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13 Sites that have millions of links
2008-02-29 13:06:00 Have you ever wondered how some sites get so many links? Clearly sites such as Google deserve to have millions of links but I decided to see which sites and sub pages were building links into the millions. Check out the results below and see if you can spot the linkbait strategies that have got a ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "13 Sites that have millions of links", url: "http://blog.seoptimise.com/2008/02/13-si tes-that-have-a-millions-of-links.html" }); More About: Links , Millions
Richard & Judy Demonstrate TrustRank
2008-02-14 12:51:00 The power of just one trusted link has often been discussed but isn’t often proved. Normally any site that has one trusted link also has lots of others so you can never really tell which links are passing the most weight. TV stars Richard & Judy have their own wine club that ranks very well on ... More About: Demonstrate
Get more links by being a personality
2008-02-08 17:40:00 Building links is hard work but there are a few tips you can use to make it a bit easier. My favourite is to try and become a personality in your niche and encourage people to link to your site when they mention your name. For example if I was to speak at a conference people ... More About: Links , Personality
Cruise your way to the top of Google for only £560,000!
2008-02-06 19:02:00 Cruise.co.uk have bought the most expensive ’s’ in the world, by splashing out over half a million pounds for cruises.co.uk. This is obviously a very quick way of buying your way to top search rankings, but I’m not so sure if it’s the most cost effective! So how do you price a domain with #1 Google ... More About: Cruise
New link tool and millions of fake Digg accounts?
2008-01-29 19:28:00 Today we are faced with the news that Digg has millions more registered users despite the fact that being Dugg doesn’t send any more traffic than in the past. Perhaps most of these accounts are fake accounts or the accounts of people who get banned every month? Also a new link diagnosis tool called linkdiagnosis.com launched this week, the tool is under a lot of strain today so you might want to wait a couple of days to test it on your site. In other news this looks likely to become one of the most popular Sphinn threads ever, it is interesting to see the viewpoints of different SEO’s about this sort of linkbuilding. Post from SEOptimise's SEO Blog New link tool and millions of fake Digg accounts? More About: Tool , Link , Fake , Millions
The 7 Most Important Metrics for Bloggers
2008-01-10 14:46:00 Feed subscribers Google now owns the single most accurate metric for measuring the size of blogs. Feedburner feed subscribers count has become a hard currency in valuing blogs and determining how reputable they are. I’ve been guilty in the past of subscribing to a blog on the basis that if thousands of other people do the ... More About: Bloggers , Metrics
Why you should edit your old blog posts
2008-01-09 17:10:00 This week every single gadget blogger is writing about CES 2008 and 90% of them are using the words CES 2008 at the start of the page title. That’s fine because your readers want to see it and the term is a “hot” search term so it will help you in things like Google News. The ... More About: Blog , Edit , Posts
Is search the new DNS?
2008-01-08 17:18:00 More and more people are turning to popular search engines like Google to find their favourite websites. The fact is that it’s often quicker to load up Google and search for ebay rather than to type ebay.com into your browser. This behaviour leads to a very high search volume for the top few queries. 5% of ... More About: Search
Mahalo, human powered scraping and the QDF algorithm
2008-01-04 11:26:00 Mahalo, the human powered search engine, is using a clever tactic to achieve top rankings in Google for hot, up and coming, search phrases. Basically the editors at Mahalo are creating results pages about news stories in the hope that the pages will rank highly in Google for phrases related to the story. Since the stories ... More About: Human
How to get traffic from the New York Times
2008-01-03 09:46:00 A number of blog aggregators exist including the popular Techmeme but none have the ability to get your content showcased on multiple pages of the New York Times website like BlogRunner does. Just like all the most exclusive clubs bloggers can’t apply to join BlogRunner, the FAQ’s state that 12,000 blogs are already included and that ... More About: Traffic , New York Times
SEOptimise 2007 end of year stats
2007-12-28 17:55:00 At the end of last year I posted some 2006 stats about the SEOptimise blog, another year has passed (very quickly) so I thought this would be a good time to take a look at the progress made over the last year. Top 10 posts by pageviews during 2007 1 5 web design elements to earn your ... More About: Stats , Year
What to do with your site next Christmas
2007-12-27 17:55:00 With Christmas 2007 coming to an end most webmasters are thinking about how best to promote their sites in 2008. Many people are also doing a bit of forward thinking and writing a strategy for next Christmas. Check Google Trends to see if any of the hot terms from this year are likely to come up ... More About: Site
Converting Blogger to WordPress in 3 Simple Steps
2007-12-21 22:45:00 Some of you may have noticed this blog was unavailable for a large part of yesterday, this is because we have moved the SEOptimise domain over to a new server. During this change we have also integrated the blog web design so that this is now consistent with the main site and it’s also now ... More About: Wordpress , Blogger , Simple , Steps
How to Build Links to Major Ecommerce Sites
2007-12-19 19:30:00 Sometimes it is easy to be drawn headlong into the linkbaiting, blogging and social media school of thought with little regard to the read world. In fact, most websites don’t have blogs and have a user base blissfully unaware of social news websites and bookmarking services. Today I will address linkbuilding from the point of view ... More About: Ecommerce , Links , Sites , Build , Major
The problem with trying to sell Digg
2007-12-18 11:35:00 Digg is apparently for sale at a price tag of $300 million, around $200 per user given that Digg passed the 1 million user mark in March 2007. Some people are trying to figure out the numbers and work out a value based on revenue but that model is totally impossible. Digg is in a unique ... More About: Digg , Problem , Sell
The most important site you design is your own
2007-12-17 17:19:00 Designing and optimising client’s websites is the main part of my business and sometimes client work has to take over from blogging and updating our own websites. However the old web design adage that the most important site you ever design is your own is especially true for SEO companies. Design is tough work, as ReadWriteWeb ... More About: Design , Site
Google might be onto something with Google Knol
2007-12-14 16:37:00 Google Knol is getting a mixed reaction today with some people hating the idea and some people playing it down saying it might never launch. Most of the criticisms come from the fact Google would be both the search engine and the content provider whereas in the past users provide the content and Google indexes it. ... More About: Google , Google Knol , Some
Is Google?s timing of major updates wrong?
