by seocialize on September 4, 2009
Backlink building tools usually mean reciprocal links, sometimes frowned upon by the Web 2.0 generation of SEOs but still having their place as Aaron Wall I remember mentioned. Mix them up with other strategies, build steadily, and above all focus on your visitors first and make sure links are targeted and useful to real people, that’s what Google likes.
Vexcom’s Atlanta SEO blog lists a decent tool over at webconfs.com, two I personally like are:
http://seopen.com/seopen-tools/link-development-tool.php
http://www.soloseo.com/tools/linkSearch.html
Take your pick. The Seopen one lists all queries directly giving you that immediate rosy glow of being confronted with lots of willing link partners.
The Soloseo one looks neat and you can see every individual search for finding reciprocal link pages, eg. keyphrase +”add site”, keyphrase +”add link”, keyphrase +”add site”, keyphrase +”add URL” and so on which gained fame around 2004 in a seminal post at WebmasterWorld. (Hah, I knew the year without checking).
Yes it’s that old. I used to build site directories, positioning them as a genuine resource for visitors as well as just a links page and would gladly mix up reciprocal links with freely given non-reciprocal links to improve the quality of the directory. Worked well and it still does, just make sure to get some more recent strategies in your toolbox also and go and learn some SMO at the same time :).
by seocialize on September 4, 2009
Just been reading about CSS Image replacement over at LatentMotion, turns out many blogs are using unoptimized text links when coding logo graphics and losing an opportunity to make the most of their header tags. Initial impression was this was an on-page site optimization minutia, but then I saw the h1 tag code with either the same h1 text every page or even none at all.
Quick check on this site and lo and behold, I’ve used a standard hack to replace the default Thesis theme header text with an image but have missed out altogether on a great h1 tag to use relevant keyphrases in.
Nifty thing is I can then use “Dynamic Text Replacement” to insert different text into my h1 tag for different pages, which would be cool. But I don’t think it’s worth it. There are issues of duplicate content which I lose interest in and while some users may benefit from this level of attention it’s moving towards SEO as distinct from content which is less useful. At any rate, am very happy to have an h1 tag I missed.
by seocialize on September 4, 2009
Bing - No.3 “boston seo”, some servers show No. 11. Nice to see anyway.
Yahoo - No. 23 “boston seo”, showed me in the 30s a couple of days ago and outside Top 1000 before that (when I had the generic “search engine optimization” as title), so this is encouraging.
Google - No.44, moving up a few spots from a few days ago.
Couldn’t help posting the above, it is fun to see something grow. And reading that last sentence I realise I like the work which is a fortunate place to be in.
Just can’t help noticing that if you combine Bing and Google you get Bingle - Bingle Bingle in Korean means running around in circles making yourself dizzy, which my daughter loves and which I’m happy to play along with until my stomach gets the better of me. Bingle Bingle !! *^^*
Must post more interesting techie SEO stuff if I’m going to remotely deserve these climbing rankings, ciao for now.
