Link Building Strategy

What Is Link Building?

Link building is a really important element of SEO which define how your website gets ranked by search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

Link building can increase the number of high-quality links pointing to a website, in turn increasing the likelihood of the website ranking highly in search engine results. Link building is also a proven marketing tactic for increasing brand awareness.[Wikipedia]

Remember. "A Backlink Or Inbound Link Is Like A Vote For Your Website/Blog. If You Have Good Content, Others In Your Subject Matter Will Automatically Quote Your Content And Add A Link To Your Site Giving You Credit"

Benefits Of Link Building!

Link building is an important part of SEO. Link building is the process of building inbound links for your websites. Here I am going to share why It’s Important for our website/blog?

As you know Google updating its Penguin Algorithm regularly which changed everything about. So in today’s Link building is a process of getting links from relevant authority sites and quality sites. 

1. The more inbound links the higher the SE ranking
2. If the site linking to you is already indexed, spiders will also receive your site
3. Helps you to receive traffic from other websites linked to you.
4. The high-quality incoming link means your site will be admired as a valuable resource. This could be easily done by writing quality content.

ALWAYS REMEMBER - “A Small Number Of Inbound Links From High-Quality, Relevant Sites Is More Valuable Than Many Links From Low-Traffic, Irrelevant Sites.”

Link Building Strategies:

1. Writing Impressive content
2. Guest blogging
3. Infographics
4. Directory Submission
5. Image Submission
6. Video Submission
7. Search Engine Submission
8. Forum Submission
9. Classified Submission
10. Do follow blog comments
11. Dofollow social bookmarking website.

Now It’s time to Experts Conversation. What they think about Link Building and what strategy they follow for their blog/website.

MY FAVOURITE TOP 5 SEO EXPERTS

As we know, SEO is one of the important factors to rank a website high on the main search engines. You can’t ignore SEO process if you want to increase traffic from search engines. Search engine optimization is the one and only best practice to gain organic traffic from search engines.

As we know, Google updates its algorithm regularly, so if you want to stay updated with all Google Algorithm and SEO Community, then you should have to follow these industry experts. These below experts have the best Search marketing experience and helping a lot of companies to establish their online businesses. These experts provide you best strategy and guidance, how to get success in online business and increase revenue?

In this Post, I am going to mention my favourite top 5 SEO experts I recommend you too to follow all time. I have followed all of them since 2013 and continuously,

Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts have a bachelor degree in mathematics and science from the University of Kentucky. And also have a Ph.D. degree from the University of North Carolina.He is well known for developing SafeSearch and Google’s family filter.He is the former head of Google web spam team. But As per Wikipedia and Matt Cutts blog he is on leave to spend some time with his family.

We all know Matt Cutts is a rock star in the world of SEO, One of the favourite quotes of mine from Matt Cutts.

“The objective is not to ‘make your links appear natural’; the objective is that your links are natural.”

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Check out – Valuable Quotes and Advice from Matt Cutts

If you would love to hear more from Google Updates, why not hear directly from the source?

Website: mattcutts.com/blog
Twitter: @mattcutts

Check out here – Seo Writing Tips

Rand Fishkin

Born in New Jersey, In 2002 Rand Fishkin involved in the field of SEM and2004, Rand Fishkin foundedMoz.com with his mom Gillian. And well known as Wizard of Moz, in today which is one the most popular software making company in the marketing field. He hosts a weekly video segment called Whiteboard Friday, where they discuss marketing tactics and his terms. He is also a Co-founder of Art of SEO and Inbound.org.

We’ve got to create a unique, special experience for them and delight visitors in addition to satisfying their query 

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Website: moz.com
Twitter: @randfish

Neil Patel

Neil Patel is the mastermind of the world of SEO; He has done some incredible thing in the field of Internet Marketing. He is a co-founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar, KISSmetrics, and writer QuickSprout. He helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP and Viacom grow their revenue.

Last week I read some great blog post of my fellow bloggers about Neil Patel.You can check out here:-

What I Wanted to Ask Neil Patel for You – Adeel Sami Blog

What People Can Learn From Neil Patel – Ãbdül Häséèb Blog

Here is my favourite quote of Neil Patel

If you want to grow your blog contin­ually, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis. @NeilPatel

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To LOVE without condition, to SMILE without reason, and to SERVE without end… THIS is achievement @NeilPatel

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Website: quicksprout.com
Twitter: @neilpatel

Aaron Wall

Aaron Wall is the Founder of SEOBook.com and to its parallel site PPCBlog.com, a very influential and powerful SEO blog that’s frequently updated. Aaron Wall is a one of the most influencing personality in the field of SEO. Just Type “SEO training” into Google and Wall’s site is the first to pop up. His SEOBook.com website founded in 2003, which offers Internet marketing tips, Search Analysis and online business tips.

