thought this may be helpful with some seo tips... found this in a blog...any other additions to these guys? 1. No keywords in your anchor text—There’s nothing worse than getting a high quality backlink that has completely useless anchor text like “click here†or just your actual web address. It’s crucial that you build keyword-rich back links. Why? Because the keywords in these links tell the search engines (and humans for that matter) what the target page is about. As a result, keyword-rich backlinks can improve your page’s search rank for the terms being linked. 2. Getting links from low-quality websites—Whenever you get links from websites that are viewed as spammy or that have bad reputations, you become associated with them. Some people call it hanging out in a bad neighborhood. If you’re connected with a bunch of low-grade websites, the search engines will start to see you in the same light as those websites. So, watch who you hang out with. 3. Focusing on quantity instead of quality—I’ve always said that I’d take 10 quality links over 100 bad ones every time. Sure, quantity does matter, but link building isn’t strictly a numbers game. If all your links are from low-grade websites, they won’t carry much weight, and much of your link building efforts will be wasted. Instead, focus on getting links from relevant, trusted websites. 4. Ignoring websites with a low PR—Too many link builders get too caught up with trying to get links only from websites with a high Page Rank. This is a bad idea for many reasons. See, PR isn’t everything. Just because a site has a low PR doesn’t mean it’s a bad website. Remember, a website that has a 0 PR today could have a 5 PR a year from now. 5. Not linking out—You have to give if you want to receive. You can’t expect everyone to link to you if you never link out to anybody. And whatever you do, don’t buy into the myth that you lose link juice whenever you link out. That’s BS. Linking out will attract links in return, and it helps you build your network with other bloggers. is there any relevance in linking images?
Is "No keywords in your anchor text" really useless? Because I thought if the content of the site that links to you is related to your site, it will help.
What is your strategy on high-quality vs low-quality links? do you follow 80/20 rule? I used to think having links, even low PR, is still counted toward your big SEO plan.
purpleorange is right. it's all about organic ranking. i've seen pr0 sites ranked above pr4 sites. i've seen a pr4 site that doesn't rank in google, yahoo and msn/bing. all i'm saying is don't put too much value on linking to high pr sites. if you're going to, query upon their main kws and test for yourself and see where they rank. place your focus on serps. pr will come naturally if you're optimizing and scaling appropriately with onpage/offpage seo which entails backlinks and quality content. to further elaborate...onpage seo - kws in content, inner linking them, h1 thru h3, meta taggin and a google sitemap. if local, PM me, i've got some tips that'll help you out. offpage seo - hire someone out of country, pay .15 to .25 per forum post, blog comments and you or someone handle social sites. hubpages, squidoo, wetpaint are a few good article submitting sites for backlinking as well. but to answer your question...i don't follow a rule. i apply the site that fits my site (relevance)...just cuz a site has a pr0 doesn't mean it can't be a pr4 in 6 months. i do a bit of reciprocating linking, lots of inner linking, outbound linking to maybe 1 o 2 sites, vid linking etc....
I don't agree with #2 if the search engines would lower your link juice for links from bad neighboorhoods then people would get "bad neighboorhod" links for their competitors Google and search engines know this and they would not penalize you for bad links only give you juice for Good links
Do not get to many links from sites with little or no relevant content. Do not link farm. Never ask for reciprocal links - that just p's wm's off. Try to only link out to sites with relevant content. (.gov and .edu sites are always good to link to / remember / relevancy)
I was under the impression only linking out to bad neighbourhood sites would cause problems as it could be used as a tool to hit the competition, i.e you could put someone else's website onto bad websites to damage their ranking, im pretty new to this could anyone confirm this please
No keywords in anchor text might not be entirely useless. after all a link is a link. it may not help a lot in the rankings of a particular keyword you are targeting but it is still a link. sometimes having a few links without the anchor text make your links look more natural. Just make sure that for the high pr sites you really milk it and use the keywords your are targeting for your anchor text.
yea good but you should have build your focus keywords links from other websites. It means inbound links from internet. which builds your good popularity over internet and absolutely google rank your website better than now.
I think this happens in really really competitive niches. I know of a site that does affiliate marketing in a highly competitive niche. One of their competitor sites did exactly just that - submitted the site to really spammy sites. Because of this they lost their rankings on G@@gle and ended up losing tons of money. They did manage to resolve the issue but it took 6 months before they did.