Interesting Links Week 2 August 2010
August 13, 2010
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Interesting Links Week 2 August 2010
I decided that I would starting featuring some of the more interesting posts that I have discovered each week. I hope you enjoy.
This one should be titled Stupid But True it comes from Tech Crunch. It is titled Can An iPhone Get You Laid? More useless but kinda funny information can be found here. Yea, not every link is required to be useful. After all, entertainment isn’t a bad thing.
This one is a mother lode of information about Social Media Marketing. You will want to read 30 Awesome B2B Social Media Resources it can be found on Hub Pages.
I recently started using Twitter as a feed reader. I got a Tweet from Tech Crunch. I found this post, Pew Study Claims One Fifth Of American Adults Don’t Use The Internet, extremely interesting. The internet isn’t for everyone.
This one was again found through a Tweet. It can be found over at Search Engine Land. Since I have just begun to learn and participate in video marketing I found Revisiting The Basics Of Video SEO to be a very useful resource.
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A Video Worth Sharing About Social Media Marketing
August 2, 2010
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A Video Worth Sharing About Social Media Marketing
This may actually be the best and most useful video about social media that I have ever seen. It really reminded me of our marketing technique that I call Scratch My Back Marketing. It is simple, short, and to the point. Not only that it is professionally done. If you ever wanted to understand how to use social media then this video is for you.
These guys call themselves Upside Down Iceberg. What they means I don’t know but I thought it is a clever name.
Unfortunately, they do not allow there videos to be embedded but here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gza8dvN8Hkc
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The Dangers Of Honest Blogging V 2.0
June 12, 2010
The original post: The Dangers Of Honest Blogging
The fact is that the world, no make that the internet is full of rude people who hide their identities but not their thoughts. What I am referring to is my recent posts here and on other sites about Geri’s struggles with her health issues. She has ended up in the hospital on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, and New Years Days.
The last trip was extremely scary for me as the visits to the hospital were coming closer and closer together. She didn’t have insurance at the time thus she could not get or afford her follow-up care. We are dealing with life and death issue here and I have paid a price her being honest. The latest insult was a comment on a post that I did about her return from the hospital on Christmas Day and that was all the present that I needed.
I poured out my heart on a forum called Hall Pass. I picked it for no specific reason other than I was visiting the site and I needed to tell my story. There were several nice supportive comments. Then a very rude one. It simply read “Geri’s gonna die deal with it we all die” or something to that effect. I was extremely upset by this rude behavior. I started to respond and then I stopped myself. I thought getting me angry was the whole purpose behind such a comment. So I perused a high pathway. I choose to respond to the positive comments rather than the negative. I though I’m not giving this person validation.
These are just a few examples of what I have experienced and what others have experienced by being honest in their blog posts and since its my blog I will continue to do so. On a positive note: writing about our life and death struggles has been very beneficial for me. I am a very private person in my day to day life. I don’t enjoy a large support group that is why I turned to blogging and it has worked very well. When I started writing about Geri’s life and death struggles it was interrupted with bitter weeping and sobbing. I have overcome that, at least for now!
On the update front: Geri has returned home from the hospital. While she was there she was approved for Arizona’s version of Medicaid. So now, she can be seen by all of her specialists and receive all the meds that she needs. However, getting to see her primary care doctor was a bit of a challenge. When she called they gave her and appointment two weeks out. At that rate she will have returned to the hospital again without follow up care. I called the service provided and they offered to move up the appointment three days. I responded that even by then she will have likely been back in the hospital without ever have received follow-up care.
I was told that she would see what she could do. Amazingly, the phone rang within minutes. It was the primary care physicians office. They were offering a Monday appointment. Yea… What this means is I now am wearing another hat. This one belongs to the appointment setter which I don’t mind. As I later explain to Geri sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
As things settle down here I hope to finish a lengthy series on link building… Maybe!
Update 06/09/2010: Well, at lot has happened since I wrote that first post. I most important thing has been the improvement of Geri’s health. She still could use a liver transplant, but she has improved tremendously. Sometimes when I look at her it hard to imagine that she is critically ill. She has not looked this good in years.
I am so grateful that we changed primary care doctors. Her new doctor, one one that gave her six months to live, has been very active with her care. The former doctor asked “what do you want me to do, I’m not a specialist.” We then said come back in three months. Yes, that advice was given to someone who had spent more time in the hospital than out over the last two months!
As for that link building program that I was working on that has morphed into a much bigger program. I am currently working on an SEO and link building video training series. I have already scripted and completed the first 20 or so. Now, if I only could figure how to place them on this blog. I worked on that project last night.
