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Aug22010

Buying Links Is Better For SEO Than You Think

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Buying Links Is Good For Search Engine Optimisation if done the right way! I repeat… if done the right way!

It has been told in the SEO world, that if you buy links it will hurt your rankings and could get you dropped in rankings or possibly banned. This is not entirely true. If you buy links in the natural way it is good for the search engines. The natural way is usually by hand picking authority sites that will put your link on their page for a small monthly or yearly fee.

The best way to find reputable links is from sites that do not clearly state “Links Here For Sale!” or from sites that do not already have a crazy amount of outbound links from other sites displayed on their site. That is when Google picks up that it could be a bit unethical, particularly if the site sells links based on page rank and also publicizes it.

Don’t be scared or believe the hype when other SEO companies say you should not buy links because 99% of them are buying links themselves, whether this means that they are outsourcing to India to get links done, or simply hiring other webmasters to put links to their clients sites, its usually those webmasters that are buying them in some way or form from somewhere.

You can of course build links naturally by posting nice fresh content in your site regularly and people who find your site interesting will naturally link to you or you can simply create social profile pages and submit your site in directories such as Business.com, Local.com Botw.org etc. but at the end of the day you need to get some other links from somewhere and buying them from sites like TextLinks.com is a great idea as you can target certain sites which you find relevant or appropriate. Just be careful to make sure the backlinks you buy are from reputable sites, or sites that have good age and backlinks themselves.

Of course if you only buy links then this will send off alarm bells, but if you mix up your links form natural sources then this is more then ok. Google also bases their algorithm on keyword density which I explained earlier in my SEOPressor post. Programs such as SEO Pressor will help you get your pages more fine tuned.

But getting back to buying links, sites link TextLinks.com for example have a full market place of links to be placed on certain pages of sites and these sites generally do not have “buy link here!” all over the place, they are very discrete and links are usually placed within content so you are getting quality links from content pages. So when Google do their random crawl to find dodgy backlinks you will be certainly very safe.

Jul52010

Review My Blog To Get A Free Linkback

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With the amount of readers who have emailed me asking me about reviewing my blog for an exchange in a link back, I thought what better way then to offer this publicly and to also offer a little bit more of an incentive for the top blog review that is posted!

All you have to do is if you have a blog, simply write a blog post with at least 200 words about what you think of my blog and just add a link either to my home page or this post or both. I expect your blog post to be completely honest so you can write things that you do or don’t like about my site. As long as your site is in English that is fine by me, it does not have to be relevant in the way of niche.

When you have set this up just send me an email with the url of the review and after I receive a big bunch, I will post the top reviewers from this page and link back to your site from below!

Best Review Wins – 1 Terabyte Western Digital External Drive

To give you a bit of a push and fun behind posting  a review, im going to give away a brand new 1 Terabyte Western Digital External drive, which is a great device that allows you to keep all your movies and other big files on.  You can use it as a backup device or anything else!

Without the prize it is still a great opportunity to get to show off your blog and get a valuable backlink at the same time, there will be plenty of readers and traffic pointing to this page, so be sure to get in on the action!

Good luck, have fun and I look forward to reading the reviews.

Current Review Link Backs:

1st Review from – ForumPK – Learn from a successful Entrepreneur

2nd Review from – SEOPoints – Learn from an SEO Professional

3rd Review from – Daniel Lew : A SEO Services Consultant

4th Review from – Web design agency Brighton, UK on Danlew.com – an Australian Entrepreneur Review

Jul22010

Top 10 Web Directories

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I put together a list of what I find to be the best web directories available today. This list includes a mixture of both, local, business and general web directories, both paid and free.

In most cases you pay for what you get, and Business.com and Yahoo are the most expensive but the most quality backlinks you will get. Sites like DMOZ and Jade are free and are extremely good if you can get in but takes a long time to get approved, where others are almost instant!

For those who have an online advertising budget, I highly recommend getting listed in at least a few of these paid directories along with your SEO campaigns.

Here is the list:

1. Best Of The Web – This is by far one of the greatest web directories out there. Make sure your site is not under construction and you submit to the proper category or you might get rejected. Sign up and get a $20 credit.

2. Business.com -  One of the best business directories out there and highly ranked by Google. The cost os $299 per year, but if you click the following link you will receive $50 off on checkout!

