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Michael Porteous asked:


If you own a website and understand how the search engines work then you know you need to get thousands of backlinks to be competitive in any market. With established websites already set at great page ranks on the main search engines a newer site owner has to be smart, creative and hardworking to get ahead in the internet business! So how does one be smart and creative in terms of website rankings?

The answer firstly is not just about backlinks. It has been estimated that about 80% of what makes up how popular your website is with a search engine is backlinks leaving only 20% of the rest of the formula as relevant, original content which is what engines like Google say they crave. This leads many people to believe that 80% of their effort should be put into acquiring backlinks … often in the wrong way.

The problem most people starting out on the internet business roller coaster is that they think that all links are the same. I mentioned that search engines like Google crave relevance and originality and this is true of links as well. Having a backlink from a site dedicated to garden equipment linking to your site on fashion clothing design is not relevant for example. Having a backlink from multiple pages that are duplicates of each other also does not work because the lack of originality then comes into play.

So with all of these restrictions on having a quality link that counts how can you get thousands of backlinks when it feels like there are not thousands of backlinks to be had? There are some options, long term you can write articles, submit your site to directories and cultivate friendships with other sites for backlinks but in the short term without any dodgy business there are services around that follow the guidelines that the search engines love without resorting to “black hat” techniques that can generate backlinks for you.

Karl Sultana asked:


These are certain types of websites that are not worth getting a link from.

This will help you prevent wasting a lot of time. It does not mean these backlinks are totally useless. Every backlink is useful, but if you have limited time it is wiser to focus on more better strategies to get backlinks.

Remember that it is better that wehen you get a link, you do not change the anchor text. It is also better if you do not change the link that the anchor text points to. If you get a link with a specific anchor text, pointing to a specific page on your website, do not alter anything.

First of all classified sites are the type of websites you should avoid.

You get links, but your ads have to be renewed every seven, thirty or ninety days. If you do not renew your backlinks are no longer there. Just like I said, when getting backlinks, you want them static, ever lasting and not sometimes your link is up, and other times it is removed.

But what is the reason behind this, you may ask yourself.

A backlinks is good for your website, because it means your website is useful. Now if the specific website removes your link, then it is no longer useful.

Plus most of the time, classified websites do not link directly to your website.

The other type of website you should avoid are FFA sites.

FFA websites, just like classified websites require that you renew your ads, or the backlink is gone. You have to renew, each time using the same anchor text for best results. That is the title of the FFA ad.

Yahoo, MSN or Google groups, are starting to using nofollow tags, or they do not make links clickable. Just like other popular websites like social sites or video sites. So make sure you check before spending some money or time on submission to these type of websites.

If the link is not clickbank, spiders will not count it as a backlink, they will not crawl the link neither. Crawling a website simple means visiting the site. They only treat it as plain text.

Likewise, a link inside a drop down menu or flash will not get crawled because spiders unlike visitors do not read what is inside flash or use the mouse to open the drop down menu.

Most of the social bookmarking websites are also using nofollow tags. So bookmarking your blog posts and so on, is not something you need to spend time on. However there are still some who are still worth submitting to like sites that accepts stories.

So be careful, text links are what you should get, those count as backlinks. There are many ways to get backlinks, so focus on the good ways. There are enough ways to spend all your time on them. How many times have you tried searching for new ways to get backlinks? Remember, you do not have to reinvent the wheel which can be time consuming.

farhad01582 asked:


For example, when I type into the Yahoo search bar “link:www.website.com” is comes up with 57 inlinks.

But when I type “link:www.website.com” into Google is displays that there are no links. This happens with all websites; it seems they all pick up on different amounts of links and sometimes the amounts differ drastically.

Is there a reason behind this?

Thanks in advance

Lee Roshan-Nahad asked:


Ranking highly in the search engine results is very important in generating high traffic to your website/blog. In addition to having good, relevant content on your site one of the best ways to increase your search ranking is to get high quality backlinks to your site.

A backlink is simply a clickable link that directs to another website (yours). The most powerful backlinks are one-way backlinks. One way backlinks are best; these are when a site links to your site but you don‘t reciprocally link back to them.

Putting backlinks in forums is a great way to go about doing this. These links can generate direct traffic to your site, as people browsing the forum click your links in addition to raising your search engine ranking. You need to be careful when using forums in this way. Do it wrong and you will be branded a spammer and most likely get your forum account closed. If done properly however, it can be a powerful and easily used tools to add to your repertoire.

