SEO Elite
The more I research into BackLink Tactics the more likely that I will eventually stumble upon something that really works. I think I just found it :
This is a tool that helps you improve your search engine rankings. Brad Callen is the author of this amazing software. He’s made millions on the internet and knows his stuff.
Here is a little snapshot of what he has learnt :
Google ranks websites by those that are deemed to have the most authority on the given topic/keyword.
Google pays much less attention to what is actually on your web page itself than what most people think. Yes, you heard me right. You don’t actually even need to mention your keyword anywhere on your website to rank highly for the keyword!
Google looks at who’s “voting” for a website, to determine how highly it ranks. If important sites are “voting” for your website, you will rank highly.
You must know EXACTLY why the top 10 ranked sites in Google are currently ranked where they are. You can’t guess by simply looking at their web page itself.
His tool works out for you the best backlinks that your competitors use to rank highly. I’ve checked out a few of his success stories and don’t know how some of these sites are ranking no1 in keyword google searches - but they are!
Have a read of the intro page here - SEO Elite
I’m buying this product and will try and get a few of my sites ranked up! I’ll keep you all updated with progress reports.
Thanks for returning - Spread the word - Tell your friends that they can subscribe via email
Link Tricking
There is another strategy that is being used by some ingenious link builders which has created it’s own term - Link Tricking. This involves a very sly and cunning approach to webmasters to make them think that they are adding value to their site by putting your link and information on their pages.
Google is not favouring traditional text links and punishing those that buy and sell links. Link Tricking attempts to get the sort of natural links that Google treats valid and ranks highly.
How do they Link Trick
I first want to point out that I haven’t tried this myself and probably wouldn’t. The knowledge that this type of link building exists is still valuable though - in case I’m contacted for this and also what to look out for.
Here is one example of some steps to Link Tricking:
- Contact the owner of a website and introduce yourself as a frequent user
- Compliment the site
- Give an example of how you use the product or service of the site you are promoting (the link you want added)
- At no time link yourself to the site
- Explain how the link to your site would give value
- Congratulate again and say that you will come back often.
Obviously you would have to find a potential website that would be related to the link you are trying to add. There are many website owners out there that may not know much about SEO and may not realise what a link like this means to the site.
I’m sure their might be many more link tricking methods out there to create some quality BackLinks. Let me know if you have any you would like to share.
BackLink and PageRank Info Within Searches
In my quest to bring you the best BackLink tactics I must have the best information to rate a backlink. Google Page rank is very important for finding a good possible backlink. I’ve found a couple of tools that automatically link into Google and Yahoo searches to give some very valuable information.
These two free tools are :
They are both Firefox Addins and are definitely worth grabbing. SEO for Firefox is provided by SEOBook and they claim that 130,000 webmasters use this tool. It has many uses but I’m just going to show off a few.
I use both together because they show slightly different views and I find that it’s reassuring that two tools return the same results.
Here is an example of me searching Google for Power Boats:
There is so much information that it would take more than a mere blog post to describe, but the important thing to check out is the value after PR (Page Rank). If the Page Rank is 4 or above then the site is doing great for that keyword search and a backlink from that site will help your Page Rank increase.
SEO Quake is great for single pages that you visit too :
The above image shows SEO Quake inserting a toolbar on top of the page showing lots of relevant SEO info.
There are many tip and tricks in reading and using these values. The purpose of this blog post was to introduce you to these two great tools and then over time I’ll teach you how to be a power user with them.
A teaser though - Wouldn’t it be great to see how your direct competitors have obtained a good Page Rank from their BackLinks?
Overlinking Example
I find this quite funny and hope you will too. In my constant quest for banklink juice and the best tactics I stumbled upon a blog dedicated to this topic. The site is titled Get More Visitors - which is a good name for sure. The content doesn’t look that bad either. Check out the site here : http://getmorevisitors.blogspot.com/
So you would think that the author might use his tactics to his advantage to increase his Google page rank right? We’ll I used the SEO for Firefox plugin and looked up the stats on the site :
Classic example of Overlinking
This site has a Google Page Rank of 0 - because it obviously has used some major backlink directory submissions. See how there are 155 Million Yahoo backlinks! Amazing! The number of Edu and Gov backlinks are huge too!.
Putting this into a Google search : link:http://getmorevisitors.blogspot.com/ returned only 1 backlink for Google.
This is a classic example of a backlink tactic gone wrong and I’m not sure if the site will ever rank well in Google because of it.
Backlink Builder - SEO online free tool to find sites
So you’ve got a keyword that you are targeting, and you know that quality links come from high Page Rank pages and you’ve got some techniques on determining Page Rank for this sites. What other text on these sites would indicate that there is the possibility of getting a backlink from them?
The SEO’s over at WebConfs.com have come up with a great online tool that searches for these terms on pages that are found in keyword search:
- Add link
- Add site
- Add URL
- Add Website
- Submit link
- Submit site
- Submit URL
- Submit Website
- Suggest link
- Suggest site
- Suggest URL
- favorite links
- favorite sites
- favorite websites
- recommended links
- recommended sites
- recommended websites
- Add article
- Submit article
- link exchange
- reciprocal
The Backlink Builder tool is a great way of finding sites to explore for potential backlinks. I would probably avoid the “link exchange” and “reciprocal” ones though.
