Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Browse the forum for helpful insights and fresh discussions about all things SEO.

  1. Home
  2. SEO Tactics
  3. Link Building
Log in to post

Category: Link Building

Chat through link building best practices and outreach techniques.

  • TP_Marketing


    Hello, Is this  a common practice?  Using the  Open Site Explorer I can see all of my sites strongest pages.  Would  it be ok for me to build other pages but putting links on these stong pages? Thank YOu!

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • TP_Marketing


    Hi All, Ive been slowly building links to some of my inner pages. Ive finally reached page 1 for a specific keyword search. Should I continue building links to this page so I dont lose position? I have a campaign setup through seomoz to keep track. Thanks!

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • SharewarePros


    Dear Mates, We are looking for increase our Domain Authority, so we was submitting our site to BOW, Yahoo Directory and we want to know if Press Releases sites (paid press) are too good to do the inversion. What sites are recommended, we think could be very usefull build a list of the real top PR sites (Paid and Free) Thank you for your time

    | SharewarePros
    0
  • creativeguy


    I have blogs/news sites on every one of my clients' websites (each representing a different business within the same industry - self storage). On each of these blog sites, I have a writer who places about 3-5 exact keyword match links (varying anchor text) to give interlink juice to the other off-site businesses owned by the client. Each of these blogs receive about five posts per week. I am sure this is mega-over-optimizing and a stupid thing to do considering penguin. So, my questions are: Moving forward - 1.  Should i stop adding so many blog articles to each site? 2.  How many interlinking anchor texts should I use per blog? 3.  Should I go back and either get rid of all those interlinks on past blogs or just trash the blog articles altogether? Please help if you can - I very much appreciate the responses best bd

    | creativeguy
    0
  • David_ODonnell


    Hi Guys, Not looking for a debate on whether or not to use link removal services (linkdelete.com, deletebacklinks.com etc), I'm just interested in hearing any feedback you may have after having used one. What was your experience with the service? Do you believe it helped you recover from a penalty? Cheers.

    | David_ODonnell
    0
  • reddogmusic


    I've been keeping an eye on the Linkscape update calendar and am a bit confused! There was meant to be an update yesterday, but Open Site Explorer is still showing "Last index update: 8/14/12". When will the new data reach OSE? Been doing lots of link building and want to know if my efforts have been worth it! Any info greatly appreciated. Thanks! Alex

    | reddogmusic
    1
  • TP_Marketing


    Hello! Typically how long does it take for these links to show up in Opensite Explorer? I sumbitted these approx 3-4 weeks, OSE has just updated, and I still cannot see in my link profile? Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks guys!

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • shauny35


    Does anyone have thoughts on doing mass directory submissions post penguin? I know the value of the links are pretty worthless I am considering a submission service for nothing more than to get my number of different c-blocks up Will directories be looked upon as link networks? Is worth it?

    | shauny35
    0
  • Nightwing


    Greetings from 12 degrees C just stopped raining wetherby Uk 😉 Whilst there is a stack of tools out there capable of measuring inbound links to a site i need a tool that can target a specific page and inform me about the origin & volume. Put another way i need to know what tool could tell me how many links this page is getting:http://www.sandersonweatherall.co.uk/office-to-let-leeds/ Thanks in advance,
    David

    | Nightwing
    0
  • Saunders1865


    Hi, I have great content on my website which I would like to build external links to from other websites.  I am told this will increase my domain authority and ultimately help search engine ranking positions.  I have very limited time in my hands and now thinking of outsourcing the link building component to a specialist. Is this a good way of doing it? Could you recommend professional link builders?

    | Saunders1865
    0
  • Mediaowl


    Hi, I am wondering if there is any point building backlinks etc.. to ebay listings? How do I improve them in terms of SEO apart from the listing titles?

    | Mediaowl
    0
  • bigeyecreative


    When I am commenting on blogs to get links, what criteria should I use to make sure the blog is valuable and wont hurt me in the long run?

    | bigeyecreative
    0
  • tempowebdesign


    So with all these updates hitting sites left, right and center. Now you have your desired rank on Google, do you stop link building for that project? I can see some positives in this You will not add links that will get hit by future updates. If you do get hit in future updates you have less links to remove. Obviously it an outstanding link came along from BBC or CNN you would go for that.  But press releases etc would you now stop anything like that?

