As you know, or perhaps you don’t, Google and other search engines factor in the quantity and quality of incoming links to determine the rankings of sites on their search results pages. Link building is key to search engine optimization, and link baiting is one of the best ways, if not THE best way, to build incoming links.
If you’re looking for a mountain of well-optimized, local, national, and free web directories, check out DeclareMedia.com. 700+ directories so far, and thousands more on the way. Here’s a run down of the categories so far:
Advertising Agencies
Apartments
Architects
Assisted Living Facilities
Bed and Breakfasts
Carpet Cleaners
Computer Repair
Dentists
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From the folks who brought you What’s a Link from Wired.com Worth? and How to Get a Link from CNN.com now comes How to Get a Link from SearchEngineLand.com!
1. Set up a blog, just like this one.
2. Spend 100+ hours writing posts.
3. Spend another 20+ hours building links to your…
Except I’ll burst your bubble right now and tell you the link isn’t followed. But it can still generate some traffic and perhaps some links will come from that. This technique has been out there for a while, this is just the first time I’ve had it be successful for me, hence the post at this late date.
Yesterday I…
MWI has a growing number of free directories for web design and search engine optimization firms located in Boston, Utah, and California.
Utah Web Development Firms
Utah Internet Marketing
Utah Web Design Firms
Utah Advertising Agencies
California Web Design Firms
Boston SEO Firms
Boston Web Design Firms
Utah SEO Firms
It’s one thing to understand why building links is important, and quite another to figure out how to do it effectively. I’ve found there are three primary ways to build links:
1. Create your own links
2. Recruit links
3. Buy links
Incoming links, also call backlinks, inbound links, or “links from other sites”, are one of the primary means by which Google (and many other search engines) ranks websites. There are four ways in which incoming links can affect your website. If you’re not interested in why linkbuilding is important but rather how to build links then take a gander…
The following is a listing of paid directories you can use to quickly add some quality inbound links. If you’ve got any to add just post some comments.
Yahoo! Directory – Although it’s out of alphabetical order I’m going to put the Yahoo! directory first in line because it’s probably the most important directory to be listed in.
I manage a skateboard blog and like all my websites I commonly perform experiments with it in the name of learning something new about search engine optimization. Other times, I do something that turns into a lesson on SEO without that being the intention.
Recently, I decided to give away $1,000 on my skateboard blog to the skater…
I am sure anyone involved with SEO has either bought text links or has at least considered doing it before. There are many methods of buying links online and some methods are more safe than others. Find out how to buy links safely and which methods to stay away from.
About 583 visitors so far. On December 13th, 2006 I happened to post on my blog about Best Buy’s results-only work environment. On January 18th, 2007 Tony Long, the fightin’ Luddite!, saw fit to link to my post via his article When Less is More.
