Posted on August 29th, 2009 in backlinks | Comments Off
Todd Ash asked:
Backlinking is an easy way to increase the number of visitors to your blog or website (and also increase search engine rankings). This is nothing more than having your site address listed on other websites generating traffic back to your site. Backlinking can be done in a number of ways. Following is a short list of ideas to get you started.
Defining technically backlinks are the inbound links on the website. They are the links placed on other webpage?s and are directed towards your website, these are also known as incoming links, inlinks, and inward links. Quality inbound links add weight to the website popularity and search engine ranking. of SEO focus today revolves around quality backlinking.
There are a number of ways to build quality and effective backlinks for your website. Submitting your site to directories, article sites, Online Press Releases, placing signature links in the forums, leaving comments on the blogs etc. You can use reciprocal link exchange program with quality websites to get related with them.
Quality backlinks attracts search engines to find your website. Here, quality of the links dominates over the no. of links directed towards your website. Important thing to be noticed is, a web site linked to you having content relevant to your website will perform better than the website having content unrelated to your website.
Backlinking is a part of the entire ranking algorithm process for all the search engines. If two sites are similar in content and design, search engines have a tendency to prefer site having more inbound links but again quality links dominate. Linking with a bad site will cause a drop off for your websites on the search engines.
You apply for an excellence award, if you get the award you link to the award site, and they link to you. The award site usually isn’t in a competing area so they are not interested in swiping your content–they just want links, like you do. This approach won’t work with everyone, but for certain sites (particularly one-man operations or “hobby” sites), it’s not a bad idea.
Since the wine enthusiast site more than likely has great content on wine, that link has more authority to a search engine therefore putting extra umph behind that link. The more of these you get, the higher you rank for your keywords. This same link on a website or blog that writes about Music or Fashion, may still drive traffic but would not be worth nearly as much in the eyes of the search engines.
If you want to rank well in the SERPs, you need the backlinks. You especially need backlinks with your keywords in the anchor text. Outbound links are not as essential as inbounds.
Search for your keyword on Google and look at the top 100 listings. You’ll want to get as many of these to link to you as possible. Unless of course they’re your competitor.
The truth about backlinks and how they can help build your traffic as well as how they can possibly hurt you. How to Automate your backling in a way that is totally natural and search engine friendly.
Link exchanges and link lists don’t work. In the most recent version of their patent, Google puts more emphasis on links that are surrounded by content, not in a list. The words around the link play an important role in the quality of the link.
And link without expectation of return. Link to help your readers. Link because the link is a better resource that what you have to offer at the moment. Link because a link is a letter of recommendation and your readers respect that.
Commenting on a blog does get you a link back to your blog, but if you really want the benefit of commenting on other blogs, make the comment content. Make the comment add to the conversation. Make it interesting enough that people will want to click through and check out what you have to say. Make it trigger their curiosity enough that the blogger will check out your blog, find that you are brilliant, and want to blog about you and your blog.
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Posted on August 26th, 2009 in backlinks | Comments Off
Joel Henderson asked:
When it comes to generating traffic to your website, nothing is more valuable than backlinks. People have different terms for this idea - i.e. incoming links, inbound links, etc. - but the general idea is the same. Someone comes to view your site or reads your post and thinks to themself, Hey this is pretty interesting. Then this person creates a link to this site or post somewhere else so that others can see this same intriguing information. The are numerous methods of getting others to link to your content from simple link exchange between webmasters, getting your posts bookmarked through social bookmarking sites like Digg or StumbleUpon, or you can post to popular article submission sites with your link in the text or signature block.
You might be thinking to yourself, Yeah that’s all pretty interesting, so explain to me why I need to know this? Your efforts to direct web-traffic is what gets people to your site, and people at your site clicking on your Adsense or buying through your affiliate links is what gets you paid, right? So the more backlinks you have floating around out there, the greater likelihood someone well make it to your site to help you make money.
What most of you will find is that backlinks have become increasingly important in the realm of Search Engine Optimization(SEO). SEO is a vast topic in itself of which people make a very good living helping companies promote their websites. Getting high in the search engines for paricular keywords is another way to get traffic to your site. One of the things search engines like Google use to rank the importance of your site, and subsequently where they will place it on the list of search results, is the amount of backlinks to your site and articles. Backlinks on higher ranking sites are even more important. Search engines take into account the amount of backlinks to your site because it is a representation of the importance of your site to others out on the web. There are other aspects of your backlinks the search engines will account for, but this is the general idea.
I came across a great quote not too long ago, and it one of the most important things to keep in mind when creating sites from which you wish to generate income. Build your sites as if Google doesn’t even exist. Too many people are out there trying to beat the search engines; it’s like trying to beat the stock market. Nothing is better than word of mouth when you want to generate hype for anything, and the online form of word of mouth is backlinks. Time is always money, so you have to weigh the value of the free traffic you get from backlinks against the value of the time you invest in getting these backlinks and the money you might spend shortcutting doing Pay Per Click(PPC) arbitrage through programs like Adwords.
But say Google were to go bankrupt tommorrow or suddenly your favorite search engine no longer exists. If you have a significant following of people who have come to your site based on banklinking word of mouth, you wont starve because the majority of your traffic was never based on search engines anyway. But if Google were to go out of business, I guess you wouldn’t be making anymore money from Adsense anymore either, but I digress. This is not to say that you shouldn’t care about search engine traffic, but the point is that if you build websites that people enjoy and tell others about, the search engine traffic will come naturally.
So, to help you in making some quick backlinks to your site, check out this nifty little tool - Onlywire. This tool is great because you can use it to add your sites or blog posts instantly to roughly eighteen different social bookmarking sites. You just have to subscribe to the various sites first before you get started.
Good luck.
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