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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.

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.

Jun292010

Link Exchange Using an Automated Program

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Tired of wasteful spending?
One very useful way to getting your site to appear in search engines is to do link exchanges, it is a bit old fashioned to link to a million sites and in some cases can do you more harm then good, especially if you look like you are exchanging only to manipulate your rankings on the search engines, but if you stick to ethical procedures then you will be safe and this is why I recommend you exchange with no more then 30 websites but always updating those 30 every few months to ensure you have exchanged to the best possible sources possible.

One link exchange program I found very good is Links Manager, it contains a backend that you can login to, to find all the best possible sites you can exchange links with based on the category you choose. You can also see what page rank the sites you want to link to is, as well as other information.

All you have to do is create a partners or resources page in your web site and install the code they provide to that page, as soon as you login to their system to find the sites you want to link to and once the site owners approve their link will appear automatically on your resources page, and your link will appear on theirs. It is very easy to use!

Here is the full feature list:

  • Editor-Based
  • Manages one way links, outbound links, inbound links, and reciprocal links
  • Directory Management
  • Linkback Verification by Spidering
  • Multiple Editor Capable
  • Patented & Search Engine Compliant
  • Integrates with any CMS or Webhost
  • Blog Friendly – Fast Integration with WordPress
  • Free 24/7/365 U.S based Support

It is way too time consuming these days to go out looking for sites to link to doing it yourself, you can do it in fact I still do it, but at a very minimum just when it is really necessary. Using an automated program can really save you the time and stress!

Jan132010

Getting Bored Of Link Building?

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There is actually alot we don’t like doing when it comes to SEO or in particular link building. Sending out link exchange requests or submitting to directories in the hope to be approved is all a time consuming process.

To keep positive and not get bored easily it is important to have a very broad scope. If we can monitor our success rate and if we can see that we are making sales as a result then link building becomes more motivating.

I often try and break my day up by doing some article submissions, then social bookmarking and then the rest of my day with SEO. Then the next day I will do some 3 way link exchanges, press release submissions and then content blog link exchanges. Then the next day might do some social marketing link building. In total I spend around 2 hours a day on link building then the rest on SEO and web development.

The reason why a lot of companies outsource link building or SEO is it can become very monotonous. The only problem is when you outsource even you still don’t have the final touch which you can if your confident enough to do yourself. It takes a certain skill to be able to get the right links your looking for. As your experience gets better you will get fussier and fussier with this process.

Overall link building can be tiresome. On top of all the link building we always keep a frame of mind with dofollow links, and high page rank links, this keeps us fully satisfied when not only our links have been approved but we obtain quality links.

What are your thoughts, do you get bored when doing the same link building procedures each day?

Sep282009

Link Building Tips using Alexa

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Here I explain the benefits of using Alexa for SEO to gain more Online Exposure and really provide a simple and effective way on finding high alexa ranked sites and quality sites to submit links to.

I try and get you to know as much about SEO as possible so that you can see how much work is involved and then you can decide on either having myself do SEO for you or doing it yourself:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3