Much faster to get more incoming links from other sites

When you want to attract visitors to your site, they have to come from somewhere. You can work on a high position in the search engines (covered in the fourth lesson), but it's hard to reach a top 10 spot, especially when the competition is fierce. It's much faster to get more incoming links from other sites, preferably sites that have many visitors. It's also a more steady source of traffic. If a search engine lowers your ranking for whatever reason, you're left with almost no visitors just like that.

Get your link out everywhere!

Try a few of the following tips, and, if you're really serious about your traffic, try all of them. It might take a little work, but if you work on it consistently, your traffic will grow and grow and grow... A pleasant side effect of getting more exposure is that other people will start linking to your site, too.

Tip 1. Leave Comments on Blogs

Most blogs give visitors the opportunity to respond to their posts, with an option to enter your website's address in a field. Find the most popular blogs on topics that are relevant to your website and leave relevant remarks. The earlier you reply, the higher your comment will be in the comment list and the more exposure your website will get. Don't put your url in the comment text, unless it's really relevant to the post you're responding to. Too many url's in one comment will probably be deleted automatically by any spam software the blogger has installed.

Tip 2. Post in Forums

Find the most popular forums in your website's topic by typing "my topic forum" in Google. Start posting good quality answers to questions people have. Put your url with a small tagline in your signature. Don't put your url in the post itself: people will think you're just there to promote your site. Genuine answers will get you high quality traffic. These visitors are people that are really interested in your topic, so treat them well.

Tip 3. Review Products and Services

Sites that sell products or services, such as Amazon, allow you to create a profile and submit reviews. Try to submit high quality reviews, because you will be viewed as more of an expert in the related field. It might also help place your reviews in a more visible place. For example at Amazon, the highest rated reviews are shown first and only after that they are ordered chronologically.

Tip 4. Submit Your Site to Social Bookmarking Sites

There are some very popular websites out there, that can give you tons of traffic. Submitting your url to digg.com and del.icio.us can give you a serious amount of traffic. The huge number of visitors from Digg can even cause your site to become slow or unreachable if your host can't handle that much traffic. This has a nickname know as 'The Digg effect'. Stumble upon can give you a steady stream of visitors that will never stop, as long as people will like your site. If you don't have a Flickr and MySpace account, create one and get some exposure there.

Tip 5. Manually Submit Your Site to the Major Search Engines

You didn't think I'd leave out this tip, did you? Be sure to submit manually, most search engines don't like automated submission software. It takes a little while for your site to get indexed, so be patient.

Tip 6. Submit Your Site to Directories

Submit to as many web directories as possible. A few examples are: Google directory and Yahoo! directory. Submit your site to the right categories only. It will take some time for your site to appear on the list, most directories preview submissions manually. If you have a blog, be sure to submit to the dozens of blog directories.

Tip 7. Answer Questions at Yahoo!

Another way of showing your expertise and leaving a link to your site at the same time. Answer people's questions on Yahoo! answers. For the most relevant visitors, pick the most relevant categories.

Tip 8. Do Link Exchanges

Find relevant sites and mail them or using their contact form if they have one. Many site owners will like a link from your site and will gladly link back to you. They seem to get more reluctant as their sites are more popular, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

Tip 9. Start a Lens on Squidoo

Start a lens on Squidoo. Never heard of it? Find out what it is over here.
By now you probably know what I mean with the title of this lesson. You can never have enough incoming links. Whenever you come to a site where people can leave a message, don't hesitate to do it and leave your link. Don't ever spam, but be relevant to the topics of the site. Build a positive image and people will keep coming to your site.

Optimization Analysis Report

Search Engine Optimization Analysis Report takes the guesswork out of your search engine optimization efforts. This report will give you the opportunity to match your competitors methods in gaining top search engine positioning. Our Search Engine Optimization Analysis Report will take into consideration all of the key areas you need to address to insure that your search engine optimization effort is not in vain.

The Search Engine Optimization Analysis Report compares your site against the top ten competitor sites and based upon your keyword search compares your page to all the major critical areas. With this information you can get to work and make the right changes in the right places in order to give your web page its best opportunity at achieving top search engine positioning.

Your Search Engine Optimization Analysis Report will contain the following information:

• A list of targeted keywords that best suit your website
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• Submission tips and strategies
• Advice on paid search engine submissions
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The Search Engine Optimization Analysis Report gives you all of the information you need to optimize your web page for top search engine positioning. This report pin points the precise areas where you need to make changes to have the most impact.

Improve Google ranking and PageRank

How to increase Page rank of a website?

PageRank is one of more than 100 factors Google uses in the ranking of you website and your resulting position on their search engine. Links from any page (internal or external) to your site (primarily your homepage) are called backlinks. You get PageRank (PR) by having backward links from other website pages that have a higher PR rating than your site page the link is to. The PR of your site is updated about once of month when Google updates their database of web pages.

Example: if you have a backward link from a site that has a PR of 5, some of that PR be will transfered from their website to your website page they linked to. These links are called backlinks. Sites with high PageRank will get crawled by the search engine bots more often, and the crawls will be deeper.

While Google takes into consideration the PageRank of your site, high PR doesn't always equate to a higher Search Engine Results Position (SERP). You can have high PR and have a low SERP on a certian keyword phrase, while some other site can have low PR but have a high SERP on the same keyword phrase.

In your pursue for a high PR keep in mind that numerous relevant keyword anchor texted backlinks will get you a higher SERP than just raw high PR and that with numerous relevant keyword anchor texted backlinks will come PR.

To find out what your site’s PageRank is, you have to download the Google toolbar. The toolbar gives you an easy way to check your backlinks. This can also be done manually on Google, by typing 'link:www.yoursite.com' (without the ' marks) in the search box.

