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So as I already said, I began marketing Vgescape again. Although many people will say for search engines, site-wide affiliation is wrong, but even the corporations do it nowadays in the video gaming website sphere.

So I went ahead and found all sites ranking in the top 100 for generic gaming keywords and email’ed them off with a proposal for a site-wide exchange. My email was very simple, and nice. I made sure to mention a special quality in each site and names if I could to let the person know I actually know games and their site. I email’ed about 25 people. Already got 10-15 responses back, all saying yes .

My visitors are on an all time low, so I could not mention them. Instead I simply stated I have a google page rank of 6, and even the top tier gaming sites say yes. I haven’t seen a single gaming site with a pr 7. There used to be one, a Zelda site, but that went down to 6 as well.

The problem: I’ve only got about half the responses back. What if I get 20/25 affiliates in the next week? That is 20 new affiliates with 200 pages of my link! Thats thousands of new links in the span of a week.

Paranoid SEO’ers like myself are always scared Google penalizes for this. For this reason, I’ll hold off on my other marketing methods:

-Submitting Vgescape into 300 or so directories
-Commenting and backlinking my site in 100 gaming blogs
-Joining 50 new gaming forums and putting my site in the signature and trying to make an introduction post.
-Trying to get a link from Wikipedia.org (Valuable!)