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Listen guys,
I am not sure how this really helps much, so I would like your response to this. Basically, I can:
* easily setup a wordpress blog
* hire people to write completely unique content (every day)
* then use a wordpress plugin which automatically links the right anchor text to other posts throughout my site (incl home page).
This seems to fit all the criteria you mention in the video; And somehow, I dont believe this will help my rankings that much, within in the ultra-competitive market which I work it.
Sure getting links to the content isnt bad, but can you provide evidence that this works in markets where the average cpc in google is $20 – $40?
Feel free to contact me directly if needed.
Hi Dan and Leslie.
OK, I feel like a clutz. Everybody else is getting it but I am stuck on the video at around 18 minutes 20 seconds where Dan says something like: “10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 different sources we can talk about and link to…”
Ummm, I am confused! Does this mean that after we have gathered information for a single post we have up to 50 links going out from that post to the original sources?
Additionally, In the post we create are we using the headline from the RSS feed and using that as a link back to the feed?
I am probably over-thinking this so if you could put me right I would be most grateful.
Fandros
Fandros,
I think I know what they mean. Someone please feel free to correct me. 10-50 sources, to my understanding, means sites that create quality content for you to point to. You should be able to take content from any of the sites on this source list of yours and point to them from your site. Does this make sense?
Also, I believe the title you use to link to the article should not be the same. Using the digital photography example, you might write something yourself that talks about a post of adjusting contrast on pictures. Your title might be something like “How to brighten your day!” or such. Your title will draw readers to your content, which talks about and links to the other content, with a different title. At least, that’s my understanding of how it should work.
Right – you don’t want to point to the same handful of sources, and you don’t want to just point to everything that is published – creating a valuable and useful resources == more links to your site over time, and a bigger audience.
Hi Dan,
Okay, this is where I’m getting confused. Do I use rel=”nofollow” on all these outbound links? Wouldn’t all these outbound links bleed my pages dry without nofollow?
No Diane – it won’t bleed you dry – you don’t need to worry about that. If you’ve got your blog integrated with your site’s navigation, the outbound link is one of many – likely dozens of links – on that page – and all the other links point back to your own site. You’re adding far more by getting the page created and indexed, than you can lose by linking out.
Thanks guys – news readers are a new subject to me, and you explain it very well. Now I know how to find dating related news, I feel inspired to get an RSS feed set up !
How can you resist a Launch with content like this?
Really… it’s game over before it starts
Nice information. Thanks.
Thanks guys, but I’m obviously not a canditate for Link Liberation, I’m pretty smart and watched the video twice, then read the PDF twice, and I still have no idea about HOW to do this.
I guess that’s what the course teaches, but I feel really dumb right now, even though I make a full time living online.
Rod
Rod – some of this stuff is technical, other stuff not so much… if I didn’t provide details for the technical types too, they feel very left out.
One of my most successful students is by far the most “non-technical” – she’s successful because she’s not afraid to challenge herself sometimes, never afraid to ask questions about what she doesn’t understand, never embarrassed about not understanding something at first, and always ready to get things done.
Hey Rod,
Let me jump in here. The great thing about link liberation is if you do not understand something there is Q&A calls where you can pick at Dan Brain until you do understand. There is also access 200+ of the charter members who have gone through the course already. You not doing it alone!
Hi Dan, Thanks for this very detailed plan. I have been asking for assistance in how to best leverage the content i have been writing. I had understood about 30% of what you shared prior to hearing this, the way you presented the chucked out process is so helpful and am looking forward to it reducing the overwhelm and confusion I am experiencing. This is great,as well as, for explaining to my assistants how to produce what I want more clearly.
Much appreciation,
Deb DiBiasie ND
Boston
Dan, this a great information, but I have hard time to understand what was the big idea here.
The “big idea” is to improve your rankings and get more traffic by adding content to your site. What is presented is a simple way to do that.
Is it an ok idea to change the color of the links to your homepage in the post to black with no underline so it is harder for your competition to see them and figure out what you are doing is helping your ranking? The link to the source for the post would of course be in a seperate color like blue.
Curtis, nobody who is trying to analyze your site is looking at the color of the links. The tools to do this will see right through that. Design for your users, my friend.
If you went to the top, your competitors may study what you are doing, see those links, figured out that it helped you and copy it. But if the link didn’t stand out, better chance of them not seeing it, which they probably wouldn’t see the reason and think it is pointless.
