MindDiablos
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So I'm new to blowing and I am having alot of trouble getting traffic to my site. I keep hearing and reading about back links. Can somebody either explain to me in laymans term or direct me in the right direction of understanding back links please. I would really appreciate it. Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. Hmm. How do I go about getting them?
So if I respond on a youtube video forum or blog and add my link or add it in my signature is that considered a back link? The best way to get the traffic is through the use search engine. And the search engines ranks among competitors for specific key words through backlinks, more backlinks more will be the traffic to your site. OK I didn't know it was the best way so thank you for that but how do I go about making them? Quote: Originally Posted by Ryhailey So if I respond on a youtube video forum or blog and add my link or add it in my signature is that considered a back link? No just put the signature is not consider as the backlink. But if any person click on your signature link and visit your site then it consider as the backlinks. And backlinks turns in the term of traffic to the site , as much backlinks you get that much traffic will increased. And there are many methods to get the backlinks to the site but always try to get the quality backlinks instead of quantity of the links. Hailey...if you are new to seo..its always better to go from the scratch. If you have already done with on site optimization, you can start a blog and invite guest bloggers, you will generate good traffic through guest blogging. If you are good at guest blogging, you will have more chances to write article on other bloggers blog. You are generating genuine and valuable (repeated) visitors to your webite. Alright haha thanks everyone I appreciate the help still a little confused but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it. Read this for starters...it should help...:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/...rter-guide.pdf Thanks Jim I really appreciate it I will read this over. Quote: Originally Posted by Ryhailey Hmm. How do I go about getting them?
So if I respond on a youtube video forum or blog and add my link or add it in my signature is that considered a back link? Yes these count as backlinks if the nofollow attribute is not used.
Quote: Originally Posted by prcys No just put the signature is not consider as the backlink. But if any person click on your signature link and visit your site then it consider as the backlinks. And backlinks turns in the term of traffic to the site , as much backlinks you get that much traffic will increased. And there are many methods to get the backlinks to the site but always try to get the quality backlinks instead of quantity of the links. Ok, this is kind of true.
If you fill in your signature and the place where you did it allows it to be clickable then it is a backlink. People don't have to click the link to make it a backlink, it just has to be a "live" (hyperlinked) link and the site owner must not use the nofollow attribute.
The quality over quantity part I agree with. So how do you know if a site is nofollow/dofollow Back to the original question,
Quote: Backlinks, also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links, are incoming links to a website or web page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node.[1]
Inbound links were originally important (prior to the emergence of search engines) as a primary means of web navigation; today, their significance lies in search engine optimization (SEO). The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (for example, this is used by Google to determine the PageRank of a webpage). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.
Backlink - Wikipedia
How do you get backlinks?
As explained in the quote above, when a site links to your site it is a backlink.
This can be:Someone that read your article/page and thought is was worth linking to from their own site. This is called natural backlinking because you didn't force the issue. They just thought you were great and decided to link to you without any payback. Depending on what field you are in, you can earn a backlink from an .edu or .gov site without forcing the issue/gaming the system.Someone tweets your link which can snowball into my first point.Someone mentions you on Facebook (or any other social networking/social bookmarking site) also can snowball into the first point.You could buy links from or exchange links with another site but be warned if not handled correctly it could be more damaging than good.You could comment on someone's blog. But do so without sounding spammy. A link in your comment would probably look spammy unless it adds to the conversation. Just be happy with your name being linked to your site to start with. Once you have built a relationship with the blog owner you might get away with linking to your own related posts/articles.
Most social sites use the nofollow attribute in their links out to your site. So do some blogs.
Quote: nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring. nofollow - Wikipedia
At the bottom of the above referenced article is a chart showing the interpretation by the individual search engines is handled for the nofollow attribute.
Don't be fooled by the nofollow attribute showing on the links. The site owner could have wasted their time doing that as the page could be picked up in a Sitemap or something else without the nofollow attribute and defeat their purpose of using the nofollow attribute. Also, you don't just want a backlink, you want traffic also. The average surfer isn't even going to know about the nofollow attribute. They are going to see your link or comment and click the link to see what you are all about.
