FFA

Free for all (FFA) link pages are web pages that contain links to hundreds or even thousands of other sites. You can submit a site to these pages by filling out a form and giving an email address. Typically, your listing will only be live for a few days, and newer submissions will replace your listing. So you must submit to these pages routinely to stay listed.

The prevailing wisdom about FFA link pages is that they are not worth your time. If you talk to 10 Internet marketers, my guess is that 9 would tell you not to bother with them, to which I would agree.

There are two ways to be involved with FFA pages. One is to submit to them, the other is to own an FFA page yourself.

Submitting to FFA Link Pages
There are now sites and programs that will allow you to submit a link to thousands of FFA pages at once. But I doubt even these programs are worth your time. Here are some things to consider about FFA pages:

• You will get a very small amount of low-quality traffic. If you're lucky, you might get a half dozen extra visitors a week after submitting to thousands of sites.
  
  
• You will be asked to provide an email address in order to submit to FFA pages. In return you will get tons of spam. If you submit to 1000 FFA pages, expect 1000 emails confirming your submission and advertising something as well. If you are going to submit to FFA pages, get a free email address from Yahoo or Hotmail first. Don't use your main email address.
  
  
• There are some people who argue that getting listed in FFA pages will help your search engine rankings since a lot of sites (the FFAs) will be linking to your site, thereby raising your site's link popularity. I don't believe this is true. FFA pages are not well-regarded by search engines and the links from FFA pages will probably be disregarded altogether.

Running Your Own FFA Page

• It's not tough to set up your own FFA pages. Many sites will let you set one up for free. When people submit their sites, you will get their email address.
  
  
• You can send confirmation emails to people when their link is added, and these emails can include advertisements, BUT...
  
  
• Don't expect people to read them. Most people who submit to FFAs get thousands of spam messages. Your message will be buried, ignored, or deleted automatically.

Conclusion:
I used to submit to FFA pages about 7 years ago and got some limited traffic. But I don't do it anymore. All you will get these days is a small amount of low-quality traffic and vast amounts of spam.

If you are serious about building traffic to your site by building links, then I suggest you try following:

• Buy traffic from PPC search engines - By far, this is the quickest and easiest way to get good traffic. Check out our list of popular PPC search engines.
  
  
• Use a link management program like Arelis - Tools like Arelis will find up to 50 link partners for you, email them at once, and build your link pages for you. A great way to streamline your link strategy.
  
  
• Buy links at a text link brokerage like text link ads - Websites like text link ads and adbrite allow you to buy links from prominent websites. A quick, easy way to get instant quality links to your site.

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