What Is Link Popularity?
If you are unfamiliar with this term, it means exactly what it sounds like it would. Your link popularity is the total amount of links from other sites that point to yours, also known as a backlink. You may have heard of the term backlink, the more back links you have the greater your link popularity.
Are All Backlinks Created Equal?
Backlinks are the only way to build your link popularity but receiving links from sites that are unrelated to yours won't do you much good. If you own a site about sports memorabilia and you trade a link with a site that deals with pet food don't expect much of a boost. When searching for backlinks your goal should be to find sites that would be indexed in the same category as your site on Google. Another tip in building your link popularity is using anchored text in your links to create an anchored link. An anchored link is a link that points to your site where your keywords are used in the text (the text that you click on). Backlinks from sites with higher page ranks count much more towards boosting your link popularity than sites with lower page ranks. This doesn't mean that you should be upset if a site with a PR of 0 links to you. Remember there are no bad backlinks, they just won't have as much of an effect on your link popularity.
Why Do You Want To Build Your Link Popularity?
There is a very simple answer to that question. Simply, the more backlinks you have the more likely you will be to climb up in Google's serps. We all know what this means, the higher up you are ranked the more pageviews your site will get. Whether you are in it for money or glory we all want the same thing, our sites and blogs to succeed.
This may seem like a lot of work to do, who knew building a website would be so hard. Don't give up and keep using SEO properly, you will see results over time.
Good Luck,
The SEO Blogger
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Boosting Your Link Popularity
Saturday, April 18, 2009
SEO Keywords And Keyword Density
Whether you have started your website or blog to make money or because you simply want to share your view and opinions with the world. Either way you want the world to see it, everyone wants people to view there site.
Promoting Your Site
You can use social mediums such as stumbleupon or digg to promote your website, this can become extremely time consuming and tedious. The easiest and most effective way to get pageviews is through search engines. There are so many sites out there that if you want to rank high enough in any given search to have people see your website, you need to optimize it for search engines, this is called SEO. One of the most important factors in SEO is proper use of keywords.
Optimizing With Keywords
Keywords are the most common words used to describe what your site is about. If you are still unsure about keywords, just imagine you were someone looking for a site just like yours, what word or words would you use to search for it. The words used most commonly used to search for certain things are keywords. If you have a blog about dog breeding you may use keywords like dog, canine and puppy. You might also want to use keyword strings like breeding dogs, canine breeding, new born puppies.
SEO Over Optimization
When you are optimizing your site with some solid keywords. You be careful not to over optimize your website. Over optimization occurs when people use a keyword too often. There should be no keywords or keyword strings that appears on your site or any given post on your site more than six to seven percent of the time. You should also avoid using the same keyword too densely in any given part of your website. For example, you have made your first dog breeding post and it contains four paragraphs, each of these paragraphs contain four sentences. The keyword dog makes up only five percent of your post but only in the first paragraph, this is an example of over using SEO. If your site is over optimized there is a chance it could be considered a spam site and that search engine bots could completely over look it or even mark it to be banned.
If you want to increase pageviews to your site you must learn to use SEO and push your site as high up in the search engines page ranks as possible. Below I have posted a tool to check your keyword density. Use this tool to make sure that you are using the correct keywords for your particular niche and that your site isn't over optimized.
