Blog SEO tips for immediate ranking results

Get backlinks; and never pay for your links.

Getting links means putting in some work but it is worth the results. Get many, one way, keywords to your site follow the following tips and traffic will follow. I mean search engine traffic. After writing good content the single most important thing you can to for your blog is getting backlinks. The same applies for every kind of site. Getting backlinks should be where you dedicate most of your blogging time. I cannot stress it enough. Without backlinks your blog or site will be sitting in limbo forever and ever…and ever…till the end of time and then some.

Joking aside, it is very important. Think of backlinks as votes of confidence for your site. The more votes you have the better your pages will rank in search engine result pages. The better your ranking the more visits you will get. I dedicate a good chunk of my free time in getting as many backlinks as I can.

Let’s take things one by one.

The argument

Getting traffic to your blog and or site is not rocket science. Blogging is not rocket science. Making money blogging is not rocket science either. In order to make money with your blog, you need traffic. In order to get traffic you need to make accessing your site or blog easier for your potential visitors. There is a whole debate going on about what kind of traffic is the best kind of traffic. Search engines or social networking? Well this debate rages within the circles of social networking advocates. Anyone else, who is making or has made money online knows that the best way to do so is by driving search engine traffic to your blog. Aside from the specifics and the conversion rates and click through rates, that I don’t know much about, what makes sense is this. How many people do you thing use social networking sites? Then ask yourself, how many people do you think use search engines to find what they are looking for? I’ll let you answer that question. This post is not about debating the effectiveness of either social networking or search engines. It is just about getting backlinks.

Thinks about it like this:

Is it social networking or search engines that people use most to get around the web? When you are looking for something on the web, whether it is advice or a product or whatever, how will you go about finding it?

Under the assumption that search engine optimization will produce better long term results for your site this post will outline three ways of getting more backlinks with anchor text and therefore allow it to rank better in search engine result pages.

Comments

Once you have set up your new site you should immediately start getting a few easy backlinks. Backlinks from other high page rank sites that will allow for quick indexing. The best way of going about doing this is by visiting and commenting on blogs. Don’t comment spam, and do not use your keyword on your name. Your comments will just get turned down. I turn down those kinds of comments all the time. Read the post, and write something relevant, constructive and useful. You are getting a free backlink from this so you should at least offer some decent content for that site.

Dofollow

Some blogs are set up in a way that does not allow search engines to crawl the comments. Other ones are set up in the reverse way. It doesn’t really matter how the blogs you are commenting on are set up. All you need to worry about is getting those links. Make sure that the blogs you are commenting on have some sort of a page rank. If not, make sure they are indexed by Google. How you can do that? Well you can search the web for a page rank calculator and copy/paste the URL and figure it out. Or, you can go download seoquake for a quick overview of a site. Once you get the seoquake firefox toolbar plugin you will be able to see which blogs have PR and which don’t and therefore be able to get the best backlinks for your comments.

Remember, better PR means better links. Dofollow links are better than nofollow, however, links are links. If your site is new, and has not been indexed yet, go write a bunch of comments and indexing will follow. Ten, twenty, fifty….it is just a matter of how fast you want to get indexed.

Article Marketing

Write three articles, then go to as many article submission databases as you can and submit those articles. In order for you article not to be turned down make sure that it is over 500 words, you have a maximum of 2 links with anchor text placed in the resource box. If the particular database you are submitting to allows anchor links in text even better. For best results get as many articles submitted as possible. There is software to help you do this. Google the term free article submission software and you will find a few for sure. Get it, start writing and start submitting. Keep in mind that sometimes it takes up to 3 weeks for each article to get manually reviewed and approved by the database you submit to. Its ok…in the meantime, you should be working to get more links. Do social bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking

Find 10 social bookmarking sites. Create accounts for all of them and get to work. Submit as many links as you can for every post of yours and for every blog. Try to include a few different links, links not from the same site, to avoid getting banned for spamming. For every link you submit, in the title place the keyword you want that particular site, or post to rank well in. In the keywords, write as many keywords as you can. 10-15 should be good. For every keyword that you write the social bookmarking site gives you one more link. So think about it, if you are getting links for, lets say 10 of your posts from 10 social bookmarking sites, with ten keywords each….that’s 10 posts times 10 sites, times 10 keywords, for a grand total of 1000 anchored backlinks to your blog. Be careful, not to push it with your bookmarks. Big social bookmarking sites, are very particular with spamming and they will not give banning you a second thought. Try to fly under the radar by bookmarking other sites as well.

