You can also use Hootsuite to schedule other people’s posts which will encourage them to share your content with their followers. If possible, I would recommend doing at least some of these manually. You can time the shares for when you know your followers are active, which will increase the chance of engagement. This will help to build the affinity score with their audience, which helps improve the EdgeRank score.
big thanks, great article for sure. I have a question for you. Most of the domains you recommend to post links on have high PR, however the actual internal pages that will contain our links have a PR of 0-1. Doesn’t that devalue the links too much? Is it worth it to put so much effort for PR 0-1 links?
“If it’s easy to build a backlink to your website, it means it doesn’t carry much value.” That’s as subjective (on Google’s part, not yours Felix) and true as anything I’ve read. Google’s naming it a Manual Penalty shows the weakness of their algorithm. Once they jump from machine to people their process becomes a black box full of judgement calls. In the end, Google wants it to be easier to buy AdWords than create backlinks.
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Hi there, this is Matija from Slovenia. Let me first thank you for excellent post. Your sentence building links with patience is simply the best. I have been on backlinks building process here on small Slovenian market for years now. And must say your tip to have patience is the most valuable advise ever. I used to have no patience, bought many links through Fiverr, creating PBN’s, stuffing my sites into bookmarking lists and so on and so on. Until I realized it’s actually easier if one settles down and actually start contributing to the net. And this can be simply done by adding relevant comments to blog posts and adding useful guest posts on other sites. It’s better to give one relevant comment (and get accepted) that stuffing one hundred url’s into bookmarking site. It works. It is true that all comments are not accepted everwhere. But I think it is right thing that author doesn’t accept comment, if it is of no value to his audience. Afterall, the author creates initial content and, we, commenters, only want to get benefit out of it. At least, let’s contribute something back. Regards, Matija, Slovenia
How It Works A site's authority with the search engines is largely based on the quantity and quality of the sites that link to it. Our proven system takes the hassle out of buying and selling links by automating time consuming tasks such as link placement, payment/commission, link monitoring, and replacing lost links.
33 Irresistible Lead Magnet Ideas To Grow Your Email List Fast Money is in the list – I know you’ve heard this a million times. But it’s true! You can’t build a successful niche website, or any sustainable online business for that matter, without a thriving email list. And I’m not saying this without proof. It’s hard to get your website visitors paying for anything online
Thanks Felix for this great article. It is a very informative article. I am new blogger and i am doing according to your post. I am doing Guest posts, Infographics, Niche forums. I don’t understand about Email outreach. Can you tell me How it works? . I am writing 800-1000 words content for my site. Is it ok?
You probably won't stick here for long so let me come straight to the point. Most of your blog readers never read more than a quarter of your articles. In fact, many of them leave within the first 3 seconds of landing on your blog, never to return. That’s depressing, I know. After all, you
Next you need to add the content title and subject as this will help to remind you what content is needed. Finally, there columns to record whether the content is published, whether the website owner has been contacted and whether the link was accepted or not.
Each time you find a potential competitor you should add them to the competitor sites sheet in your master file. Include the URL, DA, contact details and the social followers if available (useful if you want to grow your own social following).
Hi Neil, Nice post, awesome tips to get back links. Ill give try on each tip and see how far it works. To the 6th point: I haven’t heard about it anyways you’ve give an referral link to check this out. But email reaching to expert, I see most of the time there is no response. Thanks for your tips, Siva
I loved the tips and article, buts is frustrating if you have great content, a website 10 years and see new competitors with lower and bad content pages take you positions quickly with buying links. I wanted all these google penalties were real and fast but they are not. You’ll be just whining and seeing its competitors rise and rise. And start ask yourself what is wrong with your page ? Unfortunately google is not fair and is a technology with many gaps and loopholes. To give you an idea a website copy you content and going up the original. It may take months or years to out and your original page can be cut by duplicity. The solution is quickly open the complaint but sometimes it is boring and they do not accept the first. It is a dark box without exit and sure direction the more we think we understand it more it changes.
hyderali March 27, 2014 at 10:35 am / Reply 19. If you have blog & is speaking about SEO, Content Marketing, Tips & Tutorials etc. And if you wrote a post on PanCakes then Matt Cutts & team will visit your blog & single out that post & penalize your whole website just because it is irrelevant.
http://www.konker.io/services/25895-high-quality-game-guest-post-service
For example, let’s look at the key phrase “content marketing.” With a quick search, I was able to find this question, asking if content marketing actually works.
