I am sure you are more of an authority than Google.com & the W3C http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35237
It is good to link with relevant, quality and trusted sites. Others usually want a one way link as it are natural. Thanks Tyler for the resource...
I'll try to explain this the best I can, the four different forms of URLs are the way people link to your site and at times Google sees each as a different website and as such divides the total PR of your site between these different URL forms. The .htaccess file is on your server at the root in the *nix based servers such as the one your webhost uses. Your webhost may or may not allow you to alter the file as doing so improperly could hurt the server. If you can edit the file you can do a 301 redirect to make all the URLs point to your full domain or you can use a mod rewrite found here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html Scroll down just a bit to the section on Canonical URLs and then a bit lower to Canonical Hostnames on how to do the rewrite. Hope this helps,
It depends on what you are tyring to do .. I use a lot of one way with my sig links and i use REALLY good and trusted sites with GOOGLE (recip)to make sure I have what it takes to stay for long term. Again ..as mentioned it is all "vodo" ..as I see it ..but so far it has been a nice combo of success for me. Good luck and happy new year!
Joe One last thing and it may be the best yet Your current title is lacking a bit Change from this: <title>Kennewick, Richland, Pasco, Tri City, Wa, Real Estate, Realtor</title> To: <title>Kennewick Real Estate Benton County Washington Tri City WA Realtor</title> Should see you move up a space or two in Google after a new cache is done but could need to wait till next update is done.
The following quote from Google is pretty sobering. Notice the sentence that speaks of "...link spamming tactics such as buying links". Ouch! If I read it right, Google is saying that buying links = link spamming! Here's the quote from Google and the link: "This confusion lies in the common belief that there are two ways for optimizing the link-based popularity of your website: Either the meritocratic and long-term option of developing natural links or the risky and short-term option of non-earned backlinks via link spamming tactics such as buying links." [bold type is mine] I wonder how they are interpreting paid directories — is that "buying" a link? http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/12/building-link-based-popularity.html
Hey Jim, Lets take that discussion to this thread that I just started so we can discuss that http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=211698
Personally, I only submit to paid directories when you are paying for a review instead of a listing. If a paid directory doesn't reject applications, I don't think it's worth being in.
Thanks Sem-Advance for all the advice. I will take heed to all of it. The title is a quandary for me. Our area is called the "Tri Cities" but when someone looking for real estate does a search, they search for one of the three cities (hence my signature in DP), so I am not sure how to handle that, outside of have three sites targeting a single city. For linking purposes, it has proved especially tough, as I am dividing my time between three keyphrases. Any suggestions?
Yes, paying for links in directories is buying links. And yes, if google finds out, they will discount payed links. Paying for review on the other hand (like in the yahoo-directory) is not a problem with google at all.
I agree. Visiting a site and seeing it linked to 200 link partners all in a footer is kind of lame. Plus usually 190 of those 200 links are completely non-relevant.