backlink pagerank and analysis tools

Francois — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:03:17 +0000

Most SEO’s would agree that having loads of links pointing to your website is going to help with your rankings in search engine results. Loads of websites have link exchange pages with the sole purpose of building inbound links or what some call backlinks.

Having your anchor text in the backlink set as your target key phrase, should make your site rank better for that key phrase, basically increasing its relevancy for that phrase. There is a theory that even a blank page can rank high on search engines if there is enough backlinks with the same anchor text linking to it.

An extreme version of this technique has been called a ‘Google Bomb’, ‘Link Bomb’, or ‘Google Washing’, which is basically when thousands of websites all link to one site, all using the same anchor text, so as to manipulate the search engine results. These days Google has changed a few things so that extreme versions are not as easy to create as they were back in the day. Google needs to deliver Relevant results to its customers, and if the results are incorrect, due to a Google bomb, it would have unhappy users, hence the change. For some information on famous Google Bombs, visit Wikipedia

Another important part of your link building efforts is getting websites with a high Google Pagerank to link to your website. Many of the link exchange pages on websites specify that they only exchange links with websites that have a high PR, or a Pagerank of at least 3 or 4, with the purpose of getting good quality inbound links to the website.

At the end of the day, if you are trying to get good rankings for your website, you will be wanting to get loads of backlinks, especially those with a high pagerank.

Now for the cool stuff!

When you are trying to get your website ranked above your competitors in the search engine results, its a great idea to see where their backlinks are coming from, what anchor text was used, and the pagerank of the site the backink is on.

I like to use a tool called Link Diagnosis, which allows you to put in a url, and get a list of all the backlinks pointing to that domain.

Creating a report showing the links to a website shows the Pagerank of the inbound links, the anchor text used, if each link is No-follow, how many outbound links are on that page, and the strength of that link! Awesome!

With this information you will be able to visit all the same high PR and quality sites linking to a competitor website, and see if its possible to add your own link there too, or even better, if you can get your link listed instead of the competitor website.

Using this method is a really easy way to find a great list of websites that you could possibly exchange links with, or event better, to build a one-way link to your site with.

I suggest you start with the websites that have a PR over 2 for best results. What I like about Link Diagnosis, is that you can arrange all the links displayed in order of Pagerank and link strength, as well as the fact that you can register as a member, and save your reports online, not to mention export them to a spreadsheet.

Another great website that I like to use is called Check Backlink (http://www.check-backlink.com), which offers a similar service. I like both these websites and use them both quite often. I find that although Check Backlink is not as comprehensive as Link Diagnosis, it is a fast way to do a quick check when doing research, while Link Diagnosis is a tad slow sometimes.

Need to build quality one-way backlinks FAST?

If you are looking to build quality backlinks fast, I can suggest http://www.textlinks.com, if you sign up for free, you can place 25 permanent links. Obviously it would be better to pay the $99 a month and be able to place 100 links per month, but I like the fact that you can sign up and test the system before buying. Even if you don’t purchase, your 25 links are permanent and will remain.

Ultimate do-follow social bookmarking website list

Francois — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:07:53 +0000

Social bookmarking is a great way to get backlinks to your website, and to share it with the world. Here is a list of great websites that I use regularly to bookmark websites. This list is from a secret group on Facebook called Social Ninja, where the aim is for everyone in the group to bookmark each others websites, every time a member has a new link. Let me know if you would like to be invited to participate in the group.

As far as I am aware, these are all ‘dofollow’ websites. (I have made some updates to the list 08/03/2008). If any of you have suggestions to add to, or remove from this list, please post them in the comments area below. I will update as I find more.

Here are a couple of other ones that are great, but are nofollow, still good for getting human traffic though. If you want I can make an ultimate no-follow bookmarking website list, but I don’t really see the point.

http://www.Faves.com (formerly known as BlueDot.us)
http://Del.icio.us
http://www.Netvouz.com
http://www.Stumbleupon.com
http://www.Blinklist.com (this was do-follow, but seems to have moved over to no-follow)

This is a first draft of the list, as taken from the Social Ninja secret Facebook group. I will edit it as time goes on.

You might want to try using http://www.socialmarker.com, http://www.onlywire.com and also http://www.socialposter.com to make posting to some of these a much quicker process. I have recently discovered http://www.posttoaster.com which is a new ‘bulk’ social posting website, I really like this one, maybe you guys should give it a whirl.

If you like this list post your comments, I have enabled do-follow links on this blog, so any approved comments will count as a link back to your site. This blog is still new, so there are not many comments, which means you could quite easily get listed on the right as a top commenter, which will link back to your site too. Just a suggestion!

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backlink pagerank and analysis tools

Ultimate do-follow social bookmarking website list