Your Website May A Great Link Building Resource If You Use Webmaster Tools
October 13, 2009
Today, I have been going through the hundreds of links to my home page in Google’s Webmaster Tools. If you are not already using this service I have to ask why not. Webmaster tools provides a true look at your website as Google sees it. One of the great features is where it shows you what links it has recorded to your website and it breaks it down by pages.. This can create wonderful link building opportunities as well.
Most of the links to my home page have been produced by my efforts, but not all. Since I am online everyday for many hours doing research I visit a whole lot of websites. I may have been working on a website building a profile and then got distracted or the computer crashed and I lose track of these sites. Usually, I will join the site and it provides an email verification. I visit the site but many times it does not require me to log into the site in this process. I leave, I delete the email, and with out a record of my visit on my part I may never return.
In most cases where the site forces me to log in and RoboForm will record my login info, but still if the site didn’t catch my attention I may not return for months if at all unless I am cleaning out RoboForm. What I have been learning today is that their are lots of opportunities for link building that I missed the first time around. Today, I picked up 24 links on one site by checking my Webmaster Tool links. It was a social media site that allowed me to list my blog which I did. It then pinged my blog and provided 20 links to my 20 most recent posts. I picked up four more by adding some value in the form of content. This really surprised me because it didn’t ask what my RSS feed. I simply entered my blogs address. and boom I had not one link but 20. I have never seen this before.
I have been wanting to do this chore for sometime now. I finally began the process and I am very glad that I did. I also have discovered sites where someone linked to me but that I was not aware of or that I had forgotten. Can anyone say more links. These kinds of discoveries just make my day. It was so easy, yet, it seemed like Christmas to me. If you are a link builder like myself you know exactly what I mean. Sometimes we can seem to be spinning our wheels trying to market our websites and we miss wonderful opportunities. We miss the easy fruit while we try for the shiny apples that are often hard of reach.
Do you have low lying fruit (links) that you are overlooking?
We at Tucson SEO Solutions are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenter’s to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment. We then will provide you with an anchor text Do Follow Link. It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
This is the part where I move link juice around the site and hope that someone might actually want to learn more about our local small business solutions and venture further.
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Oh, Bye The Way Did I Tell I Have Given Up On Blogging For Links
September 25, 2009
For those who are new to this blog let me get you up to speed here. I have been a very big proponent of blogging for links. As with everything I am always multi- tasking. I endeavor to do multiple tasks at once. I like to consider it working smarter. When I would be blogging for links (leaving comments on other blogs to acquire backlinks) I would also be working on branding, networking, and learning.
Leaving blog comments solved four various elements of my marketing plan. I especially enjoyed the learning part of link building. I then would share what I learned with my readers. However, it has become increasing difficult for me as an SEO to get my comments past spam filters. Many bloggers consider anyone that uses SEO as an anchor text for their comment links to be a spammer.
It didn’t make any difference that I was providing lengthy useful comments because I was using SEO in the name field the spam filters automatically rejected me. On occasion someone who would rescue my comment from a spam filter but not often. With this in mind, I did a little experiment where I made 100 posts and recorded the url’s. I went back a week later only to discover 43% of my comments had been approved. I was very careful to leave good comments and to follow comment policies.
That is not what I would call a very effective link building experiment. So I thought about this for a little while and I decided to go another direction. I now almost exclusively build link on high Page Rank social media sites and I am glad that I do. If any of you have followed this blog you will likely already know that this site ranks on the first page of the Google results, as in 50 times.
That’s right, I report at the beginning of each month the sites rankings. The last time that I checked back on September first we ranked on the first page of Google for 50 keyword phrases. Some of these are not very competitive but they still are niche markets that we target. Then again, many of these results are in extremely competitive markets. The key to this success was abandoning blogging for links.
When I decided to abandon blogs the site ranked 31 times on the first page of Google. Two months later that number is at 50. Over the last two months I have almost exclusively used Web 2.0 social media sites for link building. I usually leave a site with 5 or more links. The process is extremely easy if you are prepared. I simply take what the site offers in the profile area. Then I add value to the site through blog or forum posts and comments. I take the time to do it right!
I have many blog posts covering multiple topics ready in advance. The key here is to provide quality and not spammy posts. I close all posts using a signature as if it was a formal business letter. It includes a tagline. That’s where I add my links, into the tagline. As long as you are adding quality material that goes along with the sites theme you are generally not going to have any problems.
I have used this method thousands of times and only once did I get a complaint. That site banned me for putting links into my profile although they didn’t have a policy that prohibited this at that time. I got in trouble by reviewing the site on this blog. So all a sudden a whole bunch of people are doing the same thing. OOP’s!
That’s my method. The real beauty of this is that you are not visiting a blog hoping to find something to comment about. You pick the topic hopefully something that is related to your business and the sites theme. Many of these social sites provide you with a blog or they have a forum. When I discover these I begin to grin. This all goes hand in hand with my marketing approach, Scratch My Back Marketing. If you help other people building links is easy. It still requires lots of time but it can be a joy rather than dull boring work.
What do you think about this? I would like to hear from you.
We at Tucson SEO Solutions are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 150 characters in length. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv.) And if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv.
It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
This is the part where I move link juice around the site and hope that someone might actually want to learn more about our local small business solutions and venture further.
Too learn more about our services please check out these links:
Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO
Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions
Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson
If your business is located in the US, Tempe, Phoenix, Glendale, and Scottsdale, Arizona or beyond and you would like to learn more about how your website can benefit from a blog, SEO, Internet marketing, or our affordable website design/re-design services please call Tucson SEO at 520-777-6479 or 1-866-512-1230 Now!
