Powerful Backlinks

MobileTechie said:
I did this and it appeared I got OK results. But then after a month or so, Google dropped pretty much all of those links from Webmaster tools indicating they no longer are counting them for my site.
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You mean you did this as in what I have suggested?
If so, then you didn't submit your software and press release to those 5000 + shareware sites, direcoties and press release sites.

Type your company name in Google and hit enter.
If you get more than 10,000 results that point back to your website, then you are on your way.
If not, then you didn't do it right.

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OK, I typed "bracknell computer repair" in www.google.co.uk and got 12,100 results.
You are on your way. If your page ranking dropped, then you have a very badly SEO optimized website.
I have noticed also that your index.html page is called "bracknell-computer-repair.html".... hmmm that's a curious one. What was the reason you didn't leave it as index.html?
To confuse the indexers and search engines?

Correction:
I typed "bracknell computer repair" but without quotes, so with quotes you only get 3560 results, which is not too bad (bad enough though for all the work you've done). I bet you didn't pay for a decent shareware submitting software.
 
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K007 said:
What I have just told you now, is a closely guarded secret among the professional SEO's.
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Looks like it's not that closely guarded of a secret anymore. This is posted right on their home page (where the service is now priced at $52 USD).

Attention - This software is for software authors only. If you plan to submit low quality software (toolbars or screensavers) just to promote your website, you better use GSA Auto Website Submitter instead before risking the lose of your license (after ordering). We will not accept anyone abusing this software just to get backlinks to a website. All true software authors are welcome to use this product to market their software.
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I suppose it's still a fine tactic as long as it's a damn good screensaver we get written...
 
perryny said:
Looks like it's not that closely guarded of a secret anymore. This is posted right on their home page (where the service is now priced at $52 USD).

Attention - This software is for software authors only. If you plan to submit low quality software (toolbars or screensavers) just to promote your website, you better use GSA Auto Website Submitter instead before risking the lose of your license (after ordering). We will not accept anyone abusing this software just to get backlinks to a website. All true software authors are welcome to use this product to market their software.
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I suppose it's still a fine tactic as long as it's a damn good screensaver we get written...
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Well, this post was up for a long time, and maybe they came accross it.
Anyway, with $50 dollars you can rent a coder from India to build a nice little application for you, which does not have to be a toolbar or screesaver.
So you own the right to your little proggy, and from a legal point of view you will be selling your own software.
Who knows, you may even make some dimes out of it, plus the backlinks as a bonus. ;)
Alternatively, use another submission software, like Robosoft by robosoft.rudenko.com . Slower, but does the job all the same.
 
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K007 said:
You mean you did this as in what I have suggested?
If so, then you didn't submit your software and press release to those 5000 + shareware sites, direcoties and press release sites.

Type your company name in Google and hit enter.
If you get more than 10,000 results that point back to your website, then you are on your way.
If not, then you didn't do it right.

Edit:
OK, I typed "bracknell computer repair" in www.google.co.uk and got 12,100 results.
You are on your way. If your page ranking dropped, then you have a very badly SEO optimized website.
I have noticed also that your index.html page is called "bracknell-computer-repair.html".... hmmm that's a curious one. What was the reason you didn't leave it as index.html?
To confuse the indexers and search engines?

Correction:
I typed "bracknell computer repair" but without quotes, so with quotes you only get 3560 results, which is not too bad (bad enough though for all the work you've done). I bet you didn't pay for a decent shareware submitting software.
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I did all this months before you posted.

http://www.mobile-techie.com/bracknell-computer-repair.html is just a town-specific landing page. My main site is http://www.mobile-techie.com and my keywords for that are Berkshire Computer Repair as that is the main county I am located and therefore operate in.

I don't recall how many sites I submitted it to but it was quite a lot. What I noticed was that most of the sites are worth practically nothing - just like directory sites are these days. The bigger shareware sites seem to actually count. As usual quality counts over quantity in SEO as far as I can tell.

The point is, google does not use all the links you have to your site to rank you. It weights them and ignore some. This process appears to take time and google appear to change their algorithm regularly but always in the direction of excluding spammy links.

It's not just that my ranking dropped but also that the links went from Webmaster Tools' list of inlinks. AFAIK this is just about the best indicator of which links actually count, as opposed to say Yahoo Site Explorer which will show many more.

I think some of the problem was moving to Joomla and a more modular design which I believe has attacted some dupe content problemss.
 
The cheapest and easiest seo in the world is to put what you do in a domain name. bozemancomputerrepair.com

Abbreviated cutesy names don't work. If you put your keywords in your domain you're golden.







ComputerClinic said:
So if you guys don't mind sharing your secrets (those of you who are #1 in google for "computer repair city, state") what are some good sites to get backlinks from? I know TN is good (hence the signature:)), but what are some other highly regarded sites that would be possible to get links from? Are local sites regarded more highly than others?

