One Way Link Building For Bloggers
I have decided to start a new series on this blog: One Way Link Building. It is main design and goal to help you – the blogger take advantage of the options you already have. It is one fact nobody will argue – the more incoming links you have to your site or blog with just the right mix of attributes – the better you will be ranked by Google, Yahoo and MSN.
While there are a few other search engines – I don’t personally care since the traffic they send to my site is so insignificant that I will not even pay any attention to them! Our goal here is to Rank Better On Google and others will follow!
Before I will jump into discussion on How We Will Build One Way Incoming Links, I think I need to first describe – What Type Of Backlinks We Want! Guidelines below describe the most desirable link we would like to have:
- DoFollow One Way Link. DoFollow is a non-existing attribute and simply a reference people use to describe the opposite of “rel=nofollow” attribute introduced by Google. Nofollow attribute, when applied to any link on a site or blog will tell Google spider to Not Pass Authority through this link (page rank leak). It is on by default of WordPress blogs
- Backlink from a Content Page. While links from directories are valid and do have value – Google places most emphasis when they see a link to your blog from within a relevant content. It simply tells them that person who wrote that content found YOUR post or page authoritative enough to link to it AND pass page rank (nofollow attribute removed).
- Your Keywords As Anchor Text. I don’t mean to get technical on you and this term simply means – words that have been hyperlinked to your page. Once again in Google eyes this defines What Keywords other person sees your site as authoritative on.
That is it! I know SEO experts will tell you there is a lot more to the process – but I’m not one of the SEO experts! I do manage however to rank well for my own chosen keywords and I do it using guidelines I will provide in this series!
Link Building Effectiveness Measuring Tools
Before we can judge the effectiveness of our campaign – we need to establish baseline! Do this before you do anything else or you will have NO CLUE how effective your effort is! And one tool I recommend you use is Not From Google. In fact, Google will lie to you EVERY time when you attempt to figure out how many incoming links your blog has.
I don’t know why they do it – but it is a known fact and if I ever doubted myself before in that assumption, STSE2 has proven my own guess.
Yahoo Site Explorer will become your best friend! This tool will give you most accurate number of incoming links and gives you quite a bit flexibility by allowing to filter and get number of incoming links to specific page, entire site as well as exclude all internal links (links from your own blog). See image below:
A few important aspects I have highlighted on that image and those are the aspect you will use in your measurements.
- Your URL – this can be a your main URL as shown above or a URL to specific page or post!
- Inlinks – Number of incoming links to that URL as seen by Search Engines based on filters you set.
- Show inlinks: – Allows you to set a filter to one of the 3 values: From All Pages, Except form this domain, Except from this subdomain. Most often we will use option you see I have chosen on the screen shot as we will measure the Number of Incoming Links from OTHER sites.
- to: – Another filter with 2 possible choices: Only this URL, Entire Domain. Each filter used for specific reason – if you want to see the links for your entire domain – that is fine but when you are doing baseline on specific page – you will need to choose Only this URL option.
What Is Next?
Now that we have identified our goal and the tool we will use for measurement we are ready to begin! next posts in this Series will be concentrating on How We Will Build One Way Incoming Links. If you have not yet subscribed to my RSS Feed – now is the time! And I ever give you nice big button to do it!
And while you are waiting – I also want to highlight some of the existing posts on this topic:
- Build Oneway Backlinks Through Influence Guide
- Get Traffic Video Tutorial
- CommentLuv Plus DoFollow Equal Unlimited Link Love
- Howto Get One Way Links From High PR Sites
- Free Link Building Video Tutorial
- Allow Google Tell You What Search Results To Dominate
While this blog has quite a few more posts that deal directly with topic in question I only provided a few for you to get started! Go ahead – start building incoming links to your blog and be sure to
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Alex,
Great post and very good, and valuable, series you are starting.
Traffic is one of the great mysteries for most every website owner. If one is diligent, organized, and patient, great traffic in the form of targeted visitors can be generated.
This series of posts should be a value to any blogger or website owner for that matter.
Starting with the baseline is the first thing we do for each and every SEO client. We then put an analytics interface in place so everyone involved can watch the progress (transparency is a very good thing). Every client is a business person and if they are treating their business as a true business, they should be tracking all of their efforts so they know their ROI. That is where the starting baseline becomes very important.
Great advice.
Keep the great info rolling.
Onward & Upward!
Sam Knoll
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Great post and article series you are starting Alex! And, it looks like you already have plenty of useful content here too. I’m going to spend alot of time here reading everything you have (but I need to get to work on my own blog too!)
One reason that google doesn’t show all backlinks is to throw off unscrupulous seo efforts, or so I understand. I was on a webmaster call with google yesterday, and do you know how many algorithm changes they had last year?? 400! Since obviously no one can keep up with that pace of change, I don’t see the harm in showing all backlinks anyway. But great advice on the yahoo tool. As soon as I finish up work on my site, I’m heading over to start my baseline.
And in regards to StomperNet, I haven’t dug into stomping the search engines 2.0 much yet, but so far I LOVE everything they put out there.
By the way, I really like the look of your site, and how much information you are able to include without distractions or making it feel crowded. I spent probably 4 hours last night changing my blog from 2 columns to 3, and seeing this site makes me want to change back to 2 and just widen things out!