The success of a page should be measured by one criteria: Does the visitor do what you what you want them to do?

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Website: http://www.seobook.com
Twitter: @ SEObook

Brian Dean

Brian Dean is a well-known entrepreneur and SEO expert and founder and CEO of Backlinko. His firm is focused on organic traffic, link building campaigns as well as provides SEO Training.

Following Brian Dean profile is the best way to keep track of recent SEO Updates, changes, Link building tips, and development in Internet marketing world.

Whether you own an e-commerce site, run a digital marketing agency, sell software, or are a full-time blogger, you need content that brings in targeted traffic.

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Website: http://backlinko.com
Twitter: @Backlinko

Blog commenting Search Query Tricks

SEO trends 2016 still requires backlinks that are relevant to your niche.

your-keyword "Allowed HTML tags:"

your-keyword site:.edu inurl:blog "post a comment" -"you must be logged in"

your-keyword site:.gov inurl:blog "post a comment" -"you must be logged in"

your-keyword "angelae8654"

your-keyword "This blog uses premium CommentLuv" -"The version of CommentLuv on this site is no longer supported."

your-keyword "Notify me of follow-up comments?" "Submit the word you see below:"

your-keyword "powered by expressionengine"

your-keyword site:hubpages.com "hot hubs"

your-keyword "Enter YourName@YourKeywords"

your-keyword "get livefyre" "comment help" -"Comments have been disabled for this post"

your-keyword "add to this list" site:squidoo.com

inurl: blog”guest house” comment query

site:.com inurl:blog + “post a comment” + keyword

site:.com inurl:blog + “post a comment” + commentluv enabled

“Add comment” Your Keywords

“Post comment” Your Keywords

“Write comment” Your Keywords

Your Keywords “leave a comment” / “leave comment”

Your Keywords “Notify me of follow-up comments?”+”Submit the word you see below:”

Your Keywords “Remember my personal information” + “Notify me of follow-up comments?”

Your Keywords “Notify me of follow-up comments”

Your Keywords “This site uses KeywordLuv”

Your Keywords “Enable CommentLuv”

Your Keywords “You can use these tags”

Your Keywords “Powered by BlogEngine.NET”

Your Keywords “Allowed HTML tags:”

Your Keywords “top commenter”

“Keyword” “Powered By Blogger”

“Keyword” “Powered By WordPress”

“Keyword” “Powered By Typepad”

“Keyword” “Powered By Drupal”

“Keyword” “Powered By Blogengine”

“Keyword” “Powered By Movabletype

Field Searching

Field Searching:

Google offers several field searches connected with entering URLs. In the December 2000 revision of its advanced search form, it add several title and URL field searches.

Note that some field searching cannot be combined with other query words. In others words, a search entered such as uniqueword link:name.com will only be processed as if only the field search was present as in link:name.com. The uniqueword is ignored. The  intitle: and inurl: fields can be combined with other search terms but allintitle: and allinurl: cannot. 

Field	Explanation
intitle:	Finds pages that have the term(s) in the HTML title element. Can be combined with other search terms. intitle:search engines. This should find 'search' in the title and 'engines' anywhere in the page.
inurl:	Finds pages that have the term(s) somewhere in the URL (host name, path, or filename). Can be combined with other search terms. inurl:searchenginewatch.
allintitle:	Finds pages that have the term(s) in the HTML title element. allintitle:search engines.
link:	Finds pages which contain hypertext links to the exact specified URL. link:searchengineshowdown.com/search finds pages with links to this site. Unfortunately, on Google, link: searches are incomplete and do not retrieve all pages that Google has indexes that link to the specified URL
allinurl:	Finds pages that have the term(s) somewhere in the URL (host name, path, or filename). allinurl:searchenginewatch.
site:	Finds pages from the designated Web site. Path and file names can be included. site:notess.com/write
allinanchor:	Finds pages that have the term(s) somewhere in the links to the page. .
related:	Invokes GoogleScout to find other pages similar in linkage patterns to the given URL and at a similar hierarchical level. The URL must be exact. In other works related:notess.com and related:www.notess.com find different results.
numrange:	Finds a range of numbers. Either 5..11 or numrange:5-11 works. See number searching section below.
pricerange:	Finds a range of numbers prefixed by the $ sign. Either $5..11 or pricerange:5-11 works. See number searching section below.
flink:	Used to find pages linked from the given URL. No longer working as of Oct. 30, 1999. flink:notess.com

