We’ve reported before on the confusing mixed messages Google is sending out regarding paid links. Their Webspam department headed by their own representative to the SEO/SEM/blogging community, Matt Cutts has repeatedly issued pronouncements against the evil (there’s that word again) practice of link selling. He even has a post about how to report paid links.
However, any cursory look at any given day at the main page of an extremely popular webmaster/affiliate marketing forum routinely shows adsense ads for link sellers. Okay, keep in mind the difference between people that submit your site to get free one way backlinks and actual brokers of links. What is the difference? Submitters just submit your link and there’s no guarantee that the directory sites, blog owners, or third party sites will accept your link. Actual brokers of links outright sell PAGERANK for cash. There’s even trading platform for blog owners selling links to advertisers. Google has swung it’s PAGERANK PENALTY HAMMER more than once. The most dramatic being its PR beatdown of bloggers for Izea/Payperpost. But apparently, its okay if similar link sellers advertise on Adwords?
Truly a WTF moment. Specially if you consider the fact that Google uses the same pay to link type of shenanigans when trying to compete in Japan. Just shows you how inconvenient business reality can sometimes get, right? Right… Are we still in “Don’t be evil” territory?
Definitely a confusing situation. Be careful of public networks that outright list your site with links to sell and your url appears in a database. It’s not that hard to join such networks and spider a database.
If you can, don’t sell links on your own sites at all. But if you can’t avoid it, definitely study the situation more closely. The stakes are quite high in this game… and getting higher.
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Based on a very experienced press release specialist, Mondays are NOT very slow news days. If you submit on a Monday, your PR will probably be overlooked and your PR won’t be published online. Why is this bad? Besides the direct traffic press releases generate, less online PR sites will build backlinks to your site by publishing your release. Worst of all, many editors and influential bloggers won’t notice your release and you’ll miss out on the news buzz and blogosphere buzz that a good press release is supposed to produce.
What’s the best day to release a press release? Thursday. Thursday is the day of the week where press rooms are slowest. You’ll have a better shot of getting your PR noticed on Thursday (US Time).
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If you’re getting on the linkwheel bandwagon for supercharging backlink value, you can use the list below. Whatever you do, make sure you don’t use a familiar linkwheel pattern. Don’t spam or your linkwheel will be worthless. Make sure to populate the system with REAL AND USEFUL CONTENT.
The more “random” the linking pattern is the more “natural” it will look to search engines and the less likely you’ll get penalized.
425mb.com
99081.com
blackapplehost.com
blog.com
blogetery.com
blogmas.com
blogr.com
blogs.mu
blogsome.com
bravejournal.com
brinkster.net
dreamhosters.com
drivehq.com
easyjournal.com
edublogs.org
fateback.com
fc2.com
fortunecity.com
freehostia.com
freetzi.com
graffiti.net
i.ph
jabry.com
multiply.com
officelive.com
prohosting.com
qsh.eu
redrival.com
sitemix.jp/blog
t35.com
ueuo.com
ugu.pl
v3host.be
webcindario.com
weebly.com
wordpress.com
xm.com
xthost.info
If you don’t have the time to design, build, and execute a link wheel, click here for affordable outsourced linkwheel building services.
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There’s many webmasters that “overautomated” their operations. In fact, some guys’ operations are so automated that they just click a button to get thousands of backlinks in less than 60 seconds. I’m sure that’s what the autoposter sales page would say but the reality is: automation can backfire easily and land you in Akismet land. You don’t want to be in akismet land.
Here’s a recent blooper I ran across when going through my spiced ham comments filter:
%KEYWORD%…
Your topic %TITLE% was interesting when I found it on %DAY% searching for %KEYWORD%. Thanks, %URL%…
Here’s what he did wrong: 1) used the same message with data merge 2) blasted that crap all over the blogosphere.
Here’s what I would suggest: Use REAL people to post REAL comments doing REAL research.
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Google, at least judging from its last update, favors .gov and .edu backlinks. They tend to be more liberal with PR and the % of link juice flow when these types of domains are involved. How to get these backlinks?
