New experience - Bay Area Kicks Requesting a Link to My Site
Hi all…
This week I had an out of the blue e-mail from Murris, who runs the Bay Area Kicks blog (http://www.bayareakicks.com) wondering if he could add a link to Fitzy Business from his blog and if I would mind linking back to his. After taking a look at his blog, which seems simple, well-designed, and on target for his market, I agreed. Though he hasn’t placed a link to my site on his blog links page yet, I thought I’d write up a quick review of his site and add a link anyway to be sociable.
Murris’ blog has a simple two-column design on the main page. He uses the main column for his blog articles about various sneakers. At the top of the site you can access his “About” page, and his “Links” page. His About page describes how he came to write the blog after running a successful online shoe store for several years. His links page, where he wants to put a link to Fitzy Business, has quite a list of links to other sites, from clothing and sports resources to simply “nice blogs” on a variety of topics.
If his numbers are right on his about page, he gets about 10,000 hits a day and is aiming for 30,000+ hits a day. I’d say he’s probably on track. According to Alexa, today he has a rank of 302,921, which is pretty good! (In comparison, this site, even with the lack of new posts over the holidays, has a traffic rank of 502,819.)
The articles on the blog are on topic, providing pictures and descriptions of individual sneakers, as well as his opinions on the shoe and where they can be purchased. Evidently Michael Jordan is releasing a new Air Jordan shoe (the Air Jordan XX3) later in the month, which I wasn’t aware of, and that post includes links to the shoe’s site as well as video of Jordan talking about the shoe.
So keep up the good work Murris and I wish you luck with your traffic goals!
–Fitz
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Comments
I don’t know about that, but you may be right. The e-mails I got from the guy who runs the blog seemed personal enough, as I did communicate back and forth with him a bit before sending my information and agreeing to the request.
IMHO, the articles themselves seemed personal with opinions sewn in for good measure. So I’m not too worried about it.
Thanks for the comment though!
I just got the same request.
I’m guessing this is nothing but the work of those same dudes that buy lots of domains and have those zombie pages with ads, except its in disguise as a blog.
I don’t know, there’s something about that page that doesn’t make you feel its a real blog.
It’s too cold and TOO targeted to sell shoes online.
You can tell by the categories.