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Google Offers Inbound Link Advice
By Jason Lee Miller - Mon, 10/13/2008 - 18:08
Want links? Google says be interesting
Google’s Maile Ohye concluded Link Week with a tutorial on inbound links. It says basically what SEO experts have been saying for years: content and inbound links are most important, and in that order. 
Just because it’s old news doesn’t mean it’s bad news. Google’s had a real history of silence on the SEO side of things, and experts were often left to theorize and test—and worse, try to game. Google sent a pretty loud signal this time last year by hitting the PageRanks of paid directories, a move seeming to confirm basic white-hat SEO tactics.
In her post, Ohye extols the virtues of naturally gained, editorial inbound links and directly denounces links appear “spammy,” or not “merit-based.”
“One of the strongest ranking factors is my site's content. Additionally, perhaps my site is also linked from three sources -- however, one inbound link is from a spammy site. As far as Google is concerned, we want only the two quality inbound links to contribute to the PageRank signal in our ranking.
"Given the user's query, over 200 signals (including the analysis of the site's content and inbound links as mentioned above) are applied to return the most relevant results to the user.”
Ohye then offered four bullet points on how to earn merit-based links, paraphrased below:
- Start a site-related blog, writing or video, research or entertainment.
- Be interesting. Be a teacher. (Hey, that should be a recruitment slogan for a College of Education somewhere! I’ll sell it to ya for the bargain price of $500,000—if a private school, just $10,000, since as a non-government institution you can’t just print the money you need.)
- Participate in the community surrounding your industry—social media, blog comments, user reviews.
- Provide useful products or services.
In short: content, content, content, a little participation, and the links will come.
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great info.please tell me
great info.please tell me why my page rank is zero
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Doing it myself?
I have been trying to get my pagerank up for my art company's ( ArtView ) website www.artviewcompany.com and it has been going very slowly. Is it worth it to hire a company to do this for me? Or should I just keep trying to do it mysel?
Doing it or having it done right
I think doing SEO for yourself is a great idea. Once you have a solid grasp of what it takes you'll have a solid appreciation for the amount of effort involved. When do finally decide to go with a company like Oklahoma SEO you'll have a greater appreciation for what it takes to get things done, and you'll have time to focus on your core business.
Doing it myself?
I have been trying to get my pagerank up for my art company's ( ArtView ) website www.artviewcompany.com and it has been going very slowly. Is it worth it to hire a company to do this for me? Or should I just keep trying to do it mysel?
Without backlinks, a site is dead
No website is going to get far (or somewhere for that fact) without much backlinks. It's only when your site sits up very old (but still gets udated) that you truly do rank for that search term for being so long into it. That though, still requires of you to have some backlinks. The best things these days are not for ranking for a specific search term. It is to keep on adding content to your site and keep building up the backlinks. If you will start to get lots of links, you will most likely appear in the search engine for lots of words within your content that will be triggered.
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Inbound links are extremely
Inbound links are extremely important for SEO. I have been trying to get them and it's not easy without buildng a really kick butt website.
Peter Roesler president Florida Web Company providing killer web design
Links and linkbuilding is
Links and linkbuilding is part and parcel of successful work in the Internet, taken together with good content and SEO. If you have a look at my blog SEOall ( at http://rapid4me.com/ ), you'll read more about it.
Content still matters
I have seen with my website that content still matters. Inbound links are an important factor, but you also need to focus on good content.
I am looking to increase the
I am looking to increase the page rank for my business site www.dentiststudio.com .How does someone determine whether or not the link is of good quality?
i think
content is most important because even if you have many links and good pagerank, people not to visit your site again if you do not have a worthy content.
However, it is true what the people say in the comments, according to the type of page can be very difficult to get links except in directories
Content + links = success
If you put up quality content that a HUMAN will find useful AND optimize that content for SEO, THEN get a few QUALITY incoming links, your site will skyrocket. I've been doing it for over 10 years that way with much success.
Mike
Automotive Schools Drectory
Oh Yeah, be interesting.
