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The Best Known Ways To Build Your Links!

Amirmullick3 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:14:17 GMT

http://myseoblog.net/2008/03/05/link-building-basics/

Check it out for sure, its really good.

http://www.dewittsmedia.com/seo-blogs/seo/link-building/

This one has GREAT list of details!!

Link building; How fast is too fast?

webdigo — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:55:02 GMT

Links are the lifelines for getting traffic from search engines. That makes link building very essential for marketing a website.

Lot of people I hear say building links too fast would get the site penalized. How fast is considered too fast? Is there is any number we should abide by?

Best link development approach

webdigo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:30:08 GMT

Links from other sites are the life line for any website. Links from other sites significantly determine your website page rankings for different keywords and your website PR as well.

Many people tend to get links from high PR websites like directories etc. Used to be the case when getting links from high PR site paid off really well. Not any more.

With current search algorithm getting links from related sites is the most important. No matter what PR the linking site has, if its related to your website you should consider getting a link from it. And that makes the game of link building difficult.

Exchanging Links - Is it SEO mistake?

mit — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:14:30 GMT

Hi guys,

I like to discuss this with you - [b]Exchanging Links - A SEO Mistake?[/b] because that is what I have read in a blog.

[b]And One more thing that he is saying that if [/b]- I'll send a LE request to any webmaster, it would be considered as a "SPAM" and for this, Google will penalize my site.

Now, I totally disagree with that guy, if you are doing LE in an ethical way. If you are linking with the quality and relevant website which would be useful to your visitors as well. It will not harm you in any way.

Top 10 Social Bookmark Sites

Amirmullick3 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:18:53 GMT

All information based on traffic of 28 websites of my clients I manage. Here list (in order) of social sites which send us most traffic during March 2008.

1. www.stumbleupon.com
2. www.digg.com
3. www.sphinn.com (SEO / Internet only)
3. www.9rules.com
4. www.indianpad.com
5. www.blogcatalog.com (not all our sites listed)
6. www.plime.com
7. www.designfloat.com (design only)
8. www.mybloglog.com
9. www.zimbio.com
10. www.del.icio.us (not all our sites listed and we wasn't active there)

Your results may vary because traffic also depends how often you submit your links, how active you are, how many friends and connections you have, how well you rank in social site.

Article Marketing

webdigo — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:07:06 GMT

Article marketing is old fashioned but still useful way of building backlinks. With the explosive popularity of social networking websites, article marketing lost appeal to many. Mainly because of the "instant result" nature of the social networking site marketing.

With lot of people misusing the social networking websites, most of the popular ones use NOFOLLOW tags on links these days.

I am sure you have heard of the story slow turtle beats the fast rabbit by hard working. This happen to be very true on website marketing as well. Most of us won't be able to make Digg front page or so to get boost of traffic. I rather find the old fashioned ways, including article marketing, more useful.

Free Backlink Checker; Great Tool

webdigo — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:11:23 GMT

Free backlink checker with many options.

It checks your backlinks' Pagerank, Anchor, Anchor type (Text, Image or Image with Alt tag), Nofollow and Robots.txt, Broken Links and also the number of Outbound Links on the donor page.

[url=http://seopro.com.au/free-seo-tools/link-checker/]http://seopro.com.au/free-seo-tools/link-checker/[/url]

Link Development Guide for Dummies

webdigo — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:16:30 GMT

Link Development Guide for Dummies

This is a guide to get novice webmasters get started on link building. As novice webmaster gets experienced they will find many more ways of link building.

With all the methods mentioned below, many website may use the NOFOLLOW attribute with links. If you are upto link juice you have to find out which sites are using it, which are not.

[b]Press Release[/b]
Submitting press releases online helps building links, also can keep your website in the news. If your story is interesting enough there are chances of getting published on news media. Write and submit press releases 1 or 2 times a month. Some submissions are free, some paid. I would suggest starting with the free ones.

[b]Article Writing[/b]
Write articles and submit to article directories. Most article directories will allow you add 3 links. Put links for the keywords you like to rank your website. This can greatly improve your traffic, and you get backlinks.