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Free Love Web 2.0 Style!
September 4, 2009
Yes, it’s true this post is about Free Luv on the internet and doing it in a web 2.0 style. I’m talking about the juicy kind of Luv that only a Blogger can really appreciate. I’m talking about bloggers hooking up for a linky kinda Luv. It’s all about sharing our inner most thoughts or opinions and being rewarded for them.Maybe we should call it an internet threesome!
I have finally switched my love making method. It’s all about 2 on 1.
What I’m talking about is blogging, marketing, networking, comments, linking, business and rewards. The kind of rewards that come with using the greatest WordPress comments plugin available. I am talking about the Comment Luv plugin that was created by Andy Bailey, a dashing young buck and brilliant Internet entrepreneur and marketer (my description.) This is how he was described over at Retro Heather on her blog “the coolest geek bloke in the universe” and that works as well.
Before I get into the how it works stuff, I want to take a moment to express how much I appreciate Andy Bailey, the plugins creator. There are a bunch of great coders who have created thousands of WordPress plugins, but very few if any provide the support that he offers. The newer versions adds way more features and functionality than the original version. A plugin, after all, is only as good as the support that is offered.
Whenever you start adding plugins to a blog you can often create compatibility issues. I have read many blog posts in the last few months where someone mentioned that Comment Luv had created a problem. Then when I began to read the comments I quickly find a response from Andy where he addresses that specific issue. Usually the problem is being caused by another plugin. My point is that he is actively involved in his user community.
This level of product support is rarely seen at any price. Just think about the last time you needed technical support. It likely wasn’t a good experience. It blows me away that all of this is provided at no cost. He follows-up on new installs and when someone registers the plugin on his site. Andy often is the one of the first to comment that bloggers announcement post. You see everyone announces that they have added this plugin and most of them register it on his Comment Luv website.
This is how it works. Comment Luv creates a twofer link opportunity. It requires that the blogger who is leaving a comment must have a blog with an RSS feed enabled. Comment Luv will then place a permalink at the end of your comment. So the comment will end looking something like this with a permalink that reads “Boris last blog Comment …..”
This encourages other bloggers who are reading your post to leave a comment because they will be rewarded with 2 links for one comment. This allows us to reward other bloggers for taking the time to comment on our blog. We have also decided to become a Do Follow blog. So these links from our site may potentially impact your sites Page and Search Rankings.
Are you ready to spread the Luv?
We at Tucson SEO Solutions are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenters to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment. We then will provide you with an anchor text Do Follow Link. It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
Comment Luv was removed 01/10/2010. It no longer served it’s purpose.
Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
This is the part where I move link juice around the site and hope that someone might actually want to learn more about our local small business solutions and venture further.
Too learn more about our services please check out these links:
Local SEO Services Tucson Website Designs Tucson Search Engine Optimization Phoenix SEO
Holistic SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Arizona SEO Solutions
Ethical Link Building Training Affordable Website Designing Tucson
If your business is located in the US, Tempe, Phoenix, Glendale, and Scottsdale, Arizona or beyond and you would like to learn more about how your website can benefit from a blog, SEO, Niche SEO, Internet marketing, or our affordable website design/re-design services please call Tucson SEO at 520-777-6479 or 1-866-512-1230 Now!
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Does Google Give An Unfair Linking Advantage To Established Websites?
July 25, 2008
Since Google has encouraged blogs not to pass link juice, a valuable but very time consuming white hat method has been diminished. For many website marketers, making comments on blogs were our main or only tool for acquiring links.
Many blogging platforms, such as WordPress have been set as “No Follow.” This simply means that the link created by leaving a comment is only good for generating website traffic. The “No Follow” link attribute renders the link incapable of assisting in the pursuit of higher search ranking.
In the past we would begin blogging our way through Top Ranks huge SEO – SEM list at the beginning of each month. The goal was a letter a day. This left a few extra days for things like the letter “S.” Back then almost all blogs were “Do Follow” now most of them are not.
We just completed covering the entire list scouring for blogs to be included in our “Do Follow List.” I was shocked by how few blogs are actually passing link juice. Since thousands of websites depend on this method they now are scrambling to figure out how to find usable links.
This is where I believe Google gives an unfair advantage to established websites that have already accumulated a huge amount of links. New websites are playing by a different set of rules then the older sites used when they established their links in the past.
The Top Rank list is a good example of that advantage. If you worked the list in one month you might have ended up with 300 links from one list. Now you might be lucky to get 30. Thus Google is making it roughly 10 times harder to obtain links through this method.
It becomes extremely more difficult to produce enough links to overcome any website with a sizable link advantage. The unintended consequence is that this sharply increases the cost related to any website link building program.
Another unintended consequence is that it will force many out of the ethical white hat approach to search marketing. They will conclude that if you can not win by playing by the rules then they will find new ways to manipulate the search engine.
Like many things in life, solving one problem often creates another one somewhere else. Now, don’t get me wrong I’m a big fan of Google; we owe our businesses existence to Google. We are merely writing about our industry, and Google is the Big Dog in this neighborhood. When you write about websites and linking you inevitably will write about Google.
We invite you to join the conversation and leave a comment. We also invite you to continue the conversation on your blog or perhaps use a trackback, or maybe even social bookmark this article, give it a Digg or Stumble it.
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