Don’t Ask Me For Backlinks. You Can Go Plug Yourself! – Learn How To Increase Backlinks By Using Your Own Web Sites and Blogs
Many people feel that PageRank is very important. In order to get PageRank, you need backlinks. In order to get backlinks, you need to write some amazing things so that other people who happen to stumble across your pages within, say the next 15 years, will feel compelled to provide a link to it. Needless to say, sometimes it doesn’t matter how amazing your blog post or web page is. Sometimes it just seems like no one will link to it.
So how do you get backlinks to your pages? Well, you can get on your hands and knees and ask your friends, “Hey Bob, can you plug this page for me?” Or, you can seriously go plug yourself!
What is plugging yourself? Well, first off, it isn’t anything like go FU&% yourself…. when I say go plug yourself, I mean just that. Instead of begging for backlinks from your friends, just give yourself the backlinks you want. By now, I am sure that you have multiple sites and blogs, start using them to fuel backlinks to things that are important to you.
Now, before you go adding your different newer blogs into the blogrolls of your existing blog, chill for a second and before you go getting yourself penalized in Google. First off, you need to determine the number of backlinks you need in order to reach to the top of the search results. If you go adding your link into a million blogrolls, Google doesn’t place a lot of value in that. Granted, I can’t prove this, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.
A backlink in a blog post or web page holds much more weight than a blogroll link. So don’t go nuts adding a million sites into your blogroll. Figure out how many backlinks you need to get to the top. You can do a simple search in Google to see how many backlinks the sites you are competing with have, from there you can set a goal on the number of backlinks you need.
From there, you need to gain backlinks from pages and posts from your other blogs that have their own internal PageRank. The value of a backlink on a page that has PageRank is much better than having a backlink on a page that doesn’t.
How do you know which pages and posts on your blog have PageRank? Well, here are a few sites that I found to offer what they call, an “Internal PageRank Checker”. Simply enter your domain name into the search field and click the submit button and below you will start to see a list of all your web pages with their individual PageRank score.
Here are two internal PageRank checker programs that I found after doing a quick Google Search. You may want to venture out and find other ones, but these two did the job for me fine:
http://www.livepr.info/internal-pages-page-rank3.php
and…
http://www.thegetpr.com/internalpagerank/
Sorry, I am not hyperlinking to them. LOL
Once you determine the individual pages and posts on your blog or web site that have the highest PageRank across the board, simply edit these pages to carefully blend in your link. You need to work hard on making sure that you can blend in the link so that it can creatively be on topic. If you have a post about Mickey Mouse with a PR4 and you want to plug a link that points to your Vacuum Cleaner Niche Blog, then you might want to say something like, “I remember the episode where Mickey Mouse got his ears stuck in the vacuum cleaner. LOL does anyone remember that episode?” or something like that.
After a few days, Google will visit and reindex the posts and pages that have the newly added link, and backlink credits will be given to the site you have linked to. After a few months when Google does their PageRank update (you know the day that everyone freaks out) it will be very likely that the page you been feeding links to indeed increased its on PageRank due to the link building efforts you have done internally within many of your own web sites and blogs.
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Great post. I’ve done that on occasion, but not very often. And I always try to make them relevant to the post I’m linking to.
I have to admit, though, when I read the post of this title, I thought this was going to have a whole different “vibe” to it. LOL
Got my attention
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I do beleive that I have covered a few posts in the past that talk about writing eye catching post titles.
Been lookin for these… But the first link returned a “PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 022E7655″ error. wutta..?
I tried the second one and it returns only few pages. Is that how it’s supposed to work?
Hi Louis,
Like I said, you might want to investigate further. I am sure there are sites that provide more stable solutions. If you find something, come back and let me know.
“You can do a simple search in Google to see how many backlinks the sites you are competing with have, from there you can set a goal on the number of backlinks you need”
Not sure how important this is outside of the make money online niche. My Linux Blog ranks #5 for a term with only 25 backlinks. All of the other sites around it have way more backlinks. I guess it just proves that backlinks are useful, and do help get you to the top, but they are not the only factor.
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I honestly haven’t gone back and done this, but I do have some a blog with some age to it. I’ll have to give this a try. Great tips as always.
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Ya garry plug you to man !!
Seriously though, my question is, and thi smay be a dumb one. Isnt it weird SEO to link to yourself from your domain, or does the bot discount these links. What about having blogs on the same server and linking to them from your higher PR’d pages and posts from other blogs, ya they’d some how have to relevant, I get that, but do you think the bots look weirdly at that
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Thanks for such great articles. I have been reading them for 35minutes now. Also can you suggest how should I categorize my blog as I am thinking of making changes to category and tags in my older posts because I was not very good at things at that time.
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Hi Ashfame,
What is wrong with your categories? They seem fine to me. You have blogging, hackking, hardward, How To / Tutorials, Internet Links, Programming, Reviews, Software, Tech Humour, Tech Myths, Etc… this all seem fine to me.
Hey Garry!
I know they are pretty well organized but I often tagged things in multiple categories and some of the categories are rarely used. I wanted to have categories in the sense which visitors can used to browse the site easily. So I wanted to categorize all of my previous posts. I have read a article on Problogger from which I got some clue but I would also like to hear your suggestion in this regard.
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Hi Ashfame,
Here is my advice regarding WordPress Categories and WordPress Tags.
Consider the purpose of a filing cabinet in your office or home. For me I have a filing cabinet that contains our health and medical records, records and receipts of various utility bills paid, receipts and user manuals of products we have purchased, etc. For every item filed away in my filing cabinet, there is a section for it. A few of the main sections in filing cabinet are labeled as: Bills and Medical.
These two folders in my cabinet labeled as “Bills” and “Medical” could also be considered as WordPress categories.
Inside my “Bills” folder, I have sections: Auto Insurance Bills, Auto Loan Bills, Cellphone Bills, Credit Card Bills, etc… These sections within my “Bills” folder could also be considered as WordPress tags.
My advice to you would be to maintain your blog just like you would maintain your office or home filing cabinet. Assign one post ONE category and then compliment that with THREE to FIVE tags so that you make it easy for people as well as search engines to find your articles.
Another way of looking at this is to consider how music is categorized. Typically you have categorizes such as Classical, Jazz, Rock & Roll. When you browse the Rock & Roll category you can then narrow your search by looking up: Pink Floyd, The Doors, Boston, etc…
Organizing your article content into a category / tag system is just the same as how music is organized or how you organize your important things that you put into your filing cabinet.
Is there any problem in assigning a single post to multiple categories? I mean what it can be? We have already plugins to tell Bots not to index those pages, so there will be no Duplicate Content issues and for readers, I think it is pretty much convenient to have a single post in multiple categories if it fall in. Like I have two categories Gadgets / Hardware launches and How to / Tutorial then if I am writing about a fix of that gadget or hardware, then it should come in both the categories.
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I don’t make a xerox copy of my water bill and put the original and the duplicate in two separate folders in my filing cabinet. With that said, I only assign only ONE category for my post. From there, once again… I will assign THREE to FIVE tags that act as SECOND LEVEL keyword phrases to help and aid the user and the search engine.
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