How To Get Your Backlinks Indexed

[Biggy Fat]

Can this work for article sites like GoArticles and EzineArticles?

[GuerrillaIM]

Originally Posted by AJD101

Could you not use something like IceRocket Free RSS Builder to make the feed then just submit that to an RSS agregator.

Of course. You can use anything that makes an rss feed. I use rssbot but in my videos I do not like to promote services that captcha your details or change any money if I can help it.

Take the principles apply them to any tool you like.

anwar - once you have the rss file you can upload this anywhere on the internet and then give the link to the file to the rss aggregators. If you use one of the tools that hosts the rss feed for you then this will be easier if you are not comfortable uploading files. Check the previous posts by other contributers to see some good places to go.

[4morereferrals]

50 profiles with PR3 linking back to you is gold! rather then 200 profiles with PR0 linking back you! Hope it helps ~Esh

Proof?

1. you're not going to get 50 PR3 profile pages [ well 99% of the people wont ]

2. How do you know 200 indexed and counted profile backlinks isnt as good or better than 50 PR3 page links?

[FlashDriveDT]

Originally Posted by esh

Also i make unique content on all my profile pages, and keep them crowded and informative. With all that, i get them indexed sometimes within a day to weeks. I update all those profiles once in a week and promote them "within" the community to get some PR juice from higher ranking profiles in the site. 50 profiles with PR3 linking back to you is gold! rather then 200 profiles with PR0 linking back you! Hope it helps ~Esh

Yep - Content, variation and promotion within the community is more than likely the key. I'm coming to this conclusion too because most of my index attempts have failed. The only reason I can think of now is because google doesn't see the value in them (which makes sense since the majority of the profiles I try to get indexed have the same texts or just the links only). I actually was successful in getting my squidoo lens indexed where I dropped a few of my profile URLs but what do you know, those profile URLs didn't get picked up. I was successful however in getting a profile URL from months back indexed by using it as a user name link for a blog comment. So that method apparently works provided the blog is well crawled and dofollow. But how many blog comments can you make and how many blogs can you find for each single profile URL? We're talking hundreds of profiles here so this method is not practical at all. Oh well...

Btw, I've also tried icerocket RSS feed but I guess it's not working for me as I don't have a blog I can/want to use as the channel link. I actually used the home domains of the community sites themselves, as this would look natural. But apparently that doesn't work....?

I would very much appreciate being kept posted btw by those that are attempting to get their profile urls indexed by simple putting them on a free blog. I kinda have my doubts that this has long-term doability. But I'll be glad to stand corrected...

[FlashDriveDT]

Originally Posted by 4morereferrals

Proof?

1. you're not going to get 50 PR3 profile pages [ well 99% of the people wont ]

Why not? Just use Angelas or Pauls backlink packets. Most of the profiles you get from these are actually way higher than PR3.

[GuerrillaIM]

Originally Posted by FlashDriveDT

Why not? Just use Angelas or Pauls backlink packets. Most of the profiles you get from these are actually way higher than PR3.

I think he was refering to the actual page rank of the page that holds the link. There are many factors that effect ranking, the toolbar PR is just a indication of the inbound links. It can also give hints to pages that are being penalised. Just because a page has a high page rank, does not mean it will help you any more. For instance google has stopped many sites that sell links passing on any link juice. It is true that not all links are equal, but the toolbar value is not something you should ever rely on solely.

[kendrickyi]

Interesting video thanks! I'm still not very sure how backlinks work but I'll give it a try.

[dageniusmarketer]

im definitely going to have to take a swing at this and see if it works as well as you say

[wordgeist]

Originally Posted by bgmacaw

Since I've been doing online forums for a very long time (since the mid 90's) and have some very old profile pages, I've seen these profile pages no longer show up in either Yahoo or Google Webmaster Tools. Deindexed may not be the right term, archived might be a better term, but they don't seem to be counted any longer.

They can be brought back to life though. For example, I've purchased some expired domains that had old forum profile and signature links leftover from the previous owner. I found them and did the ping and bookmark routine on them. Within a few months I had PR3 or better sites with minimal backlinking on my part.

so you think the signature with back links can help to have a better ranking?

[dageniusmarketer]

I dont know.......im trying your method based on the exact site from the youtube video.

I made the rss file. I got about 100 links in it and saved the file out as an rss doc (myfile.rss)

The format in the file is like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
<rss version="0.91">
<channel>

<item>
<title></title>
<link>http://mysite.com</link>
<description></description>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>

I put the file one my server. When I try to submit the rss file to the aggregator, im getting errors saying my file is not valid.

Could you please help me out and tell me what exactly it is you think i may be doing wrong in regard to the file?

[GuerrillaIM]

make sure tht the file extension isn't hidden on you OS as you could have file.rss.txt instead of file.rss

[dageniusmarketer]

im pretty sure i did that, still not valid

[GuerrillaIM]

did you make it with the tool? If you like, PM me the rss link.

[andywang]

so is a profile backlink that isn't indexed useless?