[b]Link Directories[/b]
Easiest way to get one way backlinks to your site. There are thousand of free directories to submit your site.

[b]Paid Links[/b]
You can always buy links from other sites.

[b]Link Bait[/b]
Link bait could be writing an interesting article, or developing a useful tool offering it free so other webmasters link to your site. If you have something interesting this could get you thousands of links in no-time.

[b]Social Networking Sites[/b]
Social Networking sites (e.g. MySpace.com, Facebook.com) most of the time allows links on the profile page.

[b]Wiki Sites[/b]
Many major sites today have added wiki pages with user-edited content. Getting a link from sites like Wikipedia.org would be really great thing to your site.

[b]Forums[/b]
There's a forum for every niche out there. Most forums offer signature links. Use them to get backlinks.

[b]Blogs[/b]
Used to be a popular method. Lot of people still use that.

[b]Classified Ads[/b]
You can post ads on classified ads sites like webcosmo.com etc. Most of those sites offer free postings.

does links get your pr up

omari — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:57:36 GMT

I was wondering does links to your page get your pr up. if not what is a fast easy way to get your pr up.

Mega Backlink Guide

webdigo — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:34:46 GMT

This resource is from [url=http://seonoobs.com/104-ways-to-get-backlinks-mega-backlink-guide/]http://seonoobs.com/104-ways-to-get-backlinks-mega-backlink-guide/[/url]
They did a great job putting together such a huge list. Here is the guide in their own words:
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Building backlinks to your blog/site is crucial in achieving, maintaining, and improving your search engine rankings. If you don’t already know, a backlink to your site is like a vote. Not all votes are equal, and the same rings true for Backlinks, but we can all agree that attaining more Backlinks (healthy ones) is a key integral part of your website and it’s rankings. Having said that, the question I get the most, and one I see often asked in forums and other SEO blogs is, “How can I get more backlinks?”. While some of us may take it for granted the fact that getting backlinks is easy as pie – most new webmasters and bloggers are still overwhelmed with the fact that not only do they have continually add fresh content, but they also have to work on getting more backlinks! Below is a list that I put together that is more of a brainstorm session than anything – and keep in mind, some of these methods are ways of getting more exposure for your site that have the possibility of leading to links. I hope you find it useful, and if I forgot anything, feel free to leave it in the comments.

[b]
104 Ways To Get Backlinks:[/b]

