Link building is a very important portion when it comes to off page search engine optimization. To get rankings for your targeted terms, keyword rich anchor tags from similar themed or authoritative sites is the key. However link building is the hardest SEO activity to date, as the search engines are looking for natural links instead of 100s of useless links from spammer sites. In this article, I like to provide some simple steps that my team and myself use while conducting link building for our clients and own sites.
Step 1: Set your results set to return at least 30 to 50 results. This would help you be able to go through the top 30-50 sites in one go.
Step 2: Conduct a Google search for your target keyword terms.
Step 3: Visit the sites from top to bottom, take note of sites that are of quality and jot down their contact details.
Step 4: Start contacting the sites that you had identified earlier. Be sure to send personalize emails so that your emails stand out from all the spam that is out there.
This should help you find links that would be of value to your sites targeted keyword terms. The hit rate for doing something like is normally 1-5% but getting as many emails out to like minded webmasters is the key.
Categories: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tags: Anchor Tags, Building Steps, Contact Details, Google, Google Search, Jot Down, Page Search Engine, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engines, Simple Steps, Spam, Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, Target, Top To Bottom
Read an article coverage on Webpronews.com about YouTube testing a new video rental feature on its site. Publishers can know have an option to either rent their clips or make them ad supported. What this new rental feature allows publishers to do is set rental pricing, duration and IP target geographies in terms of who can view and who cant view. These features are good for YouTube in terms of supplier relations and monetization. Now Youtube has a revenue model that suppliers are familiar with and are more willing to place their content on.
Now the only thing I wonder is if this catches on, would it kill companies like Netflix who predominately does dvd rentals by mail, after all YouTube has the support from Google infrastructure to bring cost down. I guess only time will tell.
(FYI – netflix is focusing on web streaming rentals as well)
Would if when this video rental feature comes out of testing would Google have a platform to allow independent film makers rent their video wares as well, it could open up a whole new stream of content boom in YouTube.
Photo Credits – Yuya Tamai
Categories: Misc Tags: Boom, Duration, Geographies, Google, Independent Film Makers, Infrastructure, Mail Support, Monetization, Netflix, New Stream, Photo Credits, Publishers, Rent, Revenue Model, Target, Video Rental, Wares, Youtube