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1.)Mass Directory Submission…
Submitting your website to hundreds of low quality directories is a waste of time and money IMO if they have the following characteristics:
•They accept every website that gets submitted and have no type of quality or editorial control.
•The directory is blatantly selling links… You’ll see links to other websites in the footer, sidebar etc..
•They have been slapped in the past
Try: http://www.incrawler.com http://www.business.com http://www.greenstalk.com http://familyfriendlysites.com/ http://dir.yahoo.com/ http://botw.org/
Their are more directories but these will help you to establish trust and that you have a quality website because their is an editorial process. So if your accepted in the directory, then in Google’s eyes you don’t have a spam site or you wouldn’t be in the directory… make sense?
2.)Blogroll, Footer, Wordpress theme and Sitewide links:
Purchasing multiple blogroll, sitewide links etc on websites is detected and discounted by the Algorithm
Why?
Because Google knows that these are areas of abuse for people buying and selling links especially if their not relevant too. Just take a look around. Also people report these paid links and give Google even more insight of what type of links to look for and discount.
3.)Blog commenting
Blog commenting IMO is pretty close to worthless for SEO but may bring traffic. Stuffing your keyword in a comment that may not ever get approved isn’t worth your time and effort. Even Google knows that. Google can detect and discount these type of links because they are known to be areas of spam and abuse. So at best the links have been highly discounted.
Now I am not saying you can’t rank your website using these methods but it’s going to take you alot more work to rank for more competitve keywords.
The types of links that you do need are editorial controlled links and links that are not in known areas of abuse.
Personally I have found the best links come from article submission and guest posting. These two also help to become an expert in a niche and if your able to get the respect free one way backlinks will follow. Any good job pointing out some of the places to avoid when link building.
When your web hosting site is ready with aa article and info just submit your site digg.com, shoutwire and propeller.
The 3 site i was mention before has their high page rank .. thats why it help. Submit article to digg or ezine get indexed very fast by google.
Ezine takes time in article approval. Digg is very fast.
My USA travel website today crossed 1,00,000 pageviews (per month) with around 2000 visitors per day. Now this was a fairly new site for me, I started work on the domain in just Nov last year and by Dec, I had 220 visitors coming daily to the website.
This is what I did to get more visitors in just 5 months:
1. In early January, I decided to work on the content. I took to writing and adding new content to the site on a daily basis.
2. For new content, I used wikipedia and 3-4 other sites on that topic. Then re-wrote all in my own words and created unique articles. (more…)
The SEO experts all over the web have been battering their gums about the massive effects that update has made to rankings and pointing to all sorts of dramatic changes that they feel have been made to the algorithm.
The sites that are being badly affected have been using techniques such as:
• Doorway pages
• Hidden text
• Multiple domains
• Buying links
• Accepting off-focus reciprocal links from other sites
• Working with link farms and link exchange schemes
• Using various cloaking techniques
• Using duplicate content on different domain names
If your rankings on Google fell over the last month, you website has probably been affected by this ranking algorithm change.
Change in the Google ranking algorithm
Google wants to make its search engine results pages more relevant by removing some of the spam. It seems that the following elements are the most common reasons if your Google rankings dropped:
• hidden text on your web pages (especially text that is hidden in invisible CSS layers)
• paid links or other links that are considered outside of Google’s quality guidelines
• overuse of internal links or anchor text as the sole source of optimization
What if website ranking have dropped? (more…)
Q:I rank very good for Google, but exremely bad on yahoo despite a lot of on-site SEO… anyone has some good tips on how to rank well on Yahoo?
A:
For yahoo u should be very careful, bcoz yahoo loves keyword stuffing and good content and lots of backlinks.
There is only one tip for yahoo and msn optimization try to promote your site in more directories, more submissions can put your site in the top. (more…)