Mar 3 2010

Backlinks Basics – and How Good Websites Go Bad with Backlinks

If you have a website of your own, it won’t take long before you learn about backlinks. They are an incredibly important marketing tool for websites – and one that is often either underused or misused! Knowing how to get backlinks, how they work, and how building backlinks the wrong way can trash your website’s rankings are all vital topics any website owner should know. What are backlinks? They are simply links to your website from another website. A visitor on a website is looking for information, they click on a link on that website, and it is actually a ‘backlink’ to your website, bringing the visitor to view the linked page. The more quality, relevant, natural backlinks that lead to your site, the higher your site will be ranked by search engines, and the more likely you are to get the traffic you are targeting to arrive at your site.

This all sounds straightforward enough, but you have to be sure that you understand how to get backlinks that will help you – not hurt you. We said in the last paragraph that backlinks have to be quality, relevant and natural. Let’s look at these three requirements a bit more closely.

Quality backlinks are those that connect from a site of quality content. You only want backlinks from reliable, reputable sites – hopefully that also have high search rankings in the related topic area. You do not want backlinks from ‘backlink farm’ sites – automatically generated web pages that simply list link after link to other websites. This once popular ‘trick’ was used to try to fool search engines. But, as usual, the search engines eventually learned this trick too, and now they disregard these sites.

A backlink won’t be quality if it isn’t relevant. For example, if your website is about yoga for pregnant women, you would want backlinks from yoga sites, pregnancy sites, women’s health sites, or sites with other relevant topics. Search engines look to see that backlinks make sense – having a backlink from an office supply store to your yoga site wouldn’t be relevant and the search engine would either ignore the link or knock your ranking down.

Finally, backlinks should be natural. This means that they were built over time and by a process that makes sense. You do not want to suddenly create dozens of backlinks all in the same time frame – these will be flagged as suspicious. But you do want to slowly build a network of quality backlinks that will help the right visitors to get to your site.

You can start building backlinks by looking for sites that are relevant to your own website. Reciprocal links – where you agree to link to a page if they agree to link to yours – are a popular tool that used to work very well. However, search engines are getting more astute all the time, and if you reciprocally link to a site that is irrelevant or of poor quality, that will hurt you more than help you. So you can certainly establish reciprocal links, but do it selectively – only if it makes sense for the targeted audience of both sites.

Another trick website owners once used was to link to their own website from another one of their websites. The problem is that search engines now check to see if your backlinks come from the same IP address as your site. If you attempt to network all your sites together just to get backlinks, you’re going to hurt your rankings. But again, if you have one or two that are logical, that are natural, and that would make sense to your visitors, you can establish a few backlinks between your own sites.


Mar 1 2010

What are backlinks? What do they have to do with a page’s rank? How do they work? Are they good or bad?

How do they affect your page? Do they help it go up in the page ranking? Just how do they work?


Feb 26 2010

Posting “How to Posts” is a Good Way to Creating Backlinks for Your Website or Blog

We are all aware of the fact that backlinks make up the larger part of any effective and successful Search Engine Optimization Technique (SEO). That is why the: How to get backlinks question keeps being asked every now and then on the internet, and people never stop getting enough information on this subject matter. Guess no one will ever be satisfied with the number of backlinks they already have for their websites or blogs. In this case, more is always better.

One good way I found out that can help provide few more backlinks to your websites or blog is by frequently posting “How To Posts”. I have been using this method on my other blogs and they have been of great help to me!

But what are “How to Post”? These are basically short manuals on how to do something. If fact anything you can think of. Depending on the niche in which you find yourself, you can frequently write and post interesting “How to Post” on your website and I can assure you that the results will be tremendous.

As people read your website or blog, some will agree and some will not agree with what you are saying, just depending on how controversial the subject is.

Those people who agree with you will usually have the tendency of linking to the given post on your website or blog so that his or her visitors can benefit from the knowledge you provided in your “How TO Post”. The more they link to your website, the more backlink you will be creating.

That is yet another tiny little way of getting few more backlinks to your website which will help in bringing you more targeted traffic and maybe generate a sale!


Feb 24 2010

Is it good to buy and redirect 301 domain names for SEO purposes?

I found a directory with bunch of expired domain names – the directory page where those domain names are actually has PR = 3

my plan is to redirect them to my main domain

Is it good for SEO or matters little?


Feb 16 2010

Not Very Good Backlink Generation Strategies

These are certain types of websites that are not worth getting a link from.


This will help you prevent wasting a lot of time. It does not mean these backlinks are totally useless. Every backlink is useful, but if you have limited time it is wiser to focus on more better strategies to get backlinks.


Remember that it is better that wehen you get a link, you do not change the anchor text. It is also better if you do not change the link that the anchor text points to. If you get a link with a specific anchor text, pointing to a specific page on your website, do not alter anything.


First of all classified sites are the type of websites you should avoid.


You get links, but your ads have to be renewed every seven, thirty or ninety days. If you do not renew your backlinks are no longer there. Just like I said, when getting backlinks, you want them static, ever lasting and not sometimes your link is up, and other times it is removed.


But what is the reason behind this, you may ask yourself.


A backlinks is good for your website, because it means your website is useful. Now if the specific website removes your link, then it is no longer useful.


