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5.0 Backlinks An information guide

Backlinks/Backlinking is one of the most powerful forms of Live Wire Web Marketing.

A backlink is a link from another website leading into yours. Google Spider (crawler) bots travel via linking. The more times a bot lands on your site via backlink from another the more your pagerank is effect.

Why does this matter? The higher the pagerank, the greater value of your website. The greater the value the higher you appear on Google, Yahoo, Bing etc Also this effects the monetry value of your website if you wish to sell it. So, more backlinks = more traffic.

Backlinks are obtained though affiliate link exchanges between other sites. They are also obtained when you post your hyper-link url (your http://) web address, on forums or on a Twitter feed. Another great method to secure backlinks is in articles submissions. There are millions of articles databases out there. You write an article and insert your link at the end. People may or may not even find the articles, let alone read it, but the Spider Bots will. Every link you secure is that much more towards your pagerank. Directory linsting/Indexing is another great method to gain backlinks.

You can backlink from 1,000 smaller, low pagerank websites or if your site is good enough, and has great content you can obtain a backlink from a PR 9 (Pagerank 9) website. When a Pagerank 9 site links to you, your Pagerank is given an SEO boost to a higher ranking. This can be done by emailing a webmaster, commenting on a post, buying advertisement, etc Get creative.

Backlinks require maintance, you may secure 1200 backlinks, have a PR5 site one month and the next you can see a drop to 1000 backlinks and your Pagerank drops, as does your traffic and location on Google and other search engines. This may happen for many reason, your link was removed, the website went down, or the page which hosted your link was pushed to the back of a site.

We see this often, many site have a homepage with a PR9 and the rest of the site is PR1. This is due to bad Intra-site navigation. All pages on a website should link to on another, like a web so that each page may recieve the same PR, the Bots can crawl easy, and People can navigate it better. When a site links pages in a line : Home > News > Archive > 2008 > Technology > March > Article (containing your link) : you have been pushed into the depths of the website and low Pagerank. A proper linking website would have a site map (TBD later) or a link on the homepage to the technology page so that the bots can crawl better and navigation be made easy. Take note of this during your submission process.

No-Follow Links are used by a lot of databses and indexes to thwart off Spamers. You need to stay away from No-Follow Sites. (most will clearly tell you) No-Follow stops the bots and keeps you from getting a backlinks. But you can index your site on a no follow and hope for people to run accross it. It cant hurt, but, they arent the best.

There are also tools which can help you out with this as well. (Pro Section)

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Time Frames [Tip]

Nov 3rd

When using SEOs, SEO Tools, Pagerank Boosters, Backlinking, etc. you must be aware of your time frame. By doing this you can eliminate anticipation and plan your marketing plan accordingly; also you can plot out the times of the month your Marketing Plan Maintenance.

Google bots on average can visit a website 3 times a week to perform indexing. From experience I have seen it take two weeks for the Google Crawler Bot to recognize all of my marketing work and find my backlinks. This information should be reassuring to know. When I first started marketing my first website I thought in a few hours of my SEO work and backlinking I would see results and a higher Pagerank. I got pissed off and upset that I saw no results. About two weeks later I was able to see my work in all of its glory. So keep this time frame in mind. Allow two weeks for your results but also know that in two weeks others other people will be doing there SEO work also, so you need to make sure your work is the best. Every week you should use the Tools section and check your Web Marketing Status and see how your rankings and back links stand. Links may die, websites may remove your links, or the website may push you link to the back of their website; so it is imperative to monitor, maintained, and keep up on your SEO submission and marketing.

Account of all of this as you plan your website and the allotted time you have set aside to run it. Your Marketing is just as important as your web content.

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In one of my earlier posts titled DoFollow & NoFollow Links A Short But Sweet Guide For Everyone Else, one of my readers left a comment regarding the term pagerank juice. Heres what James asked:

Thanks for this clear explanation. I like the way you refer to it as Page Juice this is a good way of understanding it. Is this a thing you have to do on an ongoing basis. If so how many links do you need to create and how often?

The term pagerank juice was not a term I made up, its a term heavily used in the industry that explains the strength and impact of a blog or sites pagerank to the respective outbound link on the page.

What the hell does that mean???

Oklets rewind this a bit more so you guys will get a clearer sense of what Im talking about.

Before I talk about Pageranking juice, you should first download the Google pagerank toolbar for your browser. The Pagerank bar is that green little bar that tells you the strength of your site based on relevance and popularity. For those who already know what this is and feel like Im wasting your time, bear with me. There are TONS of people out there that have no clue what Im talking about.

Once you download the toolbar browse through a few sites and check out which sites have higher authority over others in certain niches.

From experience.a good rule of thumb to determining how easy it will be to get your sites pagerank up is the following:

Pagerank 1-4: Not that hard to achieve. Youll need a backlink strategy once youve built enough content around your domain.

Pagerank 5: A lot harder to get, will need a lot of content,backlinks, and domain maturity to achieve this rank.

Pagerank 6-9: Really hard to get unless you have a high authority site in an industry thats basically a game changer for online activity.

Pagerank 10: Impossible to get unless youre Google or a HUGE resource site. Might be achievable as an individual if you sell your soul to the devil..

Now that Ive laid the ground work on Pageranking, its time to get juiced! (and Im not talking about the enhancement drug)

OK.going back to James question: How many links do you need to create and how often?

