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Friday, December 18th, 2009
HI, This article was written by one of our NextGenLinks.comĀ clients and he asked me to post it here on our blog
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Ever thought how can you get quality back-links for free without having to do a lot of hard work?
So what are quality back-links?
Let’s first decide what exactly are quality back-links so that we will look for certain ways to get them and leave other ways of getting back-links alone. What I have learned in a few years of link building for my sites and blogs is: “Quality back-links are those, which come from a page having same keywords as yours. The page you are getting your links from should never look like being spammed and must be search engine friendly. Make sure it is not included in the robots.txt and is crawled by search engine bots or crawlers on regular basis.”
As now we know what quality back-links are, so lets head towards our main goal which is to get these quality back-links easily and without having to spend a single penny.
1) Ask for them
You must know what sites have similar keywords as your sites, in other words your competitors. In case you don’t know about all of your major competitors, search for them using a search engine. Once you have a list of all of them. Select a few of them to get back-links from. This selection should be done on the basis of quality of their site, incoming links towards their site, PR, traffic and how often they appear in SERPS. Once you have done this, don’t go on and ask them for a link. Do it the other way around. Link to their site from yours. Make sure the page you have put their link on has some good traffic. Let them notice the traffic they are getting from your site. After a week or two, email them for link exchange. I am sure the other webmaster will think at least twice before turning down your request.
2) Establish Related Sites and Blogs
This certainly is the best way to get them in my opinion. Make sure the blogs/sites you create have similar keywords as your main site. The other benefit of doing this is that, once those sites start picking up traffic you can monetize them by placing ads or selling something. As, in this article I am emphasizing on getting back-links for free, so I will recommend creating a free blog on blogger.com rather than setting up a website.
3) Submit to Link Directories
Link directories are easiest way of getting back-links in my opinion. Make sure the directories you select to submit your site are high quality ones. Don’t forget to select a proper category for your site as choosing a proper category will ensure that the back-link is from a related keyword. For instance, if your site is astronomy related, choosing an astronomy category will be the best thing to do.
Make sure you can find some FREE directories. Here is a list of free and quality link directories: http://linkdirs.blogspot.com/2009/04/list-of-free-link-directories.html
4) Article Marketing
I am new to this so can’t really talk about it in depth, but I know people who have gained huge success doing article marketing in terms of back-links and traffic both. All you have to do is write a good informative article and submit it to article directories like EzineArticles.com. In the resource box of the article you place url to your site and thus get back-link and traffic and whenever someone uses your article on their blog/site a new back-link points towards your site. So these were some ways of getting free, easy and quality back-links. All you have to do is spend some time and results are unbelievably good. Try for yourself.
5) And of course, my favorite, Automated Links by NextGenLinks.com!
To learn more about that, take a look at the NextGenLinks.com homepage and be sure to browse through all of the great articles on this blog!
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Many website owners are confused about how to build deep links and how often these links should be added to the Internet. SEO as a whole is a detailed process with many website owners sticking with the most obvious SEO tactics like keyword usage because they simply do not understand the rest. Building internal links is much more important than the links to the main URL of a website, did you know that?
SEO experts agree that internal links, or deep links, play a very important role in the search engine popularity of a website. Think of the internal pages of a websites as the back roads in a city. The cars drive through the main streets very frequently, but that does not mean traffic does not flow to the smaller side roads as well. Internal links provide these “cars” with a new place to visit and love. The same goes for link popularity. The deep pages of a website need to gain backlinks in order to feel a bit of that traffic flow.
SEO Link Building for Trusted Websites
Websites with trusted rankings on the search engines often feel as though they have no need for internal linking, but that is not the case. However, building internal links for trusted websites may be harder than for newbie websites. Being trusted means holding a bit of Internet clout and that clout cannot be thrown around to any and every website on the Internet. Deep links for the trusted website should be scattered lightly to boost that trust.
Established websites may also benefit from navigation structural changes and simplifying the movement through their website. No user should ever get lost in a website without a clear path back to their starting destination. It is also important that all of the website content be accessible with as few clicks as possible. If the reader cannot find your information, they are not going to stick around forever.
The Outbound Link and SEO Link Building
Another misunderstanding between the SEO creators and the website owner is in the value of the outbound link. The search engine bots do not want websites that are full of themselves. What they want are websites that offer great information and links to other sources of complimentary information. There are three main rules to linking out to other websites, always use anchor text that is relevant to your site and theirs, link to content that is similar to your own and choose anchor text words that mirror your website keywords.
Some website owners worry about passing their website popularity through the links. This is often termed Do Follow. The Do Follow attribute has been a confusing trait, but one that can be easily explained. Do Follow means one website is vouching for another. No Follow is the opposite. When link building, it is important to establish only Do Follow links. Why would a search engine give props to a website for linking out to another website they do not trust.
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
The interesting thing about building quality backlinks is that many marketers start out strong and then die off after a while. This is not a fault, just a break from the tedious task of constantly working on establishing more and more links to the pages of a website. If your marketing efforts started out in a sprint and article submission websites were part of that campaign, you could have a great source for deep links under your nose.
On many article submission websites, the articles published can be edited at any time. These edited articles will often be placed back in the editing queue, which means a bit of a delay before the new version is published, but that is no problem when compared to writing a whole new article.
Why Edit a Published Article?
When you first published the article to the submission website, you probably had fewer pages on your site. Or, maybe the keyword research was lacking and you just stuck any keyword in the resource box linking back to your home page. The article can be edited both for content and to refresh that resource box which is where the back link is often located.
