Hi Kat,
Congrats on being featured! That's a good thing. I just wanted to point out a few things here, as we could learn something from this particular post.
First, none of the links in that article point to your iCraft store. Link with your store name, as anchor text, actually points to this page
http://www.jewelrybykat.net/default.html which has some code displaying on it. Btw, you should to fix that, as that can scare people off.
Second, you have a link to your iCraft store there, but imagine that the person coming from that article, would be redirected again to a new site. That's extra click and too much jumping around, if all you really wanted them to do is to
see your store. You need to remember at all times why you are building backlinks and to which pages.
So you need a plan and you need to stay focused!Third,
if you do backlinks incorrectly, you can actually make things for some of your pages worse. Remember in our last Bootcamp we chose just a few pages and optimized them for particular Keywords. One of your product listings was for Cha Cha Bracelet. So if you optimize one page on one of your sites for that Keyword, but create backlinks for that Keyword to your other pages on other sites, you are actually not helping either page, as you
make them compete for the same terms and you split your efforts between competing pages - not a good strategy!
It's not a big deal on this scale - one page and a few backlinks. So don't worry! I just wanted to highlight this example, to show you and others that there is a lot more to this than just getting quantity of links and pointing them to random pages.
I am taking you guys slowly through the thought process at each stage and guiding you on how to do this properly, so don't rush. At the end, you'll all have a plan and understanding of how to do backlinks properly.
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