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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Hi Editor,
Despite my best efforts of linking to Australian catagories in the directories, I am still getting more American traffic than Australian. I am searching for an Australian website with Australian links or affiliate programs?
Link choice
I understand the research component, but how does this translate into what links to place on your blog to grow traffic? Do you have an example? Thanks!
Do you recommend links from blogging
I was wondering if link building by someone who posts on his blogs is a good thing. He has 600 blogs and he'll post the blog that I write with up to three links. That's up to 1800 links.
Here's their website: http://www.linksbuilding.net/
They seem legit all right, but I was wondering what's your opionion.
Thanks,
Don Stevens
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I have been working on linking for years with local businesses in my area. My website is www.loffreno.com and it has helped and gives other businesses exposure too. It's a lot of work and you need to know your neighboring business and they need to trust your website as well as you. thanks.
Link Building
Signatures in forum posts seem to work
but, www.walk2web.com really
but, www.walk2web.com really cool tool
How to build links the right way!!!
Hi,
Nice post. I been hearing about links a lot. I did try it. I have a few links to my site but doesn't help, probably i do it the wrong way.
Eliseo
Link Resources
I would recommend this site for your readers.
http://www.linkbuildingstrategy.com/
Link Building
Wow, this sounds more complicated and time consuming than one person who is managing a website can do well. I have spend the last year getting educated about being on the web,marketing,ppc,links,search engines,directories,etc. It is all great but such a lot to know and then do well as a business owner. I would love to have a staff of specialist who could do each area of successful marketing, I am it. Thanks for the tips. :)
Link Tools
Hey thanks to everyone for a bunch of great tool suggestions. I thought I already had a good quiver full, but there seems to always be something new or something I missed.
Really like touchgraph.
I've used gotLinks service
I've used gotLinks service and have many link exchanges. I can't see a noticeable benefit. It seems Google has gotLinks tagged and those link won't count.
regards.
Your Link Ranking Article
You are correct. Link building, along with some other strategies has helped my site www.PlatinumPleasurePalace.com to jump "8,000,000" spots in just 3 short months! Yep....you heard it right.....3 short months. Check for yourself on www.Alexa.com
I love link building!
Additional Seo Tools
Excellent post. Another well known engine for mapping websites and their respective weight in search engines is Kartoo http://www.kartoo.com has an interface similar to http://www.touchgraph.com/ one more to mention is http://walk2web.com/surf/ which shows the intricate links that compose the WWW in an interesting flash based output.
Any SEO tools you can find to assist in the evaluation of your site and your competitors is an added bonus and can provide valuable insight into future positioning strategies.
Since we are on the topic of tools, here is another one worth mentioning http://www.hittail.com/ it provide free 24-hour stats to monitor which search engines someone used to find you along with the ability to recreate the search, so you can see where your competitors rank in relation to long tail keywords in contrast to your own. It also analyzes what percentage of your hits are from your main keywords or the long tail of search.
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What are your thoughts on link building through the use of blogs. Such as, creating a blog with strategic anchor text, and then submitting that posting to various social networks.
Viable or no?
quick Links
A few years back, I saw an advertisement that would supply mw with hudreds of links over night, in return for allowing advertisers to email me. Wow suddenly overnight 1 was no 1 on Google for my selected key words. Everything was fine for a few months until Google picked up on it. I di not realise I had done anyhitng wrong, however my ranking suddenly dis-appered and has never come up on serches since. Just to make things worse, I now receive about 200 spam emails a day from their advertisers. be vary wary of this kind of Linking. Wishing to remain anonamous, Limo operator UK
Where to begin
Hi
we have recently launched our website http://www.PartyExplosion.co.uk
and where do we hunt for quality content or article writters who work for good newspapers or blogs
who can publish an article for our website
Regards
Sri
PartyExplosion.co.uk
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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.....
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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.
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