Tucson SE Internet Marketing, Local Business SEO

I’ve been through other marketing websites who preach “never buy links!” Never buy links? What the… Buying links is a great way to build web presence. If you want to stay in Google’s good graces good for you. It’s not easy walking the straight and narrow. You can stay in their good graces by throwing a nofollow on your link. You can also redirect the link to an intermediate page blocked via robots.txt.

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One of the biggest brain teasers in SEO is figuring out a way to design and promote link bait for your website. Link bait can be anything you can provide on your site that will attract a bunch of links, diggs, bookmarks etc. Some forms of link bait include funny games, funny pictures, cool wigets, super resource articles, controversy, etc.

Have you ever found the fish before you cast the bait?
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Many websites are built off of widely used software applications. For example myself along with a million other people use the wordpress blog platform. Finding only wordpress blogs can be done by searching for “powered by wordpress” (the footprint) within Google or yahoo.

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One common way a webmarketer will build up links and web presence quickly is by posting comments on blogs.  I usually keep this method to a minimum.  When I do comment, I will try to bring a good honest opinion with my comment. Not a “Who agrees with the author?” comment and thats it.  That’s Cheesy. Continue Reading »

I recently recieved an email from a company who sells automotive cleaning products. They were holding an interesting contest for car clubs. His email provided quick details about the contest and the Grand prize for first place which was a $1500 donation towards the car club’s choice in a charity. He then went on to ask, “Can I write up a nice detailed page about this contest for you to post on your automotive website?” After some thought I said I would. Continue Reading »

I figured I’d ramble on a bit about requesting links.  Have you ever asked for a link? Were you successful?  Most times you ask for a link you’ll probably get ignored.  But then sometimes you’ll get one.  I’ve had people actually ask me one day for a link and then ask me one more time the following day assuming I ignored their first attempt.  Continue Reading »

Someone who was visiting another blog of mine asked me today “Whats the point of comment links if you nofollow them?” I answered, “so the commentator can introduce their website to the community or blogger as they contribute to the subject. I personally don’t feel I need to cast a vote to Google every time someone makes a comment”. Then I pointed them over to commenthunt.com.

Deciding whether or not you should make your blog “dofollow” really depends on the subject you write about. If it’s a personal blog with a variety of non-competitive subjects I’d probably follow commentator links for the attention and feedback. If it’s a commercial blog in a competitive market, I get more sensitive about giving out external links.

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When building rank, finding the right websites to link to yours is crucial. It’s no easy task finding quality related websites offering link advertising. Some of the best links you’ll purchase is from site owners who don’t even mention text link advertising anywhere within their website.  Listed below are a few scouting tips to follow when building your best collection of inbound links. Explanation on how to put together a quote request will follow.
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An Seo will use a number of techniques to separate the mud from great link building opportunities. One way to do this is by learning how to search.

If you search for add link, your going to get a crazy amount of results and most will not be worth your researching effort. Start narrowing your results by placing terms within quotes.

“your keyword” “add site”

“your keyword” “submit site”

“your keyword” “submit article”

Now you can take it a step further and specify an extension. Links built on trusted educational websites can help give your rankings a nudge.

“submit website” site:.edu
“your keyword resources” site:.edu (find these and ask to be added, it’s worth it)
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With internet marketing and seo for better search engine ranks, there is a white area, black area a big fat gray area. Sometimes we are forced to step into the gray to keep up with the competition. Say you sell golf shirts online. You have a great product, low prices, great service and a great website. Is that going to be enough to get seen on the 1st page of yahoo or Google.
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