I created a video about the daily life of a local SEO where I recorded my work on the internet while doing research for a n upcoming video marketing campaign for myself. The video ended up being a critic of several video websites. I had not intended doing that. It just became very obvious that many of these sites are difficult to use registration wise and I pointed out the difficulties of using the site.
I see really bad sites almost everyday and this video highlighted three sites that where not very user friendly. Some times its the color scheme or the font size that make reading the content difficult. One site had its join now link located at the bottom of a very large page.Not only that, but the font color was a very light gray and it blended in with the white background which made it extremely difficult to read for these eyes.
I will be working on learning how to add video again today.
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Oh Bye The Way Did I Tell You That I Gave Up Blogging For Links V 2.0
April 25, 2010
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 multitasking. 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 blogger’s 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 tag line. That’s where I add my links, into the tag line. 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.
The update: 04/21/2010: Well, it’s been almost 10 months since I gave up blogging for links and I am very glad that I did. My link building skills have blossomed well very since then. Now, instead of making comments and hoping that the link get approved I simply use better resources. I you social media and forums that allow me to start the topic and to be as involved as I want to be. This provides a more productive work environment.
The downside is that I miss getting to know blogger’s. I really do miss the educational aspects of blogging. I like learning from other blogger’s and experiencing new perspectives. This approach requires that I become the conversation starter which is second nature for me.
What do you think about this? I would like to hear from you.
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Search Engine Optimization Is A Numbers Game V 2.0
March 6, 2010
This post is another in a series that has been pulled from our 2008 archives. This post does a very good job of explaining how I personally view the practice of SEO. For me SEO is truly a numbers game. It really is not so much about how many web pages appear in a search result. This has very little correlation to how competitive a particular market is. It merely reflects the number of pages in the Google index that include these words.
This site competes in markets that have well over 100 Million pages appear in the Google index and we rank very well in these markets. However, these markets are no where near as competitive as the Phoenix SEO or Local SEO market which produce results that are lees than 10 Million. While I work on these almost everyday I still rank towards the bottom of the search results on the first page of the Google. Yet, I easily rank # 1 many time over for searches that produce 100 million or more results.
The number that really counts generally requires some research to determine. What you need to ascertain is the number of websites that are currently actively going after your keyword phrase. The next number that you need to obtain is the number of backlinks that each site has to the specific page being targeted. Now, you can begin to formulate a game plan to conquer your targeted keyword phrase. We in the industry call this a competitive analysis.
Just knowing how many backlinks that a web page has is just the beginning. You will now need to determine where these links are coming from. You will need to know if these links are Do Follow or No Follow and can you acquire links there as well. You will need to develop a link profile of your competitors. Once you have developed this information you will now know the number of links that should be required to overcome your competitors advantage and how much real competition that exists. Then, and only then, you will need to determine if this is a market that you want to fight to conquer. Let the games begin!
This is why I consider SEO to be a numbers game. Do you play to win?
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SEO is as much a numbers game as anything else. Good basic SEO will only get you so far in the search rankings. We believe almost anyone with enough time and resources can obtain the first page of results for any search query. However, most companies do not have the funds or staff for such an undertaking. There are still many opportunities to reach the coveted first page of results.
Any successful SEO provider knows that if you go where the crowds aren’t you will be successful. That’s why so much effort goes into Keyword research. Keyword search, after all, is a billion dollar industry. You can look for long tail or obscure keywords to be successful. The huge benefit here is that using long tail search you have less sites competing for the keyword phrase that you have chosen, also your visitor is now highly targeted and ready for the sale.
A good example would be the search for “increased website traffic Tucson” There is no doubt that the person using this search query wants more traffic to their website and that it has a Tucson customer base. It just so happens that almost any day, if you did the search for “increased website traffic Tucson” you would find Tucson SEO Solutions in the #1 and #2 positions. We believe that you should practice what you preach or as we like to say if your going to talk the talk you have to walk the walk.
Many an SEO expert will read this and scoff, “That’s not a competitive search” and they are correct. However, it is the service that we provide and in our location. We should be at the top if we are any good at what we do. I am often amazed when I see companies offering SEO services and they can’t obtain first page rankings for themselves! This isn’t as uncommon as you might expect. We developed our keyword to reflect what we do and by our location. If you have a local business with a website you should be doing the same.
