While there are a lot of best practices when it comes to SEO, a single tip remains the most important. It defies all the Panda and Penguin updates, survives the booms and busts of SEO and stays on top as the best way to improve search engine result rankings: diversity. Diversity is the sign of a real business operated by real people. Copying and pasting, duplicate content and other non-diverse options scream spam.
How Back-Link Profiles Have Changed Since Google Penguin
Google’s Penguin update was designed to clear out the websites with over-optimized back-link profiles.
A back-link profile is an overview of all your inbound links. For 8 years, up until the birth of the Penguin algorithm, the way to get your website to the top of Google was to include your keywords in all the key indicators on your page, and then build lots of links from the best...
We SEOs are obsessed with numbers, fact.
And, we often take it to the extreme. Often our decisions are based solely on data we receive from software packages we use.
We look at pagerank, domain rank, domain authority, no. of incoming links and many more and determine whether a site is worthy to build a link from or not.
Sometimes we might look at the page itself, scan it to see if the numbers match what the site...
Link building is an essential aspect of SEO that helps a website rank higher in search engines. This practice makes a website visible to target customers when they make use of relevant keywords in their search. If you want to make your business more personal and maintain long term connections, it is not possible to rely only on link building. It is important to stay in touch with customers, appreciate them, stay competitive and beat...
There is no doubt about it: link building has evolved. In fact, things have changed so much over the years that link-building techniques that were effective even a few years ago are already completely out of date.
Link building has always been evolving, but the recent Panda and Penguin updates from Google took things to another level. Panda targeted low-quality, thin content masquerading as useful information, whereas Penguin targeted unnatural links.
Building links to a new website is never easy. It requires a lot of dedication to increase the website's visibility to quality links. So how do you go about building links to a brand new site? Let's take a look at some of the effective linking strategies to help you accomplish this.
1. Using your own personal network
Getting links from family, friends, colleagues and clients with online presence is one very accepted way of beginning link...
If you were hit by a Google Penguin update this year (on April 24th, May 25th, or October 5th) it means your site was guilty of webspam tactics including keyword stuffing, link schemes, paid links, overuse of exact match anchor text and more. Unlike a manual penalty, where you can clean up your site and submit a reconsideration request to have a human quality editor evaluate your site, Penguin was an algorithmic update and the...
Running a startup is hard work. In addition to starting and running a new business from the ground up, other considerations - such as marketing - should be baked into the overall process and never treated as add-ons or afterthoughts. For the one person or small group of people involved, this can certainly seem quite daunting, what with everything else already on their plate.
That said, there might be a lot of things...
If there is one thing that site owners need to understand about link building it is that it requires consistency. You can't just build a couple dozen links one month and expect that to carry your SEO program for the rest of the year. But in order to be consistent you need to be organized, which requires a little bit of planning and a lot of reporting.
Google's Penguin update struck months ago, but many webmasters and SEOs are still struggling to master link building in the new ecosystem. What does Google consider to be a good link?
Let's Get One Thing Straight: SEO And Links Are NOT Dead!
Many webmasters who saw their link building tactics stop working came to the conclusion that SEO and link building are dead. This happily not the case. SEO and link building may be a bit...