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Link Popularity
Link Popularity
Build Incoming Links With Articles and Gain Pagerank in the Process
Dec 11th
If you’re just starting your blog a great way to gain pagerank which will in turn increase visitors is submitting articles. In the world of SEO this method usually gets swept under the rug, mainly because it takes a bit of hard work. You actually have to write some content. The truth of the matter is Google loves articles. They also like seeing links to your site from various related website sources.
Why are articles good for building pagerank? Well, Google spiders are smart, sophisticated little critters and they have learned to sniff out related content links. Where better to find a link and related content than an article? Sounds simple doesn’t it? One of the many things that will determine your pagerank is how many inbound links you have. They need to be quality links as well. Links from link exchanges and unrelated websites have little to no effect and can actually do more harm than good. The good thing is Google happens to consider articles one of these quality sources. Mainly it’s because your article talking about a certain subject, then it’s linking to a webpage of that subject. That is the one two knockout punch for a quality inbound link.
Let’s get started
What makes a good article? Following a few simple guidelines when writing an article can greatly increase it’s effectiveness. I’m not gonna teach you how to sell your website or a product. This advice applies to optimizing your article for search engines.
1. Know your topic and make sure it’s relevant to your website. If you have a website solely about motorcycles and you write an article about hang gliders and then link to your site. Google will no doubt virtually completely ignore your article for this one reason alone. Just as true, if a human reads your article they’re going to be quite mad when they show up to find the “Big Rex’s Custom Choppers” staring back at them. So keep the article in the vein of your website and you’ll be fine.
2. Once you have the topic of your site and the premise of the article sorted out the next thing you need to do is think about keywords. Keywords is a term used a lot these days when it comes to SEO. One caveat when it comes to keywords is do not over use them. Having a few well placed keywords in your article will go a long way. Think of keywords as a spice, a really hot spice like cayenne pepper. You just want to gently sprinkle the right amount on there. Using too much is called “keyword stuffing” and can greatly increase your risk of being ignored by a spider.
3. Think of a good title for your article. Make sure it’s a bit unique in some way and contains those relevant keywords creatively. Instead of “Make money online” you might want to go with something like “Discover 10 easy ways to make some quick money online”. The title is the first thing spiders and people look at so spend some time to think of a good one.
4. When writing the article keep it short within the 600-1500 word range. Once again, just like with the keywords you have to find a nice goldilocks zone so to speak. Not too short but long enough to ensure you’ve got some good informative content. A super long article no one will read and will no doubt have way too many keywords littered in.
5. Be sure not to talk about your site too much in the article. Do not put a link to your site or many other links but yours throughout the article. Just one well placed link at the end of the article is best. For example: “For more about anything motorcycles check out bigrexcustoms.com”
6. Submit it and forget it. Overtime link building like this will help drive a consistent stream of visitors to your site.
The Merits of Link Building – Read More About It
Dec 9th
The positive impacts of the merits of link building aren’t just felt in websites and blogs that had been online for sometime because it is possible for newer sites to benefit from it as well. Your site will begin to rank really in the search engines’ result pages if there are huge amount of text links pointing to your site, thus making it more popular. The situation was different few years back but the importance of link popularity as it regards page rankings today is quite enormous. Your site would have very slim chances of survival in the page ranking competitive tough terrain if the one way inbound links it has aren’t much.
Link popularity or link building shouldn’t one be the priority of those sites or blogs that are fighting to remain alive. Every website or blog must device ways of getting as much one way inbound links as possible because of the following positive reasons.
1. Your Page Rank Would Be Boosted by Link Popularity
Where your site ranks in the major search engines’ result pages such as Google plays vital role in determining how easy it will be for targeted prospects to discover your site online searching. The way your site is going to be ranked and keep ranking is directly dependent of the number of relevant one way inbound links that are pointing back to your site or blog. This will enable your site to be featured in the top of the search result pages of the search engines.
2. Direct Targeted Traffic Generation
One of the merits of link building and link popularity includes the fact that many web surfers will be eager to click-in to your site when it is linked from several top ranking sites or blogs. It will be easy to be getting targeted traffic from the inbound links that are pointing to your quality blog posts or articles. The result of this is usually plain and targeted traffic which normally lead to more sales or revenue-generating activities in your blog or site.
3. More Popular Your Website Or Blog Become, The More Trust It Garners On The Internet
There isn’t any way the merits of link building would be discussed without mentioning the immense trust that most popular site have on the world wide web. It is natural for web sufferers to begin to trust certain sites or blogs they see many links pointing to from several sources. If, for instance, you form the habit of writing and submitting very informative articles, there is every chance that the amount of your trusted followers will begin to skyrocket and it wouldn’t be hard for them to agree with you on certain recommendations and easily patronize your products or services.
4. Positive Revenue Advantage
The other merits of link building include increased revenue base of your online business. This is because, the more targeted traffic your site attracts from its higher page rank and other direct organic traffic, the more conversions you will begin to notice in your site or even the more clicks on your ads or signs or downloads or anything actions that will yield profit for your business at the end of the day.
The Best Practice For Link Building
Dec 9th
Posted by charles in Link Popularity
Link building is one of the best search engine optimization methods. It helps the site to rank higher in the SERPs especially when it is carried out on regular basis. Your site may rank higher on the search engines’ result pages today but if the link building efforts aren’t sustained, you may be surprised to discover that such site’s ranking may slide drastically within a short period of time.
When we talk of link building, it may be limiting to think that link building is only linking up with some sites or blogs. It goes beyond that because link building entails link exchanges, articles submission, directory submission, online informative or educational video creation and free distribution, RSS feeds streamlining and so on. All these can potentially build links to one’s website or blog but there are some of them that are better options than the rest while others can be detrimental if not handled right.
When you are determined to build links for your site search engine link popularity, you have to be determined to build just one way backlinks to your site through some of these methods:
Begin by sorting out the blogs or sites in your niche that ranks high in the search engines. If you are able to get relevant blogs that are high ranking, you sign up with them and begin to comment on posts that interest you. Note that you may not you may benefits from these kinds of blog commenting if you forget to add the link to your site or blog in the signature page. This signature pages usually follower every comment or post you make within the blog pages. For more positive effects, you are advised to give insightful comments so that those other blog readers will have the need to click-in to your blog or site. This is just one of the benefits because your site must have gotten valuable one way inbound link from any of such blogs you sign up for. You will begin to have more link exposures and back link popularity on the internet.
Another route to follow is when you find a static website that is not just highly ranked but are in the same niche with you. You just have to critically examine the products or services that are offered on such and write very positive and insightful reviews on the services and products. By the time you finish this kind of unsolicited by smart product or service review, you then have to call the attention of the site or blog owner to such review. There is every chance that such webmaster will like to showcase such independent review to his or her other web visitors so he or she may readily link back tpo the review page on your site. This is one potent one way link you had gotten even without the site owner knowing about it. It is not just possible for your site to gain higher rank with these kinds of one way links but many targeted visitors would be clicking in to your sites from these other sites that are pointing to yours.