Posts Tagged ‘one way link building’
Some SEO experts say that link wheels are the most powerful SEO tools. Yet others, say you should avoid link wheels because the Big Bad Wolf (Google) will come and get you if you use them. First let’s take a look at what link wheels are and why they can be so powerful in getting your site ranked.
The typical link wheel is formed by placing articles on numerous Web 2.0 blogs with links pointing back to the website you wish to promote. Then each of those Web 2.0 blogs are linked to each other to form wheel. The people who say you should not use link wheels argue that it’s an unnatural linking scheme and.Against Google’s terms of service. The traditional link wheel does form a definite pattern and can probably be easily spotted by Google and other search engines.
You can of course modify the traditional link wheel by using a random linking pattern between the Web 2.0 blogs. This type of set up is more complex and may represent less of a conspicuous pattern. However, there are still SEO experts that say you should avoid even random link wheels.
Yet another modification is to not link the web 2.0 blogs together at all but simply use their linking power to point toward your site. This may or may not be as effective as a true link wheel, but it is definitely safer. Of course, you can always point other links to your pseudo-link wheel blogs and still magnify the linking power.
The thinking of the more conservative search engine optimization experts is that link wheels of any kind can be considered a linking scheme and therefore against Google’s terms of service. On the other hand, any links you build yourself to your own site could be considered a linking scheme. And if you avoid building links yourself you’re going to have a very long wait to get your sites ranked in the search engines.
The reality of SEO and link building is that some kind of linking scheme is unavoidable for most websites. Also, Google has stated that they do not penalize your site based on incoming links. If you think about it, it is pretty obvious that if your site is penalized for incoming links your competitors could easily get your site banned. In an ideal world you’d put out great content the world would see that it’s great content and link to it. Then you and Google would live happily ever after. Unfortunately, that is a dream that rarely comes true.
The biggest problem I have with link wheels is that it takes an incredible amount of work to build a sizable link wheel and to do it right. I recently purchased a software package that makes it incredibly easy to build any kind of link wheel you wish. You can create a traditional style, a random link wheel or were just a bunch of incoming links to your site within an hour or two. To do this manually would take days of hard and very boring work. If you are interested, go grab your own copy of Rank Bulider. The software actually does much more than help you automatically create link wheels. It does automatic social bookmarking, and allows you to build an incredible amount of profile links also.
Rank Builder is the most powerful, yet easiest to use link building system I have so far encountered.
What do you think about link wheels? Post a comment below and let us know your opinion.
Are you shopping for link building services? Do you know how to sort out the bad from the good services? Do you want to be sure you get effective link building services that will not do more harm than good?
The first thing you need to do is learn a little about link building yourself before you go shopping. You don’t need to be a link building expert, but you need to understand how the process works to be an informed buyer. You can learn what you need to know right here on this site. You may want to read these posts if you are not already familiar with these topics:
You should now have a pretty good understanding of the kinds of linking and the benefits of one way links to your site. Let’s start by listing some of the things you should avoid in link building services.
FFA Sites and Link Farms – These don’t work, at least not long term and participating in them can actually harm your website rankings. FFA is short for “free for all” and are sites with thousands and thousands of links with no real content. Link farms are similar and the search engines may penalize your rankings if you have a lot of links from these types of sites.
Comment Spam – Posting relevant comments on blogs is a valid link building tactic, but posting junk comments just to get links is useless. Unfortunately, there are services out there that use comment spam as their primary strategy.
Reciprocal Links – There is noting wrong with recipricol links, but if you get nothing but recipricol (or two way links) you are not getting a lot of milage out of your links. Two way links help a little but you really need one way links to get good search engine rankings. Some link building services concentrate only in getting two way links and if those are used they should be only part of your
link strategy.
Buying Links – Google hates sites that sell links and sites that buy them. If you buy links, especially high page rank links you risk the wrath og Google. Even beyond the risk of being punished by Google buying links is by nature a very short term tactic. When you buy links you are paying for them every month and as the bills add up as some point you are going to want to stop paying for them. When you stop paying you abruptly lose the links.
We have covered what to avoid when looking for link building services. In the next article we will take a looks at the positive aspects and what you really want to get out of this kind of service.
In the most general terms a blog ping is simply a way of letting sites that accept the pings know you have updated your blog. The sites that you ping can then use your blog update information in various ways. Those uses include publishing your post headlines with a link to your post, providing search engine indexing, and notifying RSS subscribers that you have a new post.
The short answer to whether a blog ping helps with one way link building is yes. You should always include pinging as part of your link building campaign. The pinging process is quick, easy and has no negative impact. Since it does help with one way link building, doing a ping after every new post is a no-brainer.
The next question is how do you do a blog ping? The two usual ways to do a blog ping are to let your blog software do it automatically when you post or to use a blog ping service and enter your blog information then let them do the pinging for you.
Most blog software that you host on your own site will do the pings for you, but normally to a very small list of ping servers. For example, WordPress blogs are set to use Pingomatic by default. Pingomatic in turn will ping 15 – 20 servers.
What if you want to ping more sites? With WordPress and many other platforms you can enter your own list of sites to automatically ping. First you need a list of working sites to enter. Then you will want to be careful that the software does not timeout while trying to ping a long list of sites. I’ll give you another option in the next paragraph.
What if your blog is hosted on a service such as Blogger? You can go to Pingomatic and other similar sites and enter your blog information and have them ping for you. However, the list of sites they ping is fairly small. If you really want the maximum link effect and traffic from your blog ping you want to ping the biggest list you can.
I had been pondering that quandary for a while and was just not satisfied with the blog ping services that were available on the Net. So, I decided to create my own private blog ping service and list as many working ping servers as I could find.
I bought a blog ping script. The list of ping servers it came with was fairly large, but most of them didn’t work. I searched the Net and found about 400 ping servers from at least a dozen different lists. I tested them all and ended up with a list of 133 blog ping servers that actually worked. I was happy with myself that I’d put the work in and ended up with a very nice private blog ping service.
I had put so much work into getting this service just the way I wanted it I started thinking it was a shame that I was the only one that could use it. That’s when I decided to share the service with my newsletter subscribers. All you need to do is register for my newsletter and confirm your email address and you will get free access to my blog ping service. Go ahead and sign up now and you can ping one or even 100 blogs if you want.
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