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Here is a few link building posts to increase your rank in the search engines. Unlike what most bloggers do, I am not going to rehash the content as my own in hopes of increasing my readership, but rather just send you to the actual sources.
I have been running websites for over a year, but have only recently been blogging. The search engines look at blogs a lot differently than they do for static websites, so I have listed a few simple SEO tweaks that will help your blog rank higher in the search engines and have your blog be more visible to the readers.
Install All in One SEO
All in One SEO is a plugin for Wordpress that does all of the hard work of building correct titles and search engine optimized descriptions for you. After you install this plugin and set it up properly, you only need to focus on link building and writing great content. What a timesaver!
4/21/2008 Update: Right now, the site is redirecting to lifehack.org. Either the site has closed down, or the website was temporarily hacked. Try visiting listible.com and if it redirects you, then you can save your time by skipping this post, as it would be no longer valid.
For those of you who love building thousands of links from my different methods, you are in for another treat. While normally I blog about secret techniques that nobody else is talking about, this one has been a bit popular on Digitalpoint. I cannot take credit for this one (21/22 is a pretty good record I would say), I still want to tell you about it. Every single link counts and so I wanted to let those who haven’t heard about Listible join the fun.
Many bloggers have been joining what is dubbed the “dofollow” or the “u comment, I follow” movement. where they install a Wordpress plugin that gets rid of the standard “nofollow” attribute attached to blog comments. This means that the search engines will follow all of the commentators links and share the blog post’s pagerank. At first, this may seem like a great idea and a way to get more comments on your blog as well as get more community involvement, but it also has some very damaging flaws. Here are my nine reasons why joining the dofollow movement can hurt your blog.
A lot of my readers have been giving me excellent feedback stating that they love my link building strategies that I give away in the link building cookbook. Link building is important because nearly every blog wants additional search engine traffic, and building links is the best way to get it. I thought I would feed everyone’s link building appetite by releasing yet another tip that you won’t see anyone else telling you.
Flickr is a free image hosting site that is now owned by Yahoo. It stores thousands of images and serves millions of visitors every month. Flickr allows users to make comments on the pictures that are uploaded by other users.
A few years ago the giant forum we know today as Digitalpoint developed a mass link exchange program called the DP Co-op Advertising Network (aff). After signing up, you then add 3-5 links on every one of your pages, and this earns you more linking power (coop weight). The more weight you have, the more links to your site you receive from other members in the coop. You can choose up to 15 anchor texts and there are over 30,000,000 available links in the network today. Sites have been using it to rank #1 for “Debt” “credit cards” “bankruptcy” and “loans.” Such a simple method is allowing them to outrank massive authority sites like Wikipedia, but the main concern is how long will this gravy train last and when will Google do something about it?
Let me start off saying that if you do not use Google Webmaster Tools, you should start trying it out. It is a great tool that shows you near-instant updates of backlinks to your posts, how often Google views your blog, as well as any errors that the Google bot finds.
Utilizing the tools will help you keep your blog search engine friendly and clean. Now for the point of this article, Google normally has a “normal” and a “slower” option for how often it will crawl your page. If you write at least a few times a week you should keep this at “normal,” but if you have a slow webhost or another reason that you do not want Google visiting a lot you can set it to slow.
