Archive for the 'Linking' Category
We've been talking about RSS feeds and what it can do for your website. We know that incorporating RSS feeds into your site results in more frequent visits from search engine spiders and thus leads to faster indexing.
Have you realized however that by syndicating your RSS feeds successfully you can achieve the same results? How so?
If you have subscribers when a search engine spider crawls your subscriber's site (assuming that your subscriber incorporated YOUR feed into his own website) the feeds will of course contain a link back to your website. Once the ...
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Cross link between your own posts/pages can be beneficial for your blog but at the same also brings some disadvantages. To maximize its benefits you should know its pitfalls so as to avoid them.
The Good
Cross linking benefits you in two ways: it helps you SEO-wise and helps your readers find related more easily. For the SEO part, cross linking is good because it helps establish relevancy between posts and pages. Pages containing related topics will, of course, be the ones linked to each other. Just make sure the anchor text for the links contain the keywords you need to help ...
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Here were are at Part 3 of the linking tips series from Rick Dejarnette. This is also happens to be the last three tips and after this we’ll be moving on. As in many cases though these tips are just as useful as the first tips, as they say: “last but not the least.” Here goes…
1. Have at least one internal link to every page – This makes sense not only SEO-wise but navigation-wise. It is important to have all your pages linked to by at least one other page from the same site so that the search engine ...
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It’s almost been a month and we’re finally on the 2nd part of the “Optimizing your URL and links” series of tips from Rick Dejarnette of Webmaster Central. If you didn’t click on the link I provided last time and read Mr. Dejarnette’s post then you will still find my summary pretty useful. If you’ve read it: consider this as your refresher course.
Here are the next three tips from Rick Dejarnette:
1. Use title attribute in anchor tags for internal links – As a rule it is best to use the title attribute for ALL links, whether external or internal, ...
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If you want to really do Search Engine Optimization one of the things you should never ever forget to optimize are your website’s URL as well as the links within each page. Here are some tips from Rick Dejarnette of Bing Webmaster Center that should help you optimize your URLs and links.
1. Canonicalize your URL – Use the canonical tag to let search engines know which version of the URL, for pages with multiple URLs, they should consider to be the authoritative or original URL. Here’s how to use the canonical tag:
2. Choose absolute links over ...
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What’s more important – internal or external links?
Both kinds of links are very important but when it comes to SEO external links carry more weight. The reason for this is that, as we know, one of the factors that search engines look at to determine a page’s rank is popularity. The number of external links is indicative of the popularity of a page, which is why search engines give this type of links more weight. However, always remember that when it comes to external links it is not just the number that matters but the relevance of the link to ...
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According to Bing Webmaster Center’s Rick DeJarnette some of the most common errors that can tank a site include:
An invalid mark-up code – To make sure that your mark-up code is valid use a validator such as the W3C Markup Validation Service. Of course when validating you should know which errors to look out for by asking the following questions:
* Does your file contain a document type declaration (DTD) statement?
* Are all of your tags closed properly?
* Are your tags written in lower case ...
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When it comes to SEO we already know the usual factors that search engines use to rank pages. However, what happens many times is that the emphasis is placed on some relatively unimportant factors while too little attention is given to the more important factors, which results in ineffective SEO.
To make sure we devote the right amount of effort on the right factors what is needed is the knowledge of the order of importance of each factor. An illustration I find to be very useful ...
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Thinking of more ways to get links from sites that can actually pass substantial link juice? In case you’ve overlooked them you should look into sites with .gov and .edu extensions. Note that while a good number of .gov and .edu sites rank really well the extension does not guarantee good link juice, hence, it is still a good idea to choose among the .edu and.gov sites you want to target for getting backlinks. In general though these sites rank pretty well because they get high quality links and are of institutes that ...
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It is no longer necessary to keep the links in your page to less than a hundred – at least if you’re looking purely at the SEO perspective. In his post, ‘How Many Links Per Page?’, Matt Cutts explained why the links need no longer be strictly fewer than 100 in a page. In there he said that originally Google was only able to index 100Kb per page so that having more than 100 links can lead to parts of the page not being indexed, however, these days Google can index more than that. Furthermore there is no ...
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