    | tempowebdesign
    0
  • nicc1976


    Just started working on a new pharma based client in the UK. I have been carrying out some link profiling on page one results for several key terms and have discovered that almost all of the sites ranking in top positions appear to have all kinds of rubbish links (links in irrelevant content / articles, links in forum signatures, single page blogs and sites that appear to have little association with their products). These links seem to be about the only links some of them have yet they rank top! It seems a very difficult prospect to build a decent white hat link profile if everyone else is STILL capitalizing on the sort of rubbish links that Google is supposed to be getting tough on. Are online pharmacies the world that Google forgot or is this a really common issue?

    | nicc1976
    0
  • cbielich


    Just a thought. With the way pagerank works and passing link juice evenly across all your links. Would it make sense to structure your site so that each page passes your all your link juice from lets say your homepage to another page. Then that page would contain all the link juice from the homepage. Then do the same thing with the next pages. For instance Homepage - linkjuice 10 link1 - follow link2 rel=nofollow link3 rel=nofollow link4 rel=nofollow link5 rel=nofollow Link1 - linkjuice 10 link1 rel=nofollow link2 - follow link3 rel=nofollow link4 rel=nofollow link5 rel=nofollow Link2 - linkjuice 10 link1 rel=nofollow link2 rel-nofollow link3 - follow link4 rel=nofollow link5 rel=nofollow Link3 - linkjuice 10 link1 rel=nofollow link2 rel-nofollow link3 rel=nofollow link4 - follow link5 rel=nofollow Link4 - linkjuice 10 link1 rel=nofollow link2 rel-nofollow link3 rel=nofollow link4 rel=nofollow link5 - follow and so on. Theoretically would'nt this help pass a ton if not all of link juice to your main links? Sorry if this is a dumb question, it's late and sometimes my mind goes places 🙂

    | cbielich
    0
  • ksbnok


    I have a blog on interior decoration and I have made a Wordpress Plugin which is not at all related to the niche of my blog...I have created this plugin in the hope that I might get backlinks due to this...but am not sure whether I should keep the plugin documentation page on some page of the blog itself like www.example.com/blog/plugin-page/ or on some subdomain like plugin-page.example.com

    | ksbnok
    0
  • rickv101


    Hi, Does anyone know of a tool where I can compare 2 (or more) backlink profiles to check common linking domains. It is one of those things that I know I have seen somewhere before but cant remember for the life of me where! Thanks

    | rickv101
    0
  • tempowebdesign


    We have a potential new client who did their own SEO about 6-7 years ago.They ranked really well for years then obviously recently got hit. Some of the links they have are shocking, directories, articles sites etc.  They did not use links farms but the links do not look great at all.   The problem is they do not have log ins to remove these links manually themselves.  Asking for a reconsideration with Google will not get us anywhere due to more recent link building issues we are trying to resolve. They have sent removal requests at least 10 times to these sites but no response.  Has anyone overcome these types of issues previously and can give any tips? This would be a good client for us so keen to see what I can do to get them on-board.

    | tempowebdesign
    0
  • eunaneunan


    From a link building perspective, is a link from a site that's completely flash any good? Can google crawl flash sites at all, or it a waste of time trying to get a link from a flash site?

    | eunaneunan
    0
  • BenjaminDonley


    I have a client with several businesses within the same industry - Each of these businesses have their own websites. So, I have a few questions with this in mnd: **When using anchor text (exact keyword phrases) on his website pages, how many links are safe to use per page?  And if I want to interlink between his businesses, is it better to use exact keyword phrases to link or just a straight URL link for those other businesses? **When guest blogging or using an external blog of our creation, is it best to use exact keyword phrases (and how many) or URL links? I want to make sure I am not over linking - help? thanks a lot

    | BenjaminDonley
    0
  • AhmadS


    In the article, "Long List of Link Searches", Rand recommends: "At Google and others, it often helps to show 100 results per page and have the maximum "grouping" of results from the same site. That way, you can find all of the most relevant pages on a particular domain with ease." Can someone please share with me just how to customize the various search engine views this way?

    | AhmadS
    0
  • lnietob


    I know is difficult but it's worth to try. I am looking for a community eager to exchange links. I am in the venue rent for weeding and conferences in London   and I would be delighted to find other people to exchange the links. At the moment my page is PR4 I have seen communities for games where they exchange anything, why don't link exchange!!!!

    | lnietob
    0
  • SEOguppie


    Hi all, I've been hired as the chief marketer at a (very) high traffic web company. Ironically, I don't have much SEO experience but I have been able to figure out PPC, on-page SEO and SEO content generation pretty well over the last few months. What I don't get is link building. My question is this; we're trying to move from the 3-4 SERP slot to the 1-2 SERP slot for a short list of keywords. My boss asked me to get busy with link building. Our competitor has over 2 million external links and we have roughly 60 thousand. What do I do? How do I start? Is there a legit, white hat way to get this job moving? Any insights would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance!

