Hi guys, long time browser, first time poster here. It's a pleasure to be amongst your informed and knowledgeable opinions. I've been at this SEO lark for a couple of months now and the Penguin updates has thrown my previous practises up into the air. I've been adapting and utilising different practises, as i'm sure many of you have also, but am currently unsure as to what is effective and what is a veritable waste of time. I've added numerous comments to forums, blog posts to guest blogging sites and articles to article websites. I've been using all advised sites such as Squidoo, Livejournal, Reddit, etc, but it appears that none of this work has been indexed by Google. Is this normal? If this work isn't indexed by Google is it, in essence, entirely useless? Could people suggest any sites that i can add articles, comments and backlinks to that will be indexed by Google. Thanks very much, i look forward to hearing from you. Armadillos.
Also, would you say that adding backlinks to directories, even the higher pageranked ones, is a useless practise? Or is it dependent upon the credibility of the directory? Armadillos.
Be patient. Wait for some weeks or even 2 or 3 months to check your increasing PR. Please PM me if you need text link from my PR4 site.
Are you using unique content? If not, focus on quality sites like edu ones - they got crawled way more often.
I do use unique content, yes. Could you suggest any effective .edu do-follow sites with PR of 3 or more? Thank you. ​Armadillos.
You are working in the right direction, we should use almost all the methods of link building so that we can get natural links.... due to penguin update lots of sites have been affected, it is not you only. And the main point was about using one anchor text all over the world so from now you need to use multiple keywords for one url.
I think as people have already said it will take time, lots of people have been affected though this will just show you who is strong enough to survive,
We've been getting directory links - from all sorts of directories - constantly and regularly since 2002 (for our own as well as clients' sites) and in our experience to date, this has never failed to work. Naturally, your mileage would vary depending on the level of competition on the keywords you're targeting. Your rankings would rise easily and smoothly if you target long-tail, low-competition keywords while it may not be so easy to achieve this for high-competition keywords. In general, we've always found directory links to be beneficial. You just need to ensure that you submit to the most relevant categories and that you vary your anchor text as you go.
I'll let you in on a li'l secret here (Lol!!): Try and push a few links (from directories?) to these pages of yours (at Squidoo, LJ etc.) - you'll not be disappointed with the results.
Thanks for the suggestion, guys. I've started adding the directories to some of my pages. You dudes are stars, you know that?
Value Links, are you saying that all of your SEO is based off of directory links alone? And your sites get indexed and in the top 3 pages of the Google?