SEO & Linking

[Nicolas-Johnson]

As you know Link purchasing is not the only way to get inbound links. There are many other ways;

1- Link bait
If you code a program, like the throw a shoe at bush one, you could allow webmasters to embed it as long as it includes a link to your site. Some top ranking case studies for large keywords have been done around this.

2- Link Exchanges
Self Explained

3- Link development on free sites. Social bookmarks, free blogs, etc are all available for free links.


I'm not saying this is enough to land you on page one for online casino, but these techniques can be a good boost.

[Guard Dog]

Good Post Nicolas!

Link Bait, Viral are great ways to do this... absolutely. A more recent way to do a campaign like this is create a template with the requirement that the footer link has to stay in the template. That gives the user a nice template to use free of charge and gives you a linkback (free of reciprocal).

This is being done more and more right now and you will see templates posted at GPWA, PAL, and other forums with this exact purpose.

Social Networks are good too, although you will want to search for the 'do follow' thread somewhere around here because most social networks are 'no follow' links. Still works for traffic, but doesn't help PR if that's what your end goal is.

[WCD Admin]

Buy advertising (get out of the habit of even using the word "links") buy only when you think you'll actually get some quality traffic. Buy advertising only on pages relevant to your site.

In short, advertise like a normal company, not like an SEO expert. That way

(a) you get a monetary benefit (hopefully sales)
(b) you will get the SEO benefit - if the site you are buying from is being "good"
(c) you won't annoy users, etc
(d) don't go for SEO'ed links and common text like "online casinos" etc, because as mentioned, it would likely break the bank / and or not work.

Disclaimer: These and any of my SEO advice is only my best guess, just like anyone else. It's all theory. Google wants us to act like humans not SEO'ptimizers.... however, money rules the world?

[shortow]

the more i read and experience about seo the more i come to realize that it's 5% on page and 95% off page. Time spent trying to perfect your code is better spent finding good links.

And as much as Google spins the 'link buying can bring penalties' message, the clear reality is that top spots form all the hollywood terms are occupied by sites that buy many links.

WCD agreed - look for quality on topic links that may bring traffic.

[dendrite]

Remember also that the AGE of a link is very important

In google's eyes, the longer a link has been up, the less likely it is that it was bought

[desogw]

As for me, I don't do link exchange that much. I've read somewhere that link exchange is quite risky nowadays, especially if the linking partner site is not relevant or not within the same niche as your site's. What I believe that's really effective for an SEO campaign is 60% relevant quality backlinks, 20% non-relevant High PR pages backlinks and 20% on page optimization including xml sitemap. and for link building strategies, I would really go for article submissions and microblogging that have quality content on it plus your keyword being an anchor text or included within the title that really works fast, since google indexes them faster than other link building methods

[Simmo!]

the more i read and experience about seo the more i come to realize that it's 5% on page and 95% off page.

That's certainly the case for big money terms, but you can get great longtail rankings without links.

[slotplayer]

What I would like to know is how onlinecasinosuite.com stays on the top of the search for "online casinos" all the time month after month??

Who are they anyway?

Do they actually pay for that spot or are they just that good at seo month after month?

I've looked at their source page over and over again but nothing jumps out at me as being anything special that you don't see on any other source page regarding the META data that is...

Congrats to whoever it is though...

Compete Rank: #123,234 with 12,936 U.S. visitors per month Unfreaking real...my hats off to you...

I see 2 meta description tags and the title tag doesn't display anything after the first : (colon) even though there are words after it.

[Jennylba123]

Link exchange Is the one which is good if you are doing exchange with the relevant and high seo value site. Three way Linking also getting popular and provide good results.

As for me, I don't do link exchange that much. I've read somewhere that link exchange is quite risky nowadays, especially if the linking partner site is not relevant or not within the same niche as your site's. What I believe that's really effective for an SEO campaign is 60% relevant quality backlinks, 20% non-relevant High PR pages backlinks and 20% on page optimization including xml sitemap. and for link building strategies, I would really go for article submissions and microblogging that have quality content on it plus your keyword being an anchor text or included within the title that really works fast, since google indexes them faster than other link building methods

[SlotMonster]

There is also good way to get links is just write an article and post it somewhere in trusted service. I used to do that, and got my PR updated to 2, and expecting to get PR3 in next Google update.