To better explain this lets go back to the term pagerank juice because I believe its a great analogy to explain the frequency of backlinks you should get.

Depending if your blog is do-follow, the amount of outbound links that are on that page is going to affect the strength of your Pagerank juice to the other anchor text links. Why? Heres a simpler explanation:

Lets say your site is a big tall glass of orange juice, or whatever juice you prefer, doesnt matter to me. Next to this glass of OJ, you also have a small glass of water, which represents all your do-follow links on that page, and an empty glass. Now, the more do-follow links you have on your page, your OJ will now get watered down and the juice will get spread thin. The empty glass represents another site or page online and when you pour your watered down OJ, it loses a lot of its strength in orange juice.

Thats what happens on many do-follow blogs like mine. The more do-follow links allowed on a specific page, the less strength your pagerank will have on those anchor text links.

Damnseems like Im running off course again, sorry James

Back to James question: How many links do you need to create and how often?

The simple answer to this question is: You need to create more links than your competitors, and enough to keep you at the top

I know it sounds like a jackass answer, but its really the truth.

If you have a site that you want to have decent PR juice going out to certain anchor text links on your page, then youll have to have a no-follow blog/site to prevent your juice from getting watered down. This is important folks!!!!

First thing you need to do is research your keywords with Keyword Elite, Yes thats an affiliate link, but its a software that Ill defend any day of the week!

Once you find your long tail keywords, figure out your top competitors on the search results page of Google. Jot down these sites in excel for reference.

Now, head over to Yahoo and run this search query: linkdomain:www.CompetitorsDomainURL.com. This search string will tell you how many backlinks your competitor has for their site. Now its up to you to determine how much work you want to rank #1 for that keyword phrase. Work your keyword list until youve found a competitor in the top 3 position with little backlinks so you can dominate their ranking position. Rinse and Repeat. Cheers!

SEO Google pagerank toolbar, PageRank, pagerank juice, term pagerank juice

In one of my earlier posts titled DoFollow & NoFollow Links A Short But Sweet Guide For Everyone Else, one of my readers left a comment regarding the term pagerank juice. Heres what James asked:

Thanks for this clear explanation. I like the way you refer to it as Page Juice this is a good way of understanding it. Is this a thing you have to do on an ongoing basis. If so how many links do you need to create and how often?

The term pagerank juice was not a term I made up, its a term heavily used in the industry that explains the strength and impact of a blog or sites pagerank to the respective outbound link on the page.

What the hell does that mean???

Oklets rewind this a bit more so you guys will get a clearer sense of what Im talking about.

Before I talk about Pageranking juice, you should first download the Google pagerank toolbar for your browser. The Pagerank bar is that green little bar that tells you the strength of your site based on relevance and popularity. For those who already know what this is and feel like Im wasting your time, bear with me. There are TONS of people out there that have no clue what Im talking about.

Once you download the toolbar browse through a few sites and check out which sites have higher authority over others in certain niches.

From experience.a good rule of thumb to determining how easy it will be to get your sites pagerank up is the following:

Pagerank 1-4: Not that hard to achieve. Youll need a backlink strategy once youve built enough content around your domain.

Pagerank 5: A lot harder to get, will need a lot of content,backlinks, and domain maturity to achieve this rank.

Pagerank 6-9: Really hard to get unless you have a high authority site in an industry thats basically a game changer for online activity.

Pagerank 10: Impossible to get unless youre Google or a HUGE resource site. Might be achievable as an individual if you sell your soul to the devil..

Now that Ive laid the ground work on Pageranking, its time to get juiced! (and Im not talking about the enhancement drug)

OK.going back to James question: How many links do you need to create and how often?

To better explain this lets go back to the term pagerank juice because I believe its a great analogy to explain the frequency of backlinks you should get.

Depending if your blog is do-follow, the amount of outbound links that are on that page is going to affect the strength of your Pagerank juice to the other anchor text links. Why? Heres a simpler explanation:

Lets say your site is a big tall glass of orange juice, or whatever juice you prefer, doesnt matter to me. Next to this glass of OJ, you also have a small glass of water, which represents all your do-follow links on that page, and an empty glass. Now, the more do-follow links you have on your page, your OJ will now get watered down and the juice will get spread thin. The empty glass represents another site or page online and when you pour your watered down OJ, it loses a lot of its strength in orange juice.

Thats what happens on many do-follow blogs like mine. The more do-follow links allowed on a specific page, the less strength your pagerank will have on those anchor text links.

Damnseems like Im running off course again, sorry James

Back to James question: How many links do you need to create and how often?

The simple answer to this question is: You need to create more links than your competitors, and enough to keep you at the top

I know it sounds like a jackass answer, but its really the truth.

If you have a site that you want to have decent PR juice going out to certain anchor text links on your page, then youll have to have a no-follow blog/site to prevent your juice from getting watered down. This is important folks!!!!

First thing you need to do is research your keywords with Keyword Elite, Yes thats an affiliate link, but its a software that Ill defend any day of the week!

Once you find your long tail keywords, figure out your top competitors on the search results page of Google. Jot down these sites in excel for reference.

Now, head over to Yahoo and run this search query: linkdomain:www.CompetitorsDomainURL.com. This search string will tell you how many backlinks your competitor has for their site. Now its up to you to determine how much work you want to rank #1 for that keyword phrase. Work your keyword list until youve found a competitor in the top 3 position with little backlinks so you can dominate their ranking position. Rinse and Repeat. Cheers!

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