Link Building Answers

October 15, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

Cancer Treatment asks:

1.) 1 or 2 of your favorites sites to give your new site quick link juice.

  1. Aboutus.org
  2. Run it through 10 socialmarker.com sites

2.) In the beginning do you want to build links to the homepage or internal pages in order to rank easier and faster for a specific term?

I have always been a believer in building links to both internal pages as well as the homepage, but more focused on building trust to the domain so that every page ranks higher individually.

Rakesh asks:
I just saw that your Super Nintendo Console site has got a PR2, but it has no Google backlinks, could you exlpain how this happens?

Google does not publicly display their up-to-date backlinks unless you are looking in Google Webmaster Tools. Your best bet is to use a link:supernintendoconsole.com command into a Yahoo.com search.

TheAnand asks:
Which are the best ways to build links to the inner pages?

Social media and social bookmarking websites are all very easy to use and allow for deep-linking articles of any kind. Those would be your best place to start.

Imblogger asks:
I have a site which was doing fine with paid directory backlinks and it got PR1 and was indexed on first page of Google until Google changed the algorithym and I am unable to get my site on 1st page again.

Google is constantly changing, and I cannot give you a simple reason. You have to keep writing content and building links and you will eventually see your rankings improve. Read my website marketing success post for more detail.

Almer Viloria asks:
How can I have links on .EDU sites that will not be removed?

There are many ways to find .EDU sites, here are a few quick google strings:
site:.edu [YOUR KEYWORD HERE] blog
site:.edu

Comments

19 Comments on Link Building Answers

  1. MLRebecca on Wed, 15th Oct 2008 1:02 pm

    2. These are great questions and answers. Thanks for recommending aboutus.org. I hadn’t heard of that site before. Thanks for sharing your knowlege with us!

  2. Joel Drapper on Wed, 15th Oct 2008 6:10 pm

    3. I haven’t really got any questions, but I would likd to know since you seem to be an experienced blogger if you have any tips on optimising your site to convert visitors to regular readers or subscribers.

  3. Writing Jobs on Wed, 15th Oct 2008 7:12 pm

    4. Thanks for answering the question. Most of the questions are quite general with the masses so they can help many people at a time.

  4. GO Zone on Wed, 15th Oct 2008 7:51 pm

    5. Joel, I’ll add my .02, the best thing you can do is bring value to the reader. I subscribe to over 200+ blogs and the reason being is because I find value in them. Take your time a make high quality content. Focus on quality instead of quantity.

  5. Rakesh on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 7:15 am

    6. useful and quality content is the solution..also a contest or a tutorial series will be great..

  6. Fax Software on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 11:23 am

    7. Hi Colin, I have a question:

    What is the best way to start promoting and backlinking your brand new site over the first week after launch?

    Thanks,

    Paolo

  7. geld lenen on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 2:03 pm

    8. Thanks so much for this information. I’m learning every day a bit more!

  8. Jordan on Thu, 16th Oct 2008 11:22 pm

    9. Very nice. I like how you’ve shown a simple way to find the edu. and gov. links. In the search I’ve already found several sites that are of interest and not just for link building.

    I’ll give Social Marker another shot. I now see the advantages that I didn’t see before. I’ve been using Shareaholic for Firefox which is also convenient.

  9. TheAnand on Fri, 17th Oct 2008 6:00 pm

    10. thanks for answering my questions, but my accounts seem to get banned from social media sites as soon as I submit them! I have no idea why though the articles i submit are of quality usually….Any tips?! Also apart from these social media sites, do you have any other suggestions? like directories or so?

  10. Sacramento Weddings on Sat, 18th Oct 2008 5:59 pm

    11. Hey, thanks for the reply about your EDU situation.

    That must be why the links (from .edu sites) are so valuable, because the Universities are so stringent with them!

  11. Proxy on Mon, 20th Oct 2008 3:14 am

    12. Thats amazing answers ..I am looking for that and finally end up here …Thanks

  12. Writing Jobs on Tue, 21st Oct 2008 9:03 am

    13. hi. Got one more query. You answered the first question by saying that we can run through 10 socialmarker.com sites. What if i run through all the 50 sites simultaneoulsy??

    will it get any google penalty??

  13. Rakesh on Tue, 21st Oct 2008 9:10 am

    14. hi. you said in your first answer that we can run through 10 socialmarker.com sites..but what if i run through all the 50 sites in it??

    will google penalise me??

  14. Armen Shirvanian on Fri, 24th Oct 2008 12:44 pm

    15. Your answer to the question about .edu sites shows some useful information about how to search for more specific terms on specific types of sites. This is quite relevant when one wants to locate a certain selection of sites that have a property they are looking for. Google’s advanced search capabilities continue to grow over time, and they keep adding items that it would be wise to get accustomed to.

  15. Collin LaHay on Sun, 26th Oct 2008 9:16 am

    16. No you will not get penalized but many of the links will be nofollow’ed.

  16. small hosting on Wed, 29th Oct 2008 10:37 am

    17. Nice info. Does .EDU have good impact on our PageRank? I thought it was just a myth.

  17. mikael christiansen on Mon, 3rd Nov 2008 5:48 am

    18. the more links to your page the higher the pagerank, so it just gives some more than others depending what can be done must be done

  18. Saving Money Tips on Tue, 4th Nov 2008 1:42 pm

    19. Thanks for the great tips, very useful and will take them into consideration.

  19. sekhar on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 5:18 am

    20. Thanks….

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