Link Building
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:49am
Under Blogging+ E-Commerce+ Link Building+ Web 2.0
Know something? Want to spread your word?
Hubpages is where you can easily publish information on a topic you love to write about.
In the world of HubPages, a hub is like a webpage, containing an article that you can write whatever you like on your favourite topic.
To start writing is pretty simple. After signing up, you just need to create a hub and start writing on it. With their easy-to-use interface, you can load content, photos, video and links onto your hub.
Thousands of people interested in your topic would be able to read your hub.
Best of all, for those who are interested in some extra cash, you can join their loyalty program. They have a traffic referral program AND you can also earn affiliate commission of Adsense, Kontera, eBay & Amazon. You can also setup an Analytics account to track traffic information.
By Leo
August 4th, 2008 at 01:44pm
Under Link Building+ SEO
Last post we talked about on-page SEO. Let’s talk about the other half - off-page SEO.
Off-page SEO is really refering to link building. As you probably would know, search engines counts the links pointing to a website as votes to its importance. The more links pointing to it, the more important the site is, hence the PageRank would increase accordingly.
To qualify for a high PageRank, it is important to:
1. Obtain natural links - make sure your links are not ‘bulk buy’ links from crap sites or link farms. (One saying is that you can’t really control who links to you, so Google can’t really penalize you. Well, that’s true. But still, try to avoid anyway.)
2. Obtain links from relevant websites - if you sell cars, you may want your link is from automobile related sites.
3. No pay links - search engines don’t really like paid links. If you want to buy links, well, it is not encouraged.
Quality of the links are more important than quantity. But quantity is also very important.
By Leo
June 25th, 2008 at 02:14pm
Under Blogging+ Link Building+ SEO
Recently I have blogged about John Chow’s contest for Market Leverage. And then John Cow’s contest, also for Market Leverage. They pretty much have the same system to attract you to join.
Contests, contests, contests… Have you ever thought of why there are suddenly so many contests happening?
Market Leverage, John Chow, John Cow and many others are doing this for a few reasons:
Increase number of Comments
John Chow asked us to leave a comment to gain the first ticket to enter the contest. A large number of comments surely reflects the popularity of the blog.
RSS / Email Subscription
To gain another ticket, they have asked you to subscribe to their RSS feed. That is an effective way to increase their number of subscribers.
SEO - Link Building
To gain extra tickets, you have to blog about the contest linking to John’s. By specifying the link text they have gained a quality / juicy backlink, which search engines count for ranking.
They have also asked to link to Market Leverage. Again, another juicy link, but this one is to ML instead.
Affiliate Marketing
To gain more tickets, you have to sign up with Market Leverage using a referral link. This way when you earn money through ML, they would get a commission.
What have you gained?
By placing a comment on their popular blog you have also gained yourself a link. If you have put your targeted key phrases onto the link then you got a higher quality link. I am not sure if they have got nofollow enabled though.
And of course, you have gained more chances to win the present!
At the time of writing, John Chow has gained 712 comments and John Cow got 74 (oops big difference). That effectively means they would have gained a large number of links as well.
By Leo
May 28th, 2008 at 03:05pm
Under Blogging+ Link Building+ SEO+ Web 2.0
Yes, you have read the title right. Microsoft is going to launch their own social bookmarking site. Apart from Live bookmark.
A preview version should be available for MSDN and TechNet in a very short time (probably within a few days).
Not a surprise - this new social bookmarking site allows users to:
- Bookmark a site on the web
- Tag it
- Bookmark a site on the upcoming “My bookmark” tool
Why is there another social bookmarking site? MS reveals that the new site should open another stream of advertising income, and also to collect tag data to improve search result relevancy.
By Leo
May 20th, 2008 at 12:26pm
Under Link Building
If you do link building, then directory submission is one essential component of it. However, there are millions of directories on the internet. Which ones to choose?
You can decide which directories to choose base on a few factors.
1. Google PageRank- although many people don’t really see it as important, it is however a good indication of how search engines view the directory website. The higher the PageRank, the better. When you submit, you may also want to have a look at the PageRank of the particular page / category that you are submitting to.
2. Ranking of the directory - type in a few keywords like ‘internet directory’, ‘business directory’, ‘online directory’, or ‘[your niche] directory’ and see what comes up on the first few pages of search results.
3. Relevancy - as I mentioned before, the links from websites with higher relevancy are more important.
4. Link verification - it is better of the verification process is manual. Usually the auto-processed directories are likely to attract spams.
5. Site quality - have a look at the websites on the directory and see if they are poor quality sites.
By Leo
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