5 search engines you should know about
It was all started as a university project by two students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Now it is called Google (named in 1998, earlier it was called as Backrub) and got reputation of Internet giant in search engine’s world. Almost 60 to 70 % internet surfers use Google to find websites, images, audio, video and all other kind of stuff. So if you are not highly ranked in Google, you are probably missing that 60 to 70 percent internet users.
Any link building campagin is useless if it’s not targetting Google search placement.
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5 tips for getting effective backlinks
You must be wondering that why your site is not getting the pr at all and some sites have lots of green juice their page rank bar. The reason is simple: you may have thousands of links pointing at your site but how effective they are, determines the final page rank reward for your efforts.
As I have mentioned in an article here that not all links are not good. Some are good and some are bad. If I say it in more specific terms, good links can be further categorized between effective and not so effective links. Read more
Are bidding directories of any good?
If you are an experience webmaster or professional link builder, you probably know what a bidding web directory is. But for newbie’s understanding, I would like to give some introduction first.
Bidding directory is a special kind of paid directory where websites are sorted and listed by the bidding amount they pay. Usually such directories rank well in search engines and own a page rank of 3 to 7 for the homepage. Highest bidders are positioned at the main page of the bidding directory which results in high ranking and visibility for them.
In simple words, bidding web directories sell page rank to the highest bidder. Read more
Traits of quality web directories
There are literally thousands of web directories available on internet. But not all these web directories are capable of yielding the ranking results you might be looking for.
Differentiating between low and high quality web directories is quite simple and requires only a careful analysis of the targeted web directory. I’ve written few factors that high quality web directories usually share. Analysis of a web directory while considering these factors can safe your time and money. Read more
Link building and web directories
Even if you don’t know what the web directory is, you must have heard or witness the webmaster’s craze for listing their website/blogs into directories. Just like the phone directory or yellow pages, web directory is a directory on the World Wide Web, which provides information about other useful websites.
A web directory or link directory lists websites by category and subcategory. Yahoo directory, Dmoz or even Google directory are some good examples of reputed and quality web directories.
Check backlinks to your website
For the success of a link building campaign it’s very important that you keep track of all the backlinks you have. Following are few tools for checking your backlinks.
It’s a great tool for finding your backlinks. It’s fast and very accurate. It list web pages linking back to you along with anchor text/image being used and number of outbound links from that particular web page. Read more
Find link partners
Finding a quality and relevant link partner is a great deal for a link builder. There are different methods used to find high ranked websites in your niche including software, search engines. Recently I came across a web based tool for finding link partners, and it’s completely free to use.
It’s powered by Google search and quite reliable. You can check it here
If you know some similar or better tool for finding link partners, please share with us.
Relevant links versus high page rank
Success of any link building strategy largely depends on the number and quality of linking partners. Finding quality link partners is a very basic and important step and without a proper analysis of the potential link partners everything can go wrong.
In the ideal scenario you may find a link partner with the relevant theme and high page rank. But most of the time you have to choose one from the following sites.
Site with relevant theme but low page rank
Site with irrelevant content but high page rank Read more
Not all links are equal
If you are happy to see hundreds of backlinks pointing to your site and think that a large number of backlinks can get you a high page rank and targeted traffic. Think again!
Not all backlinks created are equal. Backlinks can be categorized on the basis of advantage or disadvantage we can have from them. Generally there are two types of backlinks. There are good links and bad links.
Don’t get confused let me explain it to you. Read more
Why you need backlinks?
Now- a-days link building is the hottest topic in SEO. Everyone seems so desperate for getting backlinks to their sites. Link building is a long, continuous and time consuming process. It takes lots of resources and effort to have the required number of quality backlinks. And if you outsource the whole link building campaign, it could be expensive as well.
But why it is so important to have backlinks? After all it’s site quality and service provided that matters to users. Is the entire link building process is merely for search engines or it has any other use as well? Read more