Anchor Text Can Improve Your Authority Score With Google
Google didn't create back links, but Google was the first search engine that ranked web pages based on the number and type of back links it attracted. To this day, Google's ranking algorithms are based, at least in part (and I'd like to add it's a large part), on back links. Even other major search engines have followed suit and now include some analyzation of back links in their ranking algorithms. Of course, over time, Google has refined its back link algorithm in particular and its search engine optimization ranking algorithm in general. Instead of just counting links as Yahoo! appears to do, Google actually looks at a number of factors related to links and judges those links based on an unknown scale of value (It's CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Does The Nofollow Attribute In Links Kill Your Link Popularity?
Does the nofollow attribute in links kill your link popularity? There’s good news. Nofollow doesn’t kill link popularity. There is a tendency to think that the nofollow attribute in links is a link popularity and search engine optimization killer. It isn't. While there are valid reasons for including the nofollow attribute in your links, it isn't always necessary. Though if you feel like it is necessary then at least you should know that you'll still get link juice from those links. Google is the only search engine that recognizes the nofollow attribute. Yahoo! ignores it completely. We've seen nofollow links get counted by Yahoo! left and right. If you check your link popularity you'll find that the Yahoo! count is almost always higher than the Google count. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Google And DMOZ: A Love Affair Gone Cold?
Even while DMOZ is congratulating itself and giving kudos to its best editors, Google is saying that it doesn't need to rely on The Open Directory Project any more for its information. Does this mean the love affair is over? I think it does. One of the reasons that Google rose to prominence so fast in the late 1990s and early part of this century is because it relied so heavily on DMOZ for information about websites it was indexing. But somewhere along the line DMOZ got flooded with webmaster applications, and if you've been following the drama for the past four or five years, webmasters have largely lost faith in the directory. But earlier this year DMOZ set about to change CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Do Backlinks From Low-PR, Nonrelevant Sites Count?
Everyone seems to be preoccupied with high PageRank sites within the same niche. But can you get link credit for low-PR, nonrelevant websites? Just like the words of that old country song from the 1970s: Everybody seems to love those younger women From eighteen on up to twenty-five In this case, it seems that everyone wants to go for the experienced and aged, but if you focus all of your efforts on high PageRank and relevance then you'll spend a lot of time looking for link love and get laid a lot less often. Is that a viable strategy? Yes. I'm not saying it isn't. But you don't have to do it that way. The reason many new webmasters get stuck on high PR and relevance is because they read CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Many Links Can You Have On Your Web Pages?
Anchor text is an important part of the search engine optimization fine tuning that you should do in developing your website content. The search engines not only look at the number of internal links you have on your site, but also what the text in your links say. They are primarily looking for relevance. This is true whether we are talking about internal links or inbound links. Link relevance is important and anchor text plays a part in that relevance formula. But what is "anchor text"? Anchor text is the key phrase that you use to link from one page to another. For instance, if you link from Page A to Page B using the key phrase "milk biscuits" then "milk biscuits" is your anchor text. What makes CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How StumbleUpon Passes Link Juice
I once thought StumbleUpon was completely nofollow, but then I realized that it isn't completely so. When you bookmark your web pages at StumbleUpon, those pages are nofollow. But your profile links are not. What that means is you can add links to your profile at StumbleUpon and those links are dofollow, completely. There are many social bookmarking sites set up that way. StumbleUpon is not the only one. The reason links in your profiles are dofollow and all others are nofollow is because these sites don't want you to show up and spam them thinking that you are going to build links back to your website. That isn't the case and there a couple of reasons why. No. 1, Google only counts so many links from CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Why Sidebar Links Are Important
Link popularity is the number of links you have point back to your website. While sheer numbers alone are not enough to ensure high search engine rankings, getting a lot of back links is important as part of your search engine optimization strategy. There are several ways you can get those links. One way is to search and find high PR websites that will link to you because they love you. That's a difficult task and can take a long time to win over those high value links. You might even have to pay for some of them (which I wouldn't recommend). Another way is to build up your arsenal of back links by building links over and over and over again. Sidebar links CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What Is Link Popularity And How Do I Get It?
Link popularity is something every website owner should be concerned about. But what is it and how do you get it? Link popularity is the number of inbound links you have to your website. The downside to link popularity is it doesn't measure the quality of your links. It only measures the quantity of them. That's fine, but your PageRank and trust authority are based on quality more than quantity. Still, it's nice to know how many links you have counting for you. Currently, Google and Yahoo! report inbound links. MSN does not; however, it has in the past and may do so again. There are several places you can go online to check your link popularity. You can go straight to the search engines or go CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Do You Really Get Links?