Thanks for mentioning two great resources – Slashdot and Mixx. Frankly, I was unaware of both of them. When I checked them out, I found they offer a wealth of information.your side is usefull side.
By Mark Walters Getting backlinks – links from other websites to your business’s website – is the most effective way to improve your rankings. Not all backlinks are equal though. Some backlinks won’t improve your rankings at all, and some might even have a negative effect. Therefore, your focus should be on acquiring high quality backlinks. What makes a backlink high quality is subjective, and every SEO consultant will have at least a slightly differing opinion on the topic, however, most would agree that a good quality backlink would be comprised of several of the factors listed below, and that a backlink that ticks all of these boxes would be the perfect backlink. It would be unrealistic to expect all of your backlinks to be perfect, and just because a backlink doesn’t meet all of these criteria it doesn’t make it low quality. If you can get a backlink to your business’s website that ticks at least a few of these boxes then it’s definitely worth having in your site’s link profile. From a relevant source Search engines want to provide relevance in their search results, and so it’s logical that relevance is a consideration when they evaluate backlinks, which are the primary factor affecting where sites rank in their results. A backlink can be relevant on different levels. Search engines consider the overall relevance of the linking site, the relevance of the specific page with the link on it, and the relevance of the content directly surrounding the link. From a trusted source It’s logical that a high quality backlink would come from a high quality website, and that a high quality site would also be a very trustworthy site. To determine if a website is trustworthy, search engines use a set of trusted seed sites (for example, Wikipedia, BBC, The Huffington Post, etc.), which they know for sure are high quality and which are difficult to get links from. The fewer the number of links away a site is from one of the seed sites, the higher its TrustRank is, and the higher the quality a link from that site is. Sends traffic This aspect of backlinks too often gets forgotten about. The original purpose of links, before the time search engines started using them as a factor in their algorithms, was to add value to a page by directing visitors to resources relevant to the topic of that page. Visitors still click these links as often as they did when the internet was first created, and having a link in a prominent position on a highly visited page makes it high quality because, regardless of rankings, it will bring your website a continual stream of targeted visitors. Exact/phrase/synonym match anchor link text used The quality of a backlink increases if the words that form the clickable text of the link are the same as, or similar to, the words that you’re trying to improve your rankings for. It looks unnatural to have a lot of incoming links made up of exactly the same anchor link text though, so use plenty of variations. If you’re trying to rank your site for ‘mortgage advice’, as well as getting links with ‘mortgage advice’ as the anchor link text, good variations would be ‘advice on mortgages’, ‘professional mortgage advice’ and ‘mortgage guidance’. In-content In-content backlinks (i.e. backlinks within a block of text) are the most likely to be editorial links, which are exactly the type of links that search engines value most, and if a link is included early on in a piece of content then it’s natural to assume that the author of that content considers it be an important link. Therefore, a backlink within the main content area of a page, and towards the top of that content area, is considered to be more high quality than a link lower down the page or in the sidebar or footer. On a page with PageRank PageRank (PR) is the most basic and obvious measure to use when assessing the worth of a backlink – the higher the PR of the page where the link is located, the higher the quality of that link. PR can be a misleading metric though. All webpages start off with a PR of 0 (or n/a to be precise) and the PR of a page can rise and fall over time. Also, the PR value that Google displays for a page is only updated for the general public every 3 or so months, but within the algorithm it’s updated constantly. So, the PR value you see is only an estimate, and could well be a point or 2 off of the true PR. Next to backlinks to authority websites If a backlink to your business’s website is included on a page that links to high quality sites, especially ones in the same niche as your site, then it indicates to search engines that your site should be put in the same bracket as those high quality sites. If the other links on the page are to low quality sites, then your site won’t necessarily be classed as low quality also, but rather search engines may opt not to include those links as a factor, either positively or negatively, in their ranking