[rourkey]

Hi Everybody

My name is Rourkey
I'm a trainee SEO assistant looking to learn more.
What i'm wondering about is the quality of backlinks.

i realise to get sites well indexed with the major search engines you need good off-page SEO which is:

1 Article Submissions
2 Press Releases
3 Submission to Directories
4 Reciprocal Links

What these 4 headings acheive is quality back-links with specific keywords that the search engines like so you get your sites indexed better.

Two things i wanted to ask, firstly where on the heirachy from the best back-links to the worst back-links do the search engines rank certain links.

What i mean is. Is it better for your sites links to come from a press release or from submissions to directories.

Secondly, what about links from certain forums. i see all kinds of abuse going on in certain forums. Do the search engines count these links as links with keywords or do they mark them down as being non-relevant. Or could they be relevant and does it just piss people off as being non-ethical.

some feedback would be appreciated

Rourkey

[diggingforgold]

Any link is a good link from a technical standpoint. As far as forums, it depends on the forum rules. A lot of places allow links in signatures, but no links as posts. Search engines don't mind either way, however, many forums use search engine unfriendly URLs.

[knight_47]

If you post a link on a site that is popular, like this one for example, your site will probably be found by google a bit faster, since this site is heavily indexed by google almost everyday.

Posting a link on another site that is not very popular, might not get you anywhere, but it's still good to have. You can leave a link to your site in your sig on this place, this should help quite a bit. It would also help if you created a xml sitemap for your site and submit it to google. This will tell google exactly what you have so it will help index your site faster. If you would like, I can create your site an xml sitemap, all I need is your site URL.

[rourkey]

To Knights47 + digginforGold

Thanks for your advice. It was very helpful.

I think were looking at some software at the moment
regarding google sitemaps

rourkey

[knight_47]

Originally Posted by rourkey

To Knights47 + digginforGold

Thanks for your advice. It was very helpful.

I think were looking at some software at the moment
regarding google sitemaps

rourkey

You might want to take a look at this then:

http://www.coffeecup.com/google-sitemapper/

[GAgirl58]

Originally Posted by knight_47

If you post a link on a site that is popular, like this one for example, your site will probably be found by google a bit faster, since this site is heavily indexed by google almost everyday.

Posting a link on another site that is not very popular, might not get you anywhere, but it's still good to have. You can leave a link to your site in your sig on this place, this should help quite a bit. It would also help if you created a xml sitemap for your site and submit it to google. This will tell google exactly what you have so it will help index your site faster. If you would like, I can create your site an xml sitemap, all I need is your site URL.

This is so correct. Google places extra weight/relevancy points in their PageRank for sites which have a greater level of validity and relevance towards the keyword.

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