what is link building?

[Leadz]

Getting links to your website is like in the real world people recommending you.

So if someone who has used your service in the past tells others about you, they will respect their opinion and in most cases come to do business with you.

Now in the online world, how will the search engines really know that you are the best for a specific topic?

Well...

Amongst other things, the number of one way links pointing to your website with a particular phrase helps them a lot.

So, if everyone is saying some where on their shoe related website.

Hey!

Click here for "cheap shoes".

The more people you have linking to your site like that makes Google say well this site is relevant for cheap shoes and rank you some where on their algorithm.

Now...

It is important that not just any site on any topic link to you but rather sites that are related to the topic that you are trying to rank for. Their link will give you more brownie points.

It is more like the prime minister giving your business a personal recommendation for a good service.

So to keep this as short as I can, link building is a process whereby you go to relevant website related to your topic to create one way links with the right variation of anchor text as links pointing to your website.

Again it is my 2 cent

So

I hope this helps you in some way.

 

[simpson7647]

Very helpful thanks

 

[Leadz]

Hey!

Can you click on the thanks button instead?

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Thankswhore

 

[Frank Roman]

It's a misconception about linkbuidling, its not just to go to other's site and making links.
I can list few things for you which could be used for making back links.

[FONT=&quot]a. Submission to local and general search engine
b. Manual directory submissions
c. Submission to directories with tools (As per client requirement)
d. Link exchange request to related sites
e. Blog post submissions [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Creating Content and updating in websites
Editing HTML pages and Make it SEO Friendly
Register website into global search engines
Creating Blog for website and submit blog into various blog websites
Submit Article into various Article websites
Submit PR into various PR websites
Creating Advertisement for website and submit Adv into various Adv websites
Creating RSS Feeds and Submit into various RSS Feeds

[/FONT]I hope this will help you out...

 

[reggiemental]

[FONT=&quot]d. Link exchange request to related sites[/FONT]

Many of the SEO guys on here seem to suggest that link exchanges with relevant sites are not worth the trouble anymore.

Can anyone shed any light on whether this is really the case?

 

[Frank Roman]

NO, Piad linking or Link exchange is not really appreciated by big search Engines like Google.

But sometimes, if you dont want to spam or get a paid link. You can go to some relvant website, say you got a shoes store and your friend got a fashion store. Then you can ask him like I put your link on my site and you can put my link on your site.

Now the point is, Google says it should not paid, not to irrelevant sites

in the above case we meet both the criterion.

I hope this will help you

 

[eventdomain]

You will not get anything from a link swap on some webmaster or average biz site.

The major companies won't allow you on their huge, highly traffic websites without payment. It will cost you at least £200 to £700 for a weblink or newsletter advert, and that's just average - the large boys will want £1000's.

 

[Frank Roman]

But I have many ways to make links without paying a single penny, I have been working in this field since last 5 years. Have written books on best practices. More I can get .edu and .gov links for free.

 

[I, Brian]

Link exchanges I do not think should ever be considered as a main link building method, and certainly would never recommend people rush out and try and build up on these in general markets.

However, there are some very niche areas where different competitors - or ones with only small overlap - will naturally share links, and these can be worth considering.

The bottom line is to think in terms of value proposition - if you are exchanging links with another website, and there is a potential traffic benefit, you have a good link there. If it's just to build up numbers from poor quality sites, not worth considering really, IMO.

 

[MASSEY]

I stumbled across a blog that was really well content seo'd and with no comments, i added a comment and saved my name as a keyword which was the link to my site,

today i jumped six places.

Its true what the seo's on here say, there are ways to get links, you just have too look hard, long and hard.

 

[I, Brian]

Do be aware that it can take quite a few weeks for new links to impact on Google - on-page tweaks tend to impact faster.

 

[eventdomain]

That was lucky, most blog owners are webmasters and will ensure the blog gives no assistance to search positions by adding a no-follow to comments.

They do this to protect their blogs from being spammed. Blog comments are devalued anyway as its just people posting urls - comments aren't proper content. How can it be with people saying:

I agree with that, you gott a kool website dude

and you think Google will reward them for it by promoting them up the serps?

Decent links will carry weight, and will have a clear unhidden proper title eg: Daily Express owner buys Five

the above is an example of a great weblink, its a clear message.

George Barlow September 2, 2007 at 10:03 PM ​

But the name above isn't allowed to be displayed as an advert text link. Its useless as a point of sale. This removes any advantage to stop comment spammers, and isn't a good link at all.

It will display as a search result, but its nothing to brag about.

 

[MASSEY]

for ranking sites in a fairly easy / medium niche for providing services little links like that can have a great effect,

 

[I, Brian]

i added a comment and saved my name as a keyword which was the link to my site

Also be careful - commenters who leave blatant keyword links are likely to be marked as spam by site owners, which can lead to your website being blacklisted, and unable to appear on normal blog comments.

If you're going to leave a keyword in a link, best to do it less obivously - ie, instead of "Plumbers in Birmingham" do it as "Birmingham Bob" or "Bob the Plumber".

To follow from event domain, most comments are nofollowed automatically by blog software as well.

 

[eventdomain]

Yep, I checked some Technorati blogs and the comments get no pagerank either

 

[Frank Roman]

I am on the top of the page with a keyword for which Google shows a monthly hits of around 120,000, but I am not getting the hits. Can anybody help me what exactly is happening?

 

[RedEvo]

I am on the top of the page with a keyword for which Google shows a monthly hits of around 120,000, but I am not getting the hits. Can anybody help me what exactly is happening?

Probably personalised search results. Check this.

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[Mr Niche]

If you have a link to your website on another website like a business directory, blog, forum, social website, that counts as a backlink to for you.

Google looks at these links to push your google rankings up.

Link building is simply building up these links.

However, you need quality links rather than quantity......all helps though!

Regards

Mr Niche