Archive for the 'backlinks' Category

The 411 on Inbound Links

I’ve been mentioning backlinks quite often in many articles and I’m sure the experts need no more explanation. Every time I go to web master forums, however, I’m greeted with questions about linking so I thought it best if we tackle the basics of linking. First up — inbound links. The most widely known information […]

Does Linking to Spam Sites Hurt Your Rankings?

We already know links FROM spammy sites are a no-no but how about link TO spammy sites? I don’t actually consider this a major factor in the rankings game. Say, for example, you sold a link to a porn site in your web site and the buyer had paid 3 years worth of link space […]

Does the Age of Site Matter in SEO?

Many have asked if the age of their web sites matter in their rankings in the SERPs. Needless to be said — yes, it does matter. As of this reading, why don’t you search for a highly-competitive keyword and look at the results. If you might notice, all the results on the first page would […]

How Important is the Site’s Popularity for Backlinks?

We all know how important building backlinks is. Nobody would find your web site(s) unless you promote and build back links. It’s not only for the PageRank anymore because as I have observed, a lot more people are becoming disillusioned with the Google PageRank. And besides, with all the change in algorithms and penalizations, it’s […]

Links from Spammy Sites, A Big No-No

A post in the Text Link Ads blog particularly warned against buying text links in sites where all the paid links are mish-mashed because you might end up being surrounded by porn, online gambling and other similar web site links. Now, there are many who either don’t care about the quality of the web sites […]

Article Directories: Effective SEO Tool or Not?

Some months ago, I wrote an article a month for a client and had them submitted to 1000 article directories and PR distribution sites. Was it effective? I think only my client would know exactly. However, as an observation, I noticed it took around 1-2 months a lot of times, for some of the directories […]