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My latest link building motivation

Since I had my first few comments rejected and them found a way of finding sites which should accept my comments, I’ve done nothing. However, I did add a task in my to do list software, which now shows the task at the top of my list, well almost.

Firstly I’m going to revisit my keyword analysis I did earlier in the year. The list only includes popular words not words I’d pick by choice, well most of them.

So once I’m moderately happy and can assign keywords to specific pages I’m going to add them to a spreadsheet (or something like that) and make a note of each blog I add comments to.

The shop site that I’m working on, also needs to have its content revised, so I hope that I can tie up all these activities somehow.

Also, I’ve now got a search on all the web, on one of my home pages in firefox, that really is a great way to motivate, I keep seeing it and the four links I currently have.

So my to-do-list software and the all the web results are really helping to motivate me.

by JM

2009 09 29 Dipsy Link Building Comments (0) Permalink

Making progress with blog commenting

I’ve been struggling to make any progress, I’ve made some blog comments and not had any accepted.

So I’ve been looking round this blog for previous useful tips, I’ve made a new link building category and added all those relevant posts to it. And my results are zip, except that blog commenting seems to be the way forward.

So whats the answer?

To find blogs which will accept comments!

So I need to find a way of searching for comment luv blogs which comments, the only thing I can find is “<h2>Comments on”  or maybe without h2.

I’ll let you know how I get on.

by JM

2009 09 24 Dipsy Link Building Comments (0) Permalink

Whys my inbox so full of rubbish at the moment?

I don’t mean spam!

But I seem to be retaining lots of newsletters. I already have folders for newsletter I want to keep. And rules for things I think I should keep for future use. But I have things I seem to be hanging on to.

I have about 150 at the moment, and have 3000 items in my inbox and for completeness about 2gb of emails I’ve kept since 1999.

I guess I’ll just have to get my delete button fired up 😉

by JM

2009 09 24 Dipsy Tech Talk Comments (0) Permalink

Could I use the same keywords on multiple pages?

I’m not sure what to do, I’m short on good keywords for product pages on our jewellery site.

In the past on the old site, I found reasonable keywords which I had to squeeze into the content. But those keywords aren’t those that people would use.

I’m just wondering whether I should just use the same keywords on multiple pages?

by JM

2009 09 17 Dipsy Search Engine Optimisation Comments (1) Permalink

Forum posting, same as blog commenting?

I’m a bit disappointed at my lack of progress, due to no fault of my own, with problems submitting my comments on blogs and them not appearing. Even then, if I did succeed, they could be rejected as spam.

I’ve always found forum posting, something I can do and keep doing.

So do the same things apply to forums as with blog commenting?

by JM

2009 09 16 Dipsy Search Engine Optimisation Comments (1) Permalink

Link Exchanging

Do people genuinely still email you asking for a link exchange?

I know I get several emails a month, but I always ignore them, now I’ve got a good captcha feature I hope to gain more confidence in these emails, but I guess I’ll still have doubts.

I remember I found some sample emails about asking for a link exchange, but I’ve used them.

I know you’ve also mentioned DP, but again, I’ve not sure whats good. I guess you’ll say the same sort of things as you said in your recent post about blog commenting. But theres the extra complication of having to add a link to your site too and loosing juice.

by JM

2009 09 10 Dipsy Link Building Comments (5) Permalink

ReCaptcha.net

The other week, I got sick of getting complete gibberish emails from my contact form. This was partly due to my reformatting the content sent. If someone pastes HTML into my contact form, it appears as HTML when I get it.

However, mostly its because of spam bots.

A couple of years ago I found a free captcha script and added it to most of my sites. However, it wasn’t very good and when I tried it, I often found it hard to distinguish some letters.

So I removed them and put up with the spam.

Then I few weeks ago found ReCaptcha, which if you haven’t seen, is part of an OCR project, or something like that. Which is free and have a sound version too.

I added it to my offending sites, but not all my sites.

