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Monitor your links regularly when running an SEO campaign

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Many people realise that links play a vital role in a search engine optimisation campaign. The internal links within your website must be working well if they are going to help visitors explore your website effectively and learn what you have on offer and links to and from your website can reflect the quality and respectability of your business to the search engines so must be carefully made. Even when you have been building links to and from your website as part of your SEO campaign for a considerable amount of time and when your website has been running successfully, it is still important that you monitor the links you have and ensure that they are appropriate and that they are working correctly.

By regularly checking the internal links within your website you can ensure that visitors can find their way around your web pages quickly and easily and this increases the likelihood of them being able to find what they are looking for. Often, searchers from a search engine land on a web page within a site that is not as relevant to their needs as another page within the site may be and it is important that you help them find other pages which may be suitable. Many consumers also like to research a business a little before becoming a customer so also ensure that visitors can access other important business pages such as your About Us page and Contact Us page too.

The search engines do take links into consideration when exploring the different websites available on the internet and indexing these websites for their search results. It is important that you have as many high quality and respectable links to your website as possible. Low quality links are not beneficial and can actually damage the success of your SEO campaign. Only use ethical and recommended link building techniques and when you are doing this, monitor the links to and from your business regularly so you know exactly which websites are associated with your business.

It is often the case that some low quality links can occur without your knowledge and while this can be a worry, if you know about it, it can be handled accordingly. It may be useful to request the removal of a link to your website that you do not like but the other website may not be willing. When this occurs, it is recommended that instead of fighting to get this link removed, you work on establishing more high quality links instead. You must aware of the links you have so you can decide if your link building efforts for your search engine optimisation campaign need to be increased or not.

We at SEO Consult are aware of the great importance of links within a search engine optimisation campaign and use the most efficient techniques to build links successfully for our clients. We also monitor the links our clients have carefully so any issues that may arise can be handled accordingly.

Importance of No-follow links

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Search engine optimisation is an integral part of web presence and the ultimate success of a website. As the search engines evolve, so does SEO to keep relevant and up to date. Trends change, new innovative ideas come along and Google side tracks it all again with a new algorithm. Debates rage within the SEO industry as to what is longer needed, or what should be pushed as the better factors to boost page rank.

Latest debate

At the moment the debate is all about the no-follow attributes within links. Before now the no-follow attribute has been used for sculpting page rank and it has been quite effective to juice the web pages you deem most important. Originally the no-follow was introduced as a way of protecting blog comments from spamming as well as preventing unwanted out links.

So it became common use to implement blog comments with this tag. A year ago Google changed the no-follow and suddenly every webmaster is scurrying around removing the no-follow attribute from links. They are afraid that they will miss out on opportunities that help page ranking. This might not be the best idea at all and removing the no-follow can lead to other problems websites and blogs do not want.

Leave it alone

The best advice is to simply forget about the no-follow; it has been changed over a year ago and it makes no difference to page ranking. Instead look to other, far more important aspects of search engine optimisation and work at that. Instead build high quality and completely relevant links that add value to your website. As a matter of fact, the no-follow attribute in links can save your from some rather unpleasant links. Google has brought in the relevancy factor where links are concerned.

It is no longer beneficial for a website to frenetically build total irrelevant links simply to get more links. The value factor of links has become very important. There is also the bad neighbourhood factor to avoid at all costs. It has become the case of you will be judged by your friends. Linking to websites with bad reputations will harm your own reputation and building up huge numbers of ‘bad boy’ links can result in penalties.

So do not take off the no-follow, it is quietly protecting you in the background. It is simply not worth it taking it off in the extremely slight hope to increase your page rank. No business can afford to get associated with websites that have a bad reputation.

Focus on important aspects

Concentrate rather on having the best possible web content to attract website visitors and in this way high quality websites will be eager to link with your website. Focus on sculpting your page rank by creating links between the most important web pages and your home page.

This will please the web crawlers and this is excellent to juice up your page rank. There are myriad ethical ways of optimisation that is easy to implement and maintain. The no-follow attribute is not crucial to your page rank, but in its quiet way it protects your website, so forget it is there.

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