External links (from other website) that link to your website.
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237 views
What is a “back link” and how does it affect search ranking?
I have heard about back links but am not sure what they are or how they affect search rankings and search engine optimization.
12
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2answers
242 views
What is Linkbaiting?
I have been wandering around some SEO sites this evening and have been seeing this term "link baiting." The word bait kind of makes it not sound so great. What exactly is link baiting and how does it ...
9
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5answers
268 views
How do i build backlinks?
I've launch a website long ago. My website URL is : http://www.sunshinetrekking.com
There's already 80 Pages, a sitemap.xml (80 URLs),
english language / french language - url like that "/en/" "/fr/"
...
8
votes
1answer
160 views
Is it okey to start link building before my site get indexed?
Self explanatory question. If you have a fresh new site which is not yet indexed by google. Is it okey to start with link building or i should wait to google index my site?
8
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4answers
667 views
Will link exchange with similar sites improve my page rank?
I have a programming blog and I was wondering if link exchange with other programming blogs (where I link to them and they link to me) is a good idea to improve my site's page rank.
I know in ...
8
votes
3answers
161 views
quickest way to research a set of pages backlinks
I have a list of 300+ pages (they were chosen based on which pages rank for a keyword I'm interested in) and I want to compile a list all the (known) inbound links to those pages.
What's the fastest ...
7
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2answers
776 views
Do image backlinks count as backlinks?
If i have lots of images appearing tumblr blogs, the sort of tumblogs with very little text just reams and reams of images for people to browse through (example - http://whereisthecool.com/). If my ...
6
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4answers
295 views
How to discredit hacked links pointing at my company's website
The competition of one of my company's websites has started a really dirty campaign of acquiring hack links. One of their ingenious tactics has been to seed in links to OUR site withing their hack ...
6
votes
1answer
168 views
Detecting whether banner ads pass link juice
I wanted to determine the relative SEO value of the advertising links passed by this website: http://www.garden.org/
On the right side you'll notice several advertising banners that, when clicked, ...
5
votes
5answers
611 views
Is a “back” link on each page really needed?
I saw some sites having a <<back link on each page below the site top level that basically just invokes a JScript function that gets the browser history and navigates one page back. So it ...
5
votes
3answers
139 views
Buying Backlinks
I came across a website the other day that was selling backlinks. The site was well designed and promised some results for a nice low price but not too low. After a couple of minutes it started to ...
5
votes
2answers
316 views
Why do some user agents have spam urls in them (and why are they always Opera/Presto User-Agents)?
If you go to (say) the last 100 entries (visits) to the botsvsbrowsers.com website (exact link, feel free to take a look: http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/recent/listings/index.html ), you'd notice that ...
5
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3answers
181 views
Is there a penalty in link building?
If I have a satellite site with content constantly renewed, and within each new content, there is a link to a target url, for passing link juice. Will I get a penalty from Google for that?
4
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2answers
220 views
Is it a bad idea to promote your site through relevant blog's by commenting?
I've searched the net and wasn't able to find a solid answer to this. Is it poor practice to seek out blogs that are related to your site, and post comments relevant to the particular blog post, in ...
4
votes
3answers
2k views
How do I find information on who links to my sites?
I'm trying to figure out if there's a free way to get information on back links to my site.
I've had webmaster tools and Google Analytics set up for years. But I can't find access to data about site ...
4
votes
2answers
354 views
Does google value blog comments as backlinks?
I recently read an article which said that google doesn't count blog comments as backlinks. I'm not sure about that since, I have 3 sites that rank first with all their backlinks being blog comments. ...
4
votes
2answers
210 views
Importance of having EDU backlinks
I've built a few links on 50 EDU / GOV websites. 1 of them has PR 8, 3 of them have PR 7, 8 of them PR6,7 of them PR5,12 of them PR4,8 of them PR3, 1 of them PR2, 6 of them PR1, 10 of them PR0. My ...
