2014 Archives

Buying cheap text links is a touchy subject in the SEO community. The white hat SEO consultants think it’s a black hat SEO technique and so frown on it’s use and the black hat SEO’s know if done correctly buying quality text links can help a websites performance, especially in Google long term. I’m neither a white nor a blackhat SEO, online businesses need cheap text links and companies like Text Link Brokers fill an SEO niche. It’s down to the individual webmaster if they take the risk of buying links. I can tell you when I’ve sold links and got caught out by Google it’s a costly mistake as a link seller. Cheap Text Links You’ll find lots of […]

There’s a lot of talk by many SEO consultants about themed text links and how they are the ONLY text links a webmaster should be seeking. Some go as far as to state un-themed links are worthless in the search for high Google rankings! They are wrong. What’s a Themed Text Link? There’s many ways to describe backlinks that fall into the same theme as the content the link is to. Some refer to themed backlinks, others niched backlinks and yet others silo backlinks, they all refer to the same sort of link. A backlink from content that’s related to the content it is linking to. First we must decide what a themed link is and this causes a major […]

With reciprocal linking you as an SEO consultant or web site owner have more control over the quality and quantity of the text links obtained. Unfortunately if you are starting with a low PageRank (PR) website finding quality reciprocal link partners is practically impossible. Every low quality website owner and their dog seems to be the main users of reciprocal linking rather than the sort of websites you want links from. Those would be popular websites with reasonable PR webpages that have been online for years, good luck finding those link gems. How to Ask for Reciprocal Links If you’ve owned a site for more than a week you’ve had the reciprocal link SPAM emails. “Saw your great site and […]

Search Engine Optimization article updated August 2014. Based on this websites log files you most likely found your way here via a relevant search on Google. Maybe a SERP (Search Engine Results Page) like Search Engine Optimization Tutorial 2014 or WordPress SEO Tutorial, Google SERPs I’m doing quite well for. Whatever keyword search you used, you almost certainly are looking for help to improve your search engine rankings (most likely for free :)) and more than likely consider Google THE most important search engine to your websites rankings. You’d be right, Google is the most important search engine. Search Engine Optimization Basics Let’s cover some basic search engine optimization concepts, SEO is a relatively straight forward set of quite basic […]

Link to Non-Cached Pages SEO article updated August 2014. Found this excellent SEO question on a newsgroup “Re: should I reject non-cached sites?” regarding linking to non-cached pages: specifically when a reciprocal link partners links page isn’t cached in Google. Reciprocal Links to Non-Cached Pages I run a modest linking scheme on my website and have always had a policy that we would only link to sites that are cached in Google. I’m not so fussy about PageRank at the moment as our link pages are not all ranked. I’ve had a number of link requests from sites that look pretty well set up but the link page is not cached in Google. Am I right to reject these as […]

This is a series of SEO advice and tips aimed at new SEO consultants or those looking to learn SEO from scratch. As an owner of a website or an SEO consultant you must understand the importance of backlinks to good search engine listings. There are even dedicated backlink building services, be careful with that type of SEO service, tend to be low quality. SEO Link Building If you are familiar with Google search engine optimization you’ll already know text links/backlinks are essential to gaining even slightly competitive SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). Many years ago you may have seen references to Googlebombs such as the Miserable Failure SERP which showed the power of text links with specific anchor text**. […]