20 Latest Off Page SEO Techniques to Boost Your Blog Ranking in 2016

Search Engines Optimization (SEO) is one of the most important parts of your blog which you must do properly. This will help to rank your blog better in search engine results pages and drive massive traffic to your blog. If you’re a blogger or webmaster then you must be aware about SEO because it’s change regularly. You must aware about latest SEO techniques. Being an SEO’s you must have good knowledge about On-page and Off-page SEO as both are important to rank your targeted keywords better in SERPs.


A Few days ago, I published a post about “Top 10 On-Page SEO Techniques You Must Follow”. Now, Here I’m going to share some Lates Off Page SEO Techniqueswhich will help to boost your blog ranking and drive huge traffic to your blog from search engines.




20 Latest Off Page SEO Techniques 2016


1. Create Strong Community on Social Networking Sites


Creating a strong online community is one of the most important and major parts of today’s off page SEO. As Google and other popular search engines take social sharing as ranking signal, so you must aware to get more social shares of your blog content. Just join some popular social networking sites like Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Google+ Linkedin, etc. and share your blog content on a regular basis. You must create a complete profile with your detail information on those social networking sites and become friends with your niche connected bloggers and webmasters. Join in various communities on those social networking sites and try to be always active. Help people, ask them for help and also invite them to join and share your blog content on their social profiles, this will helps to create a strong online community.


2. Find Similar Niche Blogs for Link Building Opportunities


Link building on similar niche blog or sites is one of the most powerful and effective ways to rank your targeted keywords better in SERPs. But it is really not easy to find similar niche blog or sites with link building opportunities if you’re not expert in off page SEO. Find your similar blogs and create backlinks through blog commenting,guest posting or exchange links with them. Here are some best ways to find similar niche blogs to build backlinks.

1. Similar Site Search: Similar Site Search is one of the most powerful search tools to find similar website and blog. You can search using targeted keywords or blog URL through this tool to find similar niche blogs and sites easily and quickly.

2. Alltop: Alltop is another popular blog directory where you can also find several blogs similar to your niche.

3. Using Blog Catalog: The Blog Catalog is a web blog directory where will find thousands of blogs with various niches. Just go the this blog directory and find the similar niche blogs from category section.

4. Using Google: Who doesn’t know about the power of Google. Just search on Google to find similar niche blogs with link building opportunities.


3. Blog Commenting


Blog commenting is one of the oldest link building technique which is still most popular and effective off page SEO technique. You can easily build high quality backlinks through blog commenting and finding similar blogs is not so tough. You can easily find similar niche blogs using search engines like Google. Just go to the Google and search using these search patterns

 Keyword “comment here” (e.g. SEO tips “comment here”)

Keyword “add comment”

Keyword “submit comment”

Keyword “leave a comment”

Keyword “Powered by WordPress”

Keyword “Powered by BlogSpot”

Keyword “Post a Comment”


You can also use some 3rd party tools to find similar niche blogs. Here are some popular 3rd party tools

http://linksearching.com

http://dropmylink.com

http://botw.org


Best Practices of Blog Commenting to Get Approved Easily

As a blogger, you know the importance of a valuable blog comment which added extra value to your content. Every blogger wants to get only valuable and high quality comment and also they approve only valuable comments. So you must aware about your comment before drop this any blog. Here are some checklist you can follow to get your comment approved easily and instantly.

Leave a comment as soon as possible after publishing the new content

Use your real name and email address

Try to drop a comment on commentluv enabled blogs

Read the content; at least headlines, sub-headlines, bullet points, etc. before drop any comments

Drop comment only similar blogs

Use internal posts URL instead of the homepage URL during blog comments

Don’t use homepage URL or any internal posts/pages URL in comment body

Identify your similar niche blogs with good authority and drop comments on a regular basis

Reply to the comment to build relationship

Start comment using the content author name and accost him/her to attract attention easily

Don’t use any anchor text in the comment


4. Forum Posting

Forum posting is another popular and old off page SEO technique which is still effective to get high quality backlinks. Find your similar niche forums and join in those forums. You don’t need to join hundred of forums or community sites, just find 5-10 niche related forum with high authority, register and create your profile with all information. Use the signature option carefully to get backlinks. Post new threads or reply to others threads to get backlinks and make relationship with others. This will also help to drive huge traffic to your blog instantly.