I'm running my business on a very limited budget so I've been focusing on cheap advertisement and the internet has yielded more customers than any other source. However, I'm struggling to get the #1 position (superpages has it ATM) on Google and Yahoo for "computer repair bozeman mt" and for some reason, I'm not even listed in the first two pages of bing.

I know that backlinks aren't the only aspect of SEO, and I've done my best to use keywords in my content, titles, and descriptions. If you could look at my site from an SEO standpoint and give me some pointers, and maybe direct me to some quality sites to get links from, it would be greatly appreciated.
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K007 said:
Well, this post was up for a long time, and maybe they came accross it.
Anyway, with $50 dollars you can rent a coder from India to build a nice little application for you, which does not have to be a toolbar or screesaver.
So you own the right to your little proggy, and from a legal point of view you will be selling your own software.
Who knows, you may even make some dimes out of it, plus the backlinks as a bonus. ;)
Alternatively, use another submission software, like Robosoft by robosoft.rudenko.com . Slower, but does the job all the same.
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This trick is very well known already, mostly because of 30 Minute Backlinks which popularised the toolbar thing. I'm guessing Google are well aware and try to account for it.

I notice a lot of people are also using forum profiles for SEO. You can pay people to sign you up to forums if you cannot be bothered. Educational ones are supposedly particularly good.
 
Another 300 backlinks disappeared from my list of links in Webmaster Tools.

That leaves only a few software site and directory links.

Seems to me that Google is all over spammy links and they are pretty much a waste of time in the long run. Funnily enough, that is what the SEO experts have been telling me for ages! - unless there is something else going on I'm not aware of?

Does anyone know whether the links in webmaster tools are the basis for one's ranking and why so many can vanish over night?
 
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As far as I know there are only two things which affects your ranking with regard to backlinks:

1. Relevence of the linking site to your site

If you are linked from other computer related sites this is better than if you are linked to by medical sites, for example.

2. Period of time over which backlinks are created

If you have 5 backlinks one day and 10,000 the next Google will assume they are spam. Where as if you slowly acrue relevent back links over a period of time it suggests your site is becoming more popular.
 
I just did a report, I'm ranked 3 in Google, is that bad/good? I have no clue.

All I know is that Google drives a bunch of searches my way according to my stats, but I rarely get Google calls.

I have almost 300 backlinks, I checked them out...Seems I need a lot more! Will work on that.
 
thatPC said:
As far as I know there are only two things which affects your ranking with regard to backlinks:

1. Relevence of the linking site to your site

If you are linked from other computer related sites this is better than if you are linked to by medical sites, for example.

2. Period of time over which backlinks are created

If you have 5 backlinks one day and 10,000 the next Google will assume they are spam. Where as if you slowly acrue relevent back links over a period of time it suggests your site is becoming more popular.
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I belive they also use the popularity / ranking of the site linking to you and how many outbound vs inbound links they have.
 
Hubspot recommended setting up a 301 redirect from my non-www domain to my www domain (ie cam-pc.co.uk to www.cam-pc.co.uk)

on Apache it was done with these 3 lines at the top of my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cam-pc.co.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.cam-pc.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

and I used this site to check it:
http://www.stepforth.com/resources/server-header-checker-tool/

which is quite handy

I dunno, if doing the 301 redirect makes any difference though!

I've also got a few other related domains which my hosting provider are automatically pointing to my main domain so I'm not sure if it's worth my while 301'ing those too?
 
AFAIK the non-www 301 doesn't do much. Google supposedly assume the two sites are the same (since so many people have these two versions) and score it like it was one site.

I don't think 301ing the others would many any real SEO difference either.

If you have other domains which are relatively popular then links from those domains would be worth something.

If your other domains are high, or have the potential to be high) on google for keywords then it's better to build them as seperate sites with the same contact info as you main one. That way you get several bites at the search cherry. Obviously you want the copy to be different enough avoid penalties.

I see you're already number 3 for "cambridge computer repair". I'm sure you could get to number 1 pretty easily if you added a blog page and linked to that from the various blogroll and social bookmarking sites, did some forum profiles and did the directory rounds. I got my www.mobile-techie.com to the top for "berkshire computer repair". Now I'm trying to get the two landing pages below top for their respective keywords. I really need to do some articles for those pages I think.
 
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callthatgirl said:
I just did a report, I'm ranked 3 in Google, is that bad/good? I have no clue.

All I know is that Google drives a bunch of searches my way according to my stats, but I rarely get Google calls.
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Ranked 3 in google for what search? If I search on "minneapolis computer repair" then I don't see you on the first page.

Which search phrases is google driving to your site? Are they searches made by local people looking for your service?

I'm not surprised you don't get all that many calls from people getting to that website from google. It doesn't appear to be designed to convert people who are searching for computer repair into calls.
 
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