SEO noob!

[K-Pax]

Hi guys, guess I'm the new kid on the block... Anyway so basically I'm having trouble with white hat methods of SEO. I understand the ways of blogging and squidoo, keyword density, competitive keywords and such BUT its the backlinking which I'm having trouble with. I mean I've read how now sig links don't really work these days, yes you will get a domain but all those posts won't get you far, so how am I supposed to get my juice up with out buying links? float around to a load of dofollow forums post a sig and get out of there? I'm not looking for anyway get juice quick scheme, I just need to know of a method and how to go about it. K-Pax

 

[rendy]

Three off the top of my head would be...

Guest Blogging
Writing awesome content that people will want to link to
Creating useful widgets that link back to your site

Good luck!

 

[Paul Murray]

A few more...

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  Commenting on other blogs

Make sure the comment is of value to the article. Blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin display your latest blog post after your comment.

• Link to other (quality) content

Linking out to other blogs will 'ping' that blog telling them you've linked to them. If you've linked from a quality article, they may be inclined to return the favour.

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  Including a link to your site wherever you can

Links from forum signatures, emails signatures, some social media, etc may not let search engines follow your link, but they still increase traffic resulting in more people seeing your content who could link to you.

Ultimately it will take time. Write quality content, promote it as much as you can, join in discussions on forums and blogs related to your niche (or complimentary to it) and over time links should start to come in.

 

[spiritusuk]

Including a link to your site wherever you can
Links from forum signatures, emails signatures, some social media, etc may not let search engines follow your link, but they still increase traffic resulting in more people seeing your content who could link to you.

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I would classify forum signatures as "black hat" although I accept the line between black hat and white hat is blurry............grey even

 

[Paul Murray]

Why would it be black hat?

A lot of forums don't allow search engines to follow your links so you're not really getting any SEO benefit from it, but it does make it easier for people to visit your site, increasing traffic.

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

I would classify forum signatures as "black hat" although I accept the line between black hat and white hat is blurry............grey even

I suppose you could argue that forum signatures are black hat if you aren't actually signing up to that forum to participate in the community.

 

[K-Pax]

Thanks, you were all very helpful, I have a published a squidoo page and linked the keywords I'm using back to my site but when I use seomoz to see inbound links I'm not saying any from squidoo. Also in fact I've dropped from top of google page 2 to top of page 3!?

 

[zigojacko]

Thanks, you were all very helpful, I have a published a squidoo page and linked the keywords I'm using back to my site but when I use seomoz to see inbound links I'm not saying any from squidoo. Also in fact I've dropped from top of google page 2 to top of page 3!?

Links from Squidoo pages were devalued at the start of the Panda updates, it's not to say they don't carry any weight, it's just the weight passed was reduced.

The data could take up to two months to appear in SEOmoz's tools also.

 

[K-Pax]

Right first of all I had forgot to check "pages in the uk" panic over.... I'm thinking about creating a blog on blogger focusing around my keywords I understand they have nofollow as default and it can be changed to dofollow so whats the weighting like on that platform or can you suggest any other useful type of platform? K-Pax.

 

[Paul Murray]

I would personally recommend self-hosting Wordpress or something and building your whole site using that.

 

[zigojacko]

You should be blogging for your target audience... Deliver what they need. Get this right and SEO rewards will come naturally. You can set the link relationship on Blogger blogs towhat you like yes (although don't really know what links you're talking about).

 

[K-Pax]

I would personally recommend self-hosting Wordpress or something and building your whole site using that.

Thanks, I was literally signing up to a wordpress host as I received this haha

 

[RevaxMedia]

Hi guys, guess I'm the new kid on the block... Anyway so basically I'm having trouble with white hat methods of SEO. I understand the ways of blogging and squidoo, keyword density, competitive keywords and such BUT its the backlinking which I'm having trouble with. I mean I've read how now sig links don't really work these days, yes you will get a domain but all those posts won't get you far, so how am I supposed to get my juice up with out buying links? float around to a load of dofollow forums post a sig and get out of there? I'm not looking for anyway get juice quick scheme, I just need to know of a method and how to go about it. K-Pax

I have not heard that word in a while...''Noob'' never mind. Creating useful content will gain you backlinks naturally if you have the time, patients and skill of writing very good linkworthy content.

 

[K-Pax]

I have not heard that word in a while...''Noob'' never mind. Creating useful content will gain you backlinks naturally if you have the time, patients and skill of writing very good linkworthy content.

Yea I'm bringing it back... >_>

 

[taklamakan]

Write interesting article and content so people will like your website and link to it!
Regards,
rob

 

[K-Pax]

Is keywordluv really as good as it sounds?

 

[zigojacko]

Is keywordluv really as good as it sounds?

It can be, depending on your reasons for its use.

The premium version of CommentLuv is the one to go for (this includes KeywordLuv) and contains many other neat comment related features along with flexibility.

Statistically, use of such plugins do attract more commenters... And with it, much more spam.

 

[frozen]

hey....

your suggestions and tips are really amazing...... that are very useful for me... i really enjoy with this community and great info..... from the members,... hope my stay at this forum will be a great fun and full of joy....