1. Create viral linkbait.
2. Write and give away a free ebook.
3. Write a pillar (authority) article.
4. Create a numbers list (10 ways to xxx, 20 different xxxx).
5. Hold a contest, and require that they link back to you for an entry.
6. Send off interview templates to big bloggers, and post up completed interviews.
7. Create a Wordpress plugin.
8. Design a hot Wordpress theme, and distribute it for free, requiring they keep your link in the footer.
9. Create controversy (be careful and don’t get into something you can’t handle)
10. Find a scammer/shady website or blogger, and make the world known about it.
11. Submit a press release about your new product or news.
12. Submit your site to free directories (careful, only SEO friendly ones)
13. Submit your site to paid directories (dmoz(kidding!), yahoo, alive)
14. Submit articles to article directories.
15. Submit posts to blog carnivals.
16. Email a webmaster, and ask for a link.
17. Offer to buy a one way link from another relevant website (keep this on the DL)
18. Send unsolicited, yet awesome articles to other bloggers to reference or post
19. Let your networked friends know that you’ll do reviews and testimonials.
20. Buy reviews on pay-per-post or a similar service.
21. Get on the Digg front page (and watch your server melt).
22. Exchange Stumbles on popular webmaster forums.
23. Submit to Del.icio.us
24. Answer a question on Yahoo Answers and reference your site.
25. Pick a hot ebook or software program and review it for free.
26. If you get paid for a review – make it a great one, and you’ll get a link back.
27. Don’t be afraid to link out – share the link love (just don’t get too spammy)
28. Be the first to report breaking news (hard, but very effective)
29. Review a semi-popular tech gadget.
30. Review stuff on Amazon, and put your link in your profile
31. Create a Linked-In page, and make sure to put your link on it.
32. Speaking of that, do the same for Facebook, Myspace, and others..
33. Hire good writers to pump out quality content.
34. Join all applicable Chamber of Commerce’s’ in your area for free links
35. Join the BBB (Better Business Bureau) for a free link.
36. Post a bulletin in your Myspace account about your new site.
37. Throw a relevant link in a Craigslist ad.
38. Create your own SEO tool.
39. Buy TV air time on a small station flashing your URL.
40. Buy Radio time for a short commercial spamming your URL.
41. Put bumper stickers on your car with your link on it.
42. Look for older, higher PR sites with Guestbooks, and sign them! Easy links.
43. Comment on Do-Follow blogs (meaning the link in your comment will be followed by a spider)
44. Post your link in forums, and your forum signature.
45. Don’t forget to link from some of your older, more established sites.
46. Buy post level links from other bloggers/webmasters. (usually cheap)
47. Don’t be afraid to ask for links, you just never know!
48. Do pro-bono work for a non-profit, and they may link to you.
49. Offer to be a guest blogger or regular contributor on a bigger blog.
50. Apply to about.com for a topic that you can write about.
51. Sell items on ebay and agree to donate proceeds to charity – they will link to you.
52. Hire someone from a webmaster forum to submit links for you.
53. Trade articles with industry related webmasters
54. Rewrite old content they may have been buried to fast…breath new life.
55. Find out about getting a link on your local libraries website.
56. Launch an affiliate program for your site, ebook, or product.
57. Technorati tag all of your posts for good Technorati exposure.
58. Take advantage of “old world media” (newspapers, magazines)
59. Rent links from Text-Link-Ads or similar service (careful with this one!)
60. If you have the ability, create a Firefox extension and release it.
61. Answer questions on Google Groups and link if necessary.
62. Call in to a radio show and shamelessly plug your site!
63. A good PPC campaign can draw exposure which could = links.
64. Head over to the slums (chat rooms) and mention your site if appropriate.
65. Create a controversial political cartoon and get it some attention.
66. Most local Fox sites have a blogging community you can tap into.
67. Hire someone to do everything in this list. Outsourcing is cheap and fun.
68. Get business cards, and distribute the hell out of them for exposure.
69. Drop your link on Xbox live.
70. Mention your link when you’re playing online PC games.
71. Donate a larger sum of money to a small charity in exchange for a link.
72. If you’re in school, put your link on your college website (even sneak it in for a free .edu backlink – lol)
73. If you have family friendly content, get a link from your Church’s website.
74. Set up a Squidoo lens with good content, and link to your site from it.
75. Sponsor an event or a big contest – trust me, lots of link love there.
76. Enter all the group writing projects you can find – good links.
77. Start a community helpful website, and get on the local news – they love it.
78. Submit to RSS feed sites – hopefully they’ll link back.
79. Make sure to take advantage of trackbacks when linking out to other blogs.
80. Set up an award system on your site, and have readers vote on best site.
81. Speaking of that, enter all the award sites you can.
82. Make a super crazy viral type video, and get it on Youtube.
83. Start a podcasting series, and build an audience, they’ll link to you.
84. Write a heavily opinionated piece to get people talking.
85. Retain a real linkbaiting service. (There are a few out there, but $$$)
86. Hire an actual real life publicist for your site (if you can justify it)
87. Help with an up and coming web 2.0 project for more exposure.
88. Start a content writing service website, and have clients link to you for a discount.
89. Crack the top 100 in Technorati, or create the largest MyBlogLog community.
90. Go old school and trade links with other relevant sites.
91. Check who links to your competitors, and get links from them!
92. Provide a sexy “link to me” button or banner, and people will use it, for real.
93. Create a good Facebook app, and if it’s really good, the links will pour in.
94. Review bands, local restaurants, and small shops and get links on their sites in return for the exposure.
95. Speaking of that, sponsor a hot local band’s show one night with big flashy banners with your link on it (in the background)
96. When Hannah Montana comes to town, buy up some tickets, offer them on your site as prizes. Local news stations and papers will eat it up alive.
97. Sue Yahoo, Google, or whoever, and you’ll get plenty of publicity – lol
98. Answer all of your emails promptly and professionally. People love that, and will link to you and let everyone know how swell you are.
99. Create a thorough walk through on a game or even an electronic device. People love that stuff!
100. Network with like-minded individuals offline. Talk to them about tossing your link up on their site.
101. Write about the hottest celebrities, and make it unique. People love Hollywood.
102. Create your own Wiki page (it’s nofollow, but could lead to natural links)
103. Create your own training program for your field of interest.
104. Offer an on-page language translator to reach out to other countries, which can lead to new links

