Product Reviews – Link Building Strategy
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I own Simply Bags and have been sending sample bags to bloggers as a link building strategy. The following four links are a sample of recent product reviews.
Product reviews were considered a good link building strategy. After Panda & Penguin is Product Reviews still a good strategy?
Please comment on the quality of the four sample links.
Thanks
Bob Shirilla -
Hi Bob,
This is something very similar to what I am doing in getting links back to my website, great work!
Modbargains mentions something that could be worth exploring "have the reviewers take pictures and post them on pinterest with a snippet of information, linking back to your bag site."
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have the reviewers take pictures and post them on pinterest with a snippet of information, linking back to your bag site.
As far as quality of the content on the reviews: most of them great
Also take a look at to see how many comments these blogs receive and if there's potential to guest blog on their sites promoting your product.
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Reviews would seldom be considered as a good point for bringing in link strategy.
Instead reviews on a facebook page or something like social media engagement would be much more beneficial.
Also you should keep in mind people talking about it instead of reviewing it would be better ways to consider link building.
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In my opinion anything that looks like real marketing (on real sites) and isn't abused is safe- good work
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