Tagged: links

Another One of My Favorite Link Building Videos

I seen this video over 4 years ago on WebProNews. One of my favorite quotes found in this video has been engraved into my head since…

“Without Links, nobody finds you. Regardless if the engines are helping you, or not. If Google vanishes tomorrow, you still better have links.” Continue reading →

16 Free Link Building Tools & Tips for Strategic Linking

This is a guest post provided by AAA Linking, a link building service company & linking resource.

Here is a list of great link building tools & tips to help you discover and obtain relevant backlinks.

#1 Backlink Watch - One of my favorite link building tools. It’s a very simple way to check a website’s backlink URL’s, anchor text and total OBL’s (outbound links) on the same page as that link.

  • Quick Tip – If a website is ranking for a particular keyword, you can punch that site into backlink watch, and skim the outputs for all anchor text links saying that particular keyword to get a good idea of what type of sites and which sites are giving them links saying their/your desired terms.

#2 Analyze Backlinks - Another gold mine for exploring a competitor’s backlinks. This one provides more valuable options that allow you to filter out same domain URL’s and to search for factors such as target keyword mentions surrounding the links.

  • Quick Tip – Same as the tip for Backlink Watch, but add the factor of looking for that keyword on the page as well. Because surrounding content of links can sometimes be just a valuable as the link itself.

#3 Bad Neighborhood Text Link Tool – Great way to see what type of links a website accumulates, whether it be yours or a potential link partner.

  • Quick Tip – If a potential partner wants to exchange links with you, check and see if all their backlinks are legit. Because, yes, guilty by association is a search engine ranking factor.

#4 SoloSEO Link Search Tool – Quite possibly the easiest way online to find relevant backlinks that are fairly easy to obtain.

  • Quick Tips – My favorites are “list * keyword * sites”, “recommended links” keyword”, “favorite links” keyword”, “favorite sites” keyword”, intitle:post keyword, keyword guest writer, keyword guest blog post writer, keyword submit content, keyword submit article, keyword submit post, keyword add article, keyword “suggest * url”, keyword “suggest * site”

#5 Link Appeal Tool -  Is a link from your website really worth it? Find out with this tool how valuable your website is based on several factors.

  • Quick Tip – Aim to get links from sites with higher value than yours.

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Leveraging Your Strongest Pages through Internal Linking

Like with a backlink building campaign where we aim to get as many relevant and popular links to boost or rankings, we’ll utilize the strongest pages we have within our site to boost our homepage’s rankings.

In a strategic link building campaign the goal is to get as many links that  will vouch for our keywords from as many popular and relevant sites possible. So we must try to get links from sites that are ultra relevant to ours based on their theme and keywords, as well as sites that are popular in our community based on buzz and backlinks. Because afterall, search engine rankings are based on relevance AND popularity.

Just like we would with an off page link building campaign, we’ll have to discover our most relevant and popular pages within our site and add links containing our target keywords (pointing to the homepage) to each of them.

Let’s get started.

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My 10 Most Popular Blog Posts

While dissecting my blog, analyzing the stats of individual posts and prioritizing my pages, I was able to come up with my most popular posts based on a variety of factors ranging from total inlinks, comments, retweets, search engine rankings, PR and more.

So for my new followers who don’t know my SEO blog, here is a list of my 10 most popular blog posts.

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Back Link Building Checklist/Cheatsheet/Guide ’07/’08

I was cleaning out some files on my computer and came across my (old) link building checklist that I used late last year and for much of this year.  I currently use a revised version, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to publish this versus deleting it from my computer. It’s not meant to be published. These are just notes. It’s pretty random, but I guess so is the rest of my blog.

PageRank, Trust Rank, Inbound Link Quality:

  • How will you acquire Page Rank?
  • What is trust rank? How will you acquire trust rank?
  • Can you figure out the PR totals of all the pages linking to you?
  • Can you figure out the total traffic (Alexa rank) of the sites linking to you?
  • What kind of sites are linking to you?
  • Search Operator: Link:site.com -site.com

Different Domain Links:

  • Incoming links from different domains?
  • How many links do you have in MSN, Yahoo & Google?
  • How many different types of domains?

