Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not that difficult. You don't need to go bankrupt hiring an SEO expert that will do very little to get your site ranking high. There is no need to link exchange, making your website look ugly because it's full of links to other websites. There is a much simpler way to rank on Google. It doesn't matter if you pay a fortune to get your blog self hosted. Go ahead and type in Google "make money online". In the search results, there are 2 Blogspot blogs and one is the top position out of 167,000,000 results. This keyword gets thousands of searches a month and what's so special about it is that it has been build on a free blogging platform. So how can this blog rank in such a high position? Backlinks. I went and checked this blog's backlinks and he has nearly 27,000 websites linking back to his website. So this is how you can get any website ranking for almost any keyword in just a few days. Google will give your site priority ranking if there are a lot of sites linking to it. So how can you get backlinks? The best way to get links is by using forum signatures. Just one tip: make sure that they do not use the "nofollow" tag. This means that Google will not follow the link and you will not get a higher Google ranking with nofollow links. Here's what I do to check the forum has nofollow enabled: 1) I would recommend getting a DoFollow (Firefox) plugin that tells you if a forum uses the nofollow tag. Visit the forum as a guest and go to a popular thread (this lets you see if people are posting links in signatures). I would recommend going to a Page Rank 4 or higher forum to ensure quality backlinks.* *Having relevant backlinks makes no difference! It does help if you know something about the theme of the forum so you can add quality forum discussion. 2) If you can see the links, check if they're nofollow using the plugin. If they're nofollow, go and find a different forum. To ensure you can see forum signatures, go into a thread and look at the replies. If you cannot see signatures when you're a forum guest, Google cannot see them either! 3) If the forum has nofollow disabled and it is Page Rank 4 or higher, go and register. Make sure to read the rules regarding signatures - some forums have strict guidelines or have removed the ability to add links altogether. 4) Now go and post some useful discussions, while building backlinks at the same time! I post maximum 5 times a day to 4 different forums. If you want to get backlinks relatively quickly, follow this as a guideline and get posting!
**** Do not take this as fact. YES - forum sigs can have a benefit for SEO, I agree and I have a list of dofollow forums on my website to prove that fact... BUT this should NOT be your only means of backlinking. I bet those 27k backlinks include a lot of HIGH QUALITY backlinks as well. E.G articles link wheels etc. They did not get to the top with just forum sigs thats for sure. They play there part I agree, but dont run off and say thanks to every thread for a cheap backlink as if thats all you do, the chances of ranking on the first page, let alone 1/2 are very low... Google knows how easy they are to get. If it were that easy, we would all be buying auto forum spammers for $100, get millions of sigs and then get top for once of the most competative keywords on the market.... No I Dont think so some how... Good advice but try not to be so misleading.
I think nofollow links have value too. They don't pass pagerank, but Google must notice links in comments of popular blogs. I've seen some of them show up in my backlinks.
christph is right - forum sigs are very low quality backlinks - also - the forum may be PR 4, but the page your link is on won't be. Also - those blogspot blogs are a few years old, they've been building backlinks for 4 years, and most of their backlinks come from blogs, not forums.
Yes but his point is that it really works, i got one of my sites in 4 months from page rank 0 to page rank 5 by doing what he said and onpage work, and few small other things. like posting links on .org and .edu sites, it works...