You can have a great website, with great content. But what if you do not receive the traffic. Than you are doing a lot of work for nothing. You need to be connected with other sites. Than search engine spiders will notice your site and will index it (faster and higher).
I made some mistakes with linkbuilding on my blog, for example: I bought a $125 link and I used King Nomar dot Com as anchor text. This is wrong. Nobody is interesting in a ‘King Nomar’. I had to use a anchor text like this: Webdevelopment & SEO. Than people are going to click when they are interested in Webdevelopment & SEO. They don’t care if there is a ‘King Nomar’ out on the net. They need to know in 1 second what the site behind the link is all about.
Lesson: Choose a good anchor text for your links.
On my blog link exchanges I don’t care to much about the anchor text. In the blogroll of most bloggers are only names of other bloggers. So this is not a big issue.
According to urltrends, my blog has almost 5,000 unique backlinks. I don’t know how I did this, or if urltrends is even trustful. But I like the number :).
Submitting articles to article directories is another good option to build links and to get traffic. I never did this before. I discovered this while browsing some forums. I might add some of my previous articles to some of these directories.
Here a small list of some quality article directories with pagerank:
- a1articles.com - pagerank 5
- sbinformation.about.com - pagerank 7
- articlealley.com - pagerank 5
- articlecity.com - pagerank 6
- articledashboard.com - pagerank 6
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January 24th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
urltrends shows more than 4,000 links coming from msn. Now we go to msn.com and in the search field type:
link:www.kingnomar.com
it shows only 74 results. that is where the mistake is.
I have the simular service on my site. It is hard to rely on the data since google and msn and yahoo are all messing up sometimes.
However, I think your site can have 5,000 links back when search engines index it next time - here is how:
You paid $125 for PR7 site and if your link is on 5000 pages, you will have 5,000 backlinks + your PR is definetely is going up.
to check how many backlinks you have just go to the search engine you want and type link:www.yoursite.com, every search index indexes differently and will have different results.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
hehe, thats it, thanks Rasim.
My $125 link is on 1,500 pages by the way
January 24th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Backlinks go a long way, but you’re right about the anchor text. When I Google my name, my site comes up as the #2 result, but when I Google “freelance writing” or “freelance writer”, I’m still pretty far from being the top result (I think I’m currently on page 3 or 4).
January 25th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Paying for the link wasnt a complete waste, as rasim said, when google determines their PRs they look to see what the PR of the website linking to you is. If its a PR7 that is going to be very good for you. As far as the anchor text, you are right that was a mistake. For SEO its best to have the anchor text what you think your keywords are. If you had chosen webdevelopment and SEO your blog would have jumped up significantly in the seach engines.
January 26th, 2007 at 4:59 am
I don’t like urltrends. Why? my blog doesn’t rank well on it. LOL
I need to build more backlinks, I guess.
March 5th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
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