Quality backlinks in my area, impossible !

Hi all,

I am french and i live in Quebec, Canada. (my english is not perfect)

I builded my wife website and optimized it for SEO. Being new to this two years ago, i did follow your precious advices since the beginning and I did very well. She is ranking top for many keywords. I am very satisfied.

Now i dont panic anymore with rankings and pagerank. There is so many related links i can build in order to bring good quality traffic and convert this traffic to clients. This has been my main objective since a year.

The website being in French, i have no problem building links from France country websites but this is not my goal. I want local traffic because we are selling music services in Quebec. The problem is, where i live, people does not give backlinks. Most of those quality websites i wont like a link does not have a single link and when asking, they always say the same. They don't link to other websites. My website is top quality by the way, clear, classy and useful, customers always congratulates us for our website.

We are building our social network in the real life too. Even those that partnered with us during an event (caterer, hotels, DJ, photographs and others) are saying that they dont link to other websites.

There seems to be a lack of the internet comprehension where i live or not open mind, i don't know, but they are missing the point. They want their client to find a dead end when they are coming to their website or they dont want to commit themselves for any reason.

I think there is no point really to post this message. But i want to simply share my experience and see if you ever find yourself in a similar situation.

Thanks for taking the time,

Bob

Record a music podcast and link it to your site, regularly update it and seed it on lots of music/podcast sites including iTunes.

This might work for you...

Thanks for the suggestion. I had a similar idea. We are about to record many samples of music and we will offer them to some webmasters as background music for their websites in exchange for a link. This is hard work, but probably worth the effort.

Thanks,
Bob

I would just blame the french and leave it there.

Ok well your looking for backlinks. Your backlinks don't have to be local, who cares if theyre local or not. Backlinks are good, and the more you get the better. If your looking for local searches have your backlinks have your anchor text with your local keywords such as "quebec music blah blah" whatever, but your backlinks dont have to come from local sources.

Just an idea here. Are you in contact with clubs or whatever that have live music performances? Are you or your wife good at writing music reviews?

Then there's a couple of ways you could work this. You could do a music review of one of their acts, post it on your site and offer to let them link to it. Or you could ask them if they'd like you to write a review they could post on their site in exchange for linking back to you (basically the article could have like a one- or two-sentence description of the author with a link back to the site).

You can probably work this approach with other sites. And of course the regulars here will tell you why it was the first one that came to my mind. Good luck!

Try submitting to all the free directories.

i don't mean to debunk this idea, but how many websites today use background music?

one of the best ways to get backlinks is to have good, useful, and relevant content that people will naturally link to. and link to other relevant sites yourself. you'll often find that if you link to sites, others will link to you.

What you sid is fine, if you are expecting better PR with all these backups. But if you are looking for organic traffic directly from links, you need them from sites that matter.

Than you have a really easy market to win than...

Agreed with the above.