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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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 »
I was cruising one of the Top 50 SEO Forums and found a post with a guy (we will call him WOWdude because he had a World of Warcraft site) asking “How come he has no internal backlinks from his forum?” But unfortunately it took a few minutes of trying to decipher his broken english and ill written question. But I got the jist of it in a snap. Wowdude was wondering: 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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