I have been involved in Online Marketing for over 8 years and one thing I see over and over in discussion forums online is…SEO is hard and how do I get my sites listed for the keywords my customers are searching for?
I’m not going to go into too much detail as this is a subject every online marketer will debate on until the day they die, so I’m bound to be wrong in their opinion.
But the difference with what I’m about to say is factual results based on years of trial and error using fads and the basics to get your site ranked higher in the SERPs.
When I look back now I have wasted some time…probably a lot of time on bad techniques when I could have been concentrating on other parts of my business but I think I have learnt some great skills along the way and its all fun really and thats the most important part.
90% of the SEO techniques mentioned here will not benefit you from an SEO keyword ranking point of view.
1.) Twitter Comments: – Twitter has become a spam heaven and most followers are either marketers themselves or robots. Plus the links are ‘No-followed’. “No-followed” links do not pass any value.
2.) Squidoo Lens Creation: – Links on squidoo lenses are ‘No-followed’. Plus Squidoo has become a spam heaven and too many links from squidoo can be troublesome in the long run. Plus Squidoo lenses do not rank high in search engines like they used to 3 years ago.
3.) Hubpages Creation: – Same as Squidoo. Links are nofollowed and hubs do not rank high unless the hub is directly promoted using links.
4.) Article Submission – Submitting same article to 100 or more sites is no longer working. Google is identifying links from duplicate content and devaluing them. So this strategy will not work anymore.
5.) Blog Reviews – Same as article submission. Submitting same review to so many blogs will not work. Instead this has a potential to get a site under penalty or in the sandbox. Plus quality blogs do not generally publish pre-written reviews. Only low quality blogs do this.
6.) Blog Commenting – Most blogs use no-follow for comment links. The few blogs that do offer followed links, apply nofollow after sometime. So these links will not be valuable.
7.) Directory Submission – this works fine as long as the directories are of good quality.
8.) Forum Topic Posting – Most quality forums add a nofollow to their links. Only low quality or un-moderated forums allow ‘followed’ outbound links. These are generally a spam heaven and can act as a bad neighborhood.
9.) News and Press Releases – This works fine, but the same condition of duplicate content holds.
10.) RSS/Feeds Submission- No use from the SEO point of view.
11.) Social Bookmarking – Most bookmarking sites are spam heavens and can act as bad neighborhoods. Plus Google has started devaluing social bookmarking links and links from popular social networks.
12.) Flickr Picture Posting – Flickr links are nofollowed.
13.) URL Submission – this process is outdated and no longer holds significance.
14.) Yahoo Questions & Answers – Links are nofollowed. But this can give some direct traffic.
These are some of the major ways to drive some minor traffic but will not hold any real value for getting a keyword on page 1 of Google.
You want the answer….
It has never changed, its only been Marketed to make others a living selling services you do not need for SEO purposes. Now don’t get me totally wrong, some of the stuff I mentioned above will help with some direct traffic but will hold no value on keyword results.
So don’t spend money on these services for keyword value but rather for extra exposure online. Make it a part of what you do in the long term but don’t expect it to get you to page 1 for “mortgage loans”.
Oh the answer…Find and Create One Way Links”. (yes that is it)
Big Tip:
One quality one way link will hold 100% more value than 1000 easy to find directory links.
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Add your commentThanks for this informative tip about proper SEO. And about the one way link you mentioned, was is links to homepages or just subpages will be fine?
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Great info…does this all trick doesn\’t work really any more. What SEo tricks shall do me ?
Pal you forget to update my website anchor link as \"Learn this blog\" for http://www.learnthisblog.co.cc/
Its my new domain name for tashiwangdi.blogspot.com with anchor text as \"tech enthusiasts\". Plz update my site name kindly as the info given above.
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Hello,
Updated for you – can you put my link on the homepage of your blog please.
Thanks.
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Thanks ………..happy new year 2010. Ur link is up at partners navbar……..incase of future updates i’ll to accomodate you. But for now………page is bit too populated. May this year bring loads of work for you.
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SEO is a fickle beast. Yesterdays shortcut is todays waste of time.
It seems the only thing that works for the long haul is write good keyword rich content.
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Great post as this article is very helpful. Lots of great stuff I can use to help with my SEO journey.
Curt
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I couldn’t agree with you more, relevant high-quality one way links are everything in SEO. I have never been a fan of cheap links such as directory submissions – i just feel they are a waste of time.
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This is an all-way practical although these tools may be the easiest ways too to come up with free flowing and enhanced traffic in some ways (not mentioning the robots) well, for me, I\’ve gathered more followers through good relationships and that stays one cool ingredient to keep these people coming. I love coaching them as well! :)
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They might not have a direct ranking effect but the approach utilizing many of those efforts still benefits a website in many ways. Using all the tools at your disposal allows you to take a more marketing type of approach to SEO which in my opinion is still the best type of approach to take.
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You are right the it could be taught any body in limited time because it is the semi technical field.
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@ Nick, I see your point and completely agree with you. There are always both direct and indirect benefits of anything we do, as well as opportunity costs.
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Great piece of information.But I don’t understand why so many biggies in SEO field still opting for the techniques that you said is not productive?I think some of the techniques are relevant in today’s SEO scenario too.
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By oneway links I am assuming backlinks? (I am new to all this!). The only thing about backlinks is that its so ever so slow and rather tedious. ..Yawn
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thanks for the information very useful and helped me as a beginner online marketing.
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For effective SEO you must understand your customers and reach out to them. You must know what keywords they are using, what media the prefer, how they liked to be approached, & more.
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SEO in’t rocket science. All we need to know is the basics and the rest is purely hard work.
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I don’t quite agree with you, Dave. I have been in the online business and I have tried most, if not all of the strategies you have mentioned. And they have quite served me well in generating more traffic to my site. I guess we don’t have to chew everything you said. We still have to rely on our experiences. If it works for us, then we should continue using them.
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Guest posting and a network of your own are about the best ways for quality backlinks I guess.
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Very Interesting Article, I am trying to Optimize my Motorcycle apparel business and this article is definetely going to help in getting it going. Thanks
Gary Stubbs
Master Affiliate Marketing Now
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thanks for the information very useful
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Very well said. I’ve tried to explain to people on numerous occasions that the more difficult a link is to get, the more valuable it is.
Using that example Ezine Article links (because they have human and computer moderation) are generally worth more then a link from a Go Article.
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Its a Great Information
Nice Work
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I lost a lot of hope now. I was hoping that I could build good links by myself instead of asking for them, but you basically told me that all the links that I have been building aren’t worth much. Now I feel like I did nothing.
Great post… The truth hurts.
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