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July 22, 2010 - 12:31 pm
All the search engines basically determine the rankings through the links that a website and its sub-pages has. In case of link exchange quality is more important than the quantity. By exchanging links with good and optimized websites, it helps the websites to get the top rankings for their prime keywords in search engines. Text links are the most important than the image links, because search engines can read and understand texts, but ignores images. Link exchange will be beneficial for both the websites that has exchanged links externally (outside own website). A single link from a related website is more important than hundreds of links from completely unrelated websites. So, quality and similar related websites links are the basic theory to determine the search engine rankings.
A complete solution on how to exchange links? in step by step method for beginners.
Use text links, avoid image links.
Anyhow, if you have used image links, then always make sure to put your keywords in the alt tags.
Put your prime keywords in text links and always insure to put a short descriptions of your website/page in minimum of 20-30 words or more if allowed.
In text links if you are not allowed to add descriptions then always try to put a short descriptions in title tag. E.g.:hover your mouse over the text Link Exchange Tips, No Tricks
Avoid repetition of keywords, repetition will lead to low rankings.
Always try to exchange links from related websites (e.g. if you have a football league website, then a link from other sports websites will be known as related website links)
Never, exchange links with unrelated websites/pages.
Always ensure that the website that you are exchanging links with, is well optimized and has a good content.
Never try to exchange links in quick sessions. Since search engines ignores or does not index those sites who gets bundles of links in quick time.
Give your link exchange works few hours every day, to ensure that you get limited but quality links.
Mainly for new websites, avoid exchanging bundles of links in quick sessions.
Avoid creating a link/links.html file, since search-engines do not index link/links.html files, often.
Always make a ‘resources’ (any appropriate name) folder and create an index.html file for that named folder and create appropriate html files for appropriate links going into them. (a sort of web-directory)
Never, never exchange links with pages bearing more than 50 back-links. Generally 25 is appropriate and should not be more than two clicks away from the index/main page.
Always ensure yourself that the page/website you are exchanging link is being indexed by the search engines or not.
Also ensure on your own that the page/website you are exchanging link with, is not being blocked by any scripts, or disallowed by robots.txt, or disallowed by using noindex, nofollow on html page.
Avoid linking to those tricky and false websites, and if possible inform already linked websites about the matter and ask them for link-exchange, if related to your websites.
Links from the main/index page of the related website is the most quality link that a website can get. But, never try to place more than 20 back-links in index/main page.
Exchanging links with your competitor’s back linking website/pages are also the quality links that a website can get.
Never post your website links to FFA, Guestbook, or other unrelated areas. Since search-engines completely ignores such links and may penalize your website.
Site bearing good Google page rank are appropriate for link-exchange. Generally 4+ Google page rank is great for link-exchange.
Exchanging links with old website is excellent.
Link exchanging with new websites, with decent Google ranking at first, but bears quality contents and is well optimized, is also an excellent option for exchanging-links, since new websites bears less outgoing links than the old websites.
While exchanging links for homepage of your website, also try to exchange links for sub-pages of it, for better ranking for that particular sub-page.
Personal verification of the linking partner’s website is recommended.
Check for total incoming and outgoing links for whole website or for particular sub-pages of your linking partner’s website and off course of your own before getting link exchanged.
Example of author’s search engine optimization and link building work can be found at The Indian Handicrafts. A link back to the author’s article page Link Exchange Tips, No Tricks is compulsory, in case of publication of this article in featured article websites or others.
July 19, 2010 - 12:32 pm
If you ever wondered how to measure results for SEO link building, here is one of many tactics that provides insight to how rankings are acquired as a result of a keyword acquisition & keyword sniping.
Relevance is the basis of rankings, you either have it or you don’t. Relevance is determined by the type of content you place on your website, the words you use to describe your business, the types of terms and jargon that BELONG to certain industries, etc. If your site lacks it, the good news is, you have control over the content, so if your existing site is off topic, then create new on topic content or create a new site using a highly relevant domain name, populate it with themed site architecture and content and start building links.
