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How many times Google crawls a website varies a lot; if your producing a lot of content then it can be daily. If you’re producing very little content it might be monthly.
I've found that my content gets crawled once i share it on Twitter, Google+ and Facebook.
Firstly what website are you talking about? is it http://www.bronxpad.com/ (on your profile) if you you don't appear to have any links?
What keywords are you trying to rank for?
It really depends on what your objectives are? If your objectives are to increased traffic then adding content to your blog is a far better option.
**Benefits of adding content to your website **
Long tail keywords = lots of traffic
Possibility of links (if you provide great content, it could get links. Don't expect to get lots easily though, check out this question I asked about blog posts and links acquisition ratio's)
Permanent asset for traffic and links.
Benefits of Guest Blogging
One guaranteed link
Networking with other bloggers
-Bring some traffic from other sites that might have lots of traffic.
If you’re going to guest blog ensure to choose a website that has a massive user base of traffic. That wouldn't be achievable if you added it to your blog.
Well I'm really sick of reading people questions saying "help my sites been affected by penguin"
So I thought I would ask something about blogging, where is the best place to find and buy pictures for blog posts?
I already use Wikimedia commons. But I'm interested websites that have a bigger range that aren't too pricey.
What do you recommend?
Hi Pete,
Firstly I wouldn't remove any of your links, it looks like your links have been devalued.
This basiclly means that Google isn't counting many of your links. Most likely Website footers, blog comments and forums have all been devalued.
Watch this video by Rand for more info http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-on-googles-penguin-update
If you want to regain your ranking I would conentrate on content creation for your blog and guest blogging. It looks like you haven't added anything for awhile. Try posting each week. Also add some photos to each of your blog posts.
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Hi Kosta,
Sadly the only way I know is to contact each website that looks spammy and ask for them to remove the link. Sometimes getting removal isn't possible.
If it's a blog network, find out who owns the blog network and ask them to remove all the links. It looks like they have used an SEO firm to get these back links? Often blackhat SEO firms have their own blog networks, so you could get them to remove all of them, if your lucky.
The other option is to just start building quality links, and just wait out the penalty. If you get enough quality links Google will see the website is trust worthy and ignore the spam.
The hard part is getting quality links. Start with high quality directories, and then looks at the business supplier to see if you can get quality links from suppliers in exchange for a testimonies.
Then I would move on to guessed blogging on relevant topics. Cars should be an easy topic to find plenty of quality blogs. Contact them with a great article or idea, in exchange for a link.
Open Site explorer only get's updated every month or so, although it doesn't crawl the entire internet so it could take up to 1-3 months for you to see what your competitors backlinks are. They do have backlinks.
In terms of your website, it looks like you have received a Google Penalty, as I've searched your actual name: "sportsautogroup" and you don't even show up.
You need to remove the spammy blog links and other fake links. Such as this one... this clearly a spammy blog network link - http://www.christmastreemountain.com/
Then submit for reconsideration - I could contact an SEO professional before doing this. There is plenty of great people on SEOmoz forum that can help.
Thanks Kieron, This definitely helps! It looks like guest blogging in terms of link building is significantly more effective. Still it would be great if someone had figures on traffic/links ratio... as I’m guessing this would be more accurate than amount of articles to link ratio.
Hi,
Was wondering if people could please tell me some estimates of how much traffic is likely to gain links to a blog post?
For example 1,000 hits = 1 link, Hence 10,000 hits = 10 links to a blog post?
I understand there is no magic ratio I just want to know what people have achieved. I’m after averages not just a one off really successful blog post too.
Please specify the topic you achieve this in e.g. SEO, photography, business, heath... etc.
I've seen changes within the last 6 months to websites PR so I believe it's not dead. It gets updated randomly Google doesn't update it publicly very often because they don't want SEO people to focus on this number.
If you want more info on PR what this video...http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-googles-pagerank-good-for-whiteboard-friday
Here's a quote from the Video explaining PR:
"PageRank is useful as a raw indication of link popularity. Meaning that, PageRank doesn't take into account anchor text. It doesn't take into account whether the sites are related to each other. It doesn't take into account whether some of the sites maybe have been flagged for spam. It doesn't take into account whether the page is relevant to the actual search query"
Thanks Miriam! Wow so much to learn!...
I'm after high pinned ranking in the main search egine results.
Can someone please provide some details about key ranking factors for Google Places? Such as Keywords, reviews, pictures, location?
I've tried getting reviews, adding lots of details, + Pictures etc..
What about Charities? If I earn a link from a charity clearly it's not a relevant link.
How are directories relevant? Cleary DMOZ, Business etc... don’t have anything to do with your website?
What if an SEO blogger writes a article on a best industry website... say "tractors.com" this isn't a relevant link and is complete natural?
What happens if a supplier links to your website... That does your CRM system? This isn't a relevant link?
