30 November 2010 1 Comment

How To Get Incoming Links With Authority

“Duncan, what are some ways to get truly authoritative links to your site, those that help with rankings for more competitive search terms? Thanks,” ~ Kris Bickell Hi Chris, I’ve talked a lot about this in “The Ultimate Link Building Dossier”. The most powerful incoming links you can hope to achieve, links that will have [...]

12 October 2009 6 Comments

Incoming Links From Pages In The Supplemental Index

“I’m curious to know whether pages which are in the supplemental index still have their links counted by Google. What’s your theory on this? I have a number of sites that have been created purely for the purpose of providing links to other sites, I’m not concerned if these sites are in the main index [...]

6 October 2009 2 Comments

Too Many Incoming Links With The Same Anchor Text?

“Hi Duncan, Just one question: “When linking back to your own site(s) from another website, does it damage your search engine ranking to have too many of the same anchor text pointing to your site?” ~ Brad Dolley Hi Brad, No, quite the opposite in fact. The more focused you are on a specific keyword [...]

22 September 2009 1 Comment

Buying Text Link Advertising – Will It Get You Banned?

Link Building Misconception 5: Buying Text Link Advertising Will Get Your Website Penalized Or Banned… I have not once seen a website banned because they purchased text link advertising. What I have seen however is a very public display of “dissatisfaction” by Google applying an “apparent penalty” to a very major company’s network of websites back [...]

21 September 2009 0 Comments

Are Incoming Links With High Page Rank The Most Effective?

Link Building Misconception 4: High Valued Google Page Ranked (PR) Links Are The Most Effective Incoming Links To Obtain… This misconception is very closely related to the previous - ”Having a Website With High Valued PR Pages Will Improve Your Search Engine Rankings”. You can read that here if you missed it. In that misconception we debunked [...]

14 September 2009 0 Comments

High Page Rank Valued Pages Do Not Improve Your Search Engine Rankings

Link Building Misconception 3: Having a Website With High Valued PR Pages Will Improve Your Search Engine Rankings… If you’re reading this and don’t know what Google Page Rank (PR) is, you’ll find plenty of information about it online so I’m not going to go into a big explanation about it here. Back in the [...]

10 September 2009 2 Comments

Will Incoming Links From Bad Neighborhoods Get You banned?

Link Building Misconception 2: Incoming Links From “Bad Neighborhoods” Will Get You Penalized or Banned… This is another very common myth and is probably also the most illogical. The worst cases I see of this one are when you hear / read / see webmasters spending even the most minuscule amount of effort to try [...]

10 September 2009 1 Comment

How Fast Can You Add Incoming Links To A Website?

Link Building Misconception 1: “Adding Too Many Links to a Website Too Quickly Will Get That Website Penalized or Banned…” This is the one of the most common misconceptions that I come across and it has been generated entirely by the blind leading the blind (or perhaps a better way to put it would be [...]