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Learn about the importance of backlinks in website rankings and effective strategies to improve SEO performance while avoiding penalties. Discover the power of anchor text and valuable link building practices in this insightful session.
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Jim Boykin – Pubcon Vegas 2015 CEO & Founder of Internet Marketing NinjasOwner of WebmasterWorld, Devshed, SEOChat, Cre8asiteForums, Threadwatch and More. Masters Group Workshop
I lived through the Google Florida Update November 16th 2003
Google is based, from it’s inception to this day, on BACKLINKS
Keeping those rankings depends on many other things….mostly based on the user experience.
Backlink Anchor Text of All Keyword Phrases Cheap WidgetsDiscount WidgetsOnline WidgetsWidget StoreBuy Widgets
Submit to Directories Article Content Syndication Sites Press Releases Blog Reviews Forum Links
New site. One page for every keyword possible.
They watch what SEO’s do, and then filter and penalize as many un-natural patterns as they can find.
And if they find Unnatural or Low Quality Patterns you get Spanked with a Penalty
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And you freaked out And many people got fired from their SEO position.
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We need at least X # of Links Per Month. And make sure the pages have PageRank X And make sure they all come from pages about “X Topic” And make sure that the anchor text is “Blue Widget” (or a mix of other commercial phrases) And we need the links go to these commercial pages
We submitted to lots of Directories, Article Syndication sites, Built Profile Pages, Forum LinksPaid Blog Reviews Hired Link Builders Interlinked our own Network of Sites
We submitted to lots of Directories, Article Syndication sites, Built Profile Pages, Forum LinksPaid Blog ReviewsHired Link Builders Interlinked our own Network of Sites
A Few Link Building Myths There is no such thing as “Hundreds of Directories" There is no such thing as “Hundreds of Article Syndication sites" There is no such thing as “”Hundreds of Blog Reviews" There is no such thing as “Hundreds of Guest Posts" There is no such thing as “Hundreds of Forum Comments"
Well, one day they get busted for doing SEO and they they have to serve some hard time.
I will stop chasing short tail and I will do great things to add value to my site and to my users and work on our brand value.
Links as a measurement are not going away “It turns out backlinks, even though there’s some noise, and certainly a lot of spam, for the most part are still a really, really big win in terms of quality for search results.” Matt Cutts Feb 19th 2014