Link Building

Pick up some free Geocities links!

Ten years since they paid far too much for it, Yahoo! has pulled Geocities this week.

What does that mean for SEOs? Mostly, it means there are TONNES of links waiting to be picked up. 850 million, in fact, says a group called Majestic SEO.

Here’s the concept: thousands of these Geocities pages have been taken down. The site you made at 12 with Michael Jackson midi files and Simpsons gifs: gone!

That leaves a whole lot of webmasters with links pointing to dead Geocities pages. Get those links.

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Automatic backlinks, while you sleep!

If you haven’t heard of Automatic Backlinks yet, you’re missing out on one of the great new ways of gathering backlinks. Like many link-building platforms that have risen up of late, it’s about empowering webmasters to generate their own links in the simplest way. Read on for more!

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Dofollow trackbacks plugin for Wordpress

Continuing with the theme of dofollow, I’ve just installed the Dofollow Trackbacks Plugin from the Turk Hit Box.

Rather than making every comment dofollow, like KeywordLuv, this plugin changes any trackbacks to dofollow.

Meaning that when someone links to your post, they receive a link (via a trackback that appears as a comment) on your original post.

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Get your comments approved on dofollow blogs

Recently there’s been a shift in blogs supporting or allowing, in a passive way at least, the link building efforts of other sites by making comment links dofollow.

For those who don’t know, links using rel=”nofollow” do not pass on link juice to the target URL. Some search engines, not Google, do still follow the links but there is very little SEO benefit in a nofollow link.

As with any online trend it didn’t take long for the spammers to curb the opportunities available to more genuine sites looking to build relevant links and, for that matter, for dofollow etiquette to evolve.

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