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then wouldn't be that your always playing catch up with others. And if everyone starts doing what the other guy does, doesn't dilute the strength and give google a red flag to change???
can't there be a simplier way.....
CommentWednesday, September 19, 2007
Link building, done correctly and without causing the search engines to think you're doing something wrong, can turn the right anchor text into SERP ranking gold.
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Work, work, work. That's the message from Todd Friesen at Range Online Media. Nothing else will substitute for the work needed to build links.
Anchor text attracts spiders on the Internet just as juicy flies pull in arachnids for a sticky web-based feast. To find out what's going to attract the desired audience, Friesen said people need to know what their competitors have been doing in the same space.
That competitive research is at your fingertips. A visit to Google to look for link:www.somesite.com, or to MSN or Yahoo's Site Explorer to seek out linkdomain:somesite.com -site:somesite.com, can help.
Even better, Friesen highlighted a couple of useful tools for link research. One works on the Web, the other as a desktop download.
TouchGraph features a browser-based tool written in Java that can show the relationships between sites as seen by Google. TouchGraph can look for relationships based on keywords or URLs.
Greg Boser has a tool called Tattler available, for pulling links from Yahoo's Site Explorer into a format suited for an Excel spreadsheet (hint: the good info is available by right-clicking a URL in the spreadsheet.)
Once you know how others have brought in links, you'll have a better idea of what you need to do to help make your site more prominent in the search results.
WebProNews anchor Kara Ratliff contributed to this story.
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Link Building
If there's a decision between quantity vs. quality, go for quality every time. I approached Entrepreneur.com about writing an article on naming a business, which now ranks between first and third for this key search term. I get a huge amount of traffic from this link from a high authority site. Google seems to love these big business pubs. It means doing some good, old fashioned query letters to the editor and offering some honest-to-goodness expertise, but if done right, it pays some big dividends.
The next best thing is expert articles submitted to sites such as EzineArticles.com and IdeaMarketers.com These not only create good, relevant, unreciprocated inbound links, but the article you write will have a chance to find their way into ezines, and offline publications as well.
Instead of hunting for links, just focus on giving your expertise away. There will always be people willing to pay for it, but they have to "sample the goods" first, and they need to know you're out there.