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Keep sharing your personal experiences with linking where it’s applicable, we are all learning and you may have a clue that helps us all move it to another level. That’s all I’m trying to do, pump it up.
What I want to know before we start is where everyone is now with linking, what you want to know more about, whatever it takes to pump it up. We still don’t have a new charter for this forum. We are a community here and I’m happy to keep guiding but I like to learn too, I’m not the only one with tips and secrets to revel. Let’s do it.
Talk to me. What can we do to generate 5200+ posts over the next 4 ½ months?
if you are an info site, people will link you.
if you are a sale site, people will not link you.
So if google puts pr on links, then all search term top 10 will be info site only.
you like to buy a pair of shoes?
Top 10 is
1. where shoes from/shoe history
2. who is the best shoe design. A shoe professor.
3. the comprehensive shoes directory.
4. why shoes are different
5. shoes - from China to Egypt
6. barefoot or shoes?
7. shoe seo /search engine optimization, want to sell your shoes? Come to our help. call 1 800 shoe seo.
8. google froogle shoe store
9. yahoo shoe store
10. ebay used shoes
Obviously it isn't PR but it must come into the equasion somewhere.
For example does ATW give you a deeper crawl if it thinks your site is more importain than others. I think an equivilent of PR exists to a smaller degree on other se's just not so blatant or public.
Not necessarily true, but I'd guess that it would vary by industry. Get creative in your link requests and suggestions. I have an ecom site with 58 reciprocal links. ATW lists 774 backlinks and Google shows 370. :)
There is a good lesson in this though for members to show a fundamental relationship.
Links and Titles go together.
The Link Development forum is #4 for >> link development [google.com] << out of 4.6 million results
Obviously there is many factors that produce the occurrence but now let's look at this thread.
Pumping it up! Let's Regroup and Talk [google.com] #1
Far less competition to be sure at 1,170 due to the more precise query... but notice that ranked listings @ 2 - 10 don't have anything to do with "Link Development".
A light form of unintentional spamming since >> Pumping it up! << infers sports related. Based on the lack of relevancy this thread should not appear here but the Link Development forum sheer number of links helps drive the title to the top.
If we reverse engineer this thread since the forums link hierarchy is fixed and the vast majority of links pointing to this forum indicate >> link development <<, and >> The Marketing World << etc., the thread title (which drives meta title) should be something related.
e.g. Link Development Forum Share Your Experiences or your sub-topic The Link Development Forum Strategy.
Titles and Links go hand in hand... thus for smaller websites which do not have the breadth of WebmasterWorld -- a site's internal linking construct (including anchor text) should be defined by the "Page's Meta Title" which reiterates the visible on-page title for overall best results.
Couldn't resist! ;)
To bring this back to topic > exchanges should obviously be "topic related" the topic however, is best defined by the page title of where the link resides in addition to where the link is going.
Topic Relevant ;)
That is actually one of the reasons I like to put an
"industry news" section on a site. It encourages links, and they almost come by themselves.
One-way inbound links are real good and Google counts them as a true vote.
Glossaries of terms within the industry helps as well.
Takes alot of effort to develop, and why site owners will link to them.
[edited by: fathom at 1:18 pm (utc) on May 4, 2003]
Granted, they are a lot of work to do and place, but once you have that, it is great seeing all those inbound links popping in form all over.