Locate Forums Relating To Your Niche:

“Relating to your niche“ is the key term!. You want to be sure to find forums related to your niche - the topic of your website. Probably the easiest way to do this is to type in your niche into Google with the word “forum” after it. Let’s say you have a blog on healthy living. You’d type into Google “Healthy Living Forum”, or something similar.

There are two basic reasons why you want to find forums that actually relate to your niche.. First, the search engines will usually give more weight to links pointing to your site if they come from sites centred around the same niche as your site. Secondly, you are far more likely to come across parties that are interested in your site by placing it in the appropriate forums.

Join The Best Forums:

After finding the forums you want, you need to  decide on which ones you should join. Click the links to visit about half a dozen of the top search results. You can usually browse through forums without having to sign up, only when you actually want to participate, do you need to join. If you land on a forum that won’t let you view unless you join, forget it and move on.

Its only really worth your while to join popular forums so take a look at how many members there are in each forum you visit. You also need to make sure those members are active. Go into one of the more popular forums categories and scan down the list of threads to see when the last posting was made. This information is usually in the right hand column of the forum threads table. If you see a lot of posts made in the last 24 hours, you’ve found a forum with lots of active members. A popular forum like this will attract the search engines and therefore your links will be picked up quite quickly. Search engines tend to love sites with lots of frequently updated, relevant content. This is the ideal type of forum.

The last important step before joining a forum is to make sure that it allows you to add a “signature” to all of your posts. Jump into one of the more popular threads on the forum. Scroll down and look at the posts to see if anyone has a signature showing at the bottom of their post. There will usually be a horizontal line after the body of the post and some text and/or links underneath it. Often people just have a quote or witty saying, but sometimes they will have links as well. Not everyone will have a signature, but try to find some members who do. Signatures are crucial, because this is where you are going to put the links to your site.

When you find a forum that fit’s the bill, follow the steps to sign up. You only need to find a few to begin with, you can always find more later on 

Your Signature:

Log in to the forum. Once there go to your profile. Often this will be called ‘User CP’ or ‘User Profile’. In this area you can edit things like your avatar, your bio and preferences. Look for the part that says something like ‘Edit signature’ and click that. You’ll see a text field where you can type in the text you want to appear beneath all your posts. This is where you’ll put the backlinks to your site.

Forums use a special kind of code to allow members to format their posts. It’s called BBCode and it’s quite simple to use once you get the hang of it. Copy the examples below and change the URL and text to your URL and some catchy keyword-rich text. Paste the code into you signature box and save it.

Link to your website or blog with this code:

Learn how to start [url=http://www.onestep4income.net]Coin Collecting[/url] the easy way.

You can see in the code above where you need to edit the domain to be your domain. In this example, ‘Coin Collecting’ will be the anchor text for the link. This is where you want to put your keywords. Almost all forums will allow you to have a link in your signature.

If you want to make your signature bold, just add the bold tags around it like this:

[b]Learn how to start [url=http://www.onestep4income.net]Coin Collecting[/url] the easy way.[/b]

Most forums will allow you to bold the text in your signature. If you add the bold code and your signature still doesn’t come out in bold then it’s you know the bold formatting is not allowed.

Some forums will also allow you to change the color of the text, although the anchor text will come out as the default link color, usually blue. Here’s how you change the text color:

[color=red]Learn how to start [url=http://www.onestep4income.net]Coin Collecting[/url] the easy way.[/color]

You can also combine formatting. This would make your signature red and bold (except for the link text which will usually be blue bold).

[color=red][b]Learn how to start [url=http://onestep4income.net]Coin Collecting[/url] the easy way.[/b][/color]

One final tip for creating your signature. Less is more. If you make your signature look spamming people will treat you like a spammer. You don’t have to use up all available lines in your signature. Make it short, sweet and to the point. If you post great content and people are interested they will click your link.

Step 4: Participate!

The first three steps were all preparation. Now you get to start creating backlinks to your site! It’s simple, just participate in the forum. Post good content, ask questions. Try to help people out by answering questions. Be nice, be helpful.

Every post you make will give you a backlink to your site. The higher the quality of your post, the more powerful your backlink will be, at least in Google. Because Google looks at the text surrounding a link to determine the relevancy of a link having good content in your posts is much more valuable than having a post that says something like, “great post, I agree”. If you simply participate in the forum and try to be friendly and helpful chances are your content will take care of itself.

That’s it. Have fun. And remember, you can change your signature any time you want. You might change the text a bit from time to time to find out what generates the most clicks to your site.

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