by Aqeel Syed on July 25, 2009
Links are very important factor in ranking of a website in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). All major search engines consider back links as a major factor in deciding quality of a webpage. Google’s PR algorithm is based on backlinks.
SEO and link building is not what it used to be few years back. Google these days pays more importance on quality of backlinks than quantity. A relevant contextual backlink is far more valuable than a handful of unrelated low quality backlinks.
In this article we are discussing 3 ways to get high quality baklinks for free.
1. Free Backlink from Apple.com
Apple.com is PR 9 and the page itself where you are getting link is PR 7. Work around to get this juicy, high quality link is to create an Iphone App. And to do it, you just need to create a Web App made for the iPhone and then submit it to their directory. You can even create something basic and simple (but I would suggest useful).
This simple search on Google, give lots of ideas on creating an Iphone App.
2. Grab You Free Backlink for Google Profiles
You can use Google Profiles to grab a free link from Google.com. You just need to fill the information that they ask about yourself, include the URL of your website, add some pictures and description, one more backlink. As long as you add enough information, your profile will be displayed in Google’s search results, and it should count as a normal backlink because Google does not use the nofollow attribute on the website links.
You can also use this service to improve your SERM (Search Engine Reputation Management), as this profile is going to rank with your name in search results. You can see my profile here.
3. Backlink from a PR 10 website, Adobe.com!
Adobe.com is one of the few elite those have PR 10 so you can imagine how much authority that domain have. If you use Adobe products and have done some development you can get a PR from subdomain, forums.adobe.com which has a PR 9 by joining its communities and adding your backlink in your profile.
Their are many other easier ways to get backlinks from high PR domains, do you have used any? Please share your experiences.
by Aqeel Syed on June 19, 2009
1 year back Google changed how it handles no-follow tag but they have now made this change public. The change is to stop “PageRank Sculpting”. PageRank sculpting, is the process of using the nofollow attribute internally to change the PageRank flow among different pages. The objective is to give more PageRank value to some pages (the ones that sell something, for example) at the expense of less important pages (the Privacy Policy or Terms of Service, for example).
Earlier this month, Google’s Matt Cutts sent a shockwave through the advanced SEO community by saying that site owners could no longer perform “PageRank sculpting” using the nofollow tag in the way they’d previously thought. Now Matt’s posted more explanation about the change.
Here is a quote from that post that summarizes the change:
So what happens when you have a page with “ten PageRank points” and ten outgoing links, and five of those links are nofollowed? Originally, the five links without nofollow would have flowed two points of PageRank each (in essence, the nofollowed links didn’t count toward the denominator when dividing PageRank by the outdegree of the page). More than a year ago, Google changed how the PageRank flows so that the five links without nofollow would flow one point of PageRank each.
Daniel Socco at DailyBlogTips has given an excellent explanation of this change and how it is going to effect us.
In other words, the usage of the nofollow attribute will still stop the page that is being linked to from receiving PageRank and anchor text value, but the PageRank that is being “saved” with the nofollow links won’t flow to the other links present in the linking page.
Google want to stop PageRank Sculpting, its fine but this change is negatively effecting bloggers. This change is going to encourage blog spam and also pages will have low PR. All the links on your comment section are reducing the PageRank that would otherwise flow to your internal pages. Google might do something to fix this problem, but we still got to hear about it.
Is there any solution to this problem? You might close your comments section that is not a reasonable thing to do. Or you can use an iframe or Javascript based solution to keep comments out of same page.
If you’re using WordPress you can edit your theme to remove commentators URL.
Do you have any solution? Share it with us in our comments section.
by Aqeel Syed on June 11, 2009
There is an excellent news for SEO’s. Google has started notifying webmasters after reconsideration requests. Google finally pushed through a change with the reconsideration request process that SEOs and webmasters have been asking for since the reconsideration request began.
Now, if you submit a reconsideration request, Google may email you a few days later with a notification that they have actually reviewed your site. The review email reads:
Subject: We’ve processed your reconsideration request for [mywebsite.com]
We received a request from a site owner to reconsider how we index the following site: [mywebsite.com].
We’ve now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it’s in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines. If we don’t find any problems, we’ll reconsider our indexing of your site. If your site still doesn’t appear in our search results, check our Help Center for steps you can take.
So now, if you submit a reconsideration request, you can know a bit later if your site is still in violation of Google’s webmaster guidelines or not. This is a most welcomed addition.
by Aqeel Syed on May 28, 2009
New search engine Topsy, which has been in stealth development for three years, is launched. AltaVista determined relevance based on how well a web page matched the query. Then came Google, which views the web as a network of documents and delpoyed its PR algorithm. Today all search engine determine search be linking behaviour.
Now web is changing and real time content is being created, Google and other SEs cannot keep up with that real time content. That’s where Topsy comes in. Topsy lets you search through what people are saying about things. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations between people. It ranks each search result based on how much people are talking about it, and the influence of the people discussing it.
Topsy
by Aqeel Syed on May 19, 2009
Today I’m sharing an award winning article by Gyutae Park.
What does it take to rank #1 in Google for a set of competitive keywords? In this article, Gyutae Park lay out the exact methodology you can use to dominate many niches in the search engine rankings.
Some industries are going to be more difficult to rank for than others and you’re always going to have to think creatively to get an edge over the other players in your field. However, the steps I outline below will help put you on the right track and give you a general plan of action. Read through it and diligently execute. I guarantee that in 6 months you’ll already be ahead of 90% of your competition.
You can read original article here.