Links from differing class C IP address:

  • Make sure own websites linking are on a different server.

Percentage of deep links:

  • How to check how many links are pointing to other pages on your site.
  • Any software recommendation for this one would be awesome. Site Explorer & Web CEO can only do so much.

Directory Submit:

  • Submit to directories before submitting to search engines. So site has relevance before getting crawled by spiders.
  • Submit to search engines. Not recommended by SEO’s but recommended by the Search Engines. Your choice.
  • Yahoo!Directory & DMOZ are as always a must!

Blogs, WordPress & BlogSpot Links:

  • Find Blogspots with high PR’s.
  • Find WordPress blogs with high PR’s.
  • Get on Blogrolls – Whose Blog?
  • Get mentioned by blog with high amount of RSS readers.
  • Links from blogs with similar titles and content.
  • Blog Commenting, MyBlogLog Following

Sitemaps:

  • Can be a content rich page with keyword-rich links pointing to rightful pages within own site.

Webring:

  • Linking with other sites in community/industry.
  • Usually large link exchange or require banner on site.

Link Exchange:

  • Create link exchange page and find links… email. Still works!
  • Something like linkmetro.com InfoWizards FreeRelevantLinks.com  rankready.com Linkmarket.com. Good way to find willing link exchangers and to start link building.
  • Check to make sure links are reciprocated. SEO Tools
  • Create a “link to us page” and if possible an automated script to allow fast link building.
  • Sending trackbacks (for blogs)

Ways to Find Links:

Relevant Links:

  • Placing your link on pages with matching page titles and proper title and description usage.

PDF eBook Directory:

  • Submit pdf to ebook directories and give to people for PR, branding and linking building.

Anchor Text Tunneling:

  • Create page with link partners info with a link pointing to his site. & Vise Versa.
  • Link tunneling through giant sites.

Article directories:

  • Write keyword-rich article with keyword-rich link pointing back to site and submit to all article directories. (Especially EzineArticles).
  • Submit to Yahoo News (Must have amazing Press Release).

Signature Links:

  • Join Forums and comment good and valuable information with sig-link back to site. If you have a blog, you could answer the question on it and mention it in the forum using your back link as a reference.
  • Link in Email Signatures for bookmark/other stats.

Wiki Links:

  • Add links to wikis and other education and dictionary sites.

Deep Linking:

  • Make sure every page has at least 1 Google indexed inlink and try to build page rank from bottom up.
  • Deep, deep linking (inbound and internally)

Surrounding Content:

  • Check the title tags, META’s and surrounding text of links pointing to site. The more relevant, the better.

Local Links & Local Business Listings:

30 Minute Backlinks:

Web 2.0 Tagging:

  • Every tag creates a page with a link back to page tagged. (Internal)

LINKS:

  • Are any links buried too deeply in your site, not linked to from a primary page?
  • All pages/links must be at most 3 pages away from home page.

Enter Site to Win Awards:

  • momsnetwork.com/aemporium.shtml awardsites.com websiteawards.xe.net projectcool.com/sightings netguide.com coolsiteoftheday.com http://www.incrediblyuseful.com/

Banner & Logo Links:

  • Create a banner or submit your logo to directories in exchange for links.
  • Or purchase placement. clicksor, banner exchanges, blogs, Adbrite, etc.

Templates css galleries:

  • Create a CSS stylesheet or wordpress theme. Author it your company and submit it to directories.

Query Topic Links:

  • Anchor text links with query (targeted) words from sites about query topic.

Target smaller sites willing to link to you for content in the early stages. They are easier to get links from. But aim for big authority sites and NO linking to weak sites.

.edu, .gov, and city services are the best links…

I’m in the process of creating a link building manual/checklist that I plan to release at turn of the year. So far it’s 49 pages long and I’m not even halfway. I’m pretty sure I am going to sell it through Clickbank. But, it’d be free for all my subscribers, twitter followers and friend feeders.

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