Secondly if your selling "Tractors" and get a link from a business blog or finance blog (with high DA) this isn't relevant, but people who read business/finance blog still buy "Trackers"? So doesn't that make them relevant?
How you do determine what’s relevant and what’s not? It's very difficult to get relevant links high DA websites if you’re in a very specific niche.
I've seen business with a net worth of 100 billion... but plenty of links that are high DA, but not complete relevant links? How can a business of this size possibly take these risks?
Isn't it ok to get irrelevant links along as they are not paid links?
Here's a list of do follow video sharing sites Hope that helps.
I've haven't tried any of these, but I would stick with Youtube + a few of these other sites. You can still gain a lot of benefits from YouTube such as brand awareness/promotion and traffic referrals.
Have you tried using videos to rank for keywords your targeting? It's significantly easier to rank for keywords with a video than with a website.
If you have already redirected your links with 301 redirect it will pass on 90-99% of link juice.
So you would only see a small change in your rankings. If it's a new site with few links then there shouldn't be any change.
Alittle of topic but FYI, It's free atm to add your blog to botw Blogs http://blogs.botw.org/
So if you have a blog, add it. I added mine and get listed within a few months.
They also have strict submission criteria which means they are still a quality directory.
Firstly how long have you been waiting? You can expect waiting times of up to 6 months or more.
Secondly it’s possible a competitor is the editor for that directory but pretty unlikely, it more likely they have a big back log. Or they don't have an editor / active one for that section. You can always try and apply for the editor position yourself (although I've had no luck with this).
DMOZ can be a really powerful link, but it really depends on the section you are trying to get, and how many other listings are already there.
I would submit once and then forget about it and focus on content creation and other areas. Add yourself to BOTW and dir.yahoo.com.
Never hear of these “Submission services” but they sound like waste of money and time.
Here's info on:
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/moztrust
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/mozrank
Without looking at your competitors back inks and yours + your on page SEO it's difficult for anyone to really provide you with any advice. So provide more information and you will receive better advice.
As stated by Tom, creating useful helpful and interesting content and adding it to your website Is the best long term strategy for link building. Over a long period of time useful articles are highly likely to receive some links. What's often not mention is the value you gain from blog traffic. Even if no one links to your blog you will gain more traffic to your website. I've had many resulting sales due to our blog traffic. Not to mention you will be able to post your blog on blog directories (so you will at least get these links)
You could also create valuable content by building tools/widgets for your industry. Infographics are great to add to your blog and are often popular to share.
Other techniques you could employ is bog commenting (although comments must be relevant and add value to the conversion).
Hold a contest, you will be able to submit to contest website which will link to your contest.
Donate to charity. (often tax refundable, so if you have the budget It can be a win win for the charity and you)
Here's some links to some ideas for link building.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-ways-to-buy-links-without-buying-links
http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-techniques
There are heap of other techniques but you should spend most of your time building or buying valuable content. Think of high quality content as assets. While other techniques are often just expenses.
Does having links without or with irrelent (such as your name on blog comments) anchor text improve your SERP ranking?
This is my favorite, Very helpful ideas!
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-ways-to-buy-links-without-buying-links
Firstly read the http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo.
Step 1- Change your Title Tag: e.g Sknlisting | StKitts Real Estate.... Your current one is to long:
St Kitts and Nevis Real Estate Listings | Find st kitts and nevis real estate, houses for sale, houses for rent, apartments for rent in st kitts and nevis,
Step 2- Submit to quality business / Link Directories. e.g. DMOZ, Yahoo, BOTW http://www.seomoz.org/directories
Step 3- Keyword competitor link research - Use http://www.opensiteexplorer.org
Research your competitors links, then create an excel spread sheet and attempted to get their best links
Step 4 - Press Release - Press Release to relevant Newspapers, Magazines & PR web (or similar)
**Step 5 - Start a blog and create useful content **
Step 6 - Use Social Media to promote your blog and website.
They updated Linkscape every month, https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
You can added it to your calendar https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
You should worry more about your SERP. If you are improving your results then your doing the right thing.
Yes, I believe it does. I find if one of my article gets retweeted, digged, etc.. my blog post gets on to the first page of google. It also get crawled by google way faster.
Read this article... http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-twitters-influence-google-search-rankings
Could SEOMOZ make a tool that Crawls Internal Links that's connected (or crawls) directly from Webmaster Tools? (So link metrics on our domains would get updates more often) This would eliminate the cost of crawling the entire internet.
I hate having to wait a month to see updates on my domain metrics and links. I would like to see updates regularly on my own domain.
I understand you can just look at Webmaster tools to see your latest links but they don't have any link metrics. So it’s difficult to see your best links.
If this already exists please refer me? Otherwise please show your support for this being developed?
You can use http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/, on the first tab "Inbound Links" then click on "All" (drop down menu) Select "Only internal" Then simply search.