Content can be edited for a variety of reasons. Maybe you knew little about keyword density or you want to refresh the content published to reflect changes in the article topic. Refreshing content with up to date information is a great way to revive old, stagnant article directory submissions.
Editing the resource box begins with a relevant keyword. The keyword you now use regularly is the one that your search for when testing your SERP. This keyword, or phrase, is the same one that needs to be hyperlinked in your resource box. This keyword does not, however, need to utilize the same URL in every box. Take a look at the example below:
Resource Box 1: To learn more about <a href=”http://yourwebsitename.com/page2″>one way links</a> Your Website Name can help.
It is the power of <a href=”http://yourwebsitename.com/page10″>backlinking</a> that means you can Get More Traffic tomorrow.
This resource box uses two different keyword phrases and two different URLs directed at the main website. The URLs are deep which means they are not leading to the main page, but rather they are leading to one of the inner pages of the website.
The resource box can remain the same on several articles with a simple change to the inner page URL for other articles. By changing up the resource boxes on your article directory submissions, there is equal link love to all of the pages of your website.
A Huge Task For One Person
An established website with several layers of pages may have a bit of trouble keeping track of all the pages that need links on the web. Building backlinks is a slow process that requires quality over quantity and a strong sense of accounting methods. A backlink building company may be able to help make the process easier and more effective by tracking ALL of the pages on your website and the number of links established for each page (especially the deep pages).
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on link building will not help your website if the content on that site is not optimized for the web. Web optimization is more than SEO, it is the use of the right words, description, title and article length for the Internet skimmer.
Keywords – Okay, so SEO is important. The keywords used in your web content need to be the same keywords you are working to gain SERP for with your website. It is important to focus on a main keyword or long tailed keyword phrase and a few sub-keywords.
Choosing the keywords is just as important as using them within the Internet content. The keywords are what the search engines will use to rank a website. If the website is focused on a tiny niche, like “free, open-source software programs”, it is important to use that keyword and variations of that keyword that are similar in meaning. The use of a long tailed keyword like this works with Latent Semantic Indexing, or LSI. LSI is the art of using keywords that people commonly type into search boxes.
Description – The description of an article is often included on article submission websites and not on website content. This could be a huge oversight. New websites post a brief, catchy description before the beginning of their articles. Why? Because people read the description first and are drawn into the topic of the article. This keeps them on the page longer and reading more of your content.
Title – Without a doubt, a powerful title is key to catching the attention of the Internet skimmer. The reason the term “skimmer” is used is due to the nature of people who browse the Internet. Readers want articles that are on topic and interesting. If the title is dull, there is very little chance that the reader will continue through the rest of the article. Furthermore, if the title is catchy, there is a better chance that other websites will republish the content on their websites, which helps to gain more backlinks.
Article Length – Another huge facet of writing for the Internet is the length of an article. EzineArticles, one of the most popular article submission websites, tells writers to keep articles within 400 to 500 words. If the topic stretches out longer than that, the attention of the reader could be lost. Articles with more than 500 words could be broken into more than one article and with content still being King, this means more content and more potential backlinks.
Too Much to Learn? Why Not Outsource?
If learning the art of writing for the web seems a bit overpowering, there are companies willing to work with your content or provide content creation and backlinking services for your business. Choosing the right business is about time. The fastest service will NEVER provide the best results.
Writing content for your website requires knowledge of writing content for the web. While search engine algorithms are constantly changing, there is one thing that will never change. Content is important, great content is more important and a strong title is what holds the entire package together.
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
If you want to maximize the traffic to your website or blog, you need to focus on deep link building. Granted, there are other important factors that you need to implement to get traffic, but if you have already worked on writing keyword-rich content and there aren’t enough fish biting, it is time to turn to deep link building to jumpstart your website’s traffic and page rank.
Here’s the way deep link building works: Say you have a website with a home page, a depository of informative articles, some sections on various products you sell, and some pages describing affiliates that you recommend. All of those articles, product pages, and affiliate profiles are deep pages. Deep pages are pages that are embedded deeper into the website than just the home page.
To help you understand why deep links are so valuable, think about a person who is searching for “treatments for gout”, as an example. If they put in this search term, how valuable is it for them to see the homepage of a medical website, rather than see the deep page that actually talks about treatments for gout?
So, when people are on other websites and they see a link to your website that has to do with what they’re interested in, they are “targeted traffic.” This means that you have what they’re specifically looking for, and they are then more likely to buy a product or click on an ad from that webpage.
Deep Linking and Search Ranking…
Deep link building is also important for search rankings. One reason websites like Wikipedia are so high up in the search engine results is because people all over the Internet place deep links to Wikipedia. That means that someone will put a link to a specific topic on Wikipedia in their articles and web pages and that increases Wikipedia’s credibility as a valuable site. Search engines love deep links, because they show that people are interested in more than just the main page of a website.
If you compare a website to a house, there’s the front door (which is the main page), and there are a bunch of side doors. Deep links are like side doors into a website, and they give users exactly what they’re interested in on a website. So, if you practice deep link building, you are going to get people from other websites going to the pages on your website that they’re interested in.
Higher and Higher…
If you get enough deep link building from various websites, you will not only get more traffic from people who follow those links, but you’ll get more traffic from a higher search engine ranking. A higher search engine ranking means more people will have deep links to your site, and it gets easier from there.
So now that you know all of this, how can it help you if you’re already struggling to get traffic to your site? You should know that search engine optimization is a critical part of getting targeted traffic, but you should also consider a professional link building service like NextGenLinks.com. The job of these services is to get you organic deep links that raise your ranking naturally and get you more traffic.
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