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How To Build 10+ Backlinks to Every Blog Post Automatically

Sandy — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:01:34 +0000

Backlinks are fuel for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Backlinks is the whole & sole reason you will receive loads of traffic from search engines. Links from other sites to your site are basically a ‘vote’ that tell search engines you are trusted and you are a good resource for whatever your content is about. Today, I will share with you a tried and tested method that will help you build 10+ backlinks to every future blog post of yours automatically.

I’ve found that after using this method that you will build backlinks to your blog posts almost immediately. This in turn will help:

1) Get your Posts indexed almost immediately
2) Help your Blog posts rank higher in SERP’s

Introduction

StatusNet is a FLOSS microblogging server written in PHP that implements the OStatus standard for interoperation between installations. While offering functionality similar to Twitter, StatusNet seeks to provide the potential for open, inter-service and distributed communications between microblogging communities. Enterprises and individuals can install and control their own services and data

Identi.ca is a sample site created by StatusNet in order to advertise their product. StatusNet is a MicroBlogging platform that anyone can use to create an entirely different MicroBlog, much the same way as WordPress is used to create a blogging site. But StatusNet is not primarily used to communicate on. It was created to post the “status” of a network or blog, hence the name.

That means that there is a whole bunch of people that own sites that are nearly identical to identi.ca.

How to Find StatusNet Hosted Platforms

Hope you remember an earlier post of mine relating to Google search operators. Here, also we will use a google search operators to find sites which are using the StatusNet platform:

“public timeline” + “export data” +”StatusNet”

As you punch this operator in Google, you will be shown a whole lot of sites that run on the StatusNet Platform. Now, if you have the time and energy you can register with each one of them and post on your newly created blog post url’s manually. This of course will take a lot of your time and energy and we’re pretty sure being a webmaster you would want to work smart.

Automate It!

Here comes the most interesting part, register at SocialOomph in the free mode and add the StatusNet sites you’ve registered at. Here as you add StatusNet sites, you will have to give your username and password as well. The best part about SocialOomph is that, you can add unlimited no. of StatusNet websites.

Here are few StatusNet websites you can start with:

sn.velotube.com
plimy.com
identi.ca
bentio.com
plasr.com
gaming.status.net
scoophot.com
myxavier.status.net
140.status.net
420.status.net
500.status.net

Once this is setup, you can schedule your blog posts to be published at accounts of your choice at Socialoomph and enjoy the dofollow backlinks you receive from them

Feel free to get in touch with me in case you a have a tough time setting this up

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5 Great Ways to Anchor Your Backlinks

Sandy — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:28:56 +0000

They say that “content is king”, but to backup your content to rank highly in SERP’s you need need to remember that getting quality keyword anchored backlinks is of prime importance. After you take care of onpage SEO for your individual posts, backlinks with the right anchor text is the factor that will get your site ranked higher for your desired keywords.

When obtaining backlinks to your site, it is important to include you keyword as the text for the link! Google uses the anchor text to make choices about the content of your page and how to rank you for certain keywords.

5 Great Ways to Anchor Your Backlinks

While Building backlinks:

Vary your Anchor text with your theme keyword, related keywords and long tail keywords.
Anchor deep pages with keywords
Develop a “keyword” nick name & site name
Get creative with your anchor text. If you’re companies name is “Blue SEO” and your offer SEO services within your local area, you would anchor text your backlinks with “Bangalore SEO Services”
Use your keyword in your site title, like “How to Make Money Online“, that way people will use the keyword as the anchor text when they refer to you.

Looking at someone’s anchor text really shows how much they know about SEO. But anyways, the role anchor text plays in your SERP’s success is huge. Put some thought in creative ways to get the anchors you want. Of course, sometimes you have to go with the site name or your name, but try to get as many keyword related anchor text links as you can.

We would be glad to hear from you on how your anchor your backlinks? What strategy do you follow?

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SEO: Importance of Semantics

Sandy — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:16:07 +0000

Semantics is the study of meaning and relationships, which plays a huge role in SEO. Google makes its money from being successful at crawling, indexing, and ranking data. One important aspect of this procedure is being able to understand content in a manner that is more complex than keyword density. One way of doing this is Latent Semantics Analysis or LSA. Google may not use this exact approach, but Google is sure to use some similar system of semantic analysis to look at textual content.

