SEO And Backlinks:
A lot of you might be wondering why I am talking about this on a work at home website blog. Well I want you to succeed with the programs and sites on the main page and I want you to begin putting even more websites up to make even more money. This is why I am addressing all these topics!
I have talked a little about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) before and I wanted to go into detail more. SEO is optimizing your site for search engines. Why is this important? Because this is where you want the majority of your traffic to come from. When you go to Google and search for something, it brings you a list of sites. You go to that site to find information on what you were looking for and this is how search engines work. Your ultimate goal for your website is to be on that first page of the search results. This will give you “organic traffic”, meaning traffic from search engines. This is the best type of traffic, because it is free and targeted.
Getting on the first page of Google, Yahoo, or MSN is no easy task. Search engines make their living by providing their customers with relevant search results. Therefore they don’t let just any website on the first page results because it is bad for business. They must make sure the site is relevant to what the search customer is looking for. This is why ranking in search engines takes time. It is very rare that they put a brand new site, or a crappie site in their first page results. Why would they? It is bad business for them to give bad results to their customers. Now I am sure you can go out and get on the first page of Google for a crazy long keyword that no one searches, but then again why would you. You will see a lot of people trying to sell you bogus software or secrets to supposedly get you on the first page rankings quick. Unless it is a term no one is searching for then it won’t happen. The reason a keyword that no one is searching can rank is because there are no other competing websites, because no one cares for this info. The only things that I have seen popup in top rankings quickly for a quality keyword are things like youtube videos or stuff like that. It is possible to rank on the first page pretty quick if you find a keyword that doesn’t have very many competitors. This is what we call finding quality keywords or quality niches. Quality keywords means finding a search term that people use searching for a product or service, that is untapped. Meaning very little competition. It is getting very hard to find these types of keywords anymore. I will include a file HERE that you can download. It is a spread sheet and has some keywords that have little competition. It also includes the searches per day from the major search engines. Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
Ok back to the topic. How do you get your site to rank well in search engines? Well there are a lot of methods to SEO. I have a eBook HERE that you can download free. I didn’t write it but it is written by a guy who knows a lot about the subject and has a website we will talk about later. It is old and some of the links to software mentioned do not work. The main message still applies though and you have a download to untapped niches above, which in one link in the eBook that I know is no longer.
Since you can read the free eBook and cover the other aspects of SEO, what I am going to focus on is backlinks. A backlink is a link from another website to your website. There are several steps to prove to search engines that your site is worthy for them to list and rank high in their search engine. One of the main steps is having backlinks to your site. If all these other sites are linking to your site than the search engine thinks that your site has value. The more backlinks you have, the more valuable the search engine sees your site. Now there are all kinds of arguments on the type of backlinks your site should have, but if you use this method, your site will do fine. Relevant backlinks are the best. Example: Your site is a weight loss site and another weight loss site links to your weight loss site. The next best are sites with high page rank. Page rank is a little way of Google gauging the importance of your site’s pages. You can find this device on the Google tool bar and the higher the number, the more popular the website. If you can get backlinks from a relevant website that has a high page rank than that is super for your site. This is the general rule, but you want as many backlinks as you can get. If you can get those types of backlinks than it helps your site even more.
What you don’t want are too many backlinks from sites that have been banned by Google. How do you know, well if the site has no page rank than it is either new, or has been banned. It won’t say zero, it will say that this page is not ranked by Google. This means that the website is not even indexed by the search engine. Meaning it will not show up in any results.
Alright this is going to get even more crazy, but stay with me. So we want backlinks. The more backlinks from sites the better we will rank. We don’t want backlinks from sites that are banned by Google. We can tell this by the page rank of the site on the Google tool bar. Now another thing we have to watch is if you get too many backlinks, to quick, you will get banned. Example: Your site had 20 backlinks and a week later you have 5000. All the search engines will know that you joined a link farm or probably did something illegal to get all those links that quick, and more than likely Google will ban you and the others will take away any rank you did have. This brings me to another topic. Link farms are bad. There are three places we will get to that can give you loads of links and do it in a way where you won’t get penalized. Any where else claiming tons of backlinks could get you banned or penalized. There are tons of these farms out there that will charge you big money and claim that you will get top ranking in search engines. Most of the time they will take your money and get your site and domain black listed. Once this happens it is almost impossible to ever recover or to ever be forgiven. So stay away unless I list them here.
I mention Google as a set point for all we are doing here. The main three we want are Google, Yahoo, and MSN, but Google is king. The reason is Google controls around 70%-80% of the searches on the web, meaning they control the majority of the traffic being sent to websites. Now the percentage might have changed, but Google is the king and the standard. Meaning if your site is SEO sound for Google than it will also SEO sound for the rest.
I hope you have an understanding of what backlinks are and why your website needs them. Let’s get into how to get backlinks for your website.
There are a ton of methods for getting backlinks. I will address a few to get you going. An easy way to get some backlinks is to comment on other people’s blogs. Most blogs allow you to leave your website address with your comment. Here is a link to Comment Kahuna. This is a free software that finds relevant blogs for you to post a comment on for backlinks. Now there are new rules with backlinks. Some blogs have a “no follow” tag or so on that tells Google to not count the link as a backlink. There are a lot of arguments on this topic and the other search engines don’t use this rule. I believe all links help, but some experts swear by this new rule. Here is a link to a search engine that finds you blogs that don’t have this tag and the site gives you more info on this topic.
