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Thanks for the responses guys,

As I previously stated I am outsourcing content creation so I am going to try and focus on content ideas as you have mentioned. Great content by itself wont magically gain links, its the dilemma of how to promote your content effectively to gain links. Being a fairly new business we do not have a massive social media following to promote content, it seems that I will have to identify potential link sources and approach them in the manner that has been suggested.

In terms of 'easy links' are directors and forum posts worth it? Its seems to be the consensus that gaining quality over quantity is the best outlook when building links.

Once again I would like to thank you for your input

p.s. Is it best to send from my personal email or my professional one i.e. info@ecobode.co.uk

Hi,

I currently am trying to obtain links to build up the authority of my website. I am outsourcing content to be created by professionals as I am not the best when it comes putting together a piece of content worth linking to.

My business build and design garden buildings that are used for a number of uses such as garden offices,gyms,therapy rooms, playrooms the list goes on. I have already had a piece of content created called '3 ways a garden office can boost productivity'.

We also put a swimming pool in one of our rooms which is quite innovative in our industry, I am going to create a blog post  about it.

I have identified garden design, gardening & home improvement as relevant topics and this is who I will be targeting to link to my contact. In this case I have identified a home improvement blog I would like to obtain a link from  'http://www.ukhomeimprovement.co.uk/'. The question is how do obtain this link? What is the best way to approach them?

Kind Regards,

Tom

p.s. my website is www.ecobode.co.uk

Thanks Andy.

Finally would it be acceptable to put a H1 above the second body of text rather than it being on the top of the page?

Kind Regards,

Tom Gale

Its difficult to put a h1 tag saying the exact same thing as the banner in the image without it looking strange. Putting a h1 tag above the image but in white would be considered unethical wouldn't it?

Thanks for the reply's!

I am currently web optimizing my images for a faster load time. In regards to adding a title in above the image, I am having trouble finding a solution where this doesn't look stupid (so to speak). I am considering hiding the H1 tag but I know this is poor practice as I cant imagine google approving of this trickery! Any ideas would be much appreciated!

Kind Regards,

Tom Gale

I am currently going through the process of optimizing my pages for my given keywords. Most of my pages are receiving an A grading from the Moz page checker, with keywords being found in all elements expect for the H1 tag.

For certain pages I have not used a H1 tag, the pages title has been incorporated into the image on the top of the page. This is difficult to explain without showing you so i will use one of my pages to explain, the page is http://www.ecobode.co.uk/garden-uses-3/garden-gym/.

The keyword for this page is garden gym, it is found multiple times in the content, URL and other on page elements expect for the H1 tag as I don't have one. The title resides in the image, I know how important H1 tags are but I don't know how I can incorporate into this page.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can incorporate the H1 tag into this page?

Kind Regards,

Tom

Thank you Thomas, a very thorough and helpful answer!

I have been promoting and focusing on linkinbuilding in the .com site as of the last few weeks, I am aware that these efforts take time to materialise. If it is the case that there is not much difference between the two , then i will just stick with .com. We operate in England but our Villa is in Barbados and is promoted internationally and so I don't believe .co.uk is particularly useful.

The main difference between the two sites was that the co.uk  version had been running for 4 years (not by me) and so I thought it may had developed some good ( be it unintentional ) authority. Whereas i have only had .com up and running properly for around a month. I suppose I might as well continue on trying to build quality links to the .com site,

To clarify, when you mention that the site has issues you would be referring the co.uk one?

Thanks again for your respone!!

Hi all,

I created a website www.bruadair.com approximately 2 months ago, the website is for a luxury villa. Prior to creating this site the villa website was www.bruadair.co.uk , this website had been live for around 4 years.

Now after developing the site and creating optimised content etc, I started my link building strategy to try and increase both the page and domain authority of the site. I used MOZ's open site explorer tool to examine my site and compared it with the old domain (www.bruadair.co.uk), this is was where my question arose.

The old site has a domain authority of 16/100 and the home page has a page authority of 26/100. The old domain also had 468 inbound links ( the quality of these are most likely questionable, nofollows etc ). The new site in comparison has 1/100 domain authority and 1/100 page authority with no apparent inbound links.

Before I noticed this I had generated a few inbound links to the new site, but Moz had not indexed websites since I had done this therefore it probably wouldn't have shown it in the open site explorer.

Basically I have cloned the new site to the old web address and am thinking of using the .co.uk version just due to its existing domain and page authority. Would it be beneficial to swap over to the old site to benefit from the domain authority??

Thanks for any help given!

Thank you, point taken about keyword placement and usage!

The problem i seem to have with my keywords for this site is that all the keywords i wish to use 'luxury villa in Barbados' 'large villa in Barbados' etc all are extremely competitive and it seems that long tail keywords such as 'large 7 bedroom villa for rent in Barbados' generate no monthly searches (according to the google keyword tool).

With this in mind is it not achievable for me to generate organic traffic through search engines due to the lack of non competitive keywords?

Thank you for the reply!

Ok i understand your point, but if i wished to rank for that keyword would i have to include it in its complete from within the content?

It is also difficult to simply put 'large luxurious villa in Barbados' in say the title or the url....based on this keywords difficulty to place in important on page elements would it just be best to try and target a new, more 'page friendly' keyword?

Thanks!