Importance of Semantics in SEO

By using semantics, search engines can have a basic understanding of the English language. There is an understanding of synoyms and antonyms. In addition, Google can relate niches and keywords. They’re able to develop complex relationships with keywords through their huge database of information and linking relationships.

For example, Google can understand the following relationships for a Make Money Online site.

Make Money Online
Make Money
Make Money Online
Make Money Blogging
Make Money on eBay

Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing Services
Online Marketing

Google knows that the usage of any of the above keywords is related to the primary keyword of make money online. It can relate long tail keywords as well as related keywords and the long tails of those related keywords.

Role of Semantics when Writing for Search Engines

Knowing that Google uses semantics is important when writing your site’s content and building links. You should use this knowledge to solidify your page’s focus on a keyword by focusing on long tail and related keywords

Conclusion

Understanding that Google uses semantics to evaluate content can help you improve your on site SEO. So when developing content, consider developing a list of long tails and related keywords that you can sprinkle through your content to help support your targeted keyword.

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What Are Paid Links? And It’s Effect on SEO

Sandy — Sat, 28 May 2011 12:36:14 +0000

Paid links are when you sell text link ads on your site and do not place a nofollow attribute on the link. A nofollow tag is an attribute that instructs Google to not pass pagerank or a vote. By not placing this nofollow you are not allowing a person to purchase a vote. People will buy links off high ranked, high PR, sites that are highly related to their site. In addition, they’ll usually use their desired anchor text.

Why Are Paid Links Bad

Google has cracked down on it recently by catching up with JC penney and penalized them by a drastic reduction in their Organic traffic. It has also made it against their Terms of Services and the result of getting caught doing it is a PR slap.

But the reason Google doesn’t like paid links is because selling links allows people to use money to influence search engine results. They want to stop that, because their concept is to allow a natural voting process via linking to select the best sites. This gets diluted when a spam site is willing to spend lots of money to obtain a ranking. So this gets in the way of their business model and they’ll penalize anyone who is violating it.

Should You Buy Links?

Not sure about this one. Personally, this blog is built on purely white hat techniques. I’ve not dared to go the uncharted route. But, in the end I’m aware that people still buy links. They’re just don’t mention it openly. Instead of advertising it on their site, people are contacting webmasters one by one, and requesting the purchase. They aren’t using services or forums as much to announce them.

So it’s an individual choice, you just need to be informed. Paid links can hurt your sites PR and ranking. But many people are still doing it, and using it to out rank others. So you have to decide the risk you’re willing to take with your business. Its influencing Google Search Results, but has amazing results.

How Do You Report Paid Links?

We’ll if you learn on of you competitors is buying paid links, you can blow the trumpet by reporting it to Google. If your competitors are breaking the rules to beat you, a simple report will take care of the problem for you.

Check out Matt’s post: How to Report Links

How to Correct a Paid link PR Slap

If you’ve used paid links to influence your search engine results and Google slapped your PR down a few points, you can get it back

You can file for a reconsideration request.

To fix your errors:

Stop buying and selling links
Add nofollow tag to all links on your site people paid for
Add sentence to your advertise page that clearly notes that you do no sell PR
Make a public post about no longer selling PR on your blog
File a reconsideration request and explain all the changes you’ve made

Most websites get their PR back over time, but there is no set page rank. The clearer it is that you’ve stopped, the better chance you have. Make it clear, and ask them to reconsider your site and to remove their penalty.

Conclusion

At the end of the day, knowledge is power – it’s just important to know Google doesn’t like paid links and will penalize you for buying or selling links. It’s still done in the SEO world, and is still an option. Buying links is still risky though, so it’s a personal choice about the risk. You can manage to rank high without them, if you put in the effort and have patience though.

Do share with us your views on Paid Links and its effects.

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SEOPressor Review: An SEO WordPress Plugin

Sandy — Sun, 15 May 2011 16:42:11 +0000

SEOPressor WordPress plugin is the top SEO plugin to optimize your posts for attaining ranking on Page #1 of Google Search Engine Result Pages. SEOPressor Is Like An SEO Expert Standing Beside You, Intelligently Optimize Your Website To Rank High On Search Engines And Automatically Attract FREE Organic Traffic.

How Does SEOPressor WordPress Plugin Work?

