Nov 03 2009

Top Linkbaiting Techniques

Linkbaiting is something most, if not all, webmasters do-whether they realize it or not! Who doesn’t want their content linked to? Backlinks are a good thing, and getting them without any extra effort on your part should always brings a smile to your fac

Writing content that is so perfect and so complete that it entices one-way incoming links from others…well, I for one love when that happens!

Linkbaiting has gotten a bad rap of late (because of a few that will stop at nothing to try to gain back links to their site.) Just stay out of the grey areas when linkbaiting, and get your back links for all the right reasons.

I’m not here to argue the ‘ethics” of linkbaiting techniques, but to offer what I feel are the five best “white-hat” linkbaiting techniques to use in your writing.

My five all time favorite, best, tried and proven linkbaiting techniques:

Write content that is the best “out there” on your chosen topic. Make your content compelling, unique, attention grabbing, provocative, and make sure it provides real, useful, value for your visitors.

Let them hear it from you first-Be the first to break the “big” story. Stay on the cutting edge. Subscribe to magazines, trade journals, or any source of up-to-the-minute happenings in your niche. Try to be the one who gives them “the scoop”.

Provide a free tool or piece of software-This can really make the back links show up! If you are unable (like me!) to produce the tool or software, you can always buy it or pay someone to code it for you. The more useful and “used” the tool or software the more links it will generate.

Include “lists” of useful links in your content-Links to useful websites or useful resources tend to get linked to a lot. Make your list the most complete, or the most useful, make it stand out from the rest.

Give stuff away-Everybody wants free stuff (I know I do!) So give it to them, and they will share it with their friends. The more value you can give away the more links you’ll find showing up.

Use these techniques, and use them consistently as you write your content, wether it’s blog posts, articles, website content, etc. and you will find your offerings linked to more and more often. And naturally occurring backlinks are the best kind!

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Oct 15 2009

The Top Ten Link Building Strategies

by Tom P Kearns

The owner of any website who firmly believes in giving a sky-high shoot to its value, page rank, and monetary income will be able to appreciate the importance of the link building strategies that play an eminent role in accomplishing these goals. With so many options found over the internet it is easy to get jumbled. Each top ten informative link building strategy below is laid out to serve as an aid to your online victory.

Ready?

1) Your link popularity can be boosted and your rankings improved on sites like Yahoo and Google by submitting to Web Directory Listings, you can drive traffic through direct referrals with one way links to your website. Submissions can be made to both paid and free directories. It can take any eternity for your link to be reviewed when setting up on free directories but you will have one way links to your site with no strings attached. Your website will be listed with a smaller amount of competitive links when using a paid website, but you should choose one that is moderately priced and find their rankings. Yahoo and DMOZ are trusted sites and your links should be placed on them. The ante of your website link can be upped by using a more reliable well known directory out of the millions out there.

2) On similar sites you can request an exchange of links. The step to getting an outgoing link on their site could be linking to another site that is related to yours and offers no competition. Your site value will increase with this.

3) Useful articles and press releases should be written. A useful piece of information to the readers could be a thoughtful and interesting article or press release that you have written. It can then be re-blogged, put on newsletters, and so on. This could lead to more quality linkages to your site and will increase your value.

4) Go for social bookmarking sites- people have a tendency to shy away from this but it is important towards you link building strategies. Every user from all over the world can link to your site. These sites are usually made by real people that tag you, instead of Google using unnatural algorithms to determine your sites worth.

5) BUY text links from other sites if your site is not unique enough. Text links should look viable and real, this is important.

Get involved in online forums. Have an active stream of comments, to build your credibility, instead of commenting all in one day.

7) Another way of creating a stand within the online community and linking back to your site is by writing testimonials and reviews.
8) Ask clients and vendors to post links back to your site- a simple link building strategy.

9) A gold mine that is easy set up and easy work is blogs. With the understanding that it’s about quality not quantity, you can post on anything. A great link building strategy is blog commenting as well.

The final link building strategy is Content! You can build tremendous traffic with quality content on your site. Webmasters naturally want to link to quality content to link their readers to something useful. Building links yourself is not required with quality content, they will be built for you.

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Sep 18 2009

Advanced Search Optimization With Article Submitters

If you are familiar with SEO and the impact that various component of optimization have on your websites overall page rank you know that there are three core drivers that will progress your site to the highest rank of Google. First and foremost, you need to be sure that your target keyword can be found in your web address. Next, be sure that you choose a specific search phrase and optimize your website to focus on that phrase. The third component is high authority backlinks to your website from numerous places. Regardless of whether you are selling lockboxes, or single family real estate from mlsni, you will have to have high quality back links in order for your site to rank well.

As the title of this article is advanced SEO, I would like to focus the discussion on how to attract high quality back links to your website, and share some tools that may make the effort a bit faster. If you are a writer, drafting articles and submitting them to numerous directories is a good way to get associations back to your site that have a good level of visibility. Unfortunately submitting your article to more than a handful of websites is time excessive, and if your article is a duplicate, duplication penalties may actually count against you in the search ranking. With these limitations in mind, you are trapped either completely re-writing your article numerous times and spending countless hours sending your site, or you may be stuck with expense of hiring the job out. For most people, neither option is very good.

Until very recently, this was the approach that I took as part of my article marketing. I would write a good article then re-write it numerous times as I posted it across the web.

Luckily I have recently found an automated article submitting service Unique Article Wizard and I have discovered that it is a much more effective approach of using articles that you write to attract numerous back links with anchor text across the internet. Basically, Unique Article Wizard allows you to take your article, selectively change the text in each paragraph into three versions, while still maintaining the same context and syntax, through a step by step process, and then submit the article. The unique article wizard service then mixes and matches the versions of each paragraph to create multiple unique articles. Finally, the service submits your article to six hundred different article directories and blog feeds which results in hundreds of back links to your site from an article that you created.

Although I have only been using the service for a short time, I have found it extremely effective. As an example, I plan to use the service with this very article. To track the extent of distribution, I have chosen a uniquely identifiable word as an identifier. The word xyssion will be used to track where my different versions of this article pop up. The word is unique, so in a few days, search the term xyssion and see how many entries track back to real estate and article marketing. I bet you will be surprised

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