Link Spreading

What is Link Spreading?

Link Spreading is the artificial simulation of the effect linkbaiting creates.

Here is and example how it works.

The Light at the End of the SEO Tunnel

The tech world is experiencing fusion like never before.

Domainers start developing, SEOs learn about branding, designer no longer need “an expert” to tell them how to structure their sites.

In a few words: Everyone is waking up!

Well, not everyone. Many are still stuck in one channel and think that registering “keyword friendly domain names” and doing pay per click will keep them going and growing, so here is my prediction for the future:

If you don’t wake up and expand your horizon a little bit, you will NOT survive.

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SEO Tip - Are You Wasting Your Time With Do Follow Blogs?

I’m sure a lot of you spend a great deal of time searching for relevant high PR “do follow” blogs, but are you spending your time wisely? Keep in mind that not all posts are indexed, not all posts stay indexed and not all posts pass link juice. Just because a post is on a high PR blog does not mean that your comment will give you a link - here are a few quick tips (that many of you may already know) to make sure you get the most out of link building on “dofollow” blogs - Read more

SEO Tip - Are You Using SpamVantage?

I love spam, w…ell most spam. Spam not only makes me smile a few times a day, but it helps give me a nice link jackpot from time to time too.

Smiles From Spam!

Spammers send emails with Viagra and Cialisis offers followed by an email from our blog letting me know I just received an exclusive list of 20 websites that I will surely enjoy once I buy the pills they are practically giving away - YIPPEE! – All I need now is that lump sum of money from my new royal friend in Africa…and I am set.

Spam isn’t so bad - (no really click on that link you’ll probably like it )

I like spam, and spammers and here’s why

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SEO Tip - General SEO dos and don’ts

It’s late but I’m going to try and shell out a few SEO dos and don’ts. Forgive me if it lacks anything and feel free to chime in with your $.2

Dos
1. Build Quality Relevant Links
2. Make it easy for search engines and users to navigate your entire site
3. Create Unique Content Often
4. Use Page Titles, H tags and Meta descriptions
5. Link out to trusted sources
6. Start a blog on your site
7. Develop content for each keyword
8. Build a user sitemap
9. Build a xml sitemap
10. Build deep links
11. Use different keywords for anchor text links
12. Try to keep your most important content within 3 clicks of the homepage
13. 301 redirect your non-www to your www URL or vice versa
14. Build creative 404/400 error pages with links back to main sections of your site
15. Link to pages within your site using keywords
16. Develop a strategy and stick with it
17. Have Patience
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SEO Tip - Directories are not Dead

Directory links are dead, right?

I bring this up because I see tons of questions in forums and nearly every directory I visit lost PR over the last few updates. The popular questions: “Are directory links still valuable?” or “Should I still get directory links?”, from what I’ve seen most people still believe they’re valuable if - they’re relevant, located on an indexed page and located on a page that doesn’t have hundreds of outgoing links. I’ll go a little further and suggest that if you can find a reputable service that does hundreds or thousands of manual directory submissions, and it’s not too expensive, do it hands down. Read more

It’s all about the image!

I have read an interesting blogspot by Ann Smarty today called Image SEO and it reminded me to an old blog post of mine regarding image optimization for Google.
One thing that you notice is that you do not NEED to have an alt tag or have the image named according to the keywords you are after. What is the most important thing when it comes to image optimization? Surrounding text! Read more

SEO Tip of the Day – Earn Better Blog Links

It’s no secret that blogs are a great way to get relevant links back to your website. Most search engine optimizers focus on getting links from tons of blogs by entering their URL in the URL box just above the comment. This is a great way to get links from blogs but a better way is to get noticed in the community and earn a contextual link, with a descriptive anchor text link, within a post.

Instead of randomly visiting hundreds of blogs and posting less than meaningful comments, try to contribute to each post. Get involved by regularly visiting the blog and offering information and valuable comments. It’s not rare to see bloggers write monthly posts about their most active readers or give a little link love for different reasons.

Blogs often develop a community of “regulars” that take notice to each other and help each other out. Get involved in a blog’s community and you’ll earn better links from the blogger and the community.

Most optimization is all about longevity - IMO.

Use catchy blog titles to get attention!

I’m cracking up as I see the clicks coming in because of my bogus Digital Point account with almost 24,000 posts for sale.
Needless to say, I am very visible on Digital Point and whatever appears in my latest blog post, is getting traffic from there as long as the title makes people wonder what the heck is really going on.
What I don’t understand is why so many people don’t realize just how important a title can be in order to generate more traffic.
Think about it like this:
Getting people to your blog is a must, but you also need real content that helps you generate sales.
So what you should do is have maybe 3 or 4 posts that do the job and then top it with something silly or whatever you believe makes people come to your blog.

~ Mike Dammann

Will Google editors ever visit my site?

The answer is yes. And no. They might.

The more successful your site becomes, the higher the chance that a competitor might report it for something that might not even be worth looking at..

Yet editors do come by from time to time.

Editors will do a quick scan to see whether or not the reason for your high rankings could be something that Google frowns on, or if indeed your site provides a good search result for the keywords it ranks for.

Before you get paranoid, let me show you an example of a high profile site using blackhat:
All of the dentists.com pages have dotted lines in between the listings. The lines are not lines as you can see in the html code.
They are keyword spam and the purpose of doing it is that Dentists.com wants to rank highest whenever someone googles a specific dentist’s name.
This is blackhat and I’m sure that editors have been made aware of it, yet it isn’t something that gets them penalized or banned mainly because Google figures that overall the site provides targetted results for web searchers.
However, you never know what an editor might do with your site, so you always need to evaluate the risk you are taking.
If you have ONE main site which carries your business, my recommendation is to play it cool.
~ Mike

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