Plus most of the time, classified websites do not link directly to your website.


The other type of website you should avoid are FFA sites.


FFA websites, just like classified websites require that you renew your ads, or the backlink is gone. You have to renew, each time using the same anchor text for best results. That is the title of the FFA ad.


Yahoo, MSN or Google groups, are starting to using nofollow tags, or they do not make links clickable. Just like other popular websites like social sites or video sites. So make sure you check before spending some money or time on submission to these type of websites.


If the link is not clickbank, spiders will not count it as a backlink, they will not crawl the link neither. Crawling a website simple means visiting the site. They only treat it as plain text.


Likewise, a link inside a drop down menu or flash will not get crawled because spiders unlike visitors do not read what is inside flash or use the mouse to open the drop down menu.


Most of the social bookmarking websites are also using nofollow tags. So bookmarking your blog posts and so on, is not something you need to spend time on. However there are still some who are still worth submitting to like sites that accepts stories.


So be careful, text links are what you should get, those count as backlinks. There are many ways to get backlinks, so focus on the good ways. There are enough ways to spend all your time on them. How many times have you tried searching for new ways to get backlinks? Remember, you do not have to reinvent the wheel which can be time consuming.


Feb 15 2010

What is the best technique to get good backlinks without having to put other ads on my site ?

To get a better rank.


Feb 13 2010

Knowing The Price Of Good Seo

After the web site design and the completion of the basic SEO, the next investment any business owner should consider is in search engine optimization. In order to understand SEO pricing, we have to underline the fact that the optimization process in itself is very advantageous, since presumably the traffic generated by a well-indexed page will pay for itself. In fact, the art (or science depending on who you talk to) of SEO was created with such a purpose in mind: increase leads and sales, increase conversions, and ultimately generate more money!

Several factors influence SEO pricing, and the amount of work required is first on the list. While the financial investment for good SEO varies depending on the size and the complexity of the pages , please understand that good SEO that you don’t do yourself isn’t cheap. Companies and agencies that offer SEO services often promote a free site analysis based on which the SEO quote is created. With this kind of report, you’ll learn about how competitive you’ve been, what problems you face , and what changes need to be performed on the site.

Ultimately, your goals and your budget ultimately determine the price you should pay for SEO. Sometimes, the service provider will be able to recommend the less expensive alternative substituting elements that are not necessary for the optimization and suggesting various money-wise solutions.

There are lots of steps involved in the optimization campaign, and SEO pricing can be kept under control when you know exactly what needs to be done. Thus, any good SEO company will first initiate optimization by competition and industry investigations. Next should come the keyword research and the key-phrase selection, followed by the phrases implementation. Then, the web masters will continue with building of links and their submission to search engines and directories. SEO is a constant process, and requires active monitoring and communication between the owner and SEO agency to be effective.

To give some general figures of where SEO pricing can range, the whole process could cost between $2,000 and $10,000 according to the complexity of the site and the features of the competition. Beware of too low quotes since these are generally practiced by people with little experience in the field, and who may not perform the best of job on your site. The choice is yours!


Feb 7 2010

Is having a customized video player on your website good for SEO and link building?

A video player is web tool. It could be designed to have an appearance that would remind of the certain brand and by having the options to be embedded and shared it could help generate links and thus contribute to the SEO efforts. I see it as a web content development, quality content or link bait. What do you think?


Feb 5 2010

Advanced Article Marketing – Good Article Marketing Tips for Fast Profit

Advanced article marketing is an important part of internet marketing. So if you are a newbie, you might have some difficulties with starting successful article marketing to boost your online profits. In this case, this article is the perfect answer to your major article profits questions. 

Advanced Article Marketing What Does it Involve? 

Advanced article marketing should include the following 3 vital steps  for every article marketer: 

1.    Writing Intriguing Articles. 

This habit is very important for more profits when it comes to using article marketing for promotion of your websites. Your article should not be only informational, but also intriguing and interesting for every reader. The more useful and practical your articles, the higher conversion rate of your resource box. 

2.    Submitting Articles Online On A Daily Basis.

This is the second step of advanced article marketing. I’ve noticed that many article marketers don’t submit their articles to top article directories on a regular basis. Therefore first develop a habit of publishing online 5-10 articles per day. It is especially important for natural indexing on Google and getting quality backlinks on a daily basis. 

3.     Write A Promising Resource Box.   

As an experienced article marketer, I think the soul of your article is the following parts:

-       Title

-       Attractive Summary

-       Resource Box 

Remember your main aim is to make readers click on the links in your resource box at the bottom of your article. So try to make deep impression on your reader with resource box. The more clicks you get, the more traffic and the more profit you attain.

 Now start applying these good article marketing tips just today!


Feb 4 2010

How many backlinks a day does a good SEO blogger/spammer add a day…this is not easy work for sure.?

I tried this for a while searching for sites, forums, blogs that I could post backlinks, and it’s harder then it seems. Why don’t you get more credit for what you do? It seems like you would have to have a high tolerance of patience. Trying to find places that match your keywords and trying to post a link there. Is there a repository or list of sites that you know are open to add links? Half the time you register for a site and realize there are NOFOLLOW or HTML has been turned off or they require 10 or more posts before allowing a link. This job is not for the faint of heart. When you first started what were you averaging a day or hour?