Top Link Building Tip

[kate-brownhill]

In my experience, Penguin managed to catch about 70 - 80% of the 'black hat' methods that used to work including blog commenting. These days, if you are still considering things like link wheels, public blog networks, mass and indiscriminate directory submissions or even article submissions, you are asking for trouble. Blog commenting can still be used legitimately but when was the last time you saw a genuine discussion on a blog which had "Viagra" or other loaded anchors in the name field? If you are joining in the discussion genuinely then there is no need to fear putting a link back to your site or blog but use an unloaded anchor such as your name and make sure it is a natural and realistic percentage of your link profile and that its related to the post.

One of the easiest ways of removing a penalty from a site is by diluting its anchor text focus. You can only do that by:

a. Modifying the existing links: You can only do that if you have full control of the links that point to your site. This requires that the links are genuine and of good quality (or that they belong to you). i.e. if you have a good link from a related, real blog with proper Alexa rank which real people actually read, then it should be an easy process to email the owner of the blog to change your anchor text. Completely different story if it's a digital forum blog.

b. Removing links - This is where I come in. I have developed some methods that enables me to remove SOME links from the nastiest of sources. It's actually still very satisfying seeing the impact this can have on penalised sites. I have plenty of evidence to show that no manual intervention is involved in these gradual but steady recoveries.

c. Increasing natural (unloaded and branded) links: Not much to expand on this, any good quality link builder will know how to do that the right way.

 

[marko777]

Alot of people are trying to cash in on the whole penalty thing just now.
Look at your keyword density,mentioning the keyword every sentence is a fail9and I see it often),read the content on your site,have someone else read it,if it looks remotely spammy and keyword stuffed,hire a writer to sort it.
For a 500 word article the keyword should only be mentioned twice.

Alot of penalties can sorted free this way,next backlinks,look at the anchortext,yes vary your anchortext BUT your keywords must be the higher % of your anchor.People have watered down their anchortext too much by adding click here,website,this is ok on a page which is very relevent to your site,it is counterproductive on a site which has nothing to do with your niche.

e.g loans

If you have a link like "website here" on a page which has loans in the title and the content is about loans,thats good and will work fine.
If the page is about cats and the same "website here" link is there google will associate the site with cats and the link becomes counter-productive.

 

[kate-brownhill]

Thats true. Unfortunetly, when you have tens if not hundreds of thousands of links from spammy sources with no way of contacting the site owners, things become a bit more difficult.

 

[marko777]

Thats true. Unfortunetly, when you have tens if not hundreds of thousands of links from spammy sources with no way of contacting the site owners, things become a bit more difficult.

Google may be introducing a tool to remove bad backlinks(by remove I mean google will associate them with your site anymore),there is talk of it being available within 3 months.Which probably means 6-12 months!

 

[murph]

Google may be introducing a tool to remove bad backlinks(by remove I mean google will associate them with your site anymore),there is talk of it being available within 3 months.Which probably means 6-12 months!

Nice!!! About time they put right the negative seo potential

 

[GWM]

Quality links and seo

Hi all,

I was hit by the penguin and have decided I'm just as well trying to redo my site entirely. I was under no illusion that my existing site was quite poor but it was ranking well.

Not any more. My main downfall I think has been to overload anchor text inbound links with the keywords. Fortunately I can start to build more links with more natural linking. You know, do it properly this time.

My question is, if I redo my site, do I need to keep the content similar to avoid dropping any further or if I change everything for the best user experience, am I likely to retain my position because of my existing links and ranking.

I'm guessing the whole thing can go either up or down and no-one can tell which way. It's all about the quality right?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[LisaV]

My advice would be to rewrite your content and focus on your main keywords as well as targeting some long-tailed key phrases.

Good content needs to be written mainly for the audience you have in mind as well as your keywords. It's a hard balance to get right but if you bear in mind simple SEO rules you should be ok.

Headers
Bullet points
Emboldening

If you are to re-do your content, make it interesting, make it appealing and make it stand out. Above all, keep your content updated because old content will soon lose out to fresher sites.

It's a bit of hard work but it will pay dividends in the future.

 

[Marcoose]

Aren't you worried about having backlinks to your site surrounded by poor, automatically approved spam comments to other spammy sites?

In my experience, most sites with PR that auto-approve comments have hundreds/thousands of comments per post as well.

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