SEO Tip for Getting Links From Blogs
This is a hot tip from a colleague of mine, Dan Patterson who just started a very helpful blog called eCommTips.com. You’ll learn a lot about starting an online store.
I haven’t had enough sleep in over a week so forgive my funny mood. I’m not on drugs although the symptoms may mimic those of a drug addict. Paul Wilson decided to enter a contest for Yahoo 2 days ago. I was phoning Libya through Skype all night to get the domain servers changed (still no luck). That is part of the explanation. And I hardly did anything except some writing!
The name of the game with internet marketing is to get links to your web site so you can rank higher in search engines for keywords relating to your business or products. So you want links that use keywords. Links from web sites related to yours and more important than yours (or if you are important – you have a good Google PageRank one comparable).
Making comments on blogs are A GREAT WAY TO GET QUALITY LINKS to your web site! Here is the tip…make up a “handle” for yourself that is a keyword. The comment section asks for your name – use a keyword. Then it asks for your URL. If possible use a page on your web site that has that keyword in it.
So if one of your keywords is “internet marketer” you can put that as your name. Then if you have a web page or blog that has “internet marketer” in the domain name, link directly to that post or page.
I’ll next blog about NOFOLLOW and how WordPress uses this as a default. I’ll reference a plugin that makes it into a DOFOLLOW and link to a page that has a list of blogs that have DOFOLLOW.
2 Responses to “SEO Tip for Getting Links From Blogs”
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June 1st, 2007 at 11:47 am
I have to admit I’m not fond of the keyword-as-name approach. A blog name’s fine, but using keywords as a name seems a bit unprofessional. But I think I’m in the minority there.
June 15th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Keywords play a small part in the overall SEO strategy. In fact you can still easily rank top on Google without even specifying keywords in your meta data. Formulating and executing SEO strategies is one of my primary roles, and I have ranked pretty much all my clients first on Google at one stage or another, or at least on the first page.
A good SEO plan starts with strategic placement of content, which first starts with good coding practices, particulary following semantic markup technique and W3C compliance.
I wont go into to it any further here. I wrote a 24 page document on the subject