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October 6th, 2009 — Link Building
20 Sure-Fire Ways To Get People To Link To Your Web Site
Author: Dan Brown
Here’s some simple yet POWERFUL ideas on how to get people to link to your web site.
1. Offer other web sites free content to post on their web site. Include your link on all of your content. The content should related to your web site because it will be in front of your target audience.
2. When you visit a web site you’ve enjoyed a lot, write a review for the site. Write about the benefits you gain from the web site. Tell them they can publish it on their web site if they link to your web site.
3. Allow other people to publish your e-zine on their web site. Include your web site’s ad and link in each issue you publish. This may also help you increase the number of people that subscribe to your e-zine.
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Originally posted 2005-05-25 11:50:35. Republished by Old Post Promoter
September 15th, 2009 — Link Building, Spam, Scams
7 Top Ways to Avoid Link Theft
Author: Tony Simpson
If you have a link directory on a website, how do you stop link theft by sites that don’t link back, or trick you into thinking they do ?
Whether link theft is anything to get concerned about depends on how many links your website has, the quality of those links (Google Page Rank) and how many of those links you lose. Search Engine Ranking is certainly something that’s becoming more dependent upon the links to your website.
You might be forgiven for thinking that when a website no longer links back to you, that it was an accident your link was removed from the link directory. Of course accidents happen as I know from using some link manager software. Just one click in the wrong box and a website link disappears the next time you update your link directory. But the real link thieves are those people that use methods to rob you of a link.
Here’s 7 Top Ways Link Thieves work and how you can avoid being their next victim.
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Originally posted 2005-07-07 11:28:37. Republished by Old Post Promoter
October 12th, 2005 — Link Building
I’m used to foolish, impertinent link requests but this is the most brain dead I’ve ever gotten.
Dear Webmaster,
My name is Alex, and I am the owner of the web site http://www.[boguscrap].com.
I recently found your site http://www.news.harvard.edu and am very interested in exchanging links with you. I’ve gone ahead and posted a link to your site.
As you know, reciprocal linking benefits both of us …
How he came to think I’m a Harvard webmaster is beyond me. Whatever “Links Gold” kind of software he bought must be junk.
********this is not spam mail,this is only a one time mail,my appology for any inconveneince.
Yes it is spam and I take your apology as seriously as you really meant it.
August 26th, 2005 — Link Building
What to look for and How to avoid them
Author: Brian Osborne
Reciprocal linking scams have increased immensely during the past year. Initially we thought that this problem only related to gambling and casino related websites but an audit of our commercial link partners suggests that it is a serious problem within the broader online community.
Over the past eighteen months, we noticed that our page rank was slowly declining despite the fact that we were continually adding new link partners to our link directory. We had slipped from a five down to a two before we finally identified the exact cause of the problem. Out of the first 100 links on our anchor site, only seven were still being reciprocated.
We recrawled the sites where no link was found with the second spider and got exactly the same result. Then we started manually checking the sites where no link back was found and started discovering patterns of deliberate link fraud.
The scams in order of popularity amongst the scammers
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July 24th, 2005 — Link Building
Ethical Link Exchange, You be the judge….
Author: Lew Newlin
Webmasters understand that quality and relevant inbound links can increase site visibility; your search engine rating; and with any luck increase your traffic and revenue.
While working to locate relevant links for our site, we discovered a disturbing practice apparently being used to increase link popularity and search engine ranking. The following are the sorted details of our journey and discovery.
1) Most webmasters understand the hunt for quality relevant sites is, like most things of value in life, a time consuming and difficult task. Being limited on time, we first tried to hire a leading SEO expert to locate relevant links. When the SEO expert did not return emails, we tried a few link exchange sites. While a few good quality links were unearthed, the link exchange sites simply did not offer a large quantity of good relevant sites. After all, our competitors had hundreds of thousands of inbound links and we had less than 900. While tempting, we skipped over the advertisements for traffic as our desire was for prospective customers not traffic.