You aim shouldn't be just for high PR, but for proper backlinks that will bring with them a higher PR.

Page Rank calculate

Q: What is the hightest Page Rank you can get?
A: PageRank is from 0 - 10, with 10 being the highest number awarded

Q: What Is a PageRank?
A: PageRank is a numerical value which represents the popularity of a website. This is status given to websites by http://www.google.com/

Q: How is PageRank Used?
A: PageRank is one of the methods Google uses to determine a page's relevance or importance. It is only one part of the story when it comes to the Google listing, but the other aspects are discussed elsewhere (and are ever changing) and PageRank is interesting enough to deserve a paper of its own.

How is PageRank calculated?

To calculate the PageRank for a page, all of its inbound links are taken into account. These are links from within the site and links from outside the site.

PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + ... + PR(tn)/C(tn))

That's the equation that calculates a page's PageRank. It's the original one that was published when PageRank was being developed, and it is probable that Google uses a variation of it but they aren't telling us what it is. It doesn't matter though, as this equation is good enough.

10. Top Domain PageRank (PR) Weight

After the Jagger Update Google has started to give more weight to your Homepage and less weight to any of your subpages under your homepage. The homepage is the page to show up by default when you type in your domain name (eg. http://www.homepage-wizard.com ) coming from the root directory of your domain (e.g. index.htm, start.htm or the like).

Solution:
Register your top domain in relevant directories and web portals to receive maximum incoming links to your top domain. Always keep updates and fresh content on your homepage (main start page, e.g. index.htm) as well. Register sub-pages in relavant directories and try to get one way inbound links to them as well in order to increase their page rank.

9. Hidden Links and Hidden Text

Hidden text is text that is made invisible on a website for the sole purpose to mislead search engines to see a content rich page, whilst the human visitor is only seeing images or a flash animation for example. The text is either made invisible by using same page and text colour or by use of CSS spam (see above). Why anybody is trying to hide text or links away from human visitors is totally beyond my mind. Mostly these are spammy, keyword stuffed text passages with the sole purpose to achieve a better search engine placement for selected keywords. It is, to put it simple, cheating. And search engines are treating it as is. At least after the Google Jagger update these tricks are detected and tracked down with very high precision. And I think this is a very good thing, because it was never good to give these spammers and cheaters any advantage over honest, content rich pages, that where not using these methods.

Solution:
Just don´t do it! Build useful, content rich, unique and relevant websites with are worth visiting for both, search engine spiders and robots. Avoid use of flash or image entry pages as long as you have no very good reason to do so. If you have already used invisible text or links, delete it, or even better, rewrite it to good, honest content and make it visible to your visitors. Put your main keywords into a headline or bulleted list, instead of unnaturally repeating them again and again. The search engines will love your site for this and will most probably rate it higher. Be quick, because once you fetch a penalty for your hidden text or hidden links, it is very difficult and will take long time to get the page back into the search engine result pages again!

8. Keyword Stuffing within ALT-Tags

Keyword stuffing is one of the oldest black hat SEO tricks and had been hunted down by search engine algorithm updates since quite some time. As it became more and more ineffective, "clever" webmasters have shifted to overuse the image ALT-Tags for keyword stuffing purposes. Well, everytime some cheat technique is overused, it is only a question of time for the search engine robot programmers to find a way to track these technics down and eleminate or penalize the sites using them. As many black hat SEO techniques, the grenade is now very likely to explode within your own hands, this is why I always recommend to use honest, so called white hat SEO techniques only, and to follow the search engine guidlines. In the long run, this will pay of much better.

Solution:
Do not stuff your image or other ALT-tags with keywords. You can use, some keywords, as long as they are relevant to the image or website content, there is no problem with this. But do not overuse this feature. Best is, you simply do what image ALT-tags are meant to be. Image ALT-tags are an additional, very brief description of your image using one or two short sentences including two or three RELEVANT keywords. They are meant to be help blind people or people that have disabled the display of images in their web browser to understand the content of the image. If a keyword does not suit, do not use it. Do not create ALT tags that look unnatural or have to many words within them.

7. Redirect Domains or Redirect Pages

Redirect domains and redirect pages are domains or webpages which are only used to forward visitors somewhere else, be it within the same domain or to another domain. Redirects are very similar to doorway pages, which are since some time considered as spam technique and are being tracked down by Google. The problem is, sometimes redirects are required, for example if a domain or webpage name has changed. To make it worth, there seems to be no way for Google to detect whether a redirect is just or evil.

Solution:
Do not use redirects within your domains or webpages, unless you have to because you have restructured or updated your website. If you cannot avoid using redirects it is better to use a 301 error page as permanent director, instead of direct redirect methods. Use the redirect option for a limited time only, and skip it after several weeks of use.

6. Inbound Links (IBL) Repetition

Inbound links are links that are pointing to pages within the same domain. These links of course are needed in every website, simply within your main menu for example, otherwise there would be no proper navigation. This is why Google is not fully neglecting these links, even after the Jagger Update. Inbound or navigational links are still picked up and followed by the search engine spider for indexing of your pages. This is the good news. The bad news, at least for spammers, is that Google is not rating them for pagerank purposes any more. And if you are overusing inbound links by giving them unnatural different positions and link names or keyword phrases, or by repeating them too often, they may even be treated as link spamming.

Solution:
One or two multiple inbound links are still O.K. Google knows that one could be text link based e.g. on the bottom of your page, the other one image link based, e.g. within the left hand main navigation menu of your page. But do not go beyond this limit, to be on the safe side.