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 Page Segmentation is a technique used by search engines to determine the most relevant areas of a page. There are certain areas of a typical website that tend to be generic across a website and therefore offer no particular relevance to any specific page of a website. As you will have...
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...
*The guest tip is by Daniel McGonagle who writes about SEO and link building at LinkVanaReviews* Yes, Virginia, you can get backlinks with Index Drivers sites! Index driver sites are websites whose main goal is to increase the indexing power of your content. It can also be used to index other people's content, too. Later on in this post you'll see why you might want to index other people's content in addition to your own. How does...