Quote: How does Google handle nofollowed links?
In general, we don't follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web. However, the target pages may still appear in our index if other sites link to them without using nofollow, or if the URLs are submitted to Google in a Sitemap. Also, it's important to note that other search engines may handle nofollow in slightly different ways. About rel="nofollow" - Google Webmaster Tools Help Wow thank you for all the information that was very informative. Quote: Originally Posted by Ryhailey So how do you know if a site is nofollow/dofollow You can look at the source code for the rel="nofollow" attribute in the links. (View, Source in your browser top menu)
There are different plugins for Firefox that show you the links that are nofollow. The one I have colours the linked words with a pink background.
But again, don't worry about whether the links are nofollow or not. You want quality links related to your field. Plus it looks unnatural is all your incoming links (backlinks) do not have the nofollow attribute. Alright great thank you again I can already tell that this is a great community to be a part of In simple terms... Publish content and participate in conversations.
The run down:
Forums
Blogs
Articles
Press Releases
Guest Blogging (blog networks)
Document Sharing
Publishing content on your site of course (WP driven hopefully)
Wiki
Social Bookmarks
etc...the primary goal should be to find ways to produce relevant helpful content through publishing and conversations. Add to the game, and link drop while you're at it. backlinks are nothing but a hyperlink to your website from another website. And these backlinks (if they are do-follow*) will be counted by the Google search engine and give you a pagerank (which is most important in search engine optimization for occupying a better position in the search results.
*Do-follow links are nothing but a link which are counted by Google search engine. Do-follow can be specified in the hyperlink (html code) via "rel" attribute. Following are the html samples of do-follow and no-follow backlinks:
no-follow:
<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"http://www.google.com">seo</a>
do-follow:
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"http://www.google.com">seo</a>
Hope, this could be helpful. Thanks Quote: Originally Posted by Ryhailey Hmm. How do I go about getting them?
So if I respond on a youtube video forum or blog and add my link or add it in my signature is that considered a back link? Yes, each link that goes to your blog or site is counted as backlink.
So if I respond on a youtube video forum or blog and add my link or add it in my signature is that considered a back link? The best way to get the traffic is through the use search engine. And the search engines ranks among competitors for specific key words through backlinks, more backlinks more will be the traffic to your site. OK I didn't know it was the best way so thank you for that but how do I go about making them? Quote: Originally Posted by Ryhailey So if I respond on a youtube video forum or blog and add my link or add it in my signature is that considered a back link? No just put the signature is not consider as the backlink. But if any person click on your signature link and visit your site then it consider as the backlinks. And backlinks turns in the term of traffic to the site , as much backlinks you get that much traffic will increased. And there are many methods to get the backlinks to the site but always try to get the quality backlinks instead of quantity of the links. Hailey...if you are new to seo..its always better to go from the scratch. If you have already done with on site optimization, you can start a blog and invite guest bloggers, you will generate good traffic through guest blogging. If you are good at guest blogging, you will have more chances to write article on other bloggers blog. You are generating genuine and valuable (repeated) visitors to your webite. Alright haha thanks everyone I appreciate the help still a little confused but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it. Read this for starters...it should help...:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/...rter-guide.pdf Thanks Jim I really appreciate it I will read this over. Quote: Originally Posted by Ryhailey Hmm. How do I go about getting them?
So if I respond on a youtube video forum or blog and add my link or add it in my signature is that considered a back link? Yes these count as backlinks if the nofollow attribute is not used.
Quote: Originally Posted by prcys No just put the signature is not consider as the backlink. But if any person click on your signature link and visit your site then it consider as the backlinks. And backlinks turns in the term of traffic to the site , as much backlinks you get that much traffic will increased. And there are many methods to get the backlinks to the site but always try to get the quality backlinks instead of quantity of the links. Ok, this is kind of true.
