Authority Sites - How to build one?

The first case would be the primary one because by searching the net, you will find most top ranking and authority types of websites promoted due to the valuable and original contents they have, the ones bringing lots of one way links to their pages. No wonder certain blogs are even stronger than e-businesses in terms of generating revenues as they are accessed by hundreds of readers on a daily basis.

One essential matter in this connection which deserves ample attention is constantly working on on/off page jobs because weeks and months of hard work would be needed before top ranks are achieved, especially in hot commercial niches that are dominated by older websites already. Wikipedia has become world famous because of its original contents, then promoted editorially by other webmasters and bloggers.

I find consistency over time builds an authority site. Spending each day doing something for your site, be it building one backlink or writing a new post for it. Taking your time and putting effort into your site will help build its authority.

Mike, it seems that you're concentrating on backlinking and SEO techniques quite a bit. Respectfully it appears to be a little bit of the "cart before the horse". The horse is your quality content. Lots of it. When that is at the center of your plan, the "cart" will be much easier. In fact much of it will happen by default. People will get excited about your site and tell other people. It will make your IM job a lot easier at that point.

I have an authority website (a few of them actually). But I was lucky that I got in early. It's much harder nowadays than it used to be but if you can find an "angle" that will help you stand out from the crowd, that might be your best bet.

Good luck!

Quality content helps in getting quality natural backlinks. It also helps to get more returning visitors, better brand recognition and further your social reach. All of this helps to build site's your authority that in return helps you rank for anything you optimize for.

Your internal linking is one of the most overlooked factors in getting your pages to rank. Basically, you want to ensure two things with your internal links:

1. Indexation - each page on your site should have a link pointing to it (better make it 2 links), so that the bots can find it and index it.

2. Ranking - the higher you want to rank, the more internal links a page should have. In-content (editorial) links are best and their anchor text should ideally contain the exact keyword you want to rank for. This works the other way, too: the less important a page (the easier it is to rank it), the less internal links you need. This way you can channel most Pagerank to those pages that need it the most. The concept is called PR sculpting.

There is no set ratio. All you want to make sure is that your home page is your strongest page on the site. You can use opensiteexplorer.org to get estimates of pages' authority.

authority site need to have a wide range of links source and each page must have some good backlinks to them. You can do this for 2 or 3 months for one site and i am sure you will rank pretty high with lots of traffic

i can give you a blueprint for building an authority site. Think of it like a pyramid with your main keyword at the top. Depending on how competitive you may have to build a pyramid of mini authority sites to achieve a monster keyword

Hey seoguymike,

Basically no keyword research is involved so just pick any broad keyword then basically you build the site. You will want to add unique content so your site will be long term and google wont mess with it. The better the content the more other people will like it and link to you as well. The most time consuming part about it is building all the links. If you use some xrumer, blog comments and maybe some link exchanges. You could have one up in a year depending on the keyword.

Have you ever written a master's thesis? Or a number of college research papers following a common theme? Building an authority site is very similar.