Recommended: Top 100 High PR (Page Rank) Forum Site List


5. Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is a most popular way to drive massive traffic to your blog instantly. You can also build high quality backlinks using social bookmarking. Find some high authority social bookmarking sites and register on those sites to share your blog content. It is a good practice to share every new content of your blog to some popular social bookmarking sites to get huge traffic.


Recommended: List of Top 50 Dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites

6. Blog Directory Submission

Directory submission is still alive to build quality backlinks and rank your blog better in SERPs. It takes long time to get good results from directory submission, but it works for a long time. Find some high authority directory sites like DMOZ, Yahoo Directory, etc. and submit your blog URL with proper description, meta tags and title. Try to use unique descriptions in every new submission and avoid reciprocal directories. To get good results for a single niche related blogs, submit the blog URL in blog directory sites.


Recommended: Top 100 High PR Blog Directory Submission Sites List


7. Search Engines Submission

Submit your blog to the most popular search engines likes Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, Alexa, AOL etc. and verify with webmaster tools where available. This will help to index your blog new post quickly and also get a good position in SERPs.


Recommended: Submit Blog URL to 275 Search Engines for Free


8. Article Directory Submission

Article directories come with high Page Rank and High Domain & Page Authority. So you can easily get high quality backlinks from article directory sites. But you must aware about article directory sites because all article directory sites not well to submit articles and get backlinks. Try to submit unique content on article directory sites to get approved easily with backlinks. Carefully read their terms and condition before submitting any content, otherwise your submission will get rejected.


Recommended: Top 100 High PR Article Directory Submission Sites List


9. RSS Feed Directory Submission

RSS Feed Directories is the great source to get backlinks for any specific or multi-niche blog. These sites also help to get massive traffic to your blog if the blog contains informative and helpful posts for readers. These directories sites simply publish every new post of your blog using the blog feed.


10. Guest Posting
Now-a-days, Guest Posting is another most effective and popular off page SEO Technique, which helps in several ways to get success in blogging and online business. This is the another great way to build strong communities, get high quality backlinks and drive massive traffic to your blog. Just find some similar niche blog with high authority, send them a request for guest posting and finally send the content for guest posting if they approve. Go to the Google and search using these search patterns to find blogs with guest posting opportunities.

Keyword + “guest blog”

Keyword + “guest blogger”

Keyword + “guest Column”

Keyword + “guest article”

Keyword + guest post

Keyword + guest author

Keyword + “write for us”

Keyword + “write for me”

Keyword + “become a contributor”

Keyword + “contribute to this site”

Keyword + inurl:category/guest

Keyword + inurl:contributors


Recommended: List of Top 100 High PR Blogging Tips Blogs That Accepting Guest Posts



11. Link Exchange

Link exchange is also an old technique of off-page SEO which is also effective for link building if you do it in a proper way. Find similar blogs with similar niche and ask them for link exchange. You can also use 3rd party tools like linkmarket.com,freerelevantlinks.com, 123exchangelinks.com, linkalizer.com etc.


12. Question and Answering Sites

There are several questions and answering sites available with high Page Rank, Good Alexa Rank, High Domain and Page Authority. Join on those Q&A sites and find some similar questions related to your blog niche. Answer those questions and drop your blog homepage or internal post links as reference. This will help to get quality backlinks as well as drive huge traffic. Some popular Questions and Answering sites are Yahoo Answers, Quora, Blurt it, Anybody Out There, eHow, Askville etc.


13. Link Baiting

Link Baiting is one of the easiest ways to get backlinks for free. Just publish high quality content on your blog which helps to solve the reader’s problem and contain useful information. When someone copies your content or any part of the content, then they will also place your blog link in their post as a reference link. If they don’t, then simply ask them to place your blog link as a reference.


14. Video Submission

Create some video tutorial with your blog niche specific topics. Submit those videos on popular video submission sites with proper description, titles and tags. Use your blog homepage URL or any internal post URL as a reference link. This is also a popular way to get high quality backlinks because almost all video submission sites come with High Page Rank, Domain Authority and Good Alexa Rank. This also helps to drive a good amount of referral traffic to your blog.


