If you are into link building or online reputation management, you must have heard of the term Guest Blogging. Let’s talk straight: people get into this very quickly and participate actively because it’s the great way to build quality links for your website and if you have a great style of writing that forces readers to follow and look up to you. But is this all? Well, most of the people may say yes! But I think guest blogging is a lot more than just link building. Self Grooming: Guest blogging is the great way to test your skills as a writer. While guest posting you meet numerous new readers, you expose your work to ne audiences and get new feedback...
There is a lot more to link building than simply getting as many as possible. It is well known that Google has over 200 criteria by which to rank a website, and also that links is a big part of that... A big misconception though, is that links is just one factor. There are several link based factors that can impact your search ranking. Quantity This one is really obvious. But all other things being equal,...
Most of Bloggers who are into SEO and blogging for a while know about Google penalty and Google slap. This usually happens in the form of decrease in page rank, removal of pages from Google search index, low Search engine ranking. There are a few things which you should avoid to get Google penalty, but if you are determined to get Google penalty, here are few...
There are various ways of getting links these days, many of which cause a lot of arguments between competing SEOs. Some SEOs say that the paid links are not as powerful as they used to be 6 months ago, whereas some SEOs say it is still very powerful. Who knows what paid links are? I personally think all these arguments are useless. Directories Let’s not forget this used to be one of the...
Reputation Management is one of the fastest growing concerns on the web. It's not only something companies are worrying about but also individuals. These days it takes a person under two seconds to quickly look up your brand (or personal brand) and find out what you have been up to on the internet. So when it comes to link building you want to make sure you keep your reputation in mind. Obtaining links in a shady manner can easily damage...
Link Research Tools, one of the must-have link research tools for any link builder and marketer (and also one I will be giving a detailed review next week - stay tuned!), has introduced a major update this week. The updated toolkit spots a new awesome look, an enhanced usability and a few cool new features, including: New Site Type and Theme values - see which theme and site type (blog,forum,etc) EACH LINK has New Missing Links Tool...
The canonical tag, introduced by Google early in 2009 was supposed to resolve many duplicate content worries. It seems to simple to be true though and even though Google claim that the canonical tag is a "hint" rather than a directive, many people have had catastrophic results just because they didn't apply it right. In theory, pages with duplicate content (but different URLs) are the ideal ones for canonical tags to be in place. Even though...
Link building while trying to leverage the authority of Wikipedia is one of the biggest frustrations to SEO's industry-wide - and it's pretty easy to see why. Which reason do you typically go with? High rankings for almost every keyword query. Nofollow attributes on all external links. Incredibly picky human editors. Because of that perceived lack of value to improving search engine rankings, many SEO's avoid Wikipedia all together in their link building campaigns. When it comes...
Link building is a very important part of the SEO process and probably the most affordable and quick way to increase your website’s popularity. There must be thousands of different ways to gain good amount of quality backlinks, but in this short article I will show you some of the simplest and free techniques to do just that. Of course, if you are already running...
Writing press releases that grab the attention of editors and get published is a skill. Here are a handful of tips that will help your press releases gain the attention they deserve: Start with a killer headline. Make certain that its attention-grabbing, encouraging the reader to at least skim the story. Kick off with an introductory statement that summarises what the press release is about and provides further encouragement to read on. Introduce...