SEOPressor plugin performs a onpage analysis of your content and provides you with an overall rating of your prospective content. It looks at the below parameters:

Analyses Title, H1, H2 and H3 Tags
Analyses Keyword Density and Content Length
Analyses The Exact Placement of Your Keyword
Analyses Images and Links
Analyses Font Decorations
Intelligently Bold, Italize and Underline Your Keywords
Intelligently Add ALT Tag to Your Images
Capable of Testing and Rating Each Post and Page
Reveals Your On-Page SEO Scores
Secret Algorithm That Correlates With Google
Recalculates SEO Scores When Content Changes
One-Glance Fast & Easy SEO Management
Intelligently Gives Suggestions On What To Tweak
Pump Your WordPress Site High Up In Search Engines
Drives Red-Hot Targeted Traffic To Your Website

Why use SEOPressor

SEOPressor is a tool designed exclusively for WordPress websites. SEOPressor Plugin can boost the rankings of niche blogs by telling you about the exact standing of your keywords.
It analyzes various aspects of on-page optimization and lets you know a true picture of your website.
SEOPressor gives you an instant SEO score is generated which helps you know what you must do in order to improve the prospects of your website.
SEOPressor also tests and rates each post that is added to your blog, which helps you know the true value of any additions that you may make to an article or blog post. This happens after saving for preview.

If you have a self hosted WordPress blog and want to rank high for your post by taking an unfair advantage over your competition, you should get SEOPressor

Click Here to Get SEOPressor WordPress Plugin Now

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SEO: Are Nofollow links Valuable?

Sandy — Sun, 08 May 2011 14:08:49 +0000

Link Building is one of the most written and marketed topics of Search Engine Optimization. You’ll find tons of ebooks and softwares all over the place showing you easy and different methods of building backlinks to your site.

The reason this topic is given prime importance?
No. of one way links = High Rankings for Keywords in SERP’s = High Targeted Traffic

The next question that pops up - are links from all sites given equal weightage?
Probably not, the first factor that comes into consideration is “rel=nofollow” and secondly the PageRank of the page linking out.

Nofollow does not mean that search engines do not see the pages which nofollow links point to, it means link value (page rank) nor referral attribution is given. Here is Matt Cutts, Google Engineer response to the question – Are nofollow links irrelevant?

You will realize that Mat Cutts has to say that:

“Nofollow links are dropped out of Google’s graph and are irrelevant from a search engine point of view. Since search engines should not be your only lookout, you can use different strategies like blog commenting, sharing your posts on social networking sites like Facebook & Twitter to get traffic to your sites”

However, we just looked up webmaster central and found many links from blogs that have the nofollow tag. It is still a debate whether nofollow links are useless. Some people still believe that they are beneficial for Link Popularity but do not pass any PageRank

We would love to hear your thoughts and views if nofollow links are valuable or not?

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SocialMonkee: Free Link Building Solution

Sandy — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:55:47 +0000

Building backlinks to your pages is an essential part of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for two reasons. The first reason is that it helps your pages get indexed faster, which is very important because you want the search engines to find them as soon as possible and crawl them regularly. The second reason is that it helps your pages get higher search engine rankings for the keywords of your choice. The more backlinks you have, the better.

SocialMonkee is an instant backlink builder allowing you to build 25 unique backlinks every day, FREE. All links are on unique C-Class IP addresses and domains. SocialMonkee has been designed to help you dramatically increase the number of backlinks to your pages, for better search engine indexing, rankings and more traffic.

The links come from social bookmarking sites that are owned by SocialMonkee. They have purchased 100 domains and installed 100 social bookmarking sites on 1 unique ips, all c-class unique, most of them are even A and B class unique on servers around the world! The best part is that all links submitted are dofollow backlinks

Features of SocialMonkee

SocialMonkee is FREE to join
Allows you to build 25 BACKLINKS everyday
All links are on UNIQUE C-Class IP addresses and domains
Helps you dramatically increase the number of backlinks to your pages

How to Use SocialMonkee

If you’re not a member yet, go to www.socialmonkee.com and sign up now. As you sign up you can submit your URL’s using the following two options:

Option 1: URL Submission –

To submit a URL to 25 sites, simply log into your account and visit the ‘Download our Firefox Plugin / Submit to Sites’ section.