3. Local.com – A quality local business directory. Just $69.95 to be listed or $49.95 if you click the following link to get a $20 discount.

4. Yahoo Advertising – Both Yahoo Search and Yahoo Directory have Sponsored Search which lists your business on top sites like Yahoo!, AltaVista and CNN. Sign up and get a $25 credit.

5. DMOZ -  PR 8 Free directory, This directory is the largest ever created, but its nearly impossible to get your link approved unless you are an editor!

6. Jayde.com – This one allows free submits. Just make sure to use an email address/account that you don’t mind getting some junk mail sent to.

7. V7N -  PR 5 Directory which has quite high Alexa ranking. A one time fee of $49.95.

8. Web Directory – PR7 site which costs $108 per year to be included. This web directory is human edited and is of quality and has been around for a very long time.

9. Aviva Directory – This is another directory that you’ll want to make sure your site is not under construction when you submit. High Google Page Rank.

10. Digital Point – DP recently put together their own web directory. It is $125 per year to be included to the directory. The site is very high in Alexa. Another quality web directory.

Jan302010

Buying Sites Vs Buying Links

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What are the pros and cons of buying sites verse buying links for SEO?

Well first of all most big websites out there these days have hundreds of mini sites or sites that they have established that are relevant and link to their main site. This is good if the sites that are linking in are from different ip addresses as it tells the search engines that they are not necessarily from the same owner.

Others say that buying links would save you the hassle of registering new sites and be just as effective. There are 2 sides to the coin. The 1st thing is when buying links it does not ensure you a permanent 1 way link. It might be good for some time, but at the end of the day you are not benefiting from it long term. Sure it can help getting a link from a site that has high page rank that you are looking for, but too much of link buying can also send off alarm bells to Google.

It is not against Googles terms to buy links but it is to sell links based on page rank, and it is against Googles terms to buy links specifically to gain page rank. So nevertheless, I encourage you to believe it is beneficial to do both. Although link buying can be time consuming and expensive to find the sites you want links on, so can building sites, but long term this is the key.

When you buy or develop a site to link to your main site, there are certainly other factors to consider such as the age of the domain you have bought or registered, the relevancy of the domain or site, is it being updated frequently, does the site have backlinks or page rank as well and does it have alot of cached and index pages.

Many site owners think they can just build 100 sites and link to their main site and think they can gain loads of traffic. Wrong, the problem is they don’t realise is it is those sites itself that need to also have alot of backlnks and page rank.
This tells Google that the sites that are linking into the main site have some authority.

So the big question is what works best for you, and do you consider buying sites or buying links to be more effective?

Oct162009

10 Creative Ways to Get Millions of Backlinks

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1. Be a web development company and when you build sites for your clients put your link in the footer of the site with an embedded link pointing back to your site. As the clients pages and content grow so does your links.

2. Design your own free WordPress theme, or open source programs for users to download with your link copyright encrypted inside the footer.

3. Offer a submission service site for example Katz downloads but require the site owner to have to place your link before you accept their submission.

4. Design a widget that users can embed on their site for example an alexa toolbar which shows your sites stats publicly. You can design one of your own widgets that you think users would like related to your site.

5. Run your own video or image hosting website, when images are uploaded to websites the links or videos are usually set to point to the site where they were from.

6. Set up a bookmarking type of site and offer your snippet to be accepted in ShareThis.com. If they accept your submission you will have millions of users bookmarking your site through your own bookmark site.

7. Run an affiliate program having your banner placed on other websites pointing to your site. Offer a huge range of banners in your program in many different shapes and sizes to choose.

8. Offer a kind of award program that users feel proud to add to their site if they are one of the top performers they can show this badge off.

9. Set up your own advertising site for example like buysellads.com or text-link-ads.com make users display the banner or link “advertise here” pointing to your main advertising site, so even if the space hasn’t been filled you get a backlink in the meantime.

10. Offer a SSL certificate program something similar to Verisign for shopping or ecommerce sites that show buyers that your site is secure, by getting verified users to place this button on their site will gain in huge back link exposure.

All though all these 10 ways cover most niches, you may have a site that does not fit into those suggestions listed. Therefore It is up to you to utilize your creative thinking and this will in turn allow your users to naturally add your link gaining you high exposure, more authority and higher traffic to your site. Good Luck!