Archive for the ‘Building Quality Links’ Category



Getting the Most Out of Guest Blogging

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Guest blogging is fast becoming one of the few ways left in which you can gain legitimate, quality backlinks and traffic for your website. If you are considering opening up your successful blog to guest posts this can be a great way to gain new insightful content and increase readership on your own site and [...]


The Benefits of Internally Linking to your Best Posts

Monday, October 18th, 2010

What do you do with your posts that you are particularly proud of? Of all the blogs I come across, rarely do I find one that has a well thought-out ‘popular’ or ‘featured’ posts section in their sidebar. The benefits of having this section for your posts of special interest are substantial for both your [...]


How to Build a Good Backlink Structure

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Good quality links are hard to come by and if you only have one good link among a sea of bad links, it’s time to reassess your link building strategy. In general, the greater the interaction you have with other sites, the faster your blog will grow in popularity and importance but there are lots [...]


Natural Link Building – Does it work anymore?

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Google still advocates the ‘content is king’ rule i.e. what makes a great site rank highly is great content that lots of people want (and do) link to.
In a recent article on GreyWolf’s SEO blog, Michael concludes that having great content NO LONGER guarantees having great links. His evidence comes from his six month case [...]


The Importance of Keywords

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Keywords are one of the backbones of good sites, and using keywords well is essential to monetizing any site for bloggers.  Keywords are not just important for getting traffic to come onto the site, but are also important for attracting advertisers.
Keywords in posts should be relevant to the content of the post in question.  Important [...]


Rethink your blogroll

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Do you really need to have all those blogs in your sidebar site wide?
You could also just put them all on one page. It’s well known that Google and other search engines penalise site wide links, so it’s better to keep them all on one page. Further more, you are also likely to prevent or [...]


Maintain the quality of your blog – stay away from PageRank buttons

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Third post in the series on maintaining the quality of your blog – the dangers of inserting page rank buttons on your site.
The main problem with installing these buttons/bars on your blog is that they automatically link back to the site you downloaded them from. These sites tend to be created solely for advertising purposes [...]


Maintain the quality of your blog – stay away from the 3 P’s! (Pills, Porn and Poker )

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Every year we go through thousands of websites to ensure that we maintain a high quality catalog of sites. Once they are approved, we then ask publishers to try and stick closely to our quality criteria to try and keep them that way. However, the task of going through each of the 200 or so [...]