How to get one way links

webdigo — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:24:46 GMT

Here are some ideas to get one way links. Some sites may have rel="NOFOLLOW", you have to find out that.

- classified ads
- forum signature
- blog comment
- social networking submission
- directory submission

If you have any other idea, list here.

what is link development

omari — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:43:04 GMT

what does this do and how does it help

What is Link Bait

webdigo — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:17:24 GMT

Link Bait is the marketing technique that could make your website, and possibly you, famous in just a matter of days. Now there is a if. If you can do it right. Lets see what link bait is.

Link bait is any content or feature on a website that makes other webmasters place links to it from other websites. It could be a tool you develop for your website visitors, or an interesting topic e.g. "Paris Hilton is Pregnant!". Link bait can be an extremely powerful form of marketing because of its viral in nature.

[b]Link bait in search engine optimization[/b]

The [b]quantity[/b] and [b]quality[/b] of inbound links are two of the many metrics used by a search engine ranking algorithm to rank a website. Link bait creation falls under the task of link building, and aims to increase the quantity of high-quality, relevant links to a website.

Part of successful linkbaiting is starting a mini-PR campaign around the release of a link bait article so that bloggers and social media users are made aware and can help promote the piece in tandem.

[b]Types of link bait[/b]

Although there are no clear-cut subdivisions within link bait, many attempt to divide them into types of hooks. Here is a short list of some of the most common approaches with brief descriptions:

[b]Informational Hooks:[/b] Provide information that a reader may find very useful. Some rare tips and tricks or any personal experience through which readers can benefit.
[b]News Hooks:[/b] Provide fresh information and garner citations and links as the news spreads.
[b]Humor Hooks[/b] Tell a funny story or a joke. A bizarre picture of your subject or mocking cartoons can also prove to be a link bait.
[b]Evil Hooks[/b] Saying something unpopular or mean may also yield a lot of attention. Writing about something that is not appealing about a product or a popular blogger. Provide strong reasons for it.
[b]Tool Hooks[/b] - Create some sort of tool that is useful enough that people link to it.

[b]My Experience:[/b]
When I was very new in blogging I wrote this small article titled as "[url=http://www.cosmocentral.com/post/John-Chow-Shoe-Money-John-Cow--How-do-they-do-it.aspx]John Chow, Shoe Money, John Cow : Success at same time, HOW?[/url]". It was basically comparing those three blogs using compete.com. As it seems like all three sites got success at the same time; I wrote that article. Do I have anything against them? Of course not. I was just trying to use their already built reputation to get people read my blog.

And guess what, it worked quite well as per link baiting goes. I had comments on that article from Jeremy ShoeMoney, John Cow, and Compete.com. Only John Chow is still missing. After all I had my blog catch attention to many.

[b]Be Prepared for Failure:[/b]
Most link baiting efforts goes in vain; doesn't work. Before you go for it, do your homework quite well. But stay ready for the failure as well. But hey if you won't try you would never see success.

Free list of authority sites for a specific keyword.

hyperabsinthe157 — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:29:49 GMT

I'll give you a list of authority websites for a specific keyword. It's all free, just PM me or leave a reply. :D