As I am going through my seo consult with Value Cruises, I am going to keep a running list of all the link built here on my website for 2 reasons. 1) So that everyone can see my link building history that is easily accessible and 2) So that the search engines have another avenue to indexing links I have built. There is nothing worse than creating a ton of backlinks and then a month later you see many have not been indexed.
So these links are spread out to various authoritative sites. If you look at the google page rank on the home page of any of these, you can see they have a high PR. Also check them in Alexa. These are great places to put links back to the Value Cruises Website. Beyond these high quality links I have also done blog commenting, forum posting, directory submission, among the others. The idea is to get a diverse backlink portfolio. I build links with white hat techniques. These are both nofollow and dofollow links.
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Running a monthly site audit can help you keep track of the growth and performance of your website. It can also uncover any errors or short comings that need to be addressed. Along with a monthly website audit, you should be running SERP Reports as well as exporting Traffic Reports from Google Analytics.
There are a handful of items that I visit and record the results on a monthly basis. These include: Continue reading »
Yahoo has a great little function that can open up an enormous amount of data. The Yahoo Site Explorer will return information on not only the amount of indexed pages for a website but the amount of indexed backlinks. And the backlink portion of the tool can be configured to return the data a few different ways. Continue reading »
Many people make the mistake of looking for their Google Backlinks by typing in
Link:www.website.com
This advanced search function will not return your total amount of backlinks Google has indexed. Instead you need to go into your webmaster tools account to see the true backlink count. Continue reading »
While I was doing some competitor research on motortrend for my company, I stumbled across an old directory that was more than 12 years old with a homepage rank of 5. Well my goal was to get a link on this website. But there was no place to submit your site. There was also no place to contact the webmaster….so I had to do some investigation.
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It’s a shame when you get banned from a website forum for posting a link to your company’s website after someone asked you for it! All in the name of Internet spamming@ I recently won an IPAD for submitting the best business idea. I’ve never owned an IPAD/IPHONE or any other Apple products. Sure I have worked on a MAC computer but never owned anything. So I thought I would join a forum to ask for advice or tips. Continue reading »