Learn how to increase your page rank and drive traffic through the use of backlinks. We cover four key ways of creating powerful backlinks and the tools that empower you to do so.
6. Page Rank signifies how important a website or
webpage is. It is based on a 0 –10 scale. 0 is least important and
10 is most important.
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7. Google values sites over others
if they have more sites linking back
to them.
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8. Why is that you may
ask….
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11. But first let’s explain how to backlink..
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12. When creating backlinks, it is
important to have your anchor text
include keywords you are trying to get
your site to rank for
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13. Anchor text is the clickable text in a
hyperlink.
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14. Example: for this example, our site will be Bankaffilates
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15. The purpose of this is to increase your
rank for keywords related to your site
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23. Choose a few different
directories that you are
interested in.
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Step two:
25. Find the Page Rank (PR) for
each site.
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Step three:
26. You can do this by navigating
to http://www.prchecker.info/ and
inputting each site’s URL.
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28. Other useful tools:
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Open Site Explorer is a free tool
that provides you with information
on who is linking to you or your
competitors website. You can also
use this tool for checking page
authority or PR.
Ahrefs is also a free tool. This site
provides you with detailed analysis
on backlinks for any website.
29. Once you have the PR for
each site, organize them from
highest to lowest.
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Step four:
31. Choose the directories with the
highest PR.
*don’t choose directories with PR lower than 3. For this
example, all of these directories would be helpful.
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Step five:
32. Avoid directories with low PR or
directories that will hurt your PR!
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33. Once you have a directory in
mind, apply to it!
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Step six:
43. Right click the name of one of
the previous commenters and
select “inspect element.”
*the name should be a hyperlink
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Step two:
47. What follows will either be dofollow or
nofollow. This tells you whether or not
a blog’s comments section posts
comment links as dofollow.
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Step four:
48. If the html code does not have
“rel=”, then it is dofollow.
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note:
49. You want to comment on dofollow
blogs because those will increase
your PR.
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But…
50. Do not only focus on getting dofollow
comments. Google wants to see a
healthy mix of dofollow and nofollow
links to your site.
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61. Link bait is any developed content that
is shared throughout the internet that
links back to your site.
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63. If you create intelligent, comical or
compelling content, you will see your
content bring you backlinks!
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64. Useful tool for infographics
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Infogr.am is a site that allows you to plan and create
your own inforgraphics.
65. Useful tool for Top 10 lists
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Listverse is a site that displays top 10 lists and it also
allows you to upload your own.
66. Useful tool for Presentations
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Slideshare is a site that allows you to upload your own
presentations and share them.