calculations. From a different source to your existing backlinks There’s a strong correlation between higher rankings for a website and the number of unique websites (i.e. different domain names hosted on different IP addresses) linking to that site. All else being equal, it’s preferable to have 10 links from 10 different websites than 100 links from 3 different websites. So, for a new link to your business’s website to be considered high quality, it should be from a website which hasn’t already linked to you. Not reciprocal Link exchanges were widely abused in the past, which resulted in the value of reciprocal links being reduced. Reciprocal links do still have value, and there’s certainly no risk of a penalty being applied as a consequence of them, however, if you’re looking for a backlink of the highest possible quality, then it should come from a website that you’re not also linking to from your own site. Few other backlinks on the page The trust and authority flowing through a page with a backlink to your site on it gets divided up between all of the links on that page, and so the less links there are on a page, the higher the quality of the links on the page, as the the trust and authority passed on is less diluted. It depends on a few factors, but as a rule of thumb, having a link to your site share a page with less than 10 other external links would be considered good. Not easily acquired The more easily you can acquire a backlink, the less value it will likely have. The chances are that if you can get it a couple of minutes, or with a couple of clicks, then thousands of people will have done it before you and thousands more will do it after you – including your competitors if they take the time to review your site’s backlink profile. If a competitor replicates one of your links then the value of that link to you has been neutralised in your head-to-head SEO contest with that particular competitor. Not paid for Paid links can, and often do, improve rankings, however, they can’t be classed as high quality backlinks because of the risk they carry. Search engines explicitly say that purchasing backlinks for the purpose of improving the rankings of your website contravenes their guidelines, and that websites found to be doing so may be penalised. The payment doesn’t need to be made directly to the website linking to you either, it can be via a 3rd party linking scheme, such as a blog network.Further ReadingReasons Why People Will Link To Your Website Does Web Hosting Affect SEO? How Many Keywords Should You Target? Google Penalties & The Causes Of Them Citations For Local SEOView The Complete List Of SEO Articles Available/* */ or Contact Form or LinkedIn « Previous × Next »
big thanks, great article for sure. I have a question for you. Most of the domains you recommend to post links on have high PR, however the actual internal pages that will contain our links have a PR of 0-1. Doesn’t that devalue the links too much? Is it worth it to put so much effort for PR 0-1 links?
“If it’s easy to build a backlink to your website, it means it doesn’t carry much value.” That’s as subjective (on Google’s part, not yours Felix) and true as anything I’ve read. Google’s naming it a Manual Penalty shows the weakness of their algorithm. Once they jump from machine to people their process becomes a black box full of judgement calls. In the end, Google wants it to be easier to buy AdWords than create backlinks.
This amazing course will teach you, step by step, how to double if not triple your traffic over the next 30 days. Fill out the form below to start your FREE Course Email 100% Privacy. I will never spam you!
Hi there, this is Matija from Slovenia. Let me first thank you for excellent post. Your sentence building links with patience is simply the best. I have been on backlinks building process here on small Slovenian market for years now. And must say your tip to have patience is the most valuable advise ever. I used to have no patience, bought many links through Fiverr, creating PBN’s, stuffing my sites into bookmarking lists and so on and so on. Until I realized it’s actually easier if one settles down and actually start contributing to the net. And this can be simply done by adding relevant comments to blog posts and adding useful guest posts on other sites. It’s better to give one relevant comment (and get accepted) that stuffing one hundred url’s into bookmarking site. It works. It is true that all comments are not accepted everwhere. But I think it is right thing that author doesn’t accept comment, if it is of no value to his audience. Afterall, the author creates initial content and, we, commenters, only want to get benefit out of it. At least, let’s contribute something back. Regards, Matija, Slovenia
How It Works A site's authority with the search engines is largely based on the quantity and quality of the sites that link to it. Our proven system takes the hassle out of buying and selling links by automating time consuming tasks such as link placement, payment/commission, link monitoring, and replacing lost links.
