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Seven
Red Hot Tips for Linking
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Seven
Red Hot Tips for Linking by Gareth Davies
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Webmaster Tips, Hints and Resource Articles
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1. Vary the keywords in your link 'anchor' text
Unless you provide only one product or service the chances are you
will want to rank for many key phrases. One way to help achieve
this objective is to change the link text you want all new sites
to use periodically. Vary the anchor text slightly each time and
by doing so you can cover more of your targeted key phrases. This
approach can help your site rank for many keywords rather than just
one or two.
If you do only provide one product or service on your web site
it is still important to vary anchor text. If you sell 'blue widgets'
then you could also use link text like 'cheap blue widgets' or 'blue
widget store'. This means your links take on a more natural feel
and are much less likely to be penalized or filtered out by search
engines for being 'fake links'.
2. Set up your link information differently - create a
link in context
Typically people set up their link information in a very similar
way, however you could offer your link information with the hyperlink
inside the description instead of at the beginning.
Imagine this is a description about your web site on a partner's
link page. Instead of a typical hyperlink followed by a description
you could write a sentence describing your web site and then place
"your descriptive hyperlink" inside it.
One reason for doing this is that it reads more naturally and search
engines may value the link higher as it reads more like a narrative.
Many webmasters will be happy to accept this style even if some
do not. To cover yourself offer the link in context as a second
option along with your regular link information, that way if some
sites can't support the layout you still get your link.
3. Vary where your links point
Try to vary where link partners point to on your site. It's fine
to have the majority of links pointing into your home page, however
it can be beneficial to have some links pointing to other key pages
on your web site as well. Taking this approach balances out your
linking and can help raise the profile of more pages on your web
site.
4. How to find potential link partners from your competitors
If a web site links to your competitors it may also link to yours,
and in order to find these potential link partners you can use search
engines. Not so long ago Google was useful for getting a lot of
back link information about a site. Recently Google's back link
data is a lot less forthcoming and it now tends to show only a tiny
percentage of the sites that are linking combined with a lot of
internal link data. Whether the few web sites Google shows us are
the ones it finds important or whether they are in fact red herrings
we cannot say for certain. I would assume the latter.
Currently Yahoo is a better portal to check for backlinks. To generate
a list of linking web sites on Yahoo simply go to http://www.yahoo.com
and type the following into the Yahoo search bar.
linkdomain:www.mycompetitorwebsite.com
This will deliver up to date link information as read by Yahoo.
The only downside with the information is that one site may appear
many times if it is giving multiple links.
5. Alternate your description text
This is often overlooked, but there is no real advantage to be had
if the description text supporting your inbound links is always
identical. To avoid the possibility of a description ever being
seen as 'duplicate content' alternate it when you can. If you combine
it with varied anchor text [as in tip 1] you're heading in the right
direction.
6. Link to good related content from your web site
It seems like an obvious thing to say, but with so many people caught
up in link exchanging you sometimes wonder if we're losing site
of the basics. If you have something useful to say on your site
and can back it up with a useful link to another web site then do
so. Not every link has to be reciprocated. This resourceful linking
will allow your visitors to read around the subject. Linking to
informative related content is useful for visitors and search engines
quite like it too.
7. Seek out directory links
Links from good web directories can be some of the best links you
can get for your web site. Aaron Wall has a -directory of directories-
at http://www.directoryarchives.com where you will find a great
selection of search engine friendly directories. Some of the directories
are free to get listed in whilst others may charge a fee.
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