Pacing Quality Link Building Strategies
Posted: December 27th, 2007
When it comes to link building initiatives, it is important to look beyond the sheer volume of inbound links to your website. Getting hundreds of incoming links from low quality sites is decidedly not as beneficial as a handful of links from high authority sites.
As would be expected, most of these “high authority” websites are inherently more difficult to get linked from because of their stricter requirements, and affinity to only associate with other “high authority” sites. There might also be unforeseen bureaucracy issues with getting in touch with the link building decision-maker, which may bring your link building initiatives to a standstill.
So in general, obtaining quality links is a much slower process than obtaining low-quality ones by nature, but there are exceptions to this.
Welcome to the world of social news networks (a.k.a. social bookmarking). Meet Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Furl, and Del.icio.us.
If your company just so happens to have a weekend of freebies, or simply some really great deals (Boxing Day anyone?), then this is for you. Floating your Boxing Day clearance promotions around with social bookmarking is a quick way to collect relevant backlinks to your site, not to mention boost sales. 
Nota Bene: Don’t overdo it. You can just as quickly anger the networks (and be labeled as spam), destroy customer relations, and shatter your company image.
Good point and will keep that in mind as I try to grow my blog presence.
Cheers,
Andy