Edu backlinks are from sites that are colleges or educational sites which is what the .edu stands for. Backlinks from these sites are said to be more valuable because they are from education institutions and hard to get.
Here is a link to a free .edu blog finder where you can find .edu blogs, make relevant post, and get those valuable backlinks. You can also put in this query in Google and find .edu blogs.
site:.edu ‘Leave a Reply’ ‘Name “(required)”‘ ‘Mail (will not be published) “(required)”‘ ‘Website’
Please post relevant comments to the blog articles or topics. If you spam them with crap, they won’t post your comment and you won’t get a backlink!
Now to directories. Directories are like mini search engines. They have a directory of sites relevant to search topics. These are great opportunities for backlinks because most are free to add your site. This gives you backlink and can give you traffic because people do use these to find websites for topics they are interested in. HERE is a link to free software that has directories and submits your links to directories.
Articles are a great way to get backlinks. It is easy, you write about a topic relevant to your website, submit it to article sites, you get a backlink to those sites, and you get some traffic from people reading the articles. You can do a search in Google for article sites. For this to be affective you need to submit article to a lot of sites and you need to submit at least an article every week. HERE is a link to software that auto submits your articles to a huge list of article sites. Now it is not free, but its is well worth the money because it is so much quicker than doing it manually. On the first run you will have to register with all the article sites and this takes time, but after that it is automated.
I said above that I would give you links to three places to get massive links that won’t get you penalized by the search engines. Two of the three cost money, and the third you can upgrade for a price to make it easier. They are in order of importance. Meaning if you can afford it do the first on or two. They will help your site big time in the search engine rankings. Even though they give you thousands of backlinks, they do it gradually so you don’t get penalized.
The first is Neurolinker. This site is awesome. For a small price you can get 100 of your websites massive backlinks. They have article submitting too, which puts your articles on others websites and blogs giving you even more backlinks. They have added a new blog backlink area. It puts constant articles on your blog giving it fresh content for the search engines. From there they have added a social bookmarking part, which gets you social bookmark backlinks. The person who operates this site is the one who wrote the SEO eBook I mentioned above. You really need to budget for this site, because this will help your SEO Big Time.
Next is LinksMaster. This site is also great because you get thousands of backlinks added over time. It has an area for articles also. With this one you can only add 5 sites, I think for the same price as Neurolinker. You can add more, but it will cost you more.
I said above about not wanting to link to anyone who has been banned from Google. Now with blogs, it is rare that they get banned, but if the content is questionable or they are doing illegal stuff than it can happen. I don’t think you get penalized at all for having comments with a link. So what I am saying is, you don’t really need to watch your blog linking campaign. Now for the rest of your backlinking it is necessary and really is hard to keep up with who you are linking to and who is linking to you. These two sites above do this task for you and that makes your life a whole lot easier.
The third backlink place is HERE. You can sign up free, but the free membership is manual link exchanging. Meaning you have to ask another member to exchange links and if that member agrees, you have to copy and paste link code to your website. They do have an upgrade that says it is automated, but I have never used it. This is what I used to get started and what anyone who can’t afford the two above can use. It is long tedious work, but you can build backlinks over time and if your broke it is better than nothing.
There is some software I want to mention. This software HERE is for SEO and will help make your efforts a whole lot easier. It can tell you where you rank for given keywords, it has the ability to find websites like yours and get backlinks by the software sending a request, it has the ability to spy on websites similar to yours that are ranking well by analyzing their SEO and telling you who they have backlinks to, it can tell you how many backlinks each search engine is saying you have, it can tell you how many of your website’s pages are indexed, it can verify that if you are trading links with another website, they still have your link on their site, and so on. Yes it is a monster for SEO and does what SEO firms charge thousands of dollars to do. I think it runs about $47 a month last time I checked. Point is if you have the money, get it because it will help. If you don’t have the money, than plan to budget it for the future.
Ok that about does it. In the free eBook I gave you, there are some links. One that I know doesn’t work anymore was to “niche inspector” or something like that. All this was is a tool that looks for niches or keyword search terms that don’t have that much competition. I have put a free list above and HERE that you can download to give you niches untapped. It also gives you and idea of what to look for. If what you want is not there, than take the idea and go to the Google keyword tool and find your own. Look for terms that get over 100,000 searches and then go to Google and type in that search term. Your looking to see how many results pop up. Obviously if it is 94 million than that has a lot of websites competing for that word or phrase and you don’t want to try your luck. I would say around 5 million or less would be something you could compete with. But it is up to you. You can try to fight your way with the big boys, but it will take time and a lot of back linking.
The free download stuff will be zipped. Directly below are some programs you can download to unzip these files. They should be free. If they have changed then go to Google and search unzip and you should be able to find a free program.
Here are all the links mentioned in the article above. Hope this helped you and continues to help bring you big money!
Free Blogs Without “nofollow” Tag Finder
Free Relevant Blog Finding Software
Get Massive Backlinks…Neurolinker
Get Massive Backlinks 2…LinksMaster
