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Many bloggers and web site owners assiduously build links back to their sites, using the name of the site as the text and the home page as the link.
Unfortunately, by doing so they have wasted, or at the very least, watered down, a lot of time and effort. This type of link building looks unnatural to Google, and you don’t get the backlink juice you’re working for.
When you build your backlinks, it’s important to use a variety of keywords rather than your site name. Use your top tier keywords, but also throw in second tier and long tail keywords as well as a "click here" too.
In addition, link to deep pages within your site that are relevant to the keywords you’re using. If your interior pages are not really worth linking to (contact us, privacy, boring stuff) then make some that are interesting and worthwhile for your visitors. Write articles about your product or service. Add pictures and videos. Hire someone if you have to, but bring your site to a higher level.
The added link power you get back will be noticeable after awhile. You should be able to track it in your ranking results. Your click-through traffic from your links will probably increase, too. Life will get better. The angels will sing. Go for it!
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Blogs and blog comments are the things that show up for me in the searches that I run for a test. I really had not thought of linking to interior pages, and using interior page relevant key words as the link.
I will try the share this link, next time I post to AR. If it comes back up. I think it has been down all morning.
Is the share this link different than a perma link? Maybe I need to try the permalink somewhere to see what how it differs from any other link.
Thanks,
Richard
Awesome article of utmost importance! Blog commenting is a prime example. If you’re simply putting yoursite.com in the URL field, you’re missing the boat.
Deep link it as often as possible…even better if you can deep-link it to a post on your blog that correlates to the one you’re commenting on
Note: if the blog you’re commenting on is using the commentluv plugin, you have to use a straight .com….it will screw-up the CL link otherwise.
Well the method I employ for getting link juice is working well. My websites are based on a particular niche. For example the present one is totally about Windows XP, I could target the entire computer niche at once but I didn’t do that. What I will do is write in the XP related site, then cover other computer topics. Finally I’ll link them all to a main site related to computers. This is the exact same way in which I plan to get the teen niche.
@Richard - The share this link uses the permalink URL.
@Dennis - I ‘luv’ the commentluv plugin…it won’t work with this template, unfortunately.
@Hack - Good thinking!
I didn’t know CL had template issues, did you inform the author?
@Dennis - no, not yet. I’m going to work with it a bit more; maybe I did something wrong. I’m using a sandbox theme and that may make a difference.
I have no idea what a sandbox theme is, but I do know he’s awesome. He’ll work with you until it’s fixed.
Or of course all avenues have been exhausted.
I’m curious about this sandbox thing, but I don’t want to take this too OT
I think persistence and time will eventually get us where we want to be. But only if we really learn the secrets such as you share with us. Thank you again!
well, that’s very nice article. It helps a newbie like me to know more about SEO tips. thanks a lot
Good Post Kay,
As webmasters we shouldn’t forget to add deep links to our websites either.
I had always viewed deep linking as important - but I guess I never really thought about it too much when leaving blog comments. Now’s a good time to start. thanks for the idea.
Ya it wud b good if u manage to use commentluv plugin on ur blog frd …
and its a gr8 post as always … already shared this post with my other newbie frds
You make a good point about linking to more than just the URL page of your site. It is a time consuming process.