Gaining Friends

To get yourself the links you need you need a certain number of Digg stories. The more content you publish the better off you are at getting the links, so for the first 24 hours starting on Digg you should have 60 articles submitted. This will help you hit the front page. The articles don’t all have to be the same. In fact they can be any category that will somehow apply to your actual site. (more…)

On Digg you should forget about selling anything. Instead you need to think about other things. For example few of the 10,000 people who see your front page on Digg will be interested in finding out further information. In fact about 100 people may actually link to you out of that larger number. (more…)

SEO has grown to the point that we have to start looking at each method to determine what will be useful. We also have to understand how it works. The current two words heard in SEO are Linkbait and DIgg. These are two options you have in link building that could help you in your SEO strategy. Linkbait and Digg are also endorsed by Google. This means that used correctly you can be in the top page rankings and on the top ten list more frequently. Both options help increase the traditional methods of link building. (more…)

Building links takes a lot of work. There are numerous methods out there that you can use in order to get your site on the top page rankings. However, you still need to be careful what you use. We have mentioned above seven methods for getting authoritative links to your web site in order to get the rankings you need. You also need to get back links that don’t overtly look like they came from you. By establishing the proper links you are able to get the authoritative links that will help you. (more…)

Testimonials can help you as well. A testimonial that is sent by emails or other methods can help you get links. If your testimonial to a business is a good one you can get a back link. In this case you are offering to tell someone how great their products or services are in exchange for help in promoting your site. If you need to you can use a search to find testimonials that have been used in the past. This will help you see what a good one looks like so you can then create your own. (more…)

Digg and other social media websites will offer another ranking increase. Digg and Del.icio.us are two places you can leave comments in order to get links. Just make sure there is nothing keeping you from making the link like a no follow tag. You can still comment, but don’t link to the page. The popularity of something will then increase your ability to get on the top. You also don’t want to leave meaningless comments on the sites. (more…)

.edu pages are essential. If you went to college then you might just want to use the Alumni pages. For example, the pages on the Alumni site will allow you to link to your own website. The alumni site likes to know what their past students are up to in order to show potential students what they can gain by going to their school. (more…)

Squidoo was created by Seth Godin. He is a marketer and author. The Squidoo project is about topics. It is to help get an authoritative resource on the web for anyone to use. With the links gaining in importance, Seth decided to offer something that would allow a person to display their knowledge and gain links from it. (more…)

You also need to make sure that the page you add your resource to will be important to your site. For example, if someone follows the link from Wikipedia will they find it important or not? You also need to get a high page ranking from the page, so make sure that it is a symbiotic relationship all around. (more…)

Number one on the list of top free links is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an authoritative site. This means it has a lot of informative articles. It doesn’t sell you products. This is a great site to link to based on what information you can find. The best thing about Wikipedia is that anyone can edit the information. You can place your own links on the site for information that is relative. You can also have the link on your page to help get others to the page. By offering the link you can increase the chances of someone linking to it from Wikipedia. (more…)

Search engines want you to have as many links as you can get. However, there are some things that they will not allow. For example, search engines have started to crack down on the amount of links you can have that are not quality. The more links you buy or just pick up that are useless, the more chances you have of getting yourself banned. There are new and better ways to get links that can be useful to your site. You don’t want too many reciprocal links, links from networking sites, or paid for links. All of these things will get you penalized. (more…)

It is not about getting all of your pages in the index. You just need to get the right pages in the index. Google and other search engines don’t want the largest indexes, but the most useful. They will get low value pages out of the mix in order to make their consumers happier. Don’t try for 100 percent indexing. Instead pay attention to what pages should be indexed.
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In an attempt to build its market share at the expense of market leader, Google, Ask.com is drastically changing its search engine. The new Ask is expected to deliver quicker results and greater relevance than previously. According to CEO, Jim Safka, the new search is 30 percent faster and, in early tests, has increased the rate that customers return to use the site by 16 percent.
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If your website was not crawled within the last two weeks it needs a little help. While content is not the most important to the crawling abilities of a search engine it does have a minimal effect. In fact a site that has updates to content more frequently can expect more crawling from a search engine. New sites and blogs often get a higher ranking because they are crawled more often. (more…)