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July 7th, 2005 — Link Building
Author: Justine Curtis, Enable UK
Link development is one of the most overlooked components of a successful search engine optimisation campaign. Web site owners can put all the key phrases they wish on a page, develop killer content and a search-engine friendly navigation scheme, but without a well-planned link-development campaign, crawler based search engine visibility is difficult to achieve and high listings are virtually impossible. This month we will be covering the importance of inbound links, how to get them and what they mean for your web site.
We have all heard that adding quality content to your web site will give the search engines a good idea of how to index your web site, it’s a topic we covered in “Content, Content, Content” back in November 2004. But the secret to luring the search engines to your web site, and in part to improving your position within those listings is your inbound links.
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July 6th, 2005 — Link Building, Website Traffic Building
Strategies For Submitting Your Website To Web Directories
Copyright 2005 Brad M Callen
Webmasters like you and me are always on the lookout to enhance the link popularity of their sites. One method of doing so is to seek out authority sites in your niche – sites that are widely known on the Internet (through the sheer number of back links) and have been around for some time (think more in terms of several years). Unfortunately, such websites are often at a Page Rank of 6+ and as such, link exchange or text link ad placement is very, very expensive .
Luckily, there is a cheaper alternative. You can use web directories to not only enhance your search engine visibility (through increased link popularity), but by targeting niche categories and using sponsored listings where necessary, you can get a big jump in your traffic as well.
So, let’s get started.
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June 26th, 2005 — Link Building
10 Mistakes to Avoid When Setting Up a Link Directory
Author: Tony Simpson
When adding a link directory to a web site there are important mistakes to avoid, or else you’ll be storing up big problems for later on. I know, because I made some of these mistakes and didn’t have anyone to offer any advice or tell me what I’m about to tell you.
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Don’t create a directory page with all your links on one page. You should have no more than 30 – 40 links to a page. The reason is that some sites will not link to you if a page you put their link on has too many links, because it dilutes the value of the link to them. To understand why, you need to know about Google Page Rank and how it’s passed to another site from your link page. That’s a subject too lengthy for this topic.
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Plan your link directory on paper first and decide what names you are going to give each category in your link directory. Make the names fit with the theme of your site and try to avoid adding categories which are nothing to do with what your site is about. For example if your site is about Making Candles and Candle Accessories, don’t have link categories for Computers & Games, or Search Engine Optimization etc. The reason is that if you want your site to achieve a good ranking with the search engines your site should be built tightly around your theme, in this example Candles.
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May 21st, 2005 — Link Building
Link Exchange Scam
Author: Azani
I have written in an article about the importance to be linked by other web site in order to increase your link popularity. It is related to PageRank. The more back link you get, the higher your PageRank will be, and the higher ranking you will get in the search engine when somebody searches your keywords. You may easily found many of webmasters really eager to exchange links with each other especially when the other page’s PageRank is higher then them. Just type “link exchange” in Google you will found thousands of them. But you must be very careful in choosing web site to exchange link. Some of them just make your PageRank going down into the drain by wasting your PageRank. Firstly, what is PageRank? PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. When one page links to another page, actually it is telling the search engine the importance of other page. When more links a page got from another page, it shows how important the page must be.
While surfing around looking for web sites to exchange link I found some of webmasters doing bad thing to their link partner. One example is to add the directory where those links are located in disallow line in “robots.txt”.
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May 13th, 2005 — Link Building
Author: Matt Colyer
Don’t be fooled into believing that all backlinks are created equal because their not! Why, you may ask? It’s no secret that many webmasters trade links left, and right, for the benefit of a higher ranking in the search results, but search engines have caught on to this technique, and are very aware that this is major threat to the relevance of the search results.
Search engines such as Google have took steps in an effort to prevent this from becoming major problem by placing more importance on one way backlinks. So, how do you get one way backlinks to your web site? Well, there are number of ways to go about this, but the most effective techniques are listed below.
1) Having a useful, and valuable web site, especially if your web site is free, (Such as providing articles, tools, games, and software.) will cause other web sites to link to your web site. Why? Because by linking to useful, and unique web sites offer value to their own web site’s visitors, and therefor increases their own value. This one can take while to really pay off because like all new web sites, you won’t get much traffic.
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