Link Building Strategy 101

links

Link-building is well known to be a crucial element in website prominence, popularity and rankings. Links, and the acquisition thereof, is a subject which has accumulated vast misunderstandings and no end of illogical pontificating. This is not entirely unusual in SEO circles, where the ill-informed preach to the unenlightened on a daily basis. Conspiracy theories notwithstanding, there is a general lack of comprehension on how to achieve  real value from efforts expended on gaining links.  … [Read more...]

Outward Links – Can They Hurt Rankings>

Link Building - Outward Link Strategies

Link building strategies have, for most people for a long time, revolved around reciprocal link exchanges. Whilst most people understand that links are important, they generally don't understand why this is so. In a nutshell, a link to your site has traditionally been accepted by Search Engines as a vote for your site. A link from a topic or theme-related site to yours is better than a link from a site having a completely different topic. An important site's link to yours carries more weight - … [Read more...]

Maximising Back Link Value in SEO Campaigns

Back links

Back Links Defined Back Link - a textual or image link TO another site - usually included for the benefit of your visitors because it contains important information relevant to your product or service. Usually set to open in a new window so visitors don't "lose" your site when they open the link. Outward links are of minimal value to your search engine rankings - unless you have a lot of them relating to a common "theme" - in which case your site might be perceived as an "Information Hub" for … [Read more...]

Write and Distribute Articles, Boost PR and Join Web 2.0

Have you considered Article Writing as an SEO Tool to boost your Google Page Rank? No? Not at all? :-) Well, imagine for a moment a community that brings content providers (authors) together with content users (websites) to provide the content sifters (search engines) with the results desired by the content seeker (web surfers). The web surfer savours the content appetiser and clicks the link to go directly to more content provided at the author's web site - thus completing the circle. Along … [Read more...]