What signals do self-promotional links tell the search engines?
Written on 8 Jan, 2010 at 6:07 in SEO | viewed 1,352 views times | 2 Comments
We all know the importance of building links to web sites to improve traffic and improve search engine rankings. For forums, building links to individual threads is a great way to take advantage of the long tail part of the... (Continue reading)
Are links from .edu & .gov sites worth more?
Written on 28 Dec, 2009 at 15:32 in SEO | viewed 1,369 views times | 0 Comments
The simple answer is NO. There are many SEO myths out there and this is one of them. There is a popular belief that backlinks from .gov and .edu sites carry more weight than other top level domains. Google have... (Continue reading)
Do forum signature links help a sites ranking?
Listening to the SEO kiddies on some SEO forums, you can’t help but notice how they heavily promote posting in forums to link drop signatures and profile spam as a way to help build backlinks to a web site to... (Continue reading)
What is an “Authority Site”?
Written on 2 Nov, 2009 at 2:40 in SEO | viewed 1,515 views times | 0 Comments
An ‘Authority site‘ is a site that seems to get an extra ranking boost from the search engines. Somehow, in their analysis of the site and its backlinks profile, the search engine algorithm recognizes a site as being an ‘Authority’.... (Continue reading)
Forum Directory List
Written on 17 Oct, 2009 at 16:46 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion, SEO | viewed 3,078 views times | 1 Comment
Building backlinks are an important part of forum promotion for traffic and search engine ranking. Submitting to key web directories is important and submitting to a wider range of directories will also help a site somewhat. It is also probably important... (Continue reading)
What is Link Juice?
Written on 16 Oct, 2009 at 21:13 in SEO | viewed 5,238 views times | 0 Comments
Getting backlinks to a site is an important part of the search engine optimization (SEO) process and helping a site get all its pages indexed in the search engines and ranking well in them. Link Juice is the term used... (Continue reading)
Article Directory Submission
Submitting articles to article directories is another one of the link building strategies that can be used to build links for a forum. There are 100’s of article directories available and most are not worth it, as the search engines... (Continue reading)
Submitting to Web Directories
Submitting to directories is one way of building backlinks to a site that are needed to rank well in the search engines. Is submitting to web directories worth it? Not a day goes by in which many people in SEO... (Continue reading)
What is PageRank?
Written on 12 Oct, 2009 at 21:03 in SEO | viewed 728 views times | 0 Comments
PageRank (PR) is the term that is trademarked and an algorithm patented by Google. PageRank is the link analysis algorithm named after one of the founders of Google, Larry Page. The algorithm assigns a numerical value to each page on... (Continue reading)
How I pretend search engines rank sites
Written on 9 Oct, 2009 at 6:42 in SEO | viewed 1,249 views times | 0 Comments
I like to think of the ranking of a site in search engines to be a conceptual formula. This is not how search engines actually rank a site or page, but pretending it does it this way helps understand what... (Continue reading)
Link exchanges are not worth it
Written on 24 Sep, 2009 at 3:51 in SEO | viewed 558 views times | 0 Comments
We all know the importance of link building to get a site indexed in the search engines; to have the search engines crawl deep into a site (especially a forum) to index most of the site; and to have the... (Continue reading)
Getting the search engines to index all of your threads
Written on 23 Sep, 2009 at 22:20 in 101 Tips and Ideas, Forum Promotion, SEO | viewed 979 views times | 0 Comments
I recall reading somewhere that something like 20% of the searches in Google are for phrases that have never been searched for before. It is one thing to target and SEO a forum (or any website) for one or a... (Continue reading)
Google’s link: operator
Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 1:15 in SEO | viewed 1,139 views times | 0 Comments
Ignore it….nuff said. For those that want a more detailed explanation: Google allow webmasters to search for sites that link to a web page (not a ’site’) by the use of the link: operator (ie the backlinks). See this search for... (Continue reading)
Linkvana as a forum thread link building tool
Written on 9 Sep, 2009 at 21:50 in SEO | viewed 3,135 views times | 7 Comments
Building links (getting backlinks) is one of the more important ways to get a site indexed and ranked in the search engines. Directory and social bookmark submission is one of the ways to get some lower value links. I use Linkvana... (Continue reading)
Submitting to link directories and social bookmarking sites
Link building is time consuming and can often feel unrewarding for the effort that is put in. It is still an important way to improve traffic to your forum and to help with the link popularity that is so important in... (Continue reading)
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