    | SEOguppie
    0
  • AngolaCarro


    Hi everyone, I am a new danish SEOMOZ member currently living in Angola, Africa. I have created the site AngolaCarro.com  - an online marketplace for cars. The website is in Portuguese, as this is the main language in Angola. I am struggling finding good Angolan/Portuguese sites for solid back links and I would be extremely thankful if anyone could give SEO advice on how/where to build strong links from Portuguese language sites. Will using dropmylink.com to create back links from English language sites to my Portuguese site be a waist of time or will it have a SEO effect? Thanks in advance and have a great Sunday. Ken

    | AngolaCarro
    0
  • TP_Marketing


    Hello, I know this has been answered in the past but we have been doing press releases multiple times per week, and have been getting Great referrals, at the same time our link count is climbing. Can this have a negative effect on the overall site? Should we be doing these less often? Thanks very much!!!

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • TP_Marketing


    Hello I have a few competitors ranking VERY well for exact keyword match URL. They have a single hosted page, when a customer clicks to buy inventory ir re-directs to there main url. Will google eventually catch on to this? Excellent position, very little backlink/seo work.  Is this something that I should also look into for my own site? Thank you!

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • ScottM


    Why don't we see linking root domains like yelp, google, yahoo, etc?  Is there any way to get a more accurate list of links to a domain where webmaster tools are not an option?

    | ScottM
    0
  • TP_Marketing


    Hi All, I check webmaster multiple times on a daily basis, and I noticed some links that I have not worked on and look a bit spammy, is it possible for people to purposely pont bad links in my direction? If that is the case is there a way for me to remove them myself? Also the number of total backlinks are very different in Webmaster and my Open Site Explorer, is this normal? Thanks again !

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • KateGMaker


    So our site has these user profiles and when they leave a comment on a page it links to the users profile. Now there is no way there is spamming with these profiles because they can't use outside links on them so I was wondering what peoples thoughts are of making these user profiles no follow. I'm asking because some pages are coming back with 110 or more links on a single page because of the profiles so I was thinking of making the profiles no follow since I don't see them effecting too much of the site, but I was wondering what others thoughts were on this one.

    | KateGMaker
    0
  • vadimmarusin


    Just noticed that some keywords #1 in yahoo and bing and not in top 50 in google. Some keywords. Vice Versa. #1 in google and not in top 50 in yahoo and bing . What could be the problem? Thank you

    | vadimmarusin
    0
  • waynekolenchuk


    Hi Mozzers, I'm facing a tough link building challenge for a manufacturer's representative of technical controls and am struggling to find links beyond directories. The site mainly consists of manufacturers products and creating original content is tough for me because of the technical nature of the business. Any suggestions welcome.

    | waynekolenchuk
    0
  • TP_Marketing


    Hello, Is it normal for Organic traffic to show for keywords or phrases that I am not even targeting? All of this traffic spiked within a couple days and I cant figure out why? I ve been building backlinks, doing all the correct things. Just took me by surprise. Typically when you begin showing organically is it usually a slow progression? Thanks so much!

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • mr_w


    If your using the default Joomla weblink component do the links you add to others sites count as backlinks to those sites? example: http://www.yakangler.com/helpful-links/26-fishing-blogs-sites

    | mr_w
    0
  • JerrodDavid


    I have 3 domains that are in the same niche as my main site and not connected in any way. Now my question is should I just link to my main site from each of them on a page that is relevant to my main Keywords or should I 301 them to the site? I am thinking that building a link to my main site would have more effect than 301's. Thanks in advance!

    | JerrodDavid
    0
  • waqid


    I have a client who is willing to spend an additional 5k into his SEO campaign. I was curious if anyone has any other ideas on spending this in terms of link building. Human edited directories work really well and i have seen some huge successes. Unfortunately i have gotten stuck in purchasing these and would like some fresh ideas. Content is a no brainier.

    | waqid
    0
  • applesofgold


    I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a quality SEO company that focuses primarily on building links on high quality sites? So many of the SEO firms are too slick with their sales people and content analysis and research and reports & B.S. What I'd like is an honest company who will simply help me acquire high quality links. Any SEO companies out there that can help??? Most SEO companies are also way too expensive. I'm looking for quality @ a value. Can anyone help?

