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SEO Competitor Research Can Aid Your Rankings

2010 November 8
Posted by jason

The Power Of Competitor Research For SEO.

SEO Competitor research is a way that you can basically analyze the sites of the people ranking above you in search engines to see what they are doing differently to you.

It is a part of SEO that many people either do not do, or do once and then forget about.  Looking at competing sites to see what they are doing to make them rank for a specific search term can be a really powerful SEO method.

On-page SEO is only part of what you can do with competitor research. You can also “reverse engineer” your competitors sites to find out where they have gotten their links from.  By doing this you can get the same links.  There is a good post on SEO competitor research here.

So it is not just about onpage factors, it is also about looking at links as well.  By tackling competitor research from these two angles, you can see exactly what the sites you are trying to beat are up to, and do it better than them.

The net result of this is that you will rank higher than them.  That is something that is worth the effort.

SEO Link Building Strategy

2010 October 31
Posted by jason

If you are reading this article, then it’s obvious that you’ve read loads of useless internet marketing articles already. Luckily you won’t have to go through all that once again. People might tell you that there are several ways of making money on the internet and you don’t really have to deal with seo, linkbuilding etc. but by money they mean a few bucks here and there. If you are planning on making a full time income online, you should focus your attention on seo and come up with a good seo link building strategy that works for you. In this article, we will talk about some seo link building tips that will help you rank high in almost no time!

Before we get started, i’d like to tell you that no seo link building strategy will ever work, if you are a quitter! Just like everything else, even seo link building takes time. So if you don’t see the results in a day or a week, don’t back out saying that the seo link building tips mentioned in this article don’t work. You can spend days, weeks and even months reading seo link building tips on the internet, but in the end it’s upto you to take action!

Seo link building tip 1 – Install seoquake:

Seoquake is a great plugin that makes link building an easy process. SeoQuake is a plugin for firefox that helps people gain seo related information about a particular page on the internet. It’s a great way to analyze your competition, but you must be wondering how SeoQuake can help you build backlinks right?

To find relevant high page rank backlinks, all you have to do is visit http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ , enter your competitors website address in the topmost field and look up all their backlinks. If you have SeoQuake enabled on your browser, you will see a lot of information that you wouldn’t see otherwise. You should also be able to see a link’s page rank as well! You can collect loads of high page rank links using this method and can use them later as a part of your seo link building strategy.

Seo link building tip 2 – Outsource the link building process:

If you are just starting out with internet marketing, this seo link building strategy might not be the best option for you. However, if you have a couple of bucks in your paypal account, you can get rid of all the grunt work and rank high easily while drinking coffee and watching tv! There are several freelancing websites on the internet today that provide some serious seo link building tips. Some even build links for you! One of the several freelancing sites is Fiverr.com where you can find link builders to build backlinks for just $5. If you have startup capital, you should consider outsourcing the link building process as a part of your seo link building strategy. There are several link builders on Fiverr who are really good at link building and can even provide you high page rank .edu and .gov backlinks as well!

Seo link building tip 3 – Chat with people on yahoo messenger:

Yahoo messenger is playground for a lot of spammers these days and it’s pretty frustrating to be interrupted by bots, spammers, hackers etc. However there is something very nice about yahoo chat. You can get like minded people to help you instantly and that too for free! Let’s assume that you encounter a page rank 7 webpage on the internet and want to post a comment along with your link on it. Now you would love to say something really meaningful and share your thoughts about it, but unfortunately you know nothing about programming languages like ajax, php, xml etc. Neither do you know anything about creating a high-end website either! So do you leave the website and find another webpage to comment on? Offcourse not!

A lot of people don’t realize that they can use yahoo messenger to get in touch with professionals from all around the world and that too for free! No matter what information you need, you can always find people to help you in real time. If you don’t like chatting on yahoo messenger, you can always use answer sites like yahoo answer to get someone to help you. Remember a link from a high page rank website is worth several backlinks from pages that have no page rank at all! If you want to be best internet marketer in the world, you should be able to convince people to help you gain information for free and you should consider this seo link building tip very seriously!

All about link exchanges

2009 September 18
Posted by jason

There are many types of site out there ready to take part in link exchanges.
Property websites are one of the most popular types of site working to get themselves more links.
Because you are reading this page, then chances are that you are a webmaster and are looking to get some
great quality link exchange.

No matter what your niche is, it’s essential that your site are always building backlinks,
which can be known as one way inbound links to your website.

Some of the more most widely used ways to grow one way links is to undertake commenting on blogs,
submitting your site to directories, writing articles, doing social bookmarking and forum posting.

Link exchanges are of course another way of getting links to your site.  I recommend staying away from reciprocal link
Exchanges however.  They are outdated now.  The value of the links is poor for SEO value, and if you do
Excessive reciprocal linking then you could even earn a Google penalty.

I suggest if you can get reciprocal link exchanges with a very small number of websites who will send your site traffic, that would be the best solution,
otherwise don’t use them.

You need to obtain non-reciprocal links,which means you need to create content people want to link to,
or requesting sites to post a link to your site.  You could of course use a one way link exchange.

Reciprocal linkbuilding died with the dinosaurs!

2009 September 18
Posted by jason

A few years ago, some people would mostly exchange reciprocal links.  This would get both websites a little boost in the search engine rankings, as the search engines were less advanced than we have these days.

What is concerning is that for these past three years the search engines
and SEO experts have made it extremely clear that reciprocal linking
is now completely pointless.  Not only do the search engines virtually ignore two way links, but building lots of reciprocal links could actually earn
your site a penalty.

It it therefore a mystery why people still use reciprocal link exchanges?

Perhaps one reason for it  is that they search once for a link exchange site. It is usually those established reciprocal link websites that appear at the top of the list.
Not knowing any different, webmasters join and swap links, under the false impression that what they are doing is linkbuilding.

Quite simply, it’s not.

People need to wake up to the fact that the links that are worth having now are one way backlinks to a website.

From now on when you complete a search for “a link exchange site”
look for  websites that tell you to do one way link exchanges.  If it involves
reciprocal links, for the health of your site, and not wasting your time, forget the link swap websites.

My first post!

2009 September 18
Posted by jason

Welcome to Blog.com.

This is your first post, produced automatically by Blog.com. You should edit or delete it, and then start blogging!