Whether you’re a pro or amateur blogger, everyone wants traffic to their sites. And building links to your website is a great way to do this. Not only can it improve the visibility of your website in the search engines, but also if you pick your sites wisely you can benefit from referral traffic. Socialise: Build Relationships Not Links As a blogger what makes you happy? Finding a thoughtful comment on a post, when you see a tweet about something you’ve written or if someone likes you on Facebook, right? Other bloggers feel the same, so get interacting with them and make friends online. Not only does it make blogging more fun, but also it gives you an online social circle to call upon when you need help promoting...
Guest commenting can have a great effect on your blog. Your traffic will surly start to increase. Not only will you experience an increase in traffic, but targeted traffic! Targeted traffic is more than likely interested in your topic or what you have to offer. This is a good thing. When you start to comment on the blogs of others, your traffic will increase because of 3 gateways: Direct Traffic. You comment on a blog and...
When thinking about creating link bait, lots of people get caught up in ideas of writing a piece of content that’s going to attract thousands and thousands of links. The danger is that this is very difficult to do and can be quite an expensive process with no guarantees of how successful it’s going to be. This led me to thinking about ways in which you could create content that...
If you're an SEO, or have done a bit of optimization yourself, the chances are you have come across older, possibly outdated sites, which despite your best optimization efforts just will not budge from the top spot. This is not unusual, older site are often seen as more trustworthy and authoritative by the search engines and tend to perform better in the search engine results. There are a number of reasons this happens and all of...
There is often talk of building ‘natural’ links when it comes to link building in search engine optimization. What does it mean to build a natural link profile? While the idea is quite simple, there is significant debate on the issue’s importance and how much we are able to push the envelope. The general idea of a natural link profile is that the links to your site should appear to have come about without the aid...
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,...
*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...
Tonight's SEO Tip has been provided by Kalai Ganesan of The Picky and may be useful for first time publishers and newbies. Enjoy :) Improving your search engine rankings is the first step to get traffic, the more traffic better profits. Optimizing your website for SEO is important. Search engine optimization simple is how you organize your site content more useful in a particular category. Here are some important steps for site to get notified by...
Sometimes when you're on the prowl looking to acquire links via link trades, buying links or contributing optimized content to a blog in return for a link or two, you can run into some sites which may seem like you've struck link gold .. but these opportunities may prove too good to be true. Case in point, you may find some site owners who are more or less giving away good links on sites with...