Directory Submission

Don’t forget the directories. Some of them have been lying around for a while and have excellent page rank. You should make a point and submit your URL in as many as you can. Its free, it just takes time.

Blogging is not rocket science. You get links, you rank better, you get traffic and you make money; it is simple.

A few Simple ways to help you build more backlinks

I haven’t been posting much lately. What I have been doing on my spare time is getting backlinks and lots of them. I have been literally working hard in getting as many backlinks as I can; backlinks for the home page of this blog as well as for individual posts, deep links. Backlinks are very important in achieving higher rankings in search engine result pages. For the ones interested in pursuing a similar strategy of building backlinks read on and perhaps this post will help you see things under a different light. In the past few weeks, I have managed to increase the backlinks to this blog tenfold. Here is a recent screenshot from my Webmaster Tools link report.

As you can see most of these links are for the home page… I am trying to change that.

I have been building backlinks in two different ways, by submitting articles in article databases as well as by getting many newer and older posts bookmarked in social bookmarking sites.

Let’s start with the articles.

Writing Articles

Most article databases accept articles in a standardized format. Make sure your articles are about 500 words in length, keyword rich; they have the keywords, in the title, in the beginning and in the end paragraph. Also make sure you incorporate two html links in the resource box. Even though some databases accept links in the article body, try to avoid doing so. Just so you won’t deter other webmasters from republishing them. Try to keep your links to only two, because some databases will reject articles with more links. If you are submitting one or two articles to a few databases being consistent with these parameters doesn’t really matter. Nevertheless, if you are going to do some bulk submitting this will save you loads of time.

Publishing Articles

Publishing Articles is one of the most recommended and easy ways to get links. All you need to do is to write a few articles and submit them to as many article databases possible. If you have a relatively new site or blog, the best way of going about doing it is by starting with a few established and relatively high page rank databases; databases that are crawled regularly by Google and other major search engines. At least initially, you want to avoid posting any duplicate content. So pick the 5 or 6 most popular ones and submit a different article to all of them. Sometimes articles are accepted with a bit of a delay, but you will start getting some links published within a few weeks. Don’t start submitting in bulk and in many databases in the beginning. Allow the links you have published in the established ones to get crawled by Google first. This will allow your blog-site to get indexed by Google. These are the ones I use regularly:

http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.amazines.com
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.article-directory.net
http://www.articlealley.com

Once you achieve indexing you can start submitting in bulk. You can submit the same or similar article to hundreds of databases in a matter of a few hours.

Automated Software

There is a wide selection of automatic article submission software out there; they are easy to use and very effective. I use one as well. After I get a site indexed, I start submitting to hundreds of article directories, even if it is the same article, a link is a link. Even if Google might take away value form that link, it is still a link. I am not an SEO expert and I am not sure what the implications with duplicate content might be; I haven’t seen any negative aspects of publishing the same article over and over. If you are weary of such an approach avoid it and submit a different article in every database. If you are on the prow for automatic submission software, Google the term ‘Article Submitter’ along with the keyword free and you will be able to find one in the first page of results. If you are new to all this and kind broke, don’t pay, get a free one and take the time to calibrate it to your specific needs. If you need any additional help, just post a comment here and I will be more than happy to assist you in any way I can.

Ok, back to the linking…

Social Bookmarking Sites

Get free backlinks for all of your posts. It is as easy as 123, but it can take as much time as counting to 1,000; just because there are so many of them on the net. I use a series of bookmarking sites most of them main stream except a few that I enjoy using for their simplicity. Here are the

Bloggingzoom
del.icio.us
Digg
SEOtree Social
Reddit
StumbleUpon

All of the above are great for building links, there are tons more and if you know of better ones please write a comment. I really enjoy using Bloggingzoom since the links rank pretty well in the SERPS. If you would like to read more about blogging zoom you can by checking out an older post about backlinks.

A few weeks ago, I came across a post on blogtomic.com about this mega social bookmarking site that was referred to as the Holy Grail of Social Bookmarking. I just remembered about it now and thought it might be a good idea to mention it.

I will definitely try it out and let you know how it works.

