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SEO backlinks? Directories?

by windrider07
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1. When doing analysis on what sites have linked to your site (via ahrefs.com or any other link checking tools), what do you guys look for? I know it is important to know how many high quality sites have linked to your site, but when it comes to low quality sites....my question is: how do you get rid of bad backlinks? how did those low quality backlinks exist in the first place?

I read something online that said: "High link to domain ratio and anchor text percentages" what does this mean?

2. It's been said that submitting your site to high quality directories is important. But what directories are those? Are there specific directories that you guys submit your sites to?

3. Do you guys know any free alternatives to SEM Rush and Screaming Frog? The best free tool I know of is Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools.

4. How old does a website have to be to be indexed fast? If a domain has been existing for 2 months? Can changes to the site be indexed and visible in the search engine within 24 hrs?
#backlinks #directories #seo
  • Profile picture of the author pompano
    Let me try answering for one. Hopefully there are others who can take care of the rest.

    With the right tactics you can easily get a Brand new website indexed in a day or even quicker than that. It is all about adding consistent content in the website. Some websites when posted in forums like warriorforum get indexed even without contents just like the one in your signature
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    • Profile picture of the author windrider07
      Originally Posted by pompano View Post

      Let me try answering for one. Hopefully there are others who can take care of the rest.

      With the right tactics you can easily get a Brand new website indexed in a day or even quicker than that. It is all about adding consistent content in the website. Some websites when posted in forums like warriorforum get indexed even without contents just like the one in your signature
      LOL....I plan to add more links to my signature as well As for my website, it's in the process of being redesigned. But it won't have any actual content....just meme images. I just haven't had time to work on the website.

      So if I added good content to a website and then posted the website link on to a high traffic site like warriorforum, it will get indexed real fast? There have been a few SEO specialists who I have worked with in the past who say it takes up to 1 month for a site to get indexed....or at least for the articles posted within a site and the links posted within the articles to kick-in on the search engine results.

      Hope my other questions get answered.
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      • Profile picture of the author pompano
        Originally Posted by windrider07 View Post

        LOL....I plan to add more links to my signature as well As for my website, it's in the process of being redesigned. But it won't have any actual content....just meme images. I just haven't had time to work on the website.

        So if I added good content to a website and then posted the website link on to a high traffic site like warriorforum, it will get indexed real fast? There have been a few SEO specialists who I have worked with in the past who say it takes up to 1 month for a site to get indexed....or at least for the articles posted within a site and the links posted within the articles to kick-in on the search engine results.

        Hope my other questions get answered.
        Putting a link on any site that would have a high crawl priority would get you indexed fast. Which big websites like Warriorforum would get crawled a lot due to size and content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Grutto
    Originally Posted by windrider07 View Post

    I read something online that said: "High link to domain ratio and anchor text percentages" what does this mean?
    I read on a couple of blogs that it is important to have different kinds of backlinks en anchor texts pointing to your site, for instance:
    - www.mysite.com
    - www.mysite.com/firstpage
    - <a href="www.mysite.com">Cool site I found</a>
    etc.

    That way it looks more organic and not like spam.
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  • Profile picture of the author Big Kahuna SEO
    Not indexed for 2 months? Something is wrong... Using Wordpress? Make sure you haven't ticked the box that discourages crawling by bots.

    Some examples of good directories are business.com, hotvsnot, and BOTW
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  • Profile picture of the author iisark
    Originally Posted by windrider07 View Post

    1. When doing analysis on what sites have linked to your site (via ahrefs.com or any other link checking tools), what do you guys look for? I know it is important to know how many high quality sites have linked to your site, but when it comes to low quality sites....my question is: how do you get rid of bad backlinks? how did those low quality backlinks exist in the first place
    You have to check all domains that links to your site one by one. If you find a low quality, unrelated website in the list, you can use Google Disavow tool. This way you will ask Google not to take them into account when assessing your site.

    Originally Posted by windrider07 View Post

    2. It's been said that submitting your site to high quality directories is important. But what directories are those? Are there specific directories that you guys submit your sites to?
    1. Directories with high quality content instead of pages full with ads.
    2. Directories with low acceptance rates (reject spammy and fake businesses).
    3. Human edited.
    4. Custom made sites - not out of the box scripts, but with real team of developers.
    6. Indexed and ranked by Google.

    Originally Posted by windrider07 View Post

    4. How old does a website have to be to be indexed fast? If a domain has been existing for 2 months? Can changes to the site be indexed and visible in the search engine within 24 hrs?
    A site can be indexed for less than 5 minutes by Google... I have experienced that. You need to make high quality website, than submit sitemap on webmaster tools and you are done.
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  • Profile picture of the author windrider07
    1. Directories with high quality content instead of pages full with ads.
    2. Directories with low acceptance rates (reject spammy and fake businesses).
    3. Human edited.
    4. Custom made sites - not out of the box scripts, but with real team of developers.
    6. Indexed and ranked by Google.
    You've described what those directories would look like but not WHAT they are.

    Some examples of good directories are business.com, hotvsnot, and BOTW
    If I wanted to rank up a marketing/webdevelopment company, what would be some good directories to submit to?
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      To be honest directories have a bad rep of being "link farms". Besides a few very well known ones (like Yahoo that just shut down and dmoz). I'd avoid building directories or putting links on them in favor of link.html pages. link.php resource pages etc.
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      • Profile picture of the author Intellipro
        Directories are important for SEO but in which directory you are going to submit and its quality as well its related to your Theme or subject. Else if you are just submitting your sites to directories it wont give you a good effect. check directory rank and subject and than submit your directories
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