Who is going to link to a clothes line site? Mine is full of good content but has very few natural links to it. I rely on directories. Matt Cutts, ideology isnt perfect. Try and think about us and dont penalise directories so much.
Link Building And Inbound Links
It is very important to use your keywords in contain and put give links within TEXT contain.
http://www.econceptinfotech.com
Its always been that way,
Its always been that way, inbound links are most important and then comes content of the site, this has to be good too.
Inbound Links
Is it true that Yahoo does not exclude nofollow links...is it just Google?
My SEO 2 Cents
Since folks are asking for alot of advice on improving their natural ranking, let me share a little nugget of advice:
For all graphics and images used through your site, make the file names of all image files keyword related, and include ALT tags for all the images that include good descriptions of your page content. You'll get a huge boost in Google's image search for sure. And you'll be surprised as the traffic you can gain from it since most people aren't competing for image search ranking.
Also it appears english is a second language for alot of folks here. I could see that has a hinderance in your SEO efforts since there are a lot of subtle nuances of the English language in terms of what English/American speakers type into searches.
Feel free to contact me, personal blog with more ranting: www.slowbox.org
Tom
I Frame
Hi, I am using Iframe on my site and google does not seems to be indexing it. What we can do to include iframe pages in to google search. You can view some at http://talkways.co.uk/phones.htm and let me know how to improve it.
I found from my affiliates that we can use datafeed to get indexed but I guess it is too difficult for me to understand all that. Any help please let me know at
info [AT] talkways [dot] co [dot ] uk
link difference between Yaho and Google
May someone explain why yahoo throws hundreds of links more than google? In my sites www.aloe-spa.com and www.hoodialatina.com there are a big difference between both yahoo and google, with a difference ratio of 8 to 1 for yahoo.
google use dofollow link
google count only dofollow link for link popularity, but yahoo count all link come from other websites. dofollow link is all link without rel="nofollow" tag.
Getting links when you have a nudist resort
I have an interesting situation. My wife and I own a nudist resort in Palm Springs, California.
Although the mainstream media has written a lot about our resort and we have been featured on TV many times, and we are one of the most popular resorts in Palm Springs, I have always found it very difficult to get sites such as travel sites, to link to us as they are "afraid" that conservative viewers will no longer visit their sites.
Getting links when you have a "controversial" business is easier said than done.
Confusion
This stuff really gets to me I have a number of sites and when I check the inbound links on www.earningmadeeasy4you.com Yahoo may say there are 120 but google says there are only 23. Does anyone know why?
Links are very important
I totally agree that links are very important.
But where is the news?
We know it for a long time that quality links are the key.
what crazy talk
thats just crazy talk, content important, but that means that you have to spend time on providing useful content not just sales crap....
im sorry but this is the best article that has been written recently on the topic, a simple test for content would you link it to your company website if not then likely others wouldnt...
Link Building
I know how to get links and increase in google ranking, but how do you get more recognized links that when you type in link:www.YourSite.com are listed?
that's one reason i can see
that's one reason i can see why Google decided to ignore "links" somehow, becuase of irrelevancy. (evil grin
Nobody links to each other
Nobody links to each other for free anymore. They all want a link back or get paid for providing a link to your website.
Links
I guess we really don't totally understand linking. Yahoo might show a link we have, but google might not have that link, or just the opposite. We finally get listed in a good directory, we see our website there, and then we can't find the link anywhere. Then we might have several links from some other site. Can anyone explain why to all of this? Here is our website. www.beijingjourney.com Is there anyway we can make sure our links are not spammy also? I guess, we don't totally understand what is spammy and what is not. We are very new to this.
getting better quality inbound links
i am trying to gain more inbound links for web design company new york. any tips?
SEO WEB
I new to SEO, How do i quantify good and relevant content?
Inbound links
Inbound links remain a mystery to me. I have spent time writing and publishing articles on topics related to my site, www.drive-israel.com, as well as commenting on relevant blogs - but when I query google re: inbound links, these links do not show up. What am I doing wrong?
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