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It Is Hard Finding A Useful Comment
October 22, 2009
Really, if you were able to see the comments section of this blog you might be surprised by the lack of links that have been awarded this month. It has gotten so bad that I have been considering going back to No Follow again. No one bothers to read the comment policy, and those that comment on that post, even these don’t read it or care. Maybe the Scratch My Back plugin gives them a sales sense of security. None the less, a non quality 150 character comment will not get you a link. This is a moderated blog.
The biggest offenders are those who ignore how to use Keyword Luv and just include keywords. You will never get a link here doing that. The list is very restrictive, but why not, after all, Do Follow links that allow anchor text links are extremely difficult to find on blogs theses days. That doesn’t stop these lazy bums. So I figure it like this, I will stay Do Follow and I will use these spam comments to my advantage.
I simply remove the backlink and use the comments anyways. Then I include a short explanation and a link to the comment policy. These people are so greedy and short sighted that they fail to notice. Maybe, they do it just to waste my time. I don’t know, but what I do know is this. I get about 10 of these a day. I rarely get a comment that is worthy of a link anymore. Yet, these spammy thoughtless and clueless comments are doing me a big favor. Especially the guy who represents a lawyer he leaves 6 – 8 comments at a time. He even comments on the same posts over and over.
Here is how they benefit the blog. The blog targets the keyword phrases Phoenix SEO and Niche SEO. Both these these phrases rank in the top 5 of Google and these rankings are powered by spam! Without these comments this page would not rank nearly as well. These spammers have tuned out to be a great source of fresh content, bad content, but content never the less!
So I will readjust my attitude and enjoy the high rankings. The only real downside here is that it makes writing quality posts much more difficult to get motivated. So I now check the search rankings for these keyword phrases before I start writing… And that gets me plenty motivated.
Update: 10/20 – 11 Comments 1 Useful Comments 8 Trackbacks Update 10/21/2009 16 Comments 2 Useful Comments.Update: 10/22/2009 15 Comments 1 Useful Comment. Update: 10/23/2009 13 Comments 1 Useful Comment. Update 10/24/2009: 16 Comments 2 Useful Comments. Update: 10/26/2009 16 Comments 2 Useful Comments Update: 10/27/2009 18 Comments 2 Useful Comments
Does anyone see a trend here?
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.”
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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.
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Could You Use 66 DIY Do Follow Backlinks From High PR Sites?
October 6, 2009
This Website Is Closed
First, let me start off by explaining what the acronym DIY stands for. DIY stands for Do It Yourself. It’s the kind of backlink building that we all do when we can’t afford to pay someone. You end up doing it yourself. Well, there is a website that is In Beta testing (Beta testing closed) that is offering a great opportunity for you to build backlinks. That site is called the Do Follow Websites. The site offers to show you who to build backlinks on high Page Rank Social Media membership sites. Not only that, it shows you how to build these links ethically so that your account doesn’t get deleted or banned for spamming.
You will need to visit the website and apply for membership. If your application is accepted you will receive another invitation to join the Alpha Group where the backlink program resides. The program will provide directions and screen shoots to assist you to acquire a total of 66 backlinks from high PR sites (4 – 8).
This program doesn’t just show you how to just set up a profile it shows you how to optimize these sites to your best advantage. It shows you what you must do to add value to each website. You must be prepared to make several none spammy or self promoting blog posts. The program only uses social media sites that allow user generated content that that provide Do Follow backlinks. This is a tremendous opportunity to learn how to use Social Media to your advantage while helping the sites out as well by provide quality comments and content.
The program works on an honor system it asks that to maintain the integrity of the program that you only use it on one website. Similar programs have blown up and collapsed because members have used and abused these programs over and over again. Some have even re-posted this information on forums. The end result is that the sites presented in these programs see this as spam and delete all of those using these programs. A program that was designed to realistic accommodate 1,000 websites ends up with 10 – 20 thousand people using the same websites and all of them are doing the same things. The end results is everyone gets deleted and the only one who benefits is the person who started the program.
The Do Follow Websites hope to avoid this situation by carefully monitoring who gets into the program and requiring members to honor a strict code of conduct. This project appears to be as much a social experiment as it is a link building program. It should be very interesting to see I this all plays out. I will keep our readers posted. Even if you miss the free Beta testing portion of this program you still will want to check out the program. The cost is a mere $9.90 and that works out to .15 a link. That’s a bargain in anyone’s book.
Beta Testing Closed – Paid Members Only Available
Memberships available at Do Follow Websites.
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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 blogger’s 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 tag line. That’s where I add my links, into the tag line. 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.
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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.
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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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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.
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