Enter the URL of the page you want to build links to, at least 3 title variations (which should contain the keywords you want the page to rank for), a description with spun words or sentences and at least 3 tags (you may use the keywords you want the page to rank for).

Then select a category, choose if you want the submission to be processed now or over time and click the ‘Submit’ button. Several versions of the title, description and tags are required to help make the backlinks look 100% unique to the search engines, giving them even more value and helping your pages rank even higher

Option 2: URL Submission – Firefox Plugin

To install the Firefox Plugin, visit the ‘Download our Firefox Plugin / Submit to Sites’ section and click the ‘Download’ button. Once the plugin is installed, you may start using it. Click the ‘Monkee’ head at the bottom right of Firefox and choose ‘Please Login’. Enter your email address and password. Once done, click the ‘Monkee’ head again and choose ‘Submit URL’. A new window will pop up. Fill in the form and click the ‘Submit’ button.

Join SocialMonkee now & get 25 dofollow backlinks free everyday.

SocialMonkee is FREE to join
? Allows you to build 25 BACKLINKS EVERY DAY
? All links are on UNIQUE C-Class IP addresses and domains
? Helps you dramatically increase the number of backlinks to your pagesSocialMonkee is FREE to join

Allows you to build 25 BACKLINKS EVERY DAY

All links are on UNIQUE C-Class IP addresses and domains

Helps you dramatically increase the number of backlinks to your pages

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5 Effective SEO WordPress Plugins

Sandy — Sun, 01 May 2011 18:15:15 +0000

Straight out of the box, WordPress comes ready to embrace search engines. Its features and functions guide a search engine through posts, pages, and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database.

Organic Traffic is what we strive for. Luckily for us, the WordPress community is highly SEO inclined and have developed a lot of free plugins that can be implemented in WordPress to Search Engine Optimize (SEO) your blog which will help us receive organic traffic

5 Effective WordPress Plugins to Search Engine Optimize Your Blog

1. All in One SEO Pack – This is one of the most popular SEO WordPress plugin. It helps you customize your post title, post description and post tags for individual posts. If you’re a beginner you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box as you install it.

Get All in One SEO Pack

2. SEO Smart Links – SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. It is a perfect solution to get your blog posts interlinked or add affiliate links to other sites.

Get SEO Smart Links

3. SEO Friendly Images – SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress SEO plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes for SEO purposes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set.

ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your images to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match. The TITLE attribute plays a lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tool tip when the mouse is over the image

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4. Google XML SiteMaps - This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content

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5. Broken Link Checker – Broken Link Checker will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. Once installed, the plugin will begin scan your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, other content which contains links. Depending on the size of your site this can take from a few minutes up to an hour or more. There are certain actions you can perform once a broken link is found:

“Edit URL” lets you change the URL of that link. If the link is present in more than one place (e.g. both in a post and in the blogroll), all occurrences of that URL will be changed.
“Unlink” removes the link but leaves the link text intact.
“Not broken” lets you manually mark a “broken” link as working. This is useful if you know it was incorrectly detected as broken due to a network glitch or a bug. The marked link will still be checked periodically, but the plugin won’t consider it broken unless it gets a new result.

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Do let us know if you think some other plugins should be added to this list

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SEO: Optimize Your Internal Linking Structure

Sandy — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:02:35 +0000

A good internal linking structure means that it takes a very few clicks around three to get you to the targeted link from your Homepage. A solid Internal linking structure can increase your overall bog authority which can help increase your search engine rankings for your individual posts.

Since search engines rank each page on your site and not your site as a whole, it’s important that you’re internal pages rank well. If you’re interlinking your blog posts, it would mean that you’re passing the link juice to all pages on your site which is very advantageous from an SEO point of view.

Internal Linking also enhances user experience by making it easier for them to navigate through your site which just a few clicks.

4 Steps to Optimize your blog’s Internal Linking Structure

1. High Level Navigation – Ensure that you have an excellent navigation structure for your blog. You can utilize headers, sidebars and footers to place text-based links which are crawlable to improve you’re blogs overall navigation structure. Avoid the use of flash images and links contained within a javascript – they are not followed by search engines.