2007-12-13 01:04:00 The Guardian newspaper have today written an article titled Is Google a Grinch or a good guy?, which asks many UK SEO’s (myself included) for their views on the recent Google paid link debate. In my opinion the Google AdWords landing page quality score and PageRank paid link updates were definitely necessary and will only help ... More About: Updates , Wrong , Major , Timing
Ranking in Google Images is getting harder
2007-12-12 15:46:00 Google Images is a great source of traffic, it can even be a great source of links, but recently the algorithm seems to be getting more complicated. Lets take a look at the image search results for the iPhone for example. Normally I would suggest the following steps to get your image ranking on this page: Call ... More About: Google , Ranking , Ages
Step 1 of a marketing campaign: Google
2007-12-05 17:01:00 A website called Healthy Toys is one of the hottest search terms today thanks to some clever marketing and mainstream press coverage. Writing about how to stop Christmas toys poisoning your children is always a good way to bring in millions of visitors. The problem is that a search for “healthy toys” doesn’t bring up the ... More About: Marketing , Google , Campaign , Step
Why Google can get it wrong and still win the search engine war
2007-12-05 16:28:00 Google is so far ahead in the UK that a lot of people have never even heard of Yahoo and MSN Live Search . Sometimes Google doesn’t give the right results and people have to start all over again, the funny thing is that nobody minds starting all over again because it only took 0.08 seconds ... More About: Google , Search Engine , Engine , Wrong
The 6 Most Marketable SEO Skills
2007-12-05 14:48:00 Offering internet marketing and search engine optimisation services is a competitive marketplace with an ever changing set of challenges to be overcome. Thanks to constant algorithm fluctuations and new innovations the SEO industry is one of the fastest moving in the world. To succeed as a service provider you need to be the ultimate 21st century ... More About: Skills
Google devalues links from banner ads & Matt Cutts wants to remove Toolbar
2007-12-04 09:58:00 An interesting thread sprung up yesterday allowing people to question top Google rs about the paid links issue. One comment that stuck out for me was Googles comments on whether people need to nofollow links from banner ads and 125×125 square ads: we’ve spent most of our time talking about paying money fortext links or paid posts, because ... More About: Links , Matt , Banner , Toolbar
SEO by numbers: Where is everybody?
2007-12-04 00:14:00 As controversial service PayPerPost hits 100,000 users today I find myself scratching my head a bit. If 100,000 people have blogs and want to make money online why does ProBlogger only have 35,000 subscribers? If 117,000 people want to make their websites more popular by joining Digital Point why does SEOmoz only have 20,000 subscribers? Why aren’t ... More About: Numbers , Number , Everybody
Google finally ends the hypocrisy and stops text link adverts on Adwords
2007-12-03 10:38:00 Google has been making a lot of noise this year about stopping the trade in text links but today they seem to have finally made a real stand. A search for “text link ads” displays no Adwords adverts today and the same is true for “text links” and all the related phrases I tried. This is the ... More About: Google , Hypocrisy , Link , Text
How to Measure Social Media Marketing
2007-11-29 12:24:00 Tracking the success of an organic SEO campaign is quite straightforward for ecommerce sites but the rise of social media marketing is leaving a lot of people scratching their heads and wondering how to track social campaigns. The first task in any campaign has to be to work out the goals. Without goals it is impossible ... More About: Marketing , Social , Media
Has adding Digg buttons increased the BBC?s traffic?
2007-11-28 18:13:00 The BBC added a few social bookmarking buttons to their website during August allowing users to easily submit BBC content to Digg , Facebook, Reddit, Delicious and StumbleUpon. With such a large site adding social bookmarking buttons it would be surprising if it resulted in a major increase in traffic. After all the BBC has much more ... More About: Traffic , Buttons
Guide to Creating a Google AdWords Campaign Template
2007-11-28 10:38:00 Google AdWords have today released a new feature which allows My Client Centre account managers to create campaign templates and share them with managed accounts. The Google help centre has some information about the campaign templates, I’ve only created a very basic template but this does look like a very useful feature to speed up the ... More About: Google , Creating , Google Adwords , Campaign , Adwords
67% Discount Code for Search Marketing Standard
2007-11-28 09:28:00 Search Marketing Standard have kindly offered all SEOptimise readers a promotional discount code to new magazine subscribers. The coupon code is HOLIDAY67 which provides a 67% discount, meaning a 1 year U.S. subscription would cost $4.95 (International - $6.60). “This promotion is for new subscribers and will remain active for two weeks until Dec. 10th. At ... More About: Search , Code , Discount
How to Use Google News & Google Trends to Drive Traffic
More articles from this author:2007-11-27 18:39:00 Google Trends is a hugely valuable resource to see what people are searching for right now on Google. Combine Google Trends with the fact Google pulls news results and blog results right into the search results pages and it is possible to leverage a huge amount of traffic with very little effort. If you are listed in ... More About: News , Google , Traffic , Drive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
