Basically the process would follow:

• Source dropped domains from sites like unwanted-domain-names.co.uk (anyone know any more)
• Check back link numbers for accuracy
• Check anchor text for backlinks using opensiteexplorer.org to ensure relevancy
• Check deep links for backlinks and try and match with pages on target website
• Buy domain
• Register with Google Webmaster Tools
• Create .htaccess file with 301 redirects for all old content url’s to new url’s

This could be a great way of building some nice authorative backlinks pretty cheapley and if on-topic would bring new custom.

Id be tempted not to buy a domain if the anchor texts were off topic as this could lead to a world of hurt.

Anyone got any experiences of this they’d care to share?

Basically you register with the system (i give you 1000 free credits – 1 credit per domain which i think is more than ample) and you fill in some basic details of your target site. The free directory submission tool then visits each directory in turn and all you need to do is fill in the captcha and appropriate category for submission.

The reason for my trialling this is my annoyance with the paid services out there where there is no control over the quality of directories in a list. Also Google seem to be using ‘low level’ link building techniques like directory submission with great effect (even Rand thinks so).

Give it a try and let me know your thoughts.

Pligg can be good for SEO if treated like a PR service with topical, newsworthy articles and content being published but is more often than not uses for spammers.

So if you’re interested in Pligg and would like a massive list of over 10000 pligg sites then here you go.

Pligg List

PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… Rank: wait… Traffic: wait… Price: wait… C: wait…

One key point he argues is that Google is attributing the anchor text on the first pass of the bot and that changing anchor text once its been ‘indexed’ has no effect.

This is massive as one of the first things I (used to) do for every client was to check the backlink profile and re-purpose any links that were not anchor text based.

It seems the key is to get the link right the first time.

I need to see how this effects new links pushed into old content as that could be a huge hurdle for link aquisition.

PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… Rank: wait… Traffic: wait… Price: wait… C: wait…

Don’t CTRL click a bank of links open as it messes up the captcha reference – its best to do them one by one.

Oh and you can filter by captureless directories if you want to speed through some basic directory submissions.

Theres some really great features like having the ability to check each directory for acceptance, reporting errors and basic PR data etc for each directory listing.

Check it out today.

Basically you find a target keyword where alocal listing is shown, fill in the form and press submit, the app then emails you back once a report has been done and bobs your bothers brother, you have a list of credible sources that can influence your local listing.

Check it

There are pleanty of guides to how to effectively guest post out there and key to this is tailoring what you have to say around what the target blogs community wants to read so I’d even go so far as to say you’d be better of writing completely unique content for this purpose.

Theres a new resource in town created (I think) by the world famous Anne Smarty and this is myblogguest.com. It’s basically a forum of publishers and SEO’s/writers who are looking for their opposite party within the guest post relationship.

The main reason for this post is to encourage UK bloggers and SEO’s to get involved as at the moment its mainly USA focused and the good ol’ UK needs to represent!

If you want a guest post from me then look me up on there.

njoy.

Ive discovered this great tool that, via copy and paste, will mass check the pagerank of 100s of urls at a time.

Its even better because it also exports a CSV and includes Alexarank (for what its worth).

Give it a go and save yourself hours:

checkprinbulk.com/mass_pagerank/

For those of you who don’t know, I’ll recap a standard policy on Link Building. Building effective links falls into 3(ish) camps with a combination of all 3 needed to give you a well rounded, Google proof organic backlink profile. These are:

• Authority – sites that are trusted sources of information
• Juice – sites that pass PageRank (not green bar)
• Relevancy – links that are wholly relevant to your niche

Add to this list that links to your site should have a nice keyword rich anchor text and you’ve got the cornerstones of a highly effective campaign.

It’s rare for one site to deliver a link that achieves all three (unless your competitors start linking to you) and within boundaries where anchor text is king, it is important to make sure that many of your terms are linked using one of the 1000s of keywords you’re firing at your site.

In the quest to build great anchor text rich links many people qualify pages on a wide variety of measurements including SEOMoz’s Domain Authority, Number of inbound links from unique domains, domain age and the ubiquitus PageRank however it is Anchor Text where the real power lies.

For example. I currently market a furniture site that is doing really well for its main two word terms but we would like to attract more traffic from fuzzy searches where people don’t know the type of product we well whilst targeting terms that accurately target our niche i.e. Vintage, Antique, Period etc. To achieve this with maximum effectiveness and minimum outlay we have decided to use Directory submissions as a way of quickly building a back-link pool of targeted terms (you could use social media, articles or micro-sites if you are prepared to spend more time) but with so many low quality directories out there and PageRank disappearing straight off the home page how are we to determine effectiveness?

As an experiment I decided to use Googles Cache date as a measure of whether Google is actually visiting the internal Directory pages, on sites where the site is listed and the cache date is under 45 days I requested a link.

The net result is that our site is gradually improving in ranking for these fuzzy prefix and suffix terms. Agreed its only a start, but Ii think that when you’re trying to deliver maximum benefit for minimum cost that tactics like these when properly monitored and controlled can deliver great results.

Just be careful where you’re placed as the powers at BOTW tend to dump you on a page within a regional sub domain which isn’t cached or has any ‘visible’ PageRank

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