10 Link To Avoid

Google’s gold standard of whether or not a website should be ranked well continues to change over time, but for quite a while the best method has gone unchanged… relevant backlinks from legitimate, authoritative sites. On page Search Engine Optimization and lots of great content may get your site indexed for specific keywords, but quality backlinks will drive up its rank.

Since backlinks have become a known commodity, many linking scams and services continue to pop up all over the web. Don’t be persuaded in spending the money for these services. Not only will you not improve your ranking, you may be putting your websites at great risk of being dropped from search engine indexes.

Yes, there are such things as bad inbound links.

Here is a quick list of some of the types of links you DON’T want pointing at your website. This list is not to be confused with links that simply to not pass value such as links with the rel=”nofollow” attribute.

1. Don’t get links from sites that blatantly sell text links.
2. Don’t buy into link farms. You may have run across a deal like, get 1000 links for $29.95 per month. Stay away from these programs.
3. Stay away from popular link brokers like text-link-ads.com or textlinkbrokers.com. These brokers will sell you text links with the direct intent of influencing Google’s search results. This is a violation of Google’s Terms of Service.
4. You will find users on popular webmaster forums offering to sell high pagerank links. Many of these sites are created by buying expired domains with high Google PageRank values and quickly throwing up template websites with little to no value/unique content. These sites will not maintain these PageRank values as soon as Google realizes they have changed ownership and content. There are also many ways Google can identify that these simple sites are selling links.
5. Make sure your links come from US based and targeted websites if your entire target market is in the US.
6. You really don’t want links created by spam software. Most of this software leaves a footprint and it is quite easy for Google to identify.
7. You really don’t want links from junk websites. These are sites like affiliate sites that have little or no unique content.
8. Don’t post links to spam sites relating to the three P’s (porn, pills and poker). Period.
9. Avoid the temptation of posting links to a forum that the owner no longer effectively manages and that is full of spam.
10. Avoid the temptation to add and publish your URL in link memes. A meme is a growing list of links that passes from one site to another for the sole purpose of sharing links and pagerank across the list of participants.

These are just ten of the types of links you don’t want, but this list is not all inclusive.

Info : Marketing Tech Blog

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Building Backlink through Forum

There is no doubt that quality backlinks from relevant sites are important for SEO success. If a page has good content, other websites will start linking to it in a natural manner; this is the main hypothesis for including backlinks as part of the search engine ranking algorithms. Thus, a page with better content will naturally have more backlinks, and will rank better. However, in practice, one will have go for other ways of gaining relevant quality backlinks, as a part of hisSEO strategy.

Getting listed in web directories, article directories, posting in forums, and blogs are some of the acceptable methods of acquiring quality backlinks. Generally, search engines index forums frequently, so posting in forums is a good way to gain quality backlinks with the anchor text of your choice. While submitting articles to directories can be a time consuming process, it does not require much effort and time to post in forums; however, one has to do his homework and take some precautions in order to be successful using forums for gaining backlinks.

You must do some research before joining any forum. You should join forums that are relevant to the sites you want to get backlinks for. You should only choose forums that are popular and active. Backlinks for high authority forums are very valuable. The number of active members and the Google PageRank of the forum can give you a good idea about its popularity. You should keep your signature short and link it to your main website. You should never create posts that sound like a propaganda or which are irrelevant to the post topic. You should pay attention to the TOS of the forum, or you will risk yourself of getting banned and losing all the backlinks you built.

If you post something which is important or useful to other readers, they will visit the site in your signature. Thus, posting in forums can give a significant traffic to your website, apart from building relevant backlinks. Forums are also good for creating your brand or image – Some of the best bloggers, Internet Marketers and SEOs spend a significant time posting on forums to increase their publicity. SEOs like Aaron Wall became famous through the platform of SEO forums. That is another benefit you may get from forum posting apart from using it for link development strategy.

Info : Google-Success.Com/

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