33 Irresistible Lead Magnet Ideas To Grow Your Email List Fast Money is in the list – I know you’ve heard this a million times. But it’s true! You can’t build a successful niche website, or any sustainable online business for that matter, without a thriving email list. And I’m not saying this without proof. It’s hard to get your website visitors paying for anything online
Thanks Felix for this great article. It is a very informative article. I am new blogger and i am doing according to your post. I am doing Guest posts, Infographics, Niche forums. I don’t understand about Email outreach. Can you tell me How it works? . I am writing 800-1000 words content for my site. Is it ok?
You probably won't stick here for long so let me come straight to the point. Most of your blog readers never read more than a quarter of your articles. In fact, many of them leave within the first 3 seconds of landing on your blog, never to return. That’s depressing, I know. After all, you
Next you need to add the content title and subject as this will help to remind you what content is needed. Finally, there columns to record whether the content is published, whether the website owner has been contacted and whether the link was accepted or not.
Each time you find a potential competitor you should add them to the competitor sites sheet in your master file. Include the URL, DA, contact details and the social followers if available (useful if you want to grow your own social following).
Hi Neil, Nice post, awesome tips to get back links. Ill give try on each tip and see how far it works. To the 6th point: I haven’t heard about it anyways you’ve give an referral link to check this out. But email reaching to expert, I see most of the time there is no response. Thanks for your tips, Siva
I loved the tips and article, buts is frustrating if you have great content, a website 10 years and see new competitors with lower and bad content pages take you positions quickly with buying links. I wanted all these google penalties were real and fast but they are not. You’ll be just whining and seeing its competitors rise and rise. And start ask yourself what is wrong with your page ? Unfortunately google is not fair and is a technology with many gaps and loopholes. To give you an idea a website copy you content and going up the original. It may take months or years to out and your original page can be cut by duplicity. The solution is quickly open the complaint but sometimes it is boring and they do not accept the first. It is a dark box without exit and sure direction the more we think we understand it more it changes.
hyderali March 27, 2014 at 10:35 am / Reply 19. If you have blog & is speaking about SEO, Content Marketing, Tips & Tutorials etc. And if you wrote a post on PanCakes then Matt Cutts & team will visit your blog & single out that post & penalize your whole website just because it is irrelevant.
http://www.konker.io/services/25895-high-quality-game-guest-post-service
For example, let’s look at the key phrase “content marketing.” With a quick search, I was able to find this question, asking if content marketing actually works.
Thanks for mentioning two great resources – Slashdot and Mixx. Frankly, I was unaware of both of them. When I checked them out, I found they offer a wealth of information.your side is usefull side.
By Mark Walters Getting backlinks – links from other websites to your business’s website – is the most effective way to improve your rankings. Not all backlinks are equal though. Some backlinks won’t improve your rankings at all, and some might even have a negative effect. Therefore, your focus should be on acquiring high quality backlinks. What makes a backlink high quality is subjective, and every SEO consultant will have at least a slightly differing opinion on the topic, however, most would agree that a good quality backlink would be comprised of several of the factors listed below, and that a backlink that ticks all of these boxes would be the perfect backlink. It would be unrealistic to expect all of your backlinks to be perfect, and just because a backlink doesn’t meet all of these criteria it doesn’t make it low quality. If you can get a backlink to your business’s website that ticks at least a few of these boxes then it’s definitely worth having in your site’s link profile. From a relevant source Search engines want to provide relevance in their search results, and so it’s logical that relevance is a consideration when they evaluate backlinks, which are the primary factor affecting where sites rank in their results. A backlink can be relevant on different levels. Search engines consider the overall relevance of the linking site, the relevance of the specific page with the link on it, and the relevance of the content directly surrounding the link. From a trusted source It’s logical that a high quality backlink would come from a high quality website, and that a high quality site would also be a very trustworthy site. To determine if a website is trustworthy, search engines use a set of trusted seed sites (for example, Wikipedia, BBC, The Huffington Post, etc.), which they know for sure are high quality and which are difficult to get links from. The fewer the number of links away a site is from one of the seed sites, the higher its TrustRank is, and the higher the quality a link from that site is. Sends traffic This aspect of backlinks too often gets forgotten about. The original purpose of links, before the time search engines