There are a number of ways of finding the backlinks to a website but each has pros and cons. The two simplest ways are to use Google Webmasters or the link: command.
You can only use Google Webmasters if you control a website and can verify ownership. In terms of Google PageRank, Google’s Webmaster interface is the most accurate way of determining which backlinks to your website Google actually takes any notice of. The problem is that Google Webmasters often lags behind the real world situation. If you’ve added lots of links to a site they will often not show up in webmasters for some weeks or months. Usually there’s a jump in the number of backlinks reported at the same time Google exports PageRank values to the Google toolbar.
An alternative method is to use the link: command. To use this, type the following into any search engine:
link:www.domainname.com
for example: link:www.resourcefill.com to find backlinks to the domain www.resourcefill.com.
The problem with the link: command is that some search engines don’t return all the backlinks. Google in particular only returns a sample - usually far less than it returns via Google webmasters. The best search engines to use for the link: command are Yahoo and all the web (www.alltheweb.com).
by ML
I’ve now got internal keyword links on every page to my keyword pages.
I’ve also had help, producing a cross linker to automatically add keyword links to content.
http://www.mcls4u.com/shop/costume-jewellery-sets-red-black-spiral-necklace-earrings-set/prod_28.php
Anything further I can do?
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JM
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been lacking motivation, I’ve had so many things going on in my life and I’ve been getting quite stressed.
Theres things which have needed doing for ages.
Well they will all have to wait a bit longer.
I’ve decided that since I spent an afternoon a couple of weeks ago doing keyword research with the adwords tool, that I need to do this for all my websites / products.
I’ve had my To Do (21 page) document open several times over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had some notes on this blog pinned open in Fire Fox, but none of them mean anything unless people can find me / my products.
I really feel this time that this method of finding good keywords will work.
The only difficulty is deciding whether people will buy if they use a certain keyword.
At this point since that first afternoon I’ve got 5 sale pitch content pages finished and I’ve commissioned 11 more today. I know this will take a week maybe 2, so I can do some other research for other products now.
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JM
At least a year ago, I read about free article sites and added some article pages to my kids mask factory site. Aaron just emailed me, he’d done a personal search and found one of my articles.
I guess there is some value is having these pages, but I’m not sure whether such pages lead to sales. But are these pages valuable for an SEO / Google point of view?
Maybe I should add some free articles to my other sites?
I guess I know the answer to this question, these articles haven’t led to a massive raise in sales, although I can’t really tell.
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JM
We’ve been using the adwords keyword tool to try and find good keywords. My initial thoughts where that I should avoid ANYTHING with any competition but have at least a thousand search volume.
However, Aaron found a video on how to use the tool and this changed our / my understanding of it.
Heres the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDB6T_L-mqs.
In the video it says you should have around 100,000 search volume and the guy ignored the competition indicator.
Mike, whats your understanding / thoughts?
I’m not thinking I should have waited with my directory submission until I’d found good keywords to use in the links, however I can now change them I guess, so it doesn’t look like I’ve got lots of the same.
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JM
EDIT: I’ve also learned from the video, that you REALLY need to know your keywords and near keywords, I mean, I did realise this to a certain extent, but this guy knows numbers too. I think I’m going to have to keep records, I just don’t know what. Although, I guess keyword / phrase and search volume, would be start.
Well done to BlueSkiMoney aka Aaron, We’ve been chatting about SEO and using the adwords tool and watching some howto videos from youtube and last night hes, produced what I think is a well SEO page.
http://www.burnyourvinyls.com/audio-adaptors/2-5-to-3-5-adaptor-headphones-adaptor-mobile-phone-adapter/prod_11.php
Having said this there is always room improvement, he could do with more content and some internal links and of course some incoming links to that page or more probable his home page.
Anyways I think this first good attempt.
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JM
I may be imagining things, but I’ve noticed something funny with the traffic to my main site in the last few weeks. For most of the last 6 months, visitors to my main site followed the same pattern - up on specific days of the week, down on certain others, up at certain times of day and so on. This pattern was as reliable as clockwork.
In the last 5 to 6 weeks however, the pattern has changed. Days which had lots of visitors no longer do - at least as a porportion of overall traffic, whereas other days now have proportionally more. I also notice that Softtester’s traffic goes up and down inline with my main site’s traffic - a bit like US and UK shares!
The only thing I can put this down to is that I’ve done a whole load more PAD file submissions in the past couple of months and I’m tapping into the same type of traffic visiting Softtester. Also Softtester is an old site in comparison with mine. In non-UK countries I’ve only begun to do well really since the end of July so perhaps now my visitor profile is beginning to match Softtester’s more global audience.
by ML
At the moment my shop sites are my top priority, well my kids maths site is and anything I can transfer into the jewellery site I do that too.
I’ve been using the adwords keyword tool to try and add some further keywords into my product pages.
Then I started thinking, it difficult to add content to shop sites without ruining your product pages. So what about genuine content pages?
I suppose the difficultly is what content do people who are searching to buy your product want to see?
by JM
I’m just thinking I really need sitemaps for softtester but theres 60,000 urls / dynamic pages.
Even if I have a-z pages, the sitemap files are going to be huge.
What should I do ?
by JM
Mike, I’m guessing you haven’t seen this, or haven’t noticed it or well at least you don’t use it.
As you do searches on google and look at your position.
Google webmaster tools, has a top searches feature which shows the keyword used and the postion you are for that page on google.
So if we use word tracker to check that term gets lots a of hits…
Then surely this is all we need to do to find googd keywords, well that and some common sense to make sure people will use the keyword in the right way. And obviously we have to be getting some of those hots in the first place to see the term in google tools.
Seems like the holy grail to me ?
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