Better Linking Strategy - SEO Cred?

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I am totally new to SEO. Trying to establish a footprint on the net during the downturn.

I have read a bunch of articles, optimized my pages and keywords and am trying to build up my backlinks.

I read on hubspot that many links do not have SEO cred - which do and which don't?

Major sites like digg and other popular sites?
Marketing and business blogs?
No follow blogs?
Forums?

When I run the hubspot grader, it says that I have about 1/4 as many links as when I do a link back check on yahoo (link:htt...)

I am kind of at a loss of where to invest my energy. I am maintaining a blog, and submitting articles.

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. I have been trying to track this info down. I get a lot of conflicting info about SEO in the forums and around the net.

thx!
#cred #linking #seo #strategy
  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    Hi Greg,

    First let me commend you for working on developing your strategy. I think you are moving in the right direction. I don't think there is a wrong place to seek links so long as the quality of those links is not really low, and hopefully you know a spammy site when you see one.

    I am always a proponent of submitting to directories, and that is another way you try to get more links (and the Yahoo measurement is a pretty good one). To find some directories I usually recommend Info Vilesilencer: The Original SEO Friendly Free Directory List
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  • Profile picture of the author Agnel
    Hi,

    Creating blog's for your site, backlink, directroy submission, keyword optimization,
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    • Profile picture of the author The Expert
      As to gaining links...just focus on getting a lot of them.

      Yahoo and a few other tools have the best count for backlinks. Google always comes in light but most people believe that they are counted in the background.

      You want as many do-follow links as possible, but mixing a few no-follow in there is good for looking natural.
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  • Profile picture of the author neslo1963
    You just need to keep your site filled with unique text and the sites from where you get liks as clean and uniques as possible
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  • Profile picture of the author Best Affiliate
    Originally Posted by gregdbowen View Post

    I am totally new to SEO. Trying to establish a footprint on the net during the downturn.

    I have read a bunch of articles, optimized my pages and keywords and am trying to build up my backlinks.

    I read on hubspot that many links do not have SEO cred - which do and which don't?

    Major sites like digg and other popular sites?
    Marketing and business blogs?
    No follow blogs?
    Forums?

    When I run the hubspot grader, it says that I have about 1/4 as many links as when I do a link back check on yahoo (link:htt...)

    I am kind of at a loss of where to invest my energy. I am maintaining a blog, and submitting articles.

    Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. I have been trying to track this info down. I get a lot of conflicting info about SEO in the forums and around the net.

    thx!

    First it depends on what your site is and what your goals are. What kind of a site do you have? Is it an affiliate site or what is it? Im guessing its an affiliate site since you're in this forum.

    Do your keyword research on the keyword first. Download either seo for firefox or seo quake I think its called. Those applications will give you much needed info about the sites that are already on the first couple pages for your keywords you wan to rank for.

    you may have low competition but if the top ten sites that are optimizing for the same keywords you are and have a page rank of 4 or higher its going to be a difficult road to get good success.

    A good way to get links is to go to blogcatalog and search for blogs that are related to your niche and write a few good quality articles for the blog owners. If they pick them up you can get some good backlinks because your articles will have links pointing back to your site.

    There are lots of ways I would just search this forum for your answers as there are a lot of good people here who offer great information free. I would suggest you search for Angelas backlink package and purchase it from her. Its extremely cheap and its worth it.

    Open up accounts at reddit, digg, delicious, stumbleupon, Technorati. There are many others but they are good places to submit articles to and bookmark your sites. be active in those places and it could pay off.

    set up some web 2.0 blogs like hugpages, squidoo, wordpress etc and link them together. Take the feeds and submit them to RSS directories and point all the back links from those to your sites.

    find forums like this one and be active contributing good content. you can find a lot of information in this forum but not everyone is correct on what they say so you will want to form your own opinion by doing different things and testing. I would go to seomoz and just start reading. They are basically an encylopedia for seo.

    good luck
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