4
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2answers
199 views
Web designers back link on client sites
We're a web design company that have created several websites for clients, all of which have a back link to our own website. I was just wondering the best strategy for this:
Should the keywords be ...
4
votes
2answers
129 views
Reporting paid links to google - does it work?
I am noticing that my competitors have a boat load of paid backlinks, which don't seem to be discredited from google (PR is intact, rather then 0)
Problem is, those sites aren't any gambling or ...
4
votes
2answers
243 views
Ratio of No-follow & Do-follow Backlinks
I know that when it comes to obtaining backlinks, a no-follow is pretty much worthless. However, does Google (or other major search engines) penalize for sites that have nothing but do-follow links?
...
4
votes
2answers
253 views
Should I pass link juice to my pages on other websites that are already high PR domains?
I am starting a new website for a local business and have entries listed for it on places like urbanspoon, yelp, google+ local, etc. I am thinking of listing these citation sites on my business ...
4
votes
1answer
67 views
pingback / trackback support for a photo sharing website?
Is there a photo sharing service, such as flickr or picasa, that will collect the urls of the locations where the photo has been posted on other blogs (or mentioned in tweets, etc?)
This could be ...
4
votes
3answers
394 views
Should I bother with a Business.com Listing?
I keep getting promotion codes from business.com stating that I can get a listing at $100 discount. However, that's still $199 and I'm not clear about the benefit. I would understand if I was paying ...
4
votes
2answers
315 views
Do irrelevant links help PageRank?
I was recently asked for a link exchange between my PR1 site and someone's PR4 site. They are not related, and even in different languages.
Disregarding the degraded user experience and assuming the ...
4
votes
1answer
268 views
Does Google value links to a page's named anchors (#) as equal to links to the page w/o the anchor?
Occasionally my site gets links directly to a sub-section of a page via a named anchor, e.g. /mypage.html#section1
Does Google give this link equal weight as a link to /mypage.html?
4
votes
1answer
107 views
Griefing to steal pagerank off my website?
I was looking today in my Google Webmaster tools for my website and see duplicate titles for the following pages on my website (small sample out of many on my site index):
...
4
votes
1answer
192 views
Static Backlinks vs Rotating Backlinks?
I'm creating a sort of widget for use on our partners' websites. This widget will contain several links to our site which will help greatly with our backlink building efforts. For the purposes of ...
3
votes
2answers
368 views
Since Google reduces the value of links alongside nofollow links, what is an alternative?
Since 2009, Google counts nofollow links also as outgoing links, and thus reduces the value of the other links. What are some alternatives to stop Google counting outside links from my page?
If I ...
3
votes
4answers
483 views
Link to another website and track clicks on the link while also keeping the link “valuable” from a SEO point of view
I want to build a small directory for programming-related websites only and I'm a little bit confused at the moment. I want to be able to track how many times visitors clicked links to certain ...
3
votes
2answers
72 views
Seo Fake backlinking from other sites
The title might be a little bit confusing. Well, I noticed that someone had used a page's URL for backlinking or indexing his keywords.
This is what he did:
The normal url:
http:// ...
3
votes
3answers
121 views
how can I find out which websites are linking to mine?
How can I have a RSS of new sites that link to mine?
I would like to know which sites are linking to us.
Is there any way to do that?
3
votes
5answers
360 views
Low pagerank backlinks - does Google penalize?
I have a new stock discussion forum and I would like to promote it. Specifically, I have two ideas in mind to help promote it:
1) Become a member at other stock discussion forums. Make high quality ...
3
votes
1answer
114 views
Is pyramid link building a good practice for SEO?
Can someone help me to understand please?
Is pyramid link building a to do practice for SEO?
Does it work as per example below?
Advice is very welcome please :)
Tier 3 pyramid building for SEO...
...
3
votes
2answers
176 views
Is 'link building' a white-hat SEO activity?
