If we link to an article with a specific keyword, the article should rise in the SERP's for that keyword. I was wondering if we get quality backlinks to the home page of a site with no specific keyword will that increase the overall position of pages on the site in the SERP's for relevant keywords? thanks.
Hi.. One of my site keyword serp postion was on 1st page but suddenly i found that serp position decreased.Now i am not getting serp position in any page. Can any one tell me how it happens? and what is its solution...???????
In my experience, if your site is optimised for keywords, e.g. they are in the title tag, adding more links, even without the keyword as anchor text, helps.
I would have to agree with Brian65. After all, consider that a webmaster that is placing a link to your site on their own, will not know your target keyword, and the link won't contain your anchor text...but these help.
Is is very likely that you won't see a change in your rankings for relevant keyword phrases... The only thing those links are going to do for you for sure is increase your URL's PR slightly. The only difference it will likely make in your URL's rankings for relevant keywords is the extent to which an increase in PR would have on those rankings which is so miniscule that you should not see ANY change in relevant keyword rankings, even if you added thousands of such links. Perhaps if the page linking to you is relevant but the link text is crappy then you might get a slight boost in rankings to the extent that the relevance of the linking page helps your rankings, but I'm not even sure that will happen. If the link text of the inbound link is not relevant, I'm not sure if Google even bothers to look and see if the page linking to you w/ crappy link text is itself relevant. Hard to say. I bitch at my content generators all the time about linking to pages on our site with text like "To find out more, click here!". This is simply telling Google and the other engines that the target URL for the link is about the topic "click here". It's only going to increase how that URL ranks for the keyword phrases "click here", "click", and "here" and other lexical semantically related phrases. Totally worthless link text. Same goes for hyperlinks like, "To find out more visit http://www.example.com/". This type of hyperlink is only going to help you rank better for "http www example com", "http", "www", "example", "com", "www example com", "example com", etc. Again totally worthless link text.
I am not sure either. But ezinearticles gives a good IBL. You can also consider that. I am sure it can be of a help.
thanks for the info everyone, @canonical, i'm looking to build backlinks and exposure by guest posting on A-list blogs, but these are usually linked with my site title to my website home page, so this wouldn't really help much in SERPs for specific keywords?
IMO it will only help to the extent that the additional PR and the linking page being relevant would help... You won't get any help from the link text. And if the link text is not relevant, I'm not sure they even bother to check that the linking page is relevant. If I were guest posting on other related blogs, I would only do it if the blog owner would allow me to hyperlink 2-3 keyword phrases (at LEAST one) within the content of your guest blog post and point those links back to relevant pages of my choice on my site that I want to rank for those particular keyword phrases. It's not much to ask in return for giving the blog owner free content. Even if they only allow you one contextual link, it would be much better than hyperlinking some crappy link text.
thanks for the info. however guest posting on a high traffic related blog with a link to the home page would give plenty of exposure too and I guess that's the exchange for providing the free quality content. Would you be having any tips that has worked for you for promoting a website and monetizing it? since that's the final goal even with backlinks. I currently get 20k impressions a month, how much do you think i could be monetizing it for a tech blog with 45% organic traffic, those figures might be too specific to say, but my adsense earnings have drastically dropped that i'm just making enough for hosting and i'm looking for ways to get things running again, i'm trying affiliate marketing too but no luck. thanks again.
The anchor text is what really matters in the backlink, I guess there could be an argument that you would be increasing the overall authority of your site with high quality links using the URL and that could have a positive effect on your rankings.
I would start by changing your link text in your sig for this forum from to something like and removing "| Computer Realm" from all of your page <title>s. Unless you are trying to make every page on your site rank for "computer realm", having it in every <title> is only reducing the keyword density of the other important words in the <title> that those pages should be targetting (i.e. it's hurting your rankings, not helping them). Something else I think most bloggers do a poor job of is naming and categorizing posts. The categories they pick should be named with their broader keyword phrases that the site is targetting. The posts should be named taking into consideration which category or categories it will be assigned to. Too many times bloggers name the post and THEN assign the category/categories as an after thought. I think you should consider under which category it will "live" when assigning the name. If I create a category called "Making Money Online" and that category has 10 posts in it, when I click on the category page link I would expect: 1) the <title> of the category page to be the category name, 2) an <h1> to be rendered with the category name as the <h1> value, 3) all of the post titles listed there to be rendered as an <h2> and 4) MOST of the post titles listed there to have "Making Money Online", "Making Money", "How to Make Money", "Earn Money", "Earn", "Money", "Cash", "Revenue", "Income", "Online", "On the Web", "On the Internet", and other keywords/keyword phrases deemed "related" via lexical semantic analysis appearing in the title of those posts. The category pages themselves have the best chance of ranking for your broader terms that the home page is not already targetting. The posts are going to generally rank for the really long tail terms. As far as monetizing, AdSense and Affiliate Programs are the typical ways to do so unless you want to also join other ad serving networks like ad.com. You need to drive more traffic to make more money, so work on rankings, social bookmarking, etc. as means to increase your traffic and therefore increasing the chance that people will click on your ads and affiliate links.
Every link helps. Even nofollow links can help you in one way or the other. Make use of any chance you have to place your backlinks on the web.
Yeah, my signature is a classic example of wrongly assigned anchor text ,i'm not really marketing that keyword though but i guess it won't hurt, i'll update it right away , as for naming and writing posts, i've on numerous occasion seen successful bloggers say 'write for humans first, then for robots', and also to have catchy titles to attract attention which is what i've incorporated into Computer Realm, as for removing the blog title from the post titles, you don't see many blogs indexed in Google which doesn't have the blog title with the post title, but i guess that would give me the edge then, i'll try it out. going back to monetization, i've made half the amount that i made last year in one month in the past 3 months with adsense, and traffic is actually more than how it was then. also, i assign custom page description to my posts, is that better for SEO? or should i let google get it from the content? Thanks for all the help, and i can't rep you?
It's not always JUST about generating traffic. It's about generating targetted traffic. So you want to get links on relevant sites, even if they are NOFOLLOW links. Traffic from other sites about the same topics as your site's URLs are going to be more likely to convert IMO than traffic from sites about totally unrelated topics who just happened to click on the link to your site to see what your site is about. Those will have a much higher bounceback rate. One statistic I like to pay special attention to is average page views per session. If you can make this go up, you are doing something right. It means people are staying on your site longer and looking around a bit while they are there. This is a sign that your visitors are more targeted. I agree with the 'write for humans first, then for robots' mentality... TOTALLY! And I also totally agree with having catchy titles. But you can blend the two I think. After you've written for the user, you can go back an tweek a word or two here and there to make sure the keywords you're targetting are in your article. More importantly, a title can still be catchy, yet contain keywords you want to rank for. Without keywords in the title of your post, it's going to be tough to get your post pages to even rank for long tail, non-competitive terms. The title of your post is typically rendered on a post page as both the <title> and the <h1> - 1st and 2nd most important on-page factors. Of course, it is quite possible to still get a post to rank that has no targeted keywords in the <title> and <h1> , but it typically means you're going to have to depend 100% on inbound links to do so. I'm not really that worried about rep. I do this cuz I love my job! LOL But thanks for trying. Not sure why you wouldn't be able to though.
It didn't allow me to rep you before, worked now though, as for traffic, i look for targeted traffic, and i guess the best form of targeted traffic would be search engine traffic, for pageviews i'm trying ways of increasing that, my bounce rate is currently around 65% which is somewhere there but there's room for improvement i guess, thanks for all the assistance canonical.