A Few Link Building SEO Tips

Here are a few SEO tips from someone that has been doing it for years. Creating back-links to your website is the best way that I know of to increase the number of visitors that your websites get on a daily basis. But, which links are most effective?

Webmasters argue about that. Personally, I feel that all links are effective to a certain extent. If you only create links from one social network or website, then you have basically bet all of your money on one horse.

To continue with the gambling scenario for just a moment, if you go to a race track and you spread your money around, betting on several different horses in the same race, your odds of winning some money are better. Of course, at the track, you will lose money on the horses that don’t win.

Unless you pay for back links, there is no way that you can lose. Posting at some of the directories is a waste of time, in my opinion, because they don’t allow relevant links within the text or they don’t have an author’s box at the end of each article.

Of course, time is money, so without further delay, here are a few more link building SEO tips. These are all free options.

- Find related websites and offer to trade space. You allow the website owner to put a link on your site. He allows you to put a link on his.

- Create a daily blog with links to your website. Provide helpful information related to the products that you sell or promote on your sit.

- Write informational articles and post them at EzineArticles, Amazine or Go Articles, three of the top article directories online. Posting is free and each of the ezines allows back-links in the body and in the article box.

The next link building SEO tips have to do with social networks. You should have enough confidence in your products or the ones that you are promoting to encourage your friends and family to buy them.

If you do not have a Facebook and a MySpace page, then you are a little behind the times. Twitter is the latest thing, but for user friendliness and beginners, I would recommend Facebook, first.

The more links that you have leading to your website, the more traffic you will get. You cannot have too many links. If you also have outgoing links, then your site ranks higher in the search engines.

So, those are my link building SEO tips for the day. Hope they help you drive more traffic to your site.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Greg_Swan

Link Building For Effective Search Engine Optimization

When you begin the task of acquiring quality and relevant backlinks to your website there are many factors that can increase or decrease your search engine rankings. This article outlines the difference between good and bad backlinks.

A quality backlink pointing to your site should be in the same category and relevant in content to your website. The page where your link is located should be indexed by Google and the page should also have a Google page rank. The webpage where your link is located should also contain no more than 30 other out-going links to other websites. Link pages with more than 30 out-going links are less relevant to the search engines. Having your link posted on this type of webpage can affect your search engine rankings in a negative way. Other excellent techniques of acquiring backlinks are directory submissions, posting articles, blogs and forums.

For directory submissions select the proper directory category and take a look at how many other websites are contained in the category where your link would be posted, if you can manage to get on the first or second page of the listings, this is a quality backlink. Also look at the Google page rank of the landing page for your link. If the page has a Google page rank this is also a quality backlink.

Stay within your category, relevant content is very important to the search engines. Write an article preferably relevant in content to your website and submit the article to high quality article directories. Blogs are an excellent way to get quality one-way backlinks, Blog sites also receive tons of traffic, which in turn give your site more exposure. Posting your link on forum pages is also an efficient method of aquiring backlinks instantly.

Backlinks to avoid would be a 0 page ranked webpage, especially if the home page has a zero page rank. Links posted within framed webpages which will also steal your traffic. Especially avoid link farms, webpages which contain more than 100 unrelated outgoing links, This type of link page is frowned upon by many major search engines. Avoid Webpages with mirror sites containing the exact same content with a different URL, also pages that utilize redirects and URL cloaking. Never post your link on a webpage that contains a “no follow” or “no index” robots meta tag within the source code. Dynamic websites with question marks in the URL should be avoided because they are not always indexed by the search engines.

Also avoid posting your link on a page that opens very slow or contains mostly ads and flash banners. Try not to aquire or purchase great numbers of backlinks in a short period of time, backlinks should be accumulated gradually. Also avoid webpages and directories that list their results in alphabetical order, as their database increases your link could be moved to a less relevant page with less pagerank. Quality backlinks are one of the most important factors involved in the process of acheiving high search engine ranking.

……………..James Day

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