Link-building is the process of manually building links in any way possible to show the site in question as having more of a value to search engines than it did previously. Therefore it's surely a ...
3
votes
2answers
124 views
Site Returned HTTP Code:301 - link exchange
Hey there, I have a link exchange script, and for a few weeks - after it verify's a site i'm exchanging links - the script tells me:
Site Returned HTTP Code:301
What does that mean?
TY
3
votes
2answers
187 views
Are there benefits of receiving external links from PR 0 or 1 sites for SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Effect of adding link from PR1 site to PR0 site?
I'm thinking to do some link exchanges with PR0 or PR1 sites which have the related contents as my site. And my link ...
3
votes
2answers
317 views
Are backlink generators helpful?
I will keep my question simple and short.Are backlink generators helpful and should we use them?If not, why?
3
votes
1answer
108 views
Do videos bring more traffic than backlinks in general?
Yesterday, I had a conversion with a friend who was implementing SEO techniques on his websites a couple of years ago. He also stopped this activity since then.
He claims that relevant YouTube ...
3
votes
2answers
174 views
Can Google tell the difference between a link in a blog post and a link in a blog comment?
When Google Blog Search crawls a page, can it tell whether a link is in the article or whether it's in a comment?
If it can, does it grade the links, that is, a link from a blog comment is only going ...
3
votes
1answer
190 views
Good places to submit a business profile?
We have a new graphic/web design site that we've created and we'd like to give it a boost in terms of back links.
What are the obvious places to submit a website to achieve some good back links? And ...
3
votes
3answers
70 views
Backlinking to a website with image source
I just want to ask can we increase backlinks to our site by putting 1x1 pixel image on our clients' sites or can anybody suggest a better solution?
<img src="http://www.mysite.com/" ...
3
votes
3answers
187 views
Adding site credit in footer of site as a <a> tag - bad practice for google penguin?
When I'm making a clients site I always include a link
<p>site by <a href="example.com" target="blank" rel="no follow"><strong>example</strong></a></p>
Is this bad ...
3
votes
1answer
186 views
duplicate links to subdomain hurting SEO
I have a main site, http://hollywoodnose.com and http://forum.hollywoodnose.com. What I was doing was showing the 8 most recent forum posts in the right column of http://hollywoodnose.com. In my ...
3
votes
4answers
80 views
List of backlinks to a specific website, listed by decreasing PageRank
With backlinkwatch.com I can get a list of pages that link to a particular website.
Unfortunately, it lists tons of obscure blogs and small forums, it has hard to find what link is really important.
...
3
votes
2answers
77 views
How to find linkless mentions of my website?
Recently I noticed some mentions of my Website, or a whole story but without a link.
I was wondering is there a way to search for my brand name and filter for pages which do not link to my website?
...
3
votes
1answer
79 views
What are the best blogs for submitting new startups?
There are some blogs where user can submit their start-ups for a review. Among them TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, StartupTunes, The Next Web etc are common.
But what are others we can try submitting our ...
3
votes
3answers
165 views
Download/submission directories are dead? Are they good for SEO?
We have just released a new major software product version.
In the past if you wanted visibility you would create a standardized pad file and you would submit it to hundreds of directories or you ...
3
votes
1answer
39 views
How to handle multiple pages of the same site with the same outlinks
I am developing a back link tool for Chinese SEO (our web site URL is:
http://link.aizhan.com just like ahrefs.com.
I encountered a problem which is how to handle multiple pages of the same ...
3
votes
2answers
123 views
Unnatural Links Message from Google
We just recived (March 8 2013) a message from Google saying.
We've detected that some of your site's pages may be using techniques
that are outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Specifically, ...
2
votes
5answers
216 views
Do you need to crawl the whole internet to find backlinks of a URL?
Say I want to retrieve all the sites on the web that have a specific link on them. For example I want to know all the backlinks made to my blog, on other websites. There are services out there that do ...