started using them as a factor in their algorithms, was to add value to a page by directing visitors to resources relevant to the topic of that page. Visitors still click these links as often as they did when the internet was first created, and having a link in a prominent position on a highly visited page makes it high quality because, regardless of rankings, it will bring your website a continual stream of targeted visitors. Exact/phrase/synonym match anchor link text used The quality of a backlink increases if the words that form the clickable text of the link are the same as, or similar to, the words that you’re trying to improve your rankings for. It looks unnatural to have a lot of incoming links made up of exactly the same anchor link text though, so use plenty of variations. If you’re trying to rank your site for ‘mortgage advice’, as well as getting links with ‘mortgage advice’ as the anchor link text, good variations would be ‘advice on mortgages’, ‘professional mortgage advice’ and ‘mortgage guidance’. In-content In-content backlinks (i.e. backlinks within a block of text) are the most likely to be editorial links, which are exactly the type of links that search engines value most, and if a link is included early on in a piece of content then it’s natural to assume that the author of that content considers it be an important link. Therefore, a backlink within the main content area of a page, and towards the top of that content area, is considered to be more high quality than a link lower down the page or in the sidebar or footer. On a page with PageRank PageRank (PR) is the most basic and obvious measure to use when assessing the worth of a backlink – the higher the PR of the page where the link is located, the higher the quality of that link. PR can be a misleading metric though. All webpages start off with a PR of 0 (or n/a to be precise) and the PR of a page can rise and fall over time. Also, the PR value that Google displays for a page is only updated for the general public every 3 or so months, but within the algorithm it’s updated constantly. So, the PR value you see is only an estimate, and could well be a point or 2 off of the true PR. Next to backlinks to authority websites If a backlink to your business’s website is included on a page that links to high quality sites, especially ones in the same niche as your site, then it indicates to search engines that your site should be put in the same bracket as those high quality sites. If the other links on the page are to low quality sites, then your site won’t necessarily be classed as low quality also, but rather search engines may opt not to include those links as a factor, either positively or negatively, in their ranking calculations. From a different source to your existing backlinks There’s a strong correlation between higher rankings for a website and the number of unique websites (i.e. different domain names hosted on different IP addresses) linking to that site. All else being equal, it’s preferable to have 10 links from 10 different websites than 100 links from 3 different websites. So, for a new link to your business’s website to be considered high quality, it should be from a website which hasn’t already linked to you. Not reciprocal Link exchanges were widely abused in the past, which resulted in the value of reciprocal links being reduced. Reciprocal links do still have value, and there’s certainly no risk of a penalty being applied as a consequence of them, however, if you’re looking for a backlink of the highest possible quality, then it should come from a website that you’re not also linking to from your own site. Few other backlinks on the page The trust and authority flowing through a page with a backlink to your site on it gets divided up between all of the links on that page, and so the less links there are on a page, the higher the quality of the links on the page, as the the trust and authority passed on is less diluted. It depends on a few factors, but as a rule of thumb, having a link to your site share a page with less than 10 other external links would be considered good. Not easily acquired The more easily you can acquire a backlink, the less value it will likely have. The chances are that if you can get it a couple of minutes, or with a couple of clicks, then thousands of people will have done it before you and thousands more will do it after you – including your competitors if they take the time to review your site’s backlink profile. If a competitor replicates one of your links then the value of that link to you has been neutralised in your head-to-head SEO contest with that particular competitor. Not paid for Paid links can, and often do, improve rankings, however, they can’t be classed as high quality backlinks because of the risk they carry. Search engines explicitly say that purchasing backlinks for the purpose of improving the rankings of your website contravenes their guidelines, and that websites found to be doing so may be penalised. The payment doesn’t need to be made directly to the website linking to you either, it can be via a 3rd party linking scheme, such as a blog network.Further ReadingReasons Why People Will Link To Your Website Does Web Hosting Affect SEO? How Many Keywords Should You Target? Google Penalties & The Causes Of Them Citations For Local SEOView The Complete List Of SEO Articles Available/* */ or Contact Form or LinkedIn « Previous × Next »
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