While reading Mikes blog commenting post, I began to think about how I use to get links. By link exchange. At the moment, I do get emails like this, but I’m never sure whats spam and whats not, so I tend to ignore them.

So I think adding ReCaptcha to all my contact forms now, is a good idea.

Also, I know theres occasions, especially with softtester, when the email address I use in my contact form has somehow been passed in the email header and now gets direct spam, so I think I might change those email addresses too.

Thinking one step further, I’d like to use a no-reply email address and provide a url form people to add replies, but I think maybe thats taking things too far.

by Dipsy.

2009 09 09 Dipsy Tech Talk Comments (0) Permalink

Six tips about commenting on blogs

Blog commenting is a relatively easy way to build links. As with all link-building it takes time to build enough links to make a difference to the performance of your site in SERPs. Like forum posting, blog commenting also has a timeout factor. As new posts are made on the blog, the post you commented will probably fall off the blog home page and the link juice being passed to your site will tend to fall away.

There is an opinion too that the search engines can easily spot a WordPress site and tend to devalue any links in comments. The idea behind this is that a link in a comment on a blog is a vote/ link for yourself and the links that really matter in terms of SEO are the ones you get naturally from other site owners.

However, building links is essential to SEO so my feeling is: If you get a chance to make a link, take it! Here are some tips for blog commenting.

Comment on blog posts that have PR

The whole idea behind building links is to get link juice to your site. If a post has PR ( > 1 ) all the better.

Comment on blog posts that don’t have PR

If a blog post doesn’t have PR today, who’s to say it won’t tomorrow. If you measure the PR of a post on a blog using the Google toolbar, it’s often the posts that are 2 or 3 months old that have PR. This is simply because the posts were created before the last toolbar PR export. Even though the newer posts have PR N/A or PR 0, really they will have PR – it’s just that Google isn’t showing it in the toolbar yet. There’s an extra advantage in commenting on the newest posts in a blog – most people blindly comment on the posts that show a non-0 PR. If you’re lucky you’ll get a couple of months with a comment on a post that hasn’t got 100 comments from other people.

Make sure a blog is dofollow

If you want to get link juice, making sure your comment link won’t have the rel=nofollow attribute is essential.

Don’t worry too much about dofollow/ nofollow

Even if a blog is nofollow, you might still get traffic from a link on a good, well-written comment. Some of my best referring links are nofollow.

Comment on blogs in the same theme

For the best effect on SERPs performance comment on blogposts on the same topic as your site.

Don’t worry too much about the theme

Link juice is link juice. If the theme is off topic, don’t worry – the extra link juice will still bring some benefit.

These tips may seem contradictory but there are sound reasons behind each of them. Remember – see a chance of a link, take it!

2009 09 09 MikeL Link Building Comments (7) Permalink

Directory Submitter: First month round-up

In a day or two, my directory submission software package SliQ Submitter will have been on sale for one month. All-in-all I’m pretty pleased with the first month. I’ve made a few sales – nothing stunning but enough to feel confident about the product. Traffic is still low but the site has now started to rank well for a couple of terms – page 1 for “directory submitter” 🙂 – so things should look better over the next few months. I’ve made four updates to the supported directories through the website automatic update system and there are no problems reported so far. I’ve added about 300 directories to the supported list in the first month and I’ve lined up another 200 or so to roll out in the next week.

2009 08 31 MikeL New Software Releases Comments (0) Permalink

What website stats are important and why?

I find it really hard to look at stats and information in analytics. When I do Ican’t decide whats important.

Also, I never make a note and see if I’ve improved.

I was thinking earlier today, that recent results have shown that generally people can use my software without problem. So I began to wonder why I don’t get more sales.Also, what stats I should be looking at to try and find out why I’m not getting more sales.

Theres lots of things I could look at, but I can’t decide whats the key items I need to look at.

Thoughts?

I’ve had help setting up goals in analytics in the past, but again, this information looked good, but I’m not entirely sure that it was useful.

by JM

2009 08 29 Dipsy Search Engine Optimisation Comments (4) Permalink