I would like to understand how webmasters build deep links. Do you do it via article writing, directory submissions, etc. Building deep links via directories seems to be very difficult because alot of them don't allow it and even when they do - I have not seen good results. Can anyone offer any suggestions... Thanks in advance
Articles is a good way to build deep links to your internal pages. Linkmetro.com (my site) also allows you to build deep links, you can change the page to any page on your site so its all good. Also viral tools that are on your site will attract links, and hopefully spread some of the link goodness around Brad
Thanks, Brad. I suspected article writing was one of the good ways. The only issue, I have with that is distributing your articles to a ton of websites. Currently, I do: ezine & searchwarp. Because of what I hear with Google banning websites, I'm worried that if I distribute to say 50 article submissions and get 50 more internal links for a keyword....this might lead to me being banned by google or at least being devalued by google.
I don't think you have anything to worry about distributing your articles. In theory you can't control who links to you, so it would not be fair for google to penalize you. The reverse can happen based upon who you are linking to because this you can control.
That's a good point, cpucandy. But, what about duplicate content?? Once your article is published on 10 different sites (say), all these sites as well as yours will have the same article (and hence, duplicate content). Couldn't that be a problem? I used to submit my articles to other sites initially when I set-up my website. But, I stopped doing this once I thought of the duplicate content issue. I am not sure if this is an issue or not, but I didn't want to risk getting penalised for anything so I stopped.
I made this very same mistake in the beginning but live and learn. I used to author content for my website and then also publish the same content to the zines - now I know better. I think the idea is to publish the original content to your website and do a promotional piece that contains valuable information but also leads back to your site. This way your website content is not duplicated. My question originally was about taking content that is not on my site and distributing the same content to 50 publishers. I agree with cpucandy - it makes sense that google can't penalize you for who links to you. I wonder if google can tell the difference between content on article sites that are replicated all over the place and if they devalue the deep links that have been created through the articles.
I do a few articles, I always wait for the article I posted on my site to get indexed before I submit the article to directories. Of course, my really good stuff I always keep to myself, the articles I submit are usually written for the purpose of article submission.
Are you submitting to a few sites - say your choice 5 or are you blasting it across 50 - 100 publishers?
That is exactly how I do articles MoneyFold. Keep article content seperated from website content, thus way you are not getting hit with duplicate content. Personally I have the article disseminated as widely as possible. And the better ones hopefully will stay. Brad
I don't think google will penelize you for having duplicate articles. There duplicate filters will just come into action. If they did, then what would happen to things like Amazon, Walmart, etc. They offer datafeeds to their affiliates where there must be hundreds of the same data of theirs on many different sites accrossed the web. Now there is a likely chance that quite a bit of that will become duplicate content.