Step 1:
Do a Google search using these parameters –
site:.edu inurl:blog “keyword”
site:.gov inurl:blog “keyword”
Step 2:
Filter, Filter, Filter. This is probably the most important step since you can harvest all the links you want but if they are duds they will do you no good. The key to good filtering is a strategic objective-based approach.
If you need INTELLIGENT grunt labor (seems like an oxymoron, I know, but that’s why SEO outsourcing exists) to do this cheaply but correctly, click here.
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From another blog that receives Shoemoney’s premium newsletter: don’t buy text link ads links. Apparently it’s straight from Google insiders themselves… This is kinda obvious. Really. It would suck for Matt Cutts and crew to spider TLA and just unload that heavy 500 pound BAN hammer… Stay clear of TLA. Also, stay clear of dudes selling links on forums who mention their url in their responses or ads.
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There’s two kinds of backlinks–durable backlinks and “soft” backlinks. Soft backlinks are links that you have to maintain in order to preserve their SEO juice. These are social bookmarks, profile page links, forum links, etc. These are very powerful but you have to keep building them in order to maintain their power. The more durable backlinks include article submission-based links. These links’ link juice persist longer.
I am writing this post to warn you of the danger of relying on blog posts that purportedly lists “tons” of “helpful” article directories. We recently updated our article directory submission list for our SEO backlink building services and have been reminded yet again of the following:
Many of the “helpful” lists of HUNDREDS of article directories out there are BOGUS.
That’s right. Bogus. As in faker than Pamela Anderson’s chest or Paris Hilton’s singing ability. Steer away from these time sinks. We recently had a staffer compile a list of article directories from these dubious blog posts and webmaster forum posts. We collected several thousand. We ran these through our Link Quality filters and only 50+ made it. Why? Most are a) no follow b) lower than PR3 c) dead links d) had spoofed Page Rank e) Yahoo groups f) don’t take new submissions/new accounts g) restricted only to 1 niche h) required reciprocal links i) not really article sites and were inserted only to chump webmasters.
Lots of ownage lurking on the interwebs in regards to article directory listings. Be careful. Great way to waste a few hours.
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Short titles are better for backlink building?
This post made my eyes pop out: Google favors anchor text links of 55 characters or less for link building. We have noticed that from our own linkbuilding efforts that shorter text titles get picked up more often by backlink tools. Caveat: just because the link doesn’t appear on a backlink tool’s results doesn’t mean Google doesn’t count or follow the link (assuming you built on do follow blogs/sites).
During a recent campaign, we compared two clients–one had a very short (12 characters) keyword text link. The other client had a longer (31 characters) keyword text link. While we managed to get the latter client from deep within the bowels of Google to the top of the third page after three weeks of work, the first client enjoyed a nice jump from way past page 10 to the middle part of page 1. Coincidence? Pretty much same link sources, linking methods, and link timing. One key difference (besides niche), the length of anchor text.
This seems nice to know and everything but, as many webmasters can attest to, sometimes it’s the super long keywords that deliver the better ROI.
So… if this tip works for your niche, definitely give it a try. However, if your niche favors long keywords, I’d say stick to what works best.
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The bad news about link building is that more and more sites are using NO FOLLOW tags. This means more work, time, and money spent on researching sites that 1) accepts public links 2) have Page Rank on their main page and, ideally, 3) are in the same niche as the site you’re tying to SEO.
The good news is that instead of doing it yourself, you can replicate what others have done and cherry pick the sites that are relevant to you. That’s the faster and easier way to build quality backlinks using the 3 criteria above than doing it completely by yourself.
Where to start? Study your competitors or other sites in similar niches. This yielded more results than just doing searches on your own.
If you want an AFFORDABLE link building solution, contact Webmaster Labor today and ask them about their AIKIDO LINK BUILDING SERVICE. They also offer guarantees!
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Want to build links through forum sigs or in post links? Here’s a list of Do Follow forums with page rank and Alexa. We’ve included the Alexa rank if you’re looking for direct traffic as well 
Domain PageRank Alexa Rank
http://forums.amd.com 6 2,167
http://forums.cnet.com 7 69
http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com 4 27,293
http://irishwebmasterforum.com 3 35,218
http://forums.seo.com 4 25,047
http://webdigity.com 4 59,156
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