Finding new links for your website is an on-going battle, at first finding 'link juice' is relatively easy and the sources seem to be inexhaustible. After a long link building campaign you will come to appreciate the ease of obtaining those first few groups of links back to your website. For after a while it becomes much more difficult to obtain good links, this is especially true in competitive markets such as car insurance and personal finance. As a webmaster it is important to continue building the links to your website to better optimise your site for the search engines. Google, Yahoo, Bing amongst others place rankings on these individual links. In the scope of Search Engine Optimisation inbound back links are considered the main component...
There are millions of websites, all competing for the clicks of potential customers. Those clicks come in from a number of places – a customer might see a billboard advertising a product’s website, or click through on a link from another site. But the overwhelming majority of visitors to a site will usually come straight from natural website results. People search for terms that are relevant to your site or product, and then choose to...
Everyone knows that having links pointing to your site helps you rank high on Google. But not all links are created equal. Some are a lot more valuable than others. Here is all you need to know, in just 60 seconds. Rule #1: The More, the Merrier You want to have as many links as possible. Rule #2: Topical Relationships Matter If you own a dog training website, a link from another dog training website is more valuable than...
If you would like to improve the rankings of your search web pages online, you should definitely take advantage of link building strategies. By building links for your website, you will be able to increase the amount of exposure your website receives on search engine result pages. Search engines commonly favor websites that are linked to many pages online, because these pages often seem to provide more authoritative information about the subjects they represent than...
People have often claimed that a link within content on a page has more value than one form the sidebar or footer of a page. Whilst there is an argument that this is true because a link surrounded by content can be checked by a search engine robot for its relativity as it pertains to the content in which it is surrounded by there is another reason why this may be true. Page Segmentation VIPS or VIsion-based...
An aspect of linkbuilding that is sometimes hotly debated in the various popular marketing forums is relevancy of the link source. Some people hold the opinion that the topic of the website providing the backlink is irrelevant whereas others consider this aspect of a backlink's value to be significant. Based on my own experience I think that the topic of the website hosting the backlink is not very important. However, the topic of the page in...
*This is a guest post by Danny Cooper* Link building is a very consuming task, in fact it's the most time-consuming part of SEO (aside from explaining SEO, of course). Because of the time consuming nature of link building you really can't afford to waste time by making mistakes or building worthless links. In this article I hope to show you five of the most common mistakes so you can avoid them! Anchor Text This is the most...
*The guest tip was provided by Pradeep Sahu* My excel sheet, containing list of blogs, social bookmarking sites and forums that allowed me to get dofollow backlinks, used to be a great SEO asset. Not any more. With the release of tools like open site explorer, the competitive advantage that I enjoyed because of that list has become close to zero. Any competitor can now put my website...
This article was by Christopher Holland who works for nbat Digital - a multimedia design agency based in Kent. If you plan to start guest blogging, do join My Blog Guest: the forum that connects bloggers to guest posters. As the Internet has grown so much in the last decade, it has become vital for small and large businesses to gain an online presence. This can be achieved by search engine optimisation, with the...
*The following guest tip was provided by Warner Carter who provides Search Engine Placement Marketing services.* SEO ultimately means driving traffic and making sales. What I like to call "Search Engine Placement Marketing" I will be implementing this in a few weeks for a new client that has a retail vitamin store and a website. He also has his own brand and this should get him some quick results. You can go right to any of...
