Sulumits Retsambew » SERP

My link building tactics

Hellas — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:25:51 +0000

Let’s say you have quality content on your site. And you know how to do on-page SEO. You need starting boost in links pointing to your site, so people can find you and talk about your content? Here are some of the things that I do to get backlinks for my site:

1. Forum signatures

I have bunch of messages on couple of forums across the internet. I regularly put links of site that I promote in signature and keep them there for at least 6 months. Google probably can recognize sig links and devaluate them, but they helps. Every link helps, even no follow links helps.

2. Forum discussions

After finishing a site, I find some appropriate niche forums and start thread about site, asking people to comments, give advices and their thoughts. People like to be smart ass-as and tend to reply if you want to hear them.

3. Do Follow Blog commenting

There is bunch of do follow blogs around with very high page ranks. They have bunch of posts with just a few comments and with also high page rank. Use Google to find few lists, pick the relevant and start commenting. When posting a comment, try to add some value don’t post just excellent post, Thank you and similar posts. They will not be approved. Try to enter into discussion. If you can’t, then better don’t post at all.

4. Social bookmarking

I am not experienced with this type of promotion, but it is highly valuable. Take a look at this list. http://www.evilscience.org/list-of-380-do-follow-social-bookmarking-sites/
Try to add your site to some of them. If you have quality content then add Social Buttons to your site and people will do that for you. Try to learn how SB sites work and perform, add other interesting sites not just yours.

5. Link exchange

Try to exchange links with some of the top ranking sites in your niche. You’ll get surprised when you realize that many webmasters will give you link for free or gladly exchange links with you. Contact them over email and give your email personal touch. Don’t send generic mail across the internet. Those mails will get quickly trashed.
Do not overwhelm your site with link exchange; five sites from first two pages will be enough.

6. Free directories

This is excellent way to get free links. Find yourself some good list and start submitting. If directory is low quality for example they are without PR and accept every sites (bad ones and good ones) then skip it. There are thousands of good free quality directories. When you submit to directory, do know that their PR is just quality grade. Usually lower pages don’t have rank, but still submit to them.

7. Paid directories

I don’t practice this type of submissions. But generally if directory takes money just to cover their time spent, then it is good one. If directory take outragesly big amount of money then skip it. Google might look at that as on buying links.

8. Contests and free stuff

From time to time organize some contest or free stuff giveaway. People like free stuff and they will give you bunch of links if prizes are worth while.

9. Trackback links and Sources
When writing a content give trackback link to your resources. It is morally thing to do.
And from time to time you will get backlinks from them to.

10. Friend links
If site is yours then there is nothing wrong to ask your friend webmasters for links. If you don’t have friend webmasters then start to get ones. I am ready for any of my friends to give free links and so they are for me. 200 starting links for the start is not small thing.

11. International links
Take some time to get links from .de .se .ru .fr and other country domains links. Why?
This will mean that people talk about you worldwide and you are becoming authority site. Don’t find any international links, find your niche international links.

12. Article directories

This is great way to get backlinks. Write some promo article with around 300-500 words. Then put your link in it and submit it to free article directories. After a few submissions, write new article. Don’t send same article to all directories.

There are also few things you should know. Don’t do all this for one day. Take half an hour or hour daily and make a plan. Try to get 10 backlinks daily, or even more if you think it’s needed. Be consistent. If you decide to make 15 backlinks daily then stick with it. Don’t do 15 link for 7 days and then next 7 none. You can even after every 10 days add +N links for your strategy.

I am not giving resources sites directly; it would be too easy for you. Just search with Google and you will find anything you need to know. Compile your lists and dont gave them to public.

Anyway these are just my personal opinions. This tips maybe would not work for you, so take them with certain reserve.

