.

But your hard work isn’t done just yet. It is crucial that you write interesting, key word rich content on your website. All the prior prepping is only to back up your website, not to forefront the SEO itself.

On the next post, we will discuss the value of key word research and how a little more time spent there can greatly affect your income later.

1: Directs readers to your site. Since your article is hosted on an outside blog, it will be exposed to a multitude of different readers, many of which who may have never been to your site.

2: Build external, one way backlinks to your site. This is the most important part of “blog swapping”. Spiders will index the post and count the backlink as an external, one way link to your site. We all know how important external links can be to your site optimization and key word rankings in major search engines.

Now that you know the importance and value of hosting your blog article on another domain, you need to know that there are also a few downsides to this strategy. It can take a considerable amount of time to get your post added on another blog. You have to go through all the time-consuming steps of writing the blog, finding a website that you would like to host it, and emailing the webmaster. Most webmasters require that what they post be original content that is not republished somewhere else on the web. Also, once you email the site your post, you may not hear back from the webmaster concerning the publishing status. This means you’ll have to spend time and effort regularly checking their blog for your post.

Before you give up on this, try one tool first. It is called FreeTrafficSystem.com. This site is an easy to use blog submission tool that allows you to post to up to thirty blogs that are relevant to your site, with each article still being unique so as not to get banned by search engines. How is this possible? This site beats their competition by allowing what is known as “spinning” of your blog submission. “Spinning” a blog means that you can take one sentence and change it to a different sentence as many times as you would like. Then when the blog post is submitted to these thirty blogs, the system will randomly select one of the sentences you added to ensure that every post comes out a different and unique way. But it’s not just the post that can be spun. You can spin the titles, keywords, and description as well!

Another great feature is the ability Free Traffic System gives you to add your links wherever you want in your post. You are allowed two links per post, but remember that you can spin them so you have an optimal number of hyperlinks.

Not only is the software advanced and easy to use, it is the most time efficient blog submission tool out there. You can take one article, spin it, and submit it to up to thirty blogs, and it will all be original content with diversified links back to your site. This gives you a number of sixty backlinks from that one article!

Blog submissions still not your cup of tea? If you have a blog and you’re wanting more content, Free Traffic System can help you out with that as well. All you’ll need to do is add your blog to their system and select which category your blog fits into. Then when someone with a relevant blog submission submits, they will be able to select your site for the list. It’s beneficial to both sides, they get a linkback, you get free content. We have used this tool on some of our SEO and pet related domains and have seen twenty posts come through just in the past two weeks! Free Traffic System is an SEO tool where everybody wins.