Affiliate Programs

As I browse the Web any given day, I look at how Webmasters and Blog owners optimize their pages (or DON’T). One thing I keep seeing is the lack of optimized links. Google loves optimized links and images. In fact, I’ll go as far as saying that with all things being equal, a site with optimized links and images will outrank the ones that aren’t optimized every time.

Optimize Your Links with the “Title” Attribute

I covered Anchor text in my post Overlooked Steps To Boost Traffic and Rankings, but it’s important enough to go over here again. 

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From what I see, many bloggers and website owners are missing out on a huge opportunity to increase their search engine rankings which can lead to a lot more traffic.

The Importance of Internal Linking

Google has pretty much said that it looks at how your internal pages are linked to each other. So why not take advantage of this?

One way you should be doing this is to use links to other pages on your blog or website in as many of your post as you can.

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As I near my 100th post (which is the post after this one I believe) I was reviewing some of my older post to spotlight on my 100th blog post. I found a couple of the articles that had links to John Chow dot com. A few post later I found an article I had written about Google optimization.

Part of that article told readers not to be linking to questionable or bad neighborhoods per Google Webmaster Guidelines.

Here’s a quote from Google Wemaster Guidelines.

Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.

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Now before I go off explaining this technique, let me say that this works best with average to low volume keywords. Sure, it will work with more popular keywords, but you’ll have to be pretty good, patient and lucky to out rank Darren Rowse at Problogger.net for the keyword term “Make Money Online“.

To make this easier, I suggest using the Firefox browser with the SEO Extension. You can do this without the extension, but you’ll save a lot of time if you’ll use Firefox with the SEO Extension.

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Update: Some people are asking for a viral link and removing the post after they get a link back to their site. We check for links. If the ViralTag link is missing when we check, your link will be removed. The ViralTag post is to remain on your blog and accessible by the link to the post. 

Last week I gave you Andy Coates’ ViraLink system. This week it’s Jimmy Huen’s ViraTags system.

This system is different from the ViraLink system in that you can add anchor text with your links. If you don’t already know, adding anchor text to your link increases the value of the link back to you, especially if you want Google to share some PR love with your site.

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A week or so ago Andy Coates sent me a link to a post he had up at his site containing ViraLinks.

Viralink is a link exchange with other websites/blogs.  The way I look at it is that it’s sorta like a MLM for links. I’m willing to give it a try. If you’d like to participate, just follow the instructions below. Sometimes these things work really well.

———copy and paste the Viralink and instructions below this line———

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