That’s it for now. Here are some more related posts you might find helpful

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Part of my recent plan is to create as many one way links pointing back to this blog with the keyword “make money blogging”. The easiest way to do so is by submitting articles in article databases. My goal was and still is to submit a total of 45 articles that relate to the topic making money blogging. Every article points back to my homepage with the keyword make money blogging and every 15 will point back to different posts with different keywords in different categories. This allows building link popularity for both the home page and internal pages of this site; having more than two links might discourage webmasters from re-publishing those articles, so I stick to two. A few articles I published a couple of months ago have been republished dozens of times giving a series of very valuable backlinks. If you are going about doing some article marketing yourself, try to out together helpful but basic short articles that other webmasters will like and take for their sites. Some SEO experts say that it is better to have the second link with no keyword and advise to only include the URL. I have read conflicting advice regarding this practice, so I am sticking to links with keywords. In terms of length, I am going for 450-500 words per article and in terms of topics I am writing ‘how to’ or ‘tips’ or introductory articles and hoping for the best. You can read a post I wrote about Blogging Tips that will give you a better understanding of how you can structure a similar article.

To get the most out of this process you need to be focused and put a plan together. Have a few topics ready, do the necessary research and decide how to go about writing. One thing to keep in mind is that search engines do not like duplicate content. Therefore, avoid submitting the same article twice. Try to write it in a way that allows changing the paragraphs around, then re-submit it. There are countless tips out there about article marketing. Do some research and expand your horizons, or just stick to the basics outlined here. If you are interested you can read more about my make money blog seo goals. Stay tuned for more updates by subscribing to the feed. I would I also like to know if you have been actie with article marketing and whether there is something else should keep in mind when following the above steps. Feel free to comment.

Keywords

The term keyword refers to words that relate to your topic, words that are ‘keys’ for getting to your blog. If you need to find flowers then you type “flowers” in Google and you are presented with relative results. If you have a blog about flowers then you have to write about flowers, have the word appear at least a few times, so Google or other search engines, can assume that your blog is about flowers. In my case, my blog is about how to make money blogging, so you will see these words appear over and over in my posts, titles, links and so on. It is advised that your keywords should be 5% of the words in every article or post. You can also use your keywords in your tags; use them to label your categories and widgets.

There is also an argument to be made on how more content helps your blog rank better in searches. The more content search engines have to crawl the more pages you will end up having featured for a particular search. More content means more keywords and so on…

In a nutshell, fill your blog with desired keywords, have links from other sites/blogs pointing to your blog with the desired keywords, search engines crawl and search engine visitors will follow.

Links

I want this blog to rank higher for Make Money Blogging searches, so when I do a link-trade, or buy a link on another website or blog, I ask too have make money blogging as the keywords.

The link looks something like this in html,

<*a href="http://www.ideasandmoney.info”/>Make Money Blogging <*/a>

Replace the ideasandmoney.info with your address and “Make Money Blogging” with your keyword and you are good to go. Don’t forget to take the * in the begging and in the end. I placed them so the code shows up as code and not as a link.

It is recommended that you do your own linking as well, link to older posts of your in your archives. Links to your achieved posts will help get more of your pages indexed. As search engines crawl your site, they will inevitably visit your older posts and consequently have these pages indexed.

Since blogs are free to set up and it is relatively easy to do so you should set up other blogs yourself and have keywords pointing back to your main blog. I have done this by setting up one through blogger. I haven’t been posting much, but it is there and there is a link pointing to this one. I won’t bother linking to it because I want to keep the link as a one way link.

You can also find sound advice on building back links at jtpratt.com

I found this tool to check your link popularity at this Adsense blog

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Qassia is a relatively new but substantially different knowledge base. Qassia rewards you with backlinks and rankings by submitting bits of information and reviewing other peoples work . As a member you can submit your blog/website as well as different articles with your links. Once you submit the material, it will be viewed and reviewed by other users. At Qassia articles are referred to as “Intel”. Intel is added to Qassia in the form of posts, which are somewhat similar to blog posts. Intel has to be screened by users before being published. You get credit when rating, when posting, and by referring other users. The more Qassia dollars you have in your account, the better your websites will rank in their directory and the number of visitors to your blog will increase. The more Qassia dollars you are worth, the better your websites will rank.

You can add any kind of information you want and does not have to be relevant to your blog or website.

Your websites will be displayed when users browse through their tag-based directory. By calibrating your account properly you can also have Adsense ads on your intel and possibly increase your revenue by a few bucks a month. You get to keep 100% of your advertising revenue!

You can signup to Qassia by visiting my page. It is by invite only.