If you fill in your signature and the place where you did it allows it to be clickable then it is a backlink. People don't have to click the link to make it a backlink, it just has to be a "live" (hyperlinked) link and the site owner must not use the nofollow attribute.
The quality over quantity part I agree with. So how do you know if a site is nofollow/dofollow Back to the original question,
Quote: Backlinks, also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links, are incoming links to a website or web page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node.[1]
Inbound links were originally important (prior to the emergence of search engines) as a primary means of web navigation; today, their significance lies in search engine optimization (SEO). The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (for example, this is used by Google to determine the PageRank of a webpage). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a webpage may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.
Backlink - Wikipedia
How do you get backlinks?
As explained in the quote above, when a site links to your site it is a backlink.
This can be:Someone that read your article/page and thought is was worth linking to from their own site. This is called natural backlinking because you didn't force the issue. They just thought you were great and decided to link to you without any payback. Depending on what field you are in, you can earn a backlink from an .edu or .gov site without forcing the issue/gaming the system.Someone tweets your link which can snowball into my first point.Someone mentions you on Facebook (or any other social networking/social bookmarking site) also can snowball into the first point.You could buy links from or exchange links with another site but be warned if not handled correctly it could be more damaging than good.You could comment on someone's blog. But do so without sounding spammy. A link in your comment would probably look spammy unless it adds to the conversation. Just be happy with your name being linked to your site to start with. Once you have built a relationship with the blog owner you might get away with linking to your own related posts/articles.
Most social sites use the nofollow attribute in their links out to your site. So do some blogs.
Quote: nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring. nofollow - Wikipedia
At the bottom of the above referenced article is a chart showing the interpretation by the individual search engines is handled for the nofollow attribute.
Don't be fooled by the nofollow attribute showing on the links. The site owner could have wasted their time doing that as the page could be picked up in a Sitemap or something else without the nofollow attribute and defeat their purpose of using the nofollow attribute. Also, you don't just want a backlink, you want traffic also. The average surfer isn't even going to know about the nofollow attribute. They are going to see your link or comment and click the link to see what you are all about.
Quote: How does Google handle nofollowed links?
In general, we don't follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web. However, the target pages may still appear in our index if other sites link to them without using nofollow, or if the URLs are submitted to Google in a Sitemap. Also, it's important to note that other search engines may handle nofollow in slightly different ways. About rel="nofollow" - Google Webmaster Tools Help Wow thank you for all the information that was very informative. Quote: Originally Posted by Ryhailey So how do you know if a site is nofollow/dofollow You can look at the source code for the rel="nofollow" attribute in the links. (View, Source in your browser top menu)
There are different plugins for Firefox that show you the links that are nofollow. The one I have colours the linked words with a pink background.
But again, don't worry about whether the links are nofollow or not. You want quality links related to your field. Plus it looks unnatural is all your incoming links (backlinks) do not have the nofollow attribute. Alright great thank you again I can already tell that this is a great community to be a part of In simple terms... Publish content and participate in conversations.
The run down:
Forums
Blogs
Articles
Press Releases
Guest Blogging (blog networks)
Document Sharing
Publishing content on your site of course (WP driven hopefully)
Wiki
Social Bookmarks
etc...the primary goal should be to find ways to produce relevant helpful content through publishing and conversations. Add to the game, and link drop while you're at it. backlinks are nothing but a hyperlink to your website from another website. And these backlinks (if they are do-follow*) will be counted by the Google search engine and give you a pagerank (which is most important in search engine optimization for occupying a better position in the search results.
*Do-follow links are nothing but a link which are counted by Google search engine. Do-follow can be specified in the hyperlink (html code) via "rel" attribute. Following are the html samples of do-follow and no-follow backlinks:
no-follow:
<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"http://www.google.com">seo</a>
do-follow:
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"http://www.google.com">seo</a>
Hope, this could be helpful. Thanks Quote: Originally Posted by Ryhailey Hmm. How do I go about getting them?
So if I respond on a youtube video forum or blog and add my link or add it in my signature is that considered a back link? Yes, each link that goes to your blog or site is counted as backlink.