You could also make use of breadcrumbs on your blog. As per Wikipedia “Breadcrumbs typically appear horizontally across the top of a web page, usually below title bars or headers. They provide links back to each previous page the user navigated through to get to the current page or—in hierarchical site structures—the parent pages of the current one. Breadcrumbs provide a trail for the user to follow back to the starting or entry point”

Typical breadcrumbs look like this:

Home page > Section page > Subsection page or Home page >> Section page >> Subsection page

You can get the Breadcrumbs WordPress Plugin to achieve this.

2. Interlinking & Anchor Text – Interlinking related pages / post helps enhance reader experience as you are providing more information to them. Anchor text helps indicate to your readers an overall summary of the page you’re linking to. If you have multiple pages & posts on your blog, there will be a few posts that attract more traffic than others. Using Interlinking with Anchor text, you will be passing traffic to them as well.

You can check out Insights Plugin and SEO Smartlinks to interlink your blog posts with Anchor Text

3. Broken Links – Whether you like it or not, over a period of time you will find broken links on your blog. They are neither liked by search engines nor readers. You can use Broken Link Checker WordPress Plugin to find & rectify them.

4. Sitemap – Have two sitemaps, one for your users and one for search engines. An XML sitemap helps google learn about your site’s internal structure, thereby increasing chances for search engines to find and index you internal pages. A sitemap for users can have all the category links & links to internal pages of your blog.

Do let us know if you follow any other tips to optimize your blog’s internal structure.

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How to Build Backlinks To Your Site

Sandy — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:15:21 +0000

Backlinks are fuel for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Backlinks is the whole & sole reason you will receive loads of traffic from search engines. Links from other sites to your site are basically a ‘vote’ that tell search engines you are trusted and you are a good resource for whatever your content is about. Today, we will see the most popular known methods to build backlinks to your site.

7 Killer Ways to Build Backlinks

1. Blog Commenting – Commenting on relevant blogs in your niche is one of the best methods to build backlinks to your site. But, you should remember most of the blogs have nofollow tag by default and will not pass their link juice to your site when you comment. The trick here is to find blogs with the dofollow tag who pass link juice when you comment on them. It would be an icing on the cake if you could find dofollow blogs with keywordluv enabled as that will enable you to get your backlink with the anchor text of your choice. A great way to find dofollow blogs is by using Free Blog Commenter or google search operators

2. Forums – Recently we’ve come across this fact that there are hundreds of dofollow forums with high PR. Forums are places where you can network with like-minded people and use your links during your sign up stage. Also another good way is to add links to your forum signatures. You need to remember that if you join a forum that is very popular with 1000′s of posts, your backlinks are not going to be that powerful as it could be from a forum with a lesser no. of posts. You can find some good forums relating to your niche from http://www.big-boards.com which lists around 2000 forums in many different niches.

3. Article Marketing – Promoting your site with the help of article marketing is a very well-known strategy to build up backlinks as well as traffic. You need to be choosy while selecting your article directories out there as there a lot of them that are more like link farms and google’s recent panda update devalued these sites. Few of the well-known article directories are Ezine & GoArticles.

4. Web 2.0 & Free Blogging Sites – Another great source of obtaining backlinks to your sites are web 2.0 sites like squidoo & hubpages. These web 2.0 sites allow you to create your own pages and can write any topic of your choice and get a one way link with anchor text of your choice. Free blogging sites like wordpress.com, blogger.com & typepad allows you to create your own free blogs on any niche and write content of your choice with relevant links.

5. Directory Submissions – There are a lot of directories that you can submit your site to. Submitting your links to directories like Yahoo & Dmoz will help you build up backlinks to your site. Although you will find a lot of free directories that you can submit your site to, we would not recommended that as obtaining links from bad neighbourhoods is also not good for your overall SEO strategy.

6. Guest Posting – If not all, most of the popular blogs accept guest posting. It helps not only in obtaining backlinks, but helps you build a brand for your site and gets you laser targeted traffic. A few of the popular blogs that accept guest posts are Traffic Generation Cafe, IBlogZone, FamousBloggers, DailyBlogTips & ShoutmeLoud.

7. Social Bookmarking Sites – Bookmarking your websites on Social networks like Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, & Twitter can help you get backlinks. Also, if your post makes it to the top of a Digg or goes viral in StumbleUpon – you could end up receiving a lot of traffic.

Feel free to let us know if you use some other strategy, methods to build backlinks to your site.

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