Some Popular Video Sharing Sites

YouTube

Vimeo

DailyMotion

NetFlix

Vube

Hulu

Vine

Break

UStream

MetaCafe

Twitch


Recommend: Free Video Sharing Sites List


15. Photo Sharing

Create unique images for each new content of your blog and submit those images with the Content or Image URL on popular photo sharing sites. Let your friends to like and comment on those images, this will help to rank your content better as well drive traffic to your blog.


Popular Photo Sharing Sites

Flickr

Picasa

Instagram

Imgur

Photobucket

TinyPic

DeviantArt

Shutterfly

ImageShack

ImageVenue

Snapfish

Twitpic

SmugMug

WeHeartIt

Net


16. Local Listing or Local Directory Submission

If you want to rank your blog better in a specific country or region, then local listing or local directory submission can help you. This is especially helpful for local business websites to rank easily. Submit your blog URL to some high quality local directories to get targeted audience easily.


17. Press Release Submission

Another popular Off-Page SEO Techniques, which is still effective and popular to get quality backlinks and rank your blog better in SERPs. Create a list of some high authority press release submission sites and submit a press release on those sites. This is also helpful to rank specific keywords easily.


Recommended: Top 50 High PR Dofollow Press Release Submission Site List



18. Classifieds Submission

Classifieds submission generally helps to get sales of any product through your blog. This is also helpful for off page SEO because you can create backlinks on some classified submission sites. This also helps to rank your blog in the targeted region.


Recommended: List of 100 High PR Free Classifieds Submission Sites



19. Documents Sharing

Create some unique and attractive documents related to your blog niche and submit them on high authority documents sharing sites. This also helps to get quality backlinks and drive traffic to your blog.


Recommended: Top 20 High PR Documents Sharing Sites List


20. Infographics Submission


Now-a-days, Infographic submission is another most popular way to get backlinks and traffic to your blog. Create some awesome and informative infographics related to your blog niche and submit them to popular infographic submission sites. You can easily create infographics using some free 3rd party tools like Canva, Visme, Piktochart etc.


Popular Infographic Submission Sites

Visual.ly

Infographics Showcase

Infographics Archive

NerdGraph

Reddit

Submit Infographics

Love Infographics

Infographic Site

Infographix Directory

Infographics Only

Infographic Post

What is .htaccess? & Where I have to place it?

What is .htaccess? & Where I have to place it?

The .htaccess file is a hidden text file that allows you to control the way visitors are able to access your site. Some common uses of the .htaccess file would be restricting access to certain files, or redirecting URLs.

Please don't think more about file name, no file name required for this -  it's simply .htaccess 
(even i wasted more time on giving file name finally found that it's simply .htaccess)

it's should be in root folder of you website

Ex: in SEO search engines will treat www.domainname.com &  domainname.com are different to avoid that
we use .htaccess file. More..

Multiple Sitemaps and Sitemap Index

The Sitemap has certain limitations. For example, it cannot contain more than 50 000 URLs and cannot be bigger than 10 MB. This is why if you plan to create a website with multiple subdirectories and Sitemaps, you will have to use Sitemap Index.

The Sitemap index allows you to include several Sitemap files under one file called Sitemap index. It uses almost the same syntax but instead of including your pages URLs, you will have to add the URLs to your Sitemaps.

Below, you can find a sample code of a Sitemap index.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.domain.com/sitemap1.xml.gz</loc> <lastmod>2004-10-01T18:23:17+00:00</lastmod> </sitemap> <sitemap> <loc>http://www.domain.com/sitemap2.xml.gz</loc> <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod> </sitemap> </sitemapindex>

As you can see the Sitemap index file uses the following XML tags:

• loc
• lastmod
• sitemap
• sitemapindex

The <loc> and the <lasmod> tags are basically the same as in the normal Sitemap file. The <sitemap> tag encapsulates information about an individual Sitemap. The <sitemapindex> tag provides information about all of the Sitemaps in the file.Be advised that the Sitemap files can be only files located under the same domain or subdomain and should be UTF-8 encoded as well.

It is strongly recommended that you place your Sitemap into the root directory of your web server. The location of a Sitemap file determines the set of URLs that can be included in it. A Sitemap file, for example, located under a subdirectory can include links of all pages in this subdirectory, but not ones above it.