Launched a travel blog site, and looking to increase SEO popularity,...

[Simon E]

...links etc. Any pointers? We have recently launched www.worldtrailfinders.com, which was a site sitting around for several years but we recently just spent the time getting this off the ground. We successfully got it listed in the se's and are now looking if anyone knows a network out there to find other similiar travel sites to do link trades with. Done through http://www.worldtrailfinders.com/add-site.phpI also realise link trade is fairly dead these days so any other pointers would be appreciated.

[Lena Nemeth]

I wouldn't say that "link trade is dead". It isn't, because it's the easiest and one of the cheapest ways to get links and thus to get higher rankings - so you're going the right way.You can simply search Google for your keywords and for other related words - this way you'll find link partners and will have some idea of how useful links from them can be.Also here's a tool I use regularly to find link partners for my site, estimate their value, and contact webmasters, check for Blackhat SEO against me and so on:http://www.link-assistant.com