Link building has long been both a feared and a glorified activity for webmasters. Almost everyone knows that links are important, but few webmasters know how to go about getting them inexpensively and without effort. I know of one way that will almost guarantee that you get inbound links to your website, but only if you do it right. And it's not hard to do it right. Starting a blog and writing to it every day has more potential to help you build inbound links than anything else you do online. Many webmasters concentrate on creating link bait, but link bait takes time, money, and resources to create. A blog takes commitment and persistence. As for time, you can write a decent blog post in 30 CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Can Social Bookmarking Build Links?
Different people use the same tools for different purposes. Social bookmarking is one tool that can be used various ways. I recommend it for building traffic to your websites, but I also recommend it for link building. Be careful, though. Not all social bookmarking sites give link juice.
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apidpicks.com/
http://blogmarks.net/
http://buddymarks.com/
http://digg.com/
http://ez4u.net/
http://ma.gnolia.com/
http://mylinkvault.com/
http://spurl.net/
http://a1-webmarks.com/
http://backflip.com/
http://bibsonomy.org/
http://blogmemes.net/
http://bmaccess.net/
http://bookmarktracker.com/bt/home
http://connectedy.com/index.php
http://corank.com/
http://furl.net/
http://givealink.org/cgi-pub/bookmarklet/bookmarkletLogin.cgi
http://mister-wong.com/
http://mixx.com/
http://mypip.com/index.html
http://myvmarks.com/
http://newsvine.com/
http://oyax.com/
http://plugim.com/
http://propeller.com/
http://shoutwire.com/
http://squidoo.com/
http://syncone.net/
http://tedigo.net/index.cfm
http://yattle.com/
http://www.spicybookmark.com
With some of these sites you have to be careful because they'll cut off your account at a moment's notice with no explanation. If you distribute gambling information in the U.S. then some sites will ban you. It's against U.S. law to do so and the sites don't want to be shut down for allowing you to do it. But if you run a legitimate website and you want to build links then these sites should prove useful CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What Is Link Popularity?
Link popularity is a phrase that is used to describe your website's power according to the number of inbound links you have. There are several tools online that will measure your link pop for you and I'll list a few in a moment. Right now, I'll talk about the importance of link popularity. Any time another website links to yours you get credit for the link. You might get a lot of credit or a little credit, but you're going to get some credit. With a few exceptions. If you are being linked to from a spam site or bad neighborhood then you may not get credit for that link, but you won't be penalized. The search engines know that you can't help who links CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Article Marketing Is Better Than SEO – Since When?
Peter Nisbet wrote an article that claims article marketing is better than search engine optimization. Is he right? Well, let's take a look at his arguments: Article Marketing is Better for Your Website Than SEO Author: Peter Nisbet Article marketing is better for your website than SEO. That is a fact. How many visitors do you get to your website? Hundreds every day? If so then you must be in the top 10 results on Google for your keyword on at least one of your pages. Here is a good point. In order to get any real traffic from Google, you have to be on the first page of results. But Google isn't the only search engine. Depending on your niche, you might actually do better CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Get Free Links Using This Free Google Tool
One often overlooked free webmaster tool that Google provides for free is a link diagnostic tool that lets you analyze all the links on your website to determine what web pages link to your 404 error pages. You can use this tool to identify these links and help your search engine optimization efforts. Also by using this tool you can get information needed to contact the owners of those websites to have them point their links to the right pages. Why would you do this? Because the search engines are likely not counting inbound links that point to your 404 pages. This often happens when webmasters give a certain page a drastic redesign and change the name of the file in the process. Sometimes, changing the CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Google Reveals Its Inbound Link Prejudices
Google wrapped up its blog series on links last night with a post on inbound links. Quite frankly, I'm not a bit surprised at the message they delivered, but I am surprised that the post was much shorter than I anticipated. Their post on outbound links was much more detailed. Reading the Google Webmaster Central Blog, one might think that Google values outbound links more than inbound links when it comes to good search engine optimization strategy. That could be because of Google's philosophy that the Web is a massive connection of networked computers. Links are what the Web is all about. Why then do we say "Content is King?" It all boils down to POV. From the perspective of CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Link Architecture: What’s Best For Site Users Is Best For Google, And Your Site
Google Webmaster Central Blog posted its second in the series on links yesterday and the topic was link architecture. Before commenting, let's define link architecture: Link architecture—the method of internal linking on your site—is a crucial step in site design if you want your site indexed by search engines. Simply put, link architecture is how you structure your internal links - your page to page links. Personally, I prefer two methods of link architecture and I recommend using them both. Crawlable navigation menu In-text links Crawlable Navigation Menus A crawlable navigation menu is one that is HTML-based, not Javascript or dynamic php. You might think the flashy navigation bars and drop down menus are cool, and maybe your human visitors will too, but the search engines CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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