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Google is my friend – Day 9

Hellas — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:42:29 +0000

It looks I am back on the top in the Sulumits Retsambew contest. I was really in heart breaking situation . Anyway there is next strange situation. I dropped to third place yesterday, and last night I worked on blog, since I wanted to add last blog post to first page via Mini Loop, but when I added I did not liked how it came up, and I removed it. That version of the frontpage was maybe 30 seconds up. However Murphy happened, and Google bot indexed my page just in time when my post was on first page (click on cached version of my site bellow my Google result). Almost instantly I was moved up for one position above the wwe_fan9417 place. But Sunita was still on the top.
I went to sleep. Now I just woke up and see that I am on first page, but my site still is not indexed, and I am first ranked. Can it be that Google more like regularly refreshed frontpage, then static one? It looks it is better that blog is on the front page then on some under located page.

I will wait to see what will happen when Google realize that I removed additional content. If that came bad, I will consider making my first page as a blog and merging about and frontpage pages. Other changes are again not big. Only webmaster stimulus on some org domain came up on first page on position 9.

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Sulumits Fall Down

Hellas — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:13:25 +0000

I just lost my first position in the Sulumits Retsambew contest. I had feeling of invincibility, so this is actually good. Better lose places now, then 5 days before the end of the content. Last 2 days I almost did not do anything and punishment was quick and harsh. Fall from first, to third place. Sunita become no1. And that strange guy on Wordpress without links is now second. There are no significant changes for lower places. I noticed that there is no Slideshare entry no the sixth place (by Sunita), so it looks like Slideshare is very authoritative site. Probably until end of the day, will publish one slide of my own to support my contestant entry. Related posts:8 days until end of Sulumits Retsambew Sulumits Retsambew is now at almost of the end of... Sulumits Retsambew Tumbling Again I just noticed that three contestants dropped from their great... Related posts:

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Sulumits Retsambew Contest – Day 7

Hellas — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:58:39 +0000

Day 7 on Sulumits Retsambew and nothing seriously changed. We are still holding the first place. My favorite „enemy webmaster“, Sunita (ChillingBreeze) from India is still on the second place. We had a great conversation, and I realized that I am facing serious opponent with, a lot of knowledge and will. I adopted strategy changes because of her . She has less backlinks then me, but her entry have a bunch of strong links from article directories.
Afzalkhan loosed position because of wordpress hosted guy. Quite strange situation, since I don’t see any backlinks for 2sulumitsretsambew and the guy is almost without content.
Few new web 2.0 pages appeared on the first page, but I predict that they will not have breath for longer treks: D

Google now show there are 3800 pages for Sulumits Retsambew term and 7250 for sulumitsretsambew. Most of them are links that support contestant entries, and I think there is no more then 100 contestants in this moment.

Around Google SERP 8 and bellow I noticed few interesting new contestants.

My strategy change in Sulumits Retsambew race is not big.
I just decided that I will enter with all my links I can get as soon as possible, since I am sure that Google add value to the age of the backlinks. However that can be double sided knife. It is very easy, that with too much links getting daily Google might consider this as a spam. This is also questionable, since on that way your opponents would ruin your business to much easily.
I got question on email what are healthy links, which I will cover in special post.

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What is SERP?

Hellas — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:35:54 +0000

After showing my contest entry to my girlfriend, she noticed somewhere on the page term SERP. I know you all know what SERP is, but there are plenty of other webmasters that maybe don’t.
SERP is acronym for term Search Engine Results Page. Some people wrongly refer, as Search Engine Result Position. It is basically search results page returned to you by the search engine, for given term (red colored area on the image bellow). Given results page can contain other elements such as sponsored listing (in our given case from google.com, we can see adwords listings in the blue area, above the SERP results). Many search engines cache their results for better performance. SERP refreshing can take significant amount of times, in some cases it needs to pass few days or even few weeks before SERP is refreshed, so don’t worry if you don’t see any fast changes.

How these SERPs are generated?

They are generated according to relevance and page worth in search engine eyes. Algorithms for determining page relevancy are almost always well kept secret. But if you stick with this formula you can’t fail:

Good original content + healthy and good links = Good position.

This means that you need to write content for people, not search engines. Good original content will give you visitors, visitors will spread word about you and they will help you to get healthy and good links. Bunch of links will mean that people talk about you, and that will give you worth and authority in the search engine eyes.

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