For example, if search engine user agents (spiders) are crawling your pages and they come across a high grouping of certain buzzwords within a particular proximity and consistency then they can parse the text and determine that your page has a high concentration of terms akin to one particular industry. If you are taking about percentages, deductions, W-2 forms and the like, they are smart enough to deduce through phrase rank, that the page is about accounting.
But just having this information (on-page) is not enough, you need to build links in order to stake your claim and plant the seed in search engines that not only is such information on your pages, but you would like your site to be classified, indexed and ranked highly for a specific subset of keywords when people use them in search engine queries.
One way to accomplish this is:
Use the words in unison when link building until your allinanchor position rises high enough to oust the next competitor from the position of having the highest relevance for those terms.
Now it may be that some websites rank higher for the exact match form of keywords for very particular reasons.
1) That they only focused on developing a narrow series of keywords such as 5-10 phrases (which will occur naturally over time as search engines glean the context of the pages). Or
2) That other’s linked to them using those narrow series of keywords (hence increasing their relevance for those search terms).
The less competitive the term, the easier it is to gain a higher position for the allinanchor (a term that means that out of the top 1,000 pages for that keyword, is at the top of the list). To check the position of the allinanchor (which is often a near exact result of just performing a common search, you can use the search command allinanchor:add keyword here. The colon is important after the command, with no space with the keyword following immediately.
Not to digress from the point, the allinanchor relevance factor ideally should be escalated over time using a base of your main keywords and then as a result your pages appear higher and higher in search results.
To keep it simple, if I wanted to rank for the term internet marketing I would perform the search and use the search command allinanchor:internet marketing. From there try to find your website and see how many pages away from the top 10 you are. Then you know, just how much link building you have to do.
If you have a top 10 or top 20 allinanchor ranking for any of the three terms, then you will rank accordingly when any one of those keywords is used in a search vs. other websites who are not link building.
Just imagine that everyone starts at zero, as you build links your allinanchor ranking makes your site more relevant, and the more keywords you use along the way, the higher you will rank when those keywords hit their plateau.
Now that I see that the TBPR Export is over and Google has reindexed the web. A few weeks ago, the bottom literally feel out from thousands of search terms instead of the lofty 62 million results we now see, it was a sparse figure (less than 50,000) competing pages, refer to this post for more information.
The idea is to use overlapping keywords when building links, for such a competitive term it’s always best to get in before the keyword becomes a buzzword, but just in case you can, you have to think about quality of links vs. quantity.
It will take several months to acquire such a keyword (6-9 months easily if not a year) since as you build links, you competitors who started before you are building theirs as well, which can be quite challenging if you are using a tit for tat mentality.
Most keywords only take 2-3 months if their are moderately competitive, but you have to use them in your tags, use them frequently in multiple forms to really cement them within your on page SEO and when you build links using variations, the search engines will respond and rank your pages accordingly.
The objective here is to build quality links and acquire as many variations as possible (internet marketing, marketing solutions, services for marketing on the internet, etc) as insulation for the crowning achievement of the two word term (internet marketing).
One way to do accelerate this is to socially bookmark your links are when you develop them, this way they stay afloat in search engines and by building links to your links, you pass more juice to your site as a result.
If I build links for a site for example using the anchor text SEO Internet marketing company, then I receive the benefit for (SEO Company, SEO Marketing, Internet Marketing Company, Marketing Company, etc.) all of the keywords (get a lift) and based on the prominent placement and chronological order of the words.
Likewise the idea here is to mix it up and use overlapping keywords that have semantic relevance in order to drive home the theme of your pages. Pages have the ability to rank independently, so just because one page in the site is general, a more specific page (with links built using a variety of anchor text) has the ability to rise up in the search engine result pages and rank like a champ.
However, it is better if you use the entire site to bring up select keywords at a time (through the process of link development), then once you have a foothold for the most prominent terms, then zero in and start picking off keywords with the greatest of ease.
