Top 9 Ways to Get Quality Backlinks

Backlinks are the lifeblood of the internet. The quality and variety of the backlinks you have pointing to your site - along with the content on the site - helps it to show up in the search results more often. In no particular order, here are the best places to get backlinks to your site.

1. Local or industry specific directories

These tend to get discounted because directories are considered old fashioned. But local and industry specific directories tend to be quite selective about the sites they feature and are normally moderated by real human beings rather than merely accepting all and sundry.

2. Facebook posts

Facebook is one of the largest and most popular sites on the internet. People use it to chat and also use it to recommend things to friends - which is where the links back to your site come into play.

3. LinkedIn profiles

If you are involved with a company, chances are that you have a LinkedIn profile.

If you've neglected it, as many people do, this may be relatively plain and boring. But that doesn't mean it should be! You can edit your profile and can include links back to your company website as well as other things related to you.

4. YouTube videos

As you probably know, YouTube is the second largest search engine on the web.

It's used by millions of people daily and videos - even on the most obscure topics - get watched.

You can easily create videos on your phone or even inside YouTube itself. It has the option of recording your webcam or creating slideshow style videos once you log in to your account.

And you can include backlinks to your site in the video description, which encourages real visitors as well as search engines.

5. Articles

Websites like this one are a very effective way to get the word out about your site.

They have a large number of regular visitors and readers. And you are allowed to have links back to your website in the resource box that follows the articles.

6. Twitter

It seems that almost every website you visit has the option to Tweet.

Whilst the links that are used on Twitter are typically shortened because of the limited character space allowed, they still count as links back to your website and are still taken account of as backlinks.

7. Press releases

If you've got some news to tell the world, press releases are a good way to do it.

Whilst there are some people on the web who would claim that press releases are ignored, a quick visit to Google News will show you that they are alive and kicking.

You need a story that counts as news but, if you're stuck for ideas, a quick flick through almost any newspaper or magazine should give you plenty of inspiration.

8. Infographics

Infographics can be as simple or as complicated as you want them to be.

They are best used as a way to simplify otherwise complex topics - I like to use mindmaps for this but other people use image software like Photoshop or get them created on sites like Fiverr.

Then pin your newly created infographic to sites like Pinterest.

9. Guest blogging

This has come in for some criticism in recent months but it still works if done correctly.

You contact websites that are open to outside authors contributing articles to their site - everyone from the Huffington Post downwards - and then contribute a quality post which is then published, including a link back to your website.

Erick Julian Molle, 6:00 PM, 0 komentar

Are Anchor Text Links Still Important for SEO?

A few years ago, the anchor text on links was very important for SEO purposes. The precise text in links affected the search results and still does to an extent - searching for "click here" still brings up the Adobe Reader site. But Google bombing - a practice that involved a disparate group of persons making many precise anchor text content links to impact the relook for outcomes - has been largely prevented from affecting the search results.

As with almost everything to do with SEO, opinions vary as to the precise mix of anchor links that should be used but it is generally thought to be good practice to use a variety of different anchor texts rather than concentrating on the precise keyword phrases you want your site to rank for.

Instead, it is recommended that you aim for a variety of anchor links in the places where you can influence them in the first place.

On sites like YouTube, you can't affect the anchor text. Any URL is automatically clickable but you can't link it with any text. It's just a raw link pointing to whichever page you've decided to include in your video description.

YouTube actually goes further than this and allows you to link back to precise times inside the video simply by including the minutes and seconds in your description. YouTube can then convert in which into your link in which takes any individual who clicks upon it to in which purpose within the video. Which shows they have got the actual capability of as well as totally different anchor texts other then don't need regular individuals to be capable of management in which.

Outside YouTube, it is recommended that you include a number of different anchor texts, including a small proportion of ones with the keyword that you're aiming to rank for.

The remainder of the anchor texts - probably the bulk of them - should be a mixture of other more generic words and phrases such as "click here" and "find out more".

This sounds counter-productive as it doesn't give Google the precise words you want to rank for. But it is actually a good idea as Google's algorithm tends to prefer to work that kind of thing out for itself and it's getting a lot better at doing so.

The logic behind mixing up lots of different anchor texts, most of which are generic, is that this is more natural.

Whether or not that's the case is open to debate and will almost certainly vary from site to site and from industry to industry.

For instance, an article site like this one is very likely to use precise text as the anchor pointing back to the site that contributed the article.

A site run by a hobbyist is maybe less likely to do that and is more likely to use phrases like "click here".

So it's worth following the convention of the sites you're using and mixing up your anchor text.

Even to the point of having some links that are pure text - not even linked at all - as that happens on some websites and with some less than technically competent webmasters.

Erick Julian Molle, 12:08 PM, 0 komentar