More "new" root domains or more pages on older domains?
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I have been slowly building links via personal/professional networking, press from art shows, blogging, and such.
I work with several non related domains & local blogs & press outlets, it is pretty easy for me to add a few new pages of content along with text links.
Or should I just concentrate on getting links from totally "new" domains that have never linked to me before?
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concentrating on new domains +3
adding links from already linked domains +2
adding new pages to my main domain +1
(I do realize that not all domains are created equal)
I'll get to work on that.
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I believe that the wider you cast your net, the more fish you catch.
I would rather have one link from each of 10 different sites, than 10 links from one site. Or even 100 links from one site, assuming the sites were of equal power.
But I also think it is nice to have a few different links, pointing to different content you produce, even from one site.
For example, a big site links to my newspaper, with several hundred thousand links. It is because they put the link in their sidebar. I am very grateful for that, because we get visitors from there. I much prefer the links they have directly to stories that relate to their audience, because not only do we get repeat visitors, but they are more targeted and more likely to read more than one story on the same subject.
I also notice we have a single link from thousands of small websites, linking directly to a particular story. That definitely seems to help those individual stories.
Most links that you don't solicit are good, but I think links from more new sites are better.
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