I may have mentioned this several times in other tutorials, but just encasing the search term in “quotes” in Google for example, has the ability to show you the competitiveness for the keywords in question. When you see 1 of 10 of 239,000 for example, this is a competitive keyword, if you saw a result like 1 of 10 of 15,000 it’s as good as yours in a few weeks to a month, depending on how many variations you wanted to lay claim to.
Generally results of 50K or less are nice targets for keyword acquisition a.k.a. keyword sniping. Depending on the authority of your site, the number of back links you have and the topical relevance you have to the keywords each search engine responds a bit differently, but I have found that MSN live, has a very accurate search algorithm which essentially ranks the highest allinanchor pages the highest.
So, if you manage to hit the top 10 for MSN, you should also be ranking well in Yahoo. Google has it’s own unique set of criteria and oftentimes the results take longer to settle as their ranking algorithm is the most evolved and has filters to omit exaggeration of one method of another. As indicated, they use phrase rank, page rank and trust rank to determine relevance which is not gained overnight.
In essence, the sooner you start the better, also, it is better to build links gradually and not have tremendous spikes in increases or decreases in link velocity (the rate at which you acquire or lose links). So many times people give up before they hit the mark and breakthrough the top 30 results, which gives way to the top 20, top 10, top 5 and then #1 position for keywords as a result of steady link development.
Sometimes the pages that you point the links at don’t always get the boost, you may find that your home page takes the role of the catch all, or another page which has a lower keyword density starts popping up in search results instead of the page you anticipated.
This is a good thing and we can discuss that at a later time, but for the record that is the preview of allinanchor dominance which is sure to come as a result of consistent acquisition of links form a variety of sources (blogs, articles, references, social media sites and social bookmarks, .edu links, etc.).
But without relevance all the link building would miss it’s target as the on page and off page factors must align to realize the maximum benefit of your efforts.
February 20, 2010 - 5:40 pm
Tips To Increase Site Rankins Through Using A Link Building Service
Here are some basic principles to be enforced to help increase web site traffic and search site rankings if you decide not to hire a time saving Link Building Service Company. My recommendation is that you do outsource the maximum amount of the work load as possible to avoid becoming overwhelmed, and eventually, quitting. With that under consideration, let’s get started.
1. Make a web site with valuable content, products. This is the first thing you should do. You need to give your clients a reason to visit your site. What are you offering them? If you are unsure, figure this out first.
2. Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.
three. Research and use the best keywords / phrases to attract your target shoppers.
4. Use your keywords in the right fields and references in your web page. Like Title, META tags, Headers, for example.
5. Keep your internet site design easy so that your clients can navigate simply between net pages, find what they want and buy products and services.
6. Submit your internet pages i.e. Every net page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services. Hire a Link Building Service to do so, if required. Be certain this is a manual submission. Don’t engage an automated submission service.
7. Keep track of changes in search website algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search website ranking remains high. Use online tools and resources to keep track of how your internet site is doing. If you employed a Link Building Service, they’ll do this for you.
8. Monitor your competitors and the top ranked sites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, and so on.
nine. Use reports and logs from your website hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Investigate your visitor location and their in-going sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.
10. Make your customer visit straightforward and give them plenty of paths to remember you in the shape of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons and so on.
11. Demonstrate your industry and service or product experience by writing and submitting articles for your internet site or for article banks so you are understood as a guru in your field. A good Link Building Service will also provide these services, should you decide to hire one.
12. When selling products online, use straightforward payment and shipment strategies to make your customer’s's experience fast and easy. They are more likely to come back if they had a good experience with you.
thirteen. When not sure, hire pros. A top notch Link Building Service may seem costly, but it’s a lot more cost effective than spending your money on an internet site which no one visits, and thus, no sales are made.
14. Don’t look at your internet site as a static leaflet. Treat it as a dynamic, fast-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your clients with the same seriousness.