SEO Tampa

Search Engine Optimization and Making Money on the Internet

As I had said when it comes to SEO the most important part of the puzzle is getting backlinks. I have already discussed the “natural” way to get them, the way that you will starve if you try and go that route, but now lets see how we can get sites pointing back to us.

Article Directories - Do you like to write? Even if you dont you will have to. This is what you do, siply write an article that is about 400-700 words, then just simply submit it to the article directory. If you need to find an article directory, just simply do a search and thousands will appear. Some of the best article directory are Ezine articles and Goarticles. See when you write an article you are able to leave a backlink to your site in the resource box, and some article directories will let you leave a backlink in the body of the article. Make sure that you anchor the keywords that you are targeting though.

Website Directories - These are websites that hold links by category to other websites. Some of these directories are niche related while others display a wide range of catergories. The big ones that will help your website are Dmoz and Yahoo directories.

Press Release Sites - This is simply where you announce your site, and you get a backlink pointing back to your site, not the best links, but hey every link counts.

Commenting On Blogs - This is a highly effective way to get backlinks and to increase your pagerank if it is done right. Depending on what search engine you want to rank for will determine how much work will need to be done, if you are trying to rank in yahoo or msn, you do not need to pay attention to the nofollow tag, google on the other hand you will. The more relevant the post is to the keyword you are trying to rank for the better, also the better the pagerank of the page where your link is the more authority you will get for the keyword you anchor. If you need to find blogs that are follow, then do a search for do-follow divers, that is a search engine that finds blogs that are against the “nofollow” tag.

Social Sites - Easy way to get links back to your site. Some of the big ones that allow do-follow back links are Mister Wong and Propeller. There are also hundreds of pligg and scuttle sites that will allow you to submit a story to along with a backlink to your site.

Of course there are other ways that links can be obtained but I will not be going over them as they are frowned upon by many search engines and the last thing I want to do is get someone in trouble, because they do not know what they are doing and get their websites banned from search engines.