Ok so I seem to have forgotten all about this Link Building Blog but now I am back and bringing you some simply tips to improve your search engine rank.
Tip Number 1 - Ping!
If you’re blog is powered by WordPress you will find this option in your admin section. It might only have one ping location in. You should add the following in:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
Pinging lets robots know that you have updated your site which obviously is going to help bring in the traffic quicker!
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Before I went on holiday I wrote about How Even The Laziest Blogger Can Build Links using article marketing. Well guess what - in two weeks I have build 10 more links; and while I will admit I was expecting there to be at least 4 times more links that that, it’s still not bad for literally 2 minutes extra work.
Has it improved my rank?
This after all was the driving reason for submitting the article. Well I am pleased to see I am in the top 20 (at the time of writing) for the target term ‘Link Building Blog‘.
Like all link building techniques this is going to be most effective over a longer timeline but it does work in improving rank and it does help build backlinks.
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Sometimes you just can’t be bothered to go out and find links. In this post I am going to show you a simple method (with a real life example) that you can use to build backlinks.
As with my How to improve your back links with Themes post this one requires you to do the hard work at the start and then lets you sit back and watch the links role in. When I say ‘hard work’ I mean two extra minutes per blog post.
This post is part one of two and to get the full effect you will need to wait two weeks and because I am going on holiday tomorrow it’s great because I can post the results when I get back.
Think of this article marketing method as a site built using CSS, once you have the structure you can tweak the style sheet a little and before you know it you have a brand new look.
Yesterday I rewrote my post on How to improve your back links with Themes (unique content and more words) and submitted it to Article Marketer. By tomorrow morning it should have started to build in bounds links to my site and by the time I return to the UK I should have a good few hundred back links.
The reason I like this so much is that for the sake of 10 minutes I can build hundreds of links.
So now for the test
I think there are around 10 links pointing to this site right now; by the time I get home I would like to think this will be around 100.
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Wordpress themes are an awesome way to build back links and give something to the open source community. The problem (as was noted here) is that a lot of the time sponsored Wordpress themes or themes with keywords in the footer will be used on blogs that are off topic.
Easy solution.
Make your templates tighter to your keyword. Let’s say you have a store that sells gardening products. Why not design a theme that is so tightly focused on gardening that it wouldn’t be used by anyone that wasn’t interested in blogging about gardening. Ok so the links wont flood in but the links that do come in will be targeted, on topic and relevant. We could even take this further and create a theme ever season.
Another example might be a football team blog or a site selling team kits, why not build two themes based on the home and away kit?
Remember there is more than one blogging platform. At the very least you should be creating 2 versions - one for Wordpress and one for Blogger. Just by putting in the extra 10% effort to change the code you get the change to get more back links.
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The biggest beef that I have with link building is it’s just so boring. It’s boring, it’s dull and it has to be done by hand especially when building links to a new site. Too many links to a new site in an unnaturally short time is going to result in your site spending sometime at Google beach otherwise known as the Google Sandbox; a place that will cause you to rip your hair out each day when you check your stats and see the tiny amount of traffic you are getting and make you wonder what you have done to deserve it.
There are many ways to build traffic but none work as well as the good old fashioned manual way. Scripts just build too many links in one go and paying some chap in Indian fifty pence to get 100 links isn’t going to get you the on topic quality that you need.
This brings me on nicely to the subject of this blog. Link building with a spritz of SEO. I can’t promise anything regarding the regularity of my posts but I do promise I will cut down on using words such as ’spritz’.
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This site is not your typical link building blog. One thing that annoys me is that most blog about SEO and link building don’t do a great job of explain things very well or are very vague. This site is about showing you how to build links and explaining things in a manner that is easy to understand.
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