This is an awesome Backlink Tactic. It’ll still take some time to weed out which sites might actually accept your backlink, but it’s a good technique to weed out the possibilities.
Unfortunately it doesn’t show the Page Rank of each site - so you’ll have to use another tool to get these. Stay tuned for a fantastic tool I’ve found to help in that area.
Backlinks from Twitter
Twitter has created quite some interest lately and is becoming hugely popular. In fact Facebook wants Twitter putting $500 Million on the table for it. Twitter is described as a mini-blogging site where you can put thoughts of up to 140 words or less in each post.
At one stage some Back Hat SEO types worked out a way to use the Twitter API and generated lots of back link juice. It wasn’t much later that Google put pressure on twitter and now there is no backlink viagra from twitter.
This doesn’t mean that Twitter cannot be a good source of links to your site. In fact there are a couple of sites that watch all Twitter posts and track which URLs are getting lots of attention. Two of those sites are :
TwittUrls.com and Twitt(url)y.
So how does this help with backlinks? Well Twitter uses TinyUrl to post all it’s links and all the links are posted with the nofollow tag (which tells Google not to treat it as a backlink) so you don’t really get a valid backlink from twitter - BUT you could get people clicking on your twitter url post link and bringing them to your site.
There are some automatic twitter tools to help sites with rss feeds automatically post the title and url to twitter as it is added to the feed - try out : Twitterfeed.
The thing to watch out for is popularity - if you are looked upon as just being a spammer adding links all the time, no one is going to click on your links or follow you. The trick to this is to use Twitter like any other twitter user - putting in your thoughts and day to day rants. Try the humour approach and post funny one liners, and then every 20 posts or so put your links in (or time it right if you have your rss feed linked up).
Another good tactic to get followers on Twitter is to go each each of the people you are following, see who follows them, and then follow each of them. There is a limit of 2000 people you can follow, but you’d be surprized how many people will automatically follow you back (I’ll describe this later on). I managed to get 400 followers in the space of an hour, and over 2 weeks I’m up to 1000 folllowers.
There is another great tool that automatically replies to people who follow you and also follows them back. Try out Twollow or the one I really like TweetLater because not only can you auto follow but you setup auto welcome messages and use GTalk to alert you when a tweet is done with a particular phrase. Combine that with the ability to also follow people from a GTalk chat - and it’s a really good free application.
Once you start getting alerted on tweets that are related to your site’s content I suggest you follow those people beacuse your rss feed might interest them and generate your site more interest.
There is one way to get a valid following backlink from Twitter - put your site into you Bio.
Other sites that use the Twitter API and replicate all the tweets - like Twemes don’t post links with the nofollow flag - so it looks like it could be a good technique anyway for back links if you get into the flow and really start enjoying Twitter for what it’s really for - dumping your thoughts with the occasional rss feed insert.
Welcome to BackLink Tactics
Welcome! What is this site about?
BackLink : if you click some text on an Internet web page and it takes you to another website - yours
Tactics : Different methods to succeed in your goal - Knowing things that work and things that don’t
Goal : To appear on the first page of a search engine list - like google, yahoo etc for many search terms
After jumping into the world of publishing websites and hoping that I can generate lots of traffic, I suddenly learnt that there is much to learn in the area of SEO - Search Engine Optimisation. BackLinks are a very important part of how search engines rank your site.
There is lots of information about backlinks on various sites. There are a few tools that attempt to help you create backlinks, and most importantly there are a few tactics that may or may not help your ranking.
Google is of course the dominant search engine at present so much of my research and experiments is centred around Google.
There seems to be two themes for BackLinks - Quality and Quantity. Which one is best? Well, sign up to my feed and stay tuned. Also take the time to read the archives on everything I’ve found.
I take the time to review lots of tools and tricks saving you the effort. I’m also trying to promote a few sites of my own so what you will learn will be based on experience and not all opinion.
If you have much experience in this area I very interested to get your input and willing to post articles and promote products - especially if I can get to try them out for myself.
For those of you who don’t know all that much about what I’m talking about, I’m compiling a reference type section to explain this stuff in plain English. If I can get translators, I’ll certainly try some other languages - let me know if you are interesting in helping with that.
To give you some background on what my values are, I don’t like junk mail, spam and I usually don’t answer cold calls. I’m not rude I just don’t appreciate being pushed - I’d rather make the approach myself. I’m also a software developer so I do not agree with piracy or not giving credit back to the developers. I don’t think I’m overly opinionated and usually only push something if I know I can back my claim. I value quality work and good design. With over 20 years in the business I have a very good background for picking out what stands out and what works. I enjoy looking behind the scenes to see how the engine works.
With that knowledge you might have guessed that shortly I’ll probably be producing something to assist myself and you create these back links. I understand the white / grey / black hat lines and think I fall some where between the white and grey - meaning I do have ethics but am prepared to bend the rules a little for the purpose of efficiency.
Hope the introduction meant something to you - honesty and integrity are great values. Open, clear and concise are also top on my list.
I’m going to try and bridge the gap between a new website owner and the hard core SEO’s (search engine optimisers).
Translator
By N2H