Thanks!
Mike
Good start to the series. I will be looking forward to more tips that this series will bring.
Thanks guys,
I promise not to provide the BS info – only what I know works and I have personally tested! What will come is result of usage and experience.
I don’t really care if I might miss some points or not, ignore some Google algorithms or not – I only care about results. And how to get to them!
Stay tuned and either subscribe to RSS or get on my eZine. I send email eZine every Thursday with previous week posts, this way nobody misses it!
Alex
I’m genuinely looking forward to this series of articles, Alex.
Andrew Goulding
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BTW, Alex, your Twitter Tweet read:
“…wow, this long day is over – have fun guys and don’t forget to check my latest WP series…”
May I respectfully you consider not using the abbreviated WP and use the full keyword, WordPress, instead? Using the keyword might get some folks who can’t work out what WP is…like me, if I didn’t know who you were.
Andrew Goulding
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Sure thing Andrew, appreciate the feedback and will incorporate it, sometime I forget that not everyone breathing and living the WordPress
thanks again for the tip!
Alex
No problem.
BTW, do you think that Tweets on Twitter with a link adds anything in terms of SEO? I always try to Tweet with one and have (coincidentally?) seen my posts from my blogs appearing in Google more often but no PR increase. In fact, the PR has decreased!
N.B. I’ve deliberately not tried to boost the PR on the blogs with any SEO tactics as part of a year-long experiment as I wanted to see what would happen for Joe Average.
A series I’m looking forward to for sure!
One thing I’ve come to understand in regards to anchor text…..not to use the same text too many time leading to the same page, correct?
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Yahoo Site Explorer is cool .it tell me exactly what i want to know,importantly it is more accurate than google! thanks a lot
Look forward to this series of posts. Just one Q – if you are concentrating on Google traffic why don’t you use the Google Webmaster report for links?
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Clare, Google webmaster tools LIES to you! It is known fact even though still unexplained why Google does it. Info you get there is old and incorrect – Yahoo Site Explorer is your bets friend as I have stetd in first post of the series.
Looking forward to the next post in this series. The interesting dilemma is that doing this well requires some technical skill ( as outlined in this post ), but probably more importatly, also some social skills.
Guessing the next post in this series gets into those social skills, and how to request links using influence and persuasion ?
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Hi Alex,
Now that I have some conten on my page
I am focusing on traffic It is increasing but slowly,
I am following the steps here and will post my
results as I go along at my site. Be interesting
to see my traffic increase.
Kim Dion
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Do you know how yahoo order the site inlinks? It seems somewhat related to pagerank but not very much so…
I love the yahoo tool. It’s a bit annoying that Google ‘hides’ some of your links when you try to look it up. I did get some tips for using the Yahoo tool out of your article. Before, I would get these massive lists of internal links that I had to wade through…
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Hi i have read the discussion,,its really helpful for the beginners
I just setup a new searchengine site at http://911searchbiz.com , free to use.
It would also help me, if you would give me [honest] feedback as i just started this. It’s welcomed .. Comment at;http://go2-url.com/FlintsSupport
Also it will help you all to submit your blogs.
Thanks,
Bill
RE: Bill Flint’s 911 Search Biz
Bill, I didn’t work out what your search engine was for until I did a search on my own name.
I suggest making the concept clearer and perhaps breaking the name up into words, like I have, above.
Also, where would we submit our blogs?
Possibly, why?
James
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Hi Alex,
Great stuff here. I’m enjoying this series. This the kind of info we need out here. Real tips we can actually use without strings attached!
Keep up the great posts. Thanks.
Alan
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Of course SEO experts will tell you there’s more to it. Trust me I know I’ve bought their books and courses! LOL. But the problem is I focused on trying to put every details tip and strategy into action and I was spinning my wheels. Your 3 step blueprint is basically what you need to get going and will get results.
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Sounds like a great program I need to learn how to get more traffic so I may try it soon.
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This is a great tool!
I found some links my site had from some reviews I did. Now I am inspired to get some a few more of these links from “authority sites.”
What else have you got for us?
Great post. I’m really glad to be part of your family readers to take advantage from this awesome information.
I will be reading the whole series at once, information like this you can’t leave it for later.
Thanks
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Hey Alex.
Thanks for providing the NO BS, straight info that we need to hear. There’s so much JUNK out there that my head buzzes every evening when I lay down to try to sleep.
I always enjoy your posts and look forward to reading each of these. I really appreciate you taking the time to share them.
Gather more profits…
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As a relatively new internet marketing novice I LOVE reading information like this! Back-links…Hyper-Links… No Follow…Link building… One Way Links…etc, it can leave your head spinning when you try to digest it all at once!
I am learning to take “little bites” out of the vast internet marketing world in an attempt to stop “over-loading” my brain with too many new assignments at one time. I AM MAKING PROGRESS by taking things one technique at a time!
Your site has GREAT content and a lot of it! I will be stopping here quite often and “filling-up” with Premium Content! I had NO IDEA what “NoFollow” meant before today, but I now understand it’s importance in search engine optimization practices! THANKS!
Eddie