    | applesofgold
    0
  • TopFloor


    I know that after the recent slate of Google updates, many free directories got taken down. We've typically used the list of directories placed on SEOmoz (www.seomoz.org/directories).  Before adding a site to a directory, we always check to see if it is indexed by Google. Is this still a safe option or should directories be avoided?

    | TopFloor
    0
  • TP_Marketing


    Hello, We wanted to start hosting our own blog and was wondering (long term) if we are using embedding links to our inner pages in our blog entries if it would be a problem with Google long term?  We have a designer that suggestes a custome look to match the site, and leave the wordpress plugin. Should we continue to contribute to blogger, and wordpress (free) if we are hosting our own blog? How important is a branded blog name?  We were going to host it and name it xxxxxx.com/ourblog Thanks so much!!

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • chudson7


    why do i see 200 + links drop in one day ?

    | chudson7
    0
  • TP_Marketing


    How important is it to spread backlinks throught .com, biz, org, net, etc? Im looking at some competition link profiles and majority of their links are coming from .com Thank You!

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • TP_Marketing


    Hello A competitor of mine has a bunch of branded terms that they purchased, with backlinks point to their main site, is there a specific reason they do this? If I analyze the links on the "branded url" theres it has very little juice/authority? Is it worth it to do this? ex  www.siteCOUPON.com. or www.mainsite.biz I have a .ca and something similar to our site re-directing through register.com in Iframe. But would they just be using those terms because it has high search volume? Would this help me in anyway? Thank you!

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • ksbnok


    if you have lets say tools.examplexxxx.com in which "tools" + "example" makes a good keyword together i.e [example tools] (a good key word). Is it wise to put 300 quality backlinks with exact matched anchor text containing keyword**[example tools]**  from niche related domains and not worrying getting hit by penguin.

    | ksbnok
    0
  • ksbnok


    Am Planning to pay 300$ to http://blogs.botw.org/ a seomoz recommended directory to get my website listed there plz suggest if this is a wise decision from SEO perspective or not thanks in advance

    | ksbnok
    0
  • okuma


    Hi everyone, Hope your day is super fantastic. I am working on a new content publishing checklist. Once we publish a new article or blog post, what are the sites/ links/ actions to take to distribute the content and "get it out there". I looked around on here, but couldn't find one. Let's start a great discussion and then I will compile the answers and publish. Something like: Social:
    Facebook
    Twitter
    G+
    Pinterest Bookmark:
    del.icio.us
    stumble
    rededit Answer Q's:
    Yahoo Answers
    Quora What do you think? Too secret sauce for a general discussion? Thanks.

    | okuma
    0
  • TP_Marketing


    Hello, When Building backlinks is there a specific ratio I should try to follow to avoid any issues with google? Thank you!

    | TP_Marketing
    0
  • nkabbara


    Hi Guys, I'm trying to have my page rank better for "sell my car Houston". I'm about to start working on getting links to our site and my question is should I work on getting links to that specific page or would it be OK to just get links to the home page (same seo effect)? Specific page: http://www.motorsonwheels.com/pages/sell-my-car-in-houston-tx Home page: http://www.motorsonwheels.com Thanks! -Nash

    | nkabbara
    0
  • ksbnok


    should we get backlink from penguin hit website ?

    | ksbnok
    0
  • raghavkapur


    I have asked a partner website to link to my website in the Menu Bar. Which has resulted in a link to my website from every page of the partners website (Over 1000 Pages). The link is not a "nofollow" link, it is a regular link. Can this have any negative effects in terms of SEO?

    | raghavkapur
    0
  • artemmin


    Getting links has become very difficult task for me. Recently i have started a website on Depression and Anxiety. My campaign steps: 1)Hired a doctor to write stuff on my website. 2)After that we did 100 more articles for article marketing. 3)Submitted content to top article directories.. All links to only 1 anchor (domainname.com). I haven't promoted my domain with main anchor anywhere. DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO 😞 Can anyone suggest me some link building methods so that i can do Good SEO for my new site?

    | artemmin
    0
  • ksbnok


    If you have half of the keyword you are targeting in ur brand name itself can we still use our brand name as anchor text in all inbound links

    | ksbnok
    0

Got a burning SEO question?

Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.


Start my free trial


Browse Questions

Explore more categories

  • Moz Tools

    Chat with the community about the Moz tools.

  • SEO Tactics

    Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers

  • Community

    Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!

  • Support

    Connect on product support and feature requests.

Looks like your connection to Moz was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.