[Edge88]

Hey Guys, This conversation spawned in another thread but I thought it was much more useful here.

For those of you wondering if your profiles have been found after all that work to get them indexed, just google the username.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Edge88
Woah, after days of fretting over whether my profile pages were being indexed or not (backlinks not showing in backlink watch or SEO4FFX) I googled the username I had used and google had indexed ALL of them... I was excitede to see that all of my profiles were indexed, but the backlinks still aren't showing and my page has not been moving... not even in the top 100 positions for my keyword (not that competitive and I built well over 250 backlinks to it)

Quote:
Originally Posted by mrizos
Wow...I just googled my username + forum and found over 1000 of my profiles indexed yet when I use something like yahoo site explorer I only see 1 (yep, just 1) profile backlink with anchor text...annoying

I've only been doing this for 2 months, so I suppose it takes awhile.

So I'm guessing just getting the profile indexed still doesn't guarantee the backlinks on it will be picked up.

Anyone has any idea whether that's the case or do we jut have to wait a little bit?? mrizos above me says it's been 2 months, with 1000 profiles indexed, why aren't they showing as backlinks?

Thanks for any replies

[Tom Goodwin]

Originally Posted by Edge88

Hey Guys, This conversation spawned in another thread but I thought it was much more useful here.

For those of you wondering if your profiles have been found after all that work to get them indexed, just google the username.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Edge88
Woah, after days of fretting over whether my profile pages were being indexed or not (backlinks not showing in backlink watch or SEO4FFX) I googled the username I had used and google had indexed ALL of them... I was excitede to see that all of my profiles were indexed, but the backlinks still aren't showing and my page has not been moving... not even in the top 100 positions for my keyword (not that competitive and I built well over 250 backlinks to it)

Quote:
Originally Posted by mrizos
Wow...I just googled my username + forum and found over 1000 of my profiles indexed yet when I use something like yahoo site explorer I only see 1 (yep, just 1) profile backlink with anchor text...annoying

I've only been doing this for 2 months, so I suppose it takes awhile.

So I'm guessing just getting the profile indexed still doesn't guarantee the backlinks on it will be picked up.

Anyone has any idea whether that's the case or do we jut have to wait a little bit?? mrizos above me says it's been 2 months, with 1000 profiles indexed, why aren't they showing as backlinks?

Thanks for any replies

Simple answer: Because none of the backlink tools come close to showing all of the backlinks out there.

The best I have found so far is program called SEO SpyGlass that I have been playing around with this week. It basically collects backlink lists from many different sources and combines it into one master list.

[GuerrillaIM]

It depends how you are checking for the backlinks. Google won't show you, Yahoo is the most accurate database for indexed backlinks. The software tools that provide backlink analysis usually use Yahoo to gather data.

[Edge88]

Originally Posted by GuerrillaIM

It depends how you are checking for the backlinks. Google won't show you, Yahoo is the most accurate database for indexed backlinks. The software tools that provide backlink analysis usually use Yahoo to gather data.

I'm using yahoo. it's only showing 4 backlinks yet there are 100+ profiles indexed showing in a yahoo and a google search.

google has crawled my backlinks for sure, now I'm guessing it's just a matter of time before they start causing some effect. What do you think?

[GuerrillaIM]

If the page is indexed the the backlink should be registered. Either it takes some time to update or yahoo doesn't like the profile pages. Did you spin a bit of text onto each profile?

[askloz]

Try this

============= this is mine, it's a ROR.XML file, but still acts as a RSS file that I add to the header tags of my site so it uses that as a sitemap, which picks up the links quicker and indexes pages faster. ==========

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:ror="http://rorweb.com/0.1/" >
<channel>
  <title>ROR Sitemap for http://somedomain.com/</title>
  <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
  <item>
    <title>ROR Sitemap for http://somedomain.com/</title>
    <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
    <ror:about>sitemap</ror:about>
    <ror:type>SiteMap</ror:type>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
  <item>
     <link>http://somedomain.com/</link>
     <ror:updatePeriod>week</ror:updatePeriod>
     <ror:sortOrder>0</ror:sortOrder>
     <ror:resourceOf>sitemap</ror:resourceOf>
  </item>
</channel>
</rss>

Originally Posted by dageniusmarketer

I dont know.......im trying your method based on the exact site from the youtube video.

I made the rss file. I got about 100 links in it and saved the file out as an rss doc (myfile.rss)

The format in the file is like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
<rss version="0.91">
<channel>

<item>
<title></title>
<link>http://mysite.com</link>
<description></description>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>

I put the file one my server. When I try to submit the rss file to the aggregator, im getting errors saying my file is not valid.

Could you please help me out and tell me what exactly it is you think i may be doing wrong in regard to the file?

[euhlir]

Easier just to ping the pages. honestly I just let it sit and wait for the G to pick it up. SEO takes time.

[askloz]

That's what the RSS / XML feed is for

Originally Posted by euhlir

Easier just to ping the pages. honestly I just let it sit and wait for the G to pick it up. SEO takes time.