Comments on: Getting High Quality Inbound Links

By: Paula Jo @ Home & Garden Decor Accents

Paula Jo @ Home & Garden Decor Accents — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:29:27 +0000

Thank you very much for this interesting post, Lynn. I agree with you in every single point. I personally have several ways of building backlinks, like article submission, press releases, forum activities and blog commenting, just to name a few.
The subject blog commenting although is a subject of it’s own.
I do not consider myself being a spammer because I always leave a subject relevant comment, my own opinion, an addition or even a critic to the blog post. I really appreciate those blogs with keywordLuv plugin or blogs without the nofollow tag because this shows me the blogger does appreciate comments and honors them with a backlink. But what really makes me upset is bloggers who use keywordLuv plugin as bait to hopefully get lots of comments and then later on they still disable the link (mostly within a day or two) or they even change the url to my site or blog to their own blog url. This is in my opinion just disrespectful, unfair and rude.
Instead of commenting on a fake like that and being cheaten out I rather comment on a blog that might be nofollow but at least that blogger doesn’t use keywordLuv or a temporary dofollow as bait.

By: kelly@paid clinical trials

kelly@paid clinical trials — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:32:51 +0000

Very helpful post. Guest posting in particular is under utilized, but is really one of the best ways to get relevant, high quality links. It’s something I plan to do more of this year, along with the other strategies you mentioned.

By: Vineeta@Hotel Price Comparison

Vineeta@Hotel Price Comparison — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:10:38 +0000

Thanks for this. We’ve spent so much time reading about SEO and its good to find an article that gives you a bit more detail and doesn’t just repeat the same old things we’ve seen everywhere else. One question – are you suggesting that PR isn’t quite as important as all the hype suggests? Is a link from a relevant PR0 or PR1 page still valuable? Look forward to future posts

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:54:32 +0000

I disagree. SEO is important for EVERYone who has a website or is doing business online. It is the very basic act of knowing how your target market is looking for you, and making sure they can find you…

By: linda@Acne

linda@Acne — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:37:32 +0000

This is mainly useful for those who are in the field of SEO as they require the quality links for the promotion of there sites.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:01:58 +0000

I address the NoFollow Attribute in this post:
http://www.clicknewz.com/2108/link-building-101/

By: orkut scraps

orkut scraps — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:48:52 +0000

Article submission site like articlebase .. dont allow dofollow link.. is it worth to post article with link for good serp..

is there really no value of nofollow link for search engine spider? or sometime it counts ..?

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:16:57 +0000

Yes, I get your meaning

The anchor text needs to be the exact keyword phrase, otherwise your diluting your keyword phrase. Diluted phrases still count as quality inbound links, but don’t tell the search engines specifically what the page is about.

You’d be better off getting a variety of anchor text in your inbound links, like: “orkut scraps”, “orkut images”, “orkut greetings”, etc.

By: orkut scraps

orkut scraps — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:44:09 +0000

yes i know the content area is the place where most visitors attention used to be.. but particularly the links on that place.. i.e. “hot spots” is more valuable than sidebar.. is very new and a very precious info for me.. thanks for that informative post and thanks for reply.

well can u tell me something.. if I use an anchor text like
“orkut scraps, images, greetings and glitters” .. should every keyword get the same weight.. or only the first one will get higher or total value.. but not the others ..

I think you understand wants i mean..

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:43:48 +0000

That is definitely the one thing that makes link building a bit of a challenge. It’s also the reason I prefer guest blogging and article marketing – you have more control over the link and the anchor text in those two situations.

By: ZXT

ZXT — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:40:34 +0000

I agree with all your points Lynn. I think the most difficult one to get is anchored text backlinks.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:19:37 +0000

If you think about it, as a reader – that’s the part of the page you focus on the most. If you are a frequent reader here for example, you probably ignore the header and sidebar and go right for the content when you arrive… which is what most people do.

The search engines know these “hot spots” and have published heat maps that show the most viewed and clicked areas of a web page. And search engines cater to people, so this affects how they perceive the value of links and link placement…

By: orkut scraps

orkut scraps — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:25:26 +0000

very informative and well written post, mostly the link location part is very new to me .. i.e. content area of a page carry more weight than links in static areas such as the navigation

By: Scott Lovingood

Scott Lovingood — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:57:37 +0000

It is grey on my system too. Site PR is a 4 but the page is a line.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:13:32 +0000

Interesting. I’ll have to check it on my other computer. No toolbars on my primary system – I run simple