Curtis,
I’m pretty sure what Dan is trying to say is that if someone is using a tool like LinkScape from SEOmoz or even yahoo site explorer they read code not link colors etc. So they’ll be able to see where your links are coming from for your money pages.
I know for me when I visit a competitors page for a purpose like this I quickly view source if I cannot see the link right away on the page.
Yeah – if you’re trying to reverse engineer someone’s SEO, you’re not using your eyeballs to do it.
What I was thinking is your blog would have the site’s main navigation in it, look identical to your main site. They would see all of your posts, which would have blue links to the source web site, but not make it easy for them to see or notice you have a link pointing to your homepage in each article as well. When they visit your site, they wouldn’t’ understand why you are doing that and just think or assume you are wasting your time on something that has no value.
Curtis, I understand that both Dan and another reader have tried to answer this for you but I think your missing the point they are both making. Let me try to help answer the question from a different angle.
To answer you question YES you could hide the links from the human eye by using colors that blend in with the written content on the page, no underline etc – however this is the important point that the others where making – Anyone that was a genuine “threat” to your business because they where going to try to reverse engineer your backlinks would NOT do this manually, there are very powerful modestly priced software programs that do this AUTOMATICALLY – ie they will strip EVERY single backlink to the page and include all sorts of bonus information that weights the “value of the links” like PR of the originating page.
It would take 100′s of hours to do this manually ie by eye and maybe 10 minutes to do this with software that cost $100 – the point is the serious threats would never spend the time to do this manually, I deconstruct competitors backlinks all the time but I certainly dont do it manually ie by eye – I do it with software.
I hope that explains why trying to hide links from human eyes so they cant be deconstructed make no sense, the software doesnt look at the color of the link.
Video was very informative, I learn quite a few things that were new to me. The information was understandable and leading to learning as much as possible. While having heard to chunk prior I now see the absolute need for it. Thank you .
I am not sure on if this idea is to set up a blog on your site or to make it a stand alone blog outside of the site you are trying to send links to? Anyone know? Thanks
In this video, the idea is to increase the amount of content on your own site.
So we are talking about internal links. How many internal links will help with ranking, and at what point will they not help anymore. Also are internal links as useful as external links.
Thank you,
Paul
Okay, I think I understand what your talking about. From what I understand is your automatically gathering information based on RSS feeds to be posted in a wordpress blog platform to generate content. I have learned this from Jeff Johnsons course. I want to make sure I understand correctly- So then you are manually going in to each RSS feed generated post and hyperlinking a internal keyword to a page of your own site that your ranking for.
If this is the case, wouldn’t that be seen as duplicate content? Let me know about these and sorry for all the questions.
Eric, we are NOT republishing other people’s RSS feeds here. We are not “spinning” other people’s RSS feeds. We are simply using RSS feeds to help us find things to write about, and to link to. So that we can create new, useful content. Make sense?
Thanks for responding Dan. So what your doing is gathering rss feeds and summarizing them with a link back to the blog that published it and a link to your main site?
Also are you saying this?; the Wordpress index driver is on a whole different hosting server and not on your main site. Am I thinking correctly?
Yes – these are two completely different strategic concepts – both can actually use the same basic workflow with RSS, but very different ideas, conceived for very different purposes.
I’d describe the work on this one as selecting the best (most useful) items, writing descriptions of those items, and posting those descriptions. I’d expect the blog to be integrated into the site’s navigation, so it’s going to link to more than just your home page.
Excellent high quality material presented in a thoughtful compelling way.
You are real pros. My respect, and thanks for sharing this information…
Is there a way to download these videos so that I can watch them locally?
Yes, Rodger – if you look under the video, you will see the words “iPod Compatible Quicktime Video Download: ” followed by a download link which says “Download File” – right-click on that link, and save the file to your local disk.
Thanks for the great content guys. I wouldn’t expect any less.
Are there any drawbacks to the different blog tools? I have used mostly CoffeeCup tools on my site and was planning on using their blogger.
Can you give us an example of a site containing this type of blog? Would be helpful to see how others are including links to the original content as well as their own.
Thanks again…Mark
Dan,
Is it advisable to vary anchor texts or stick with one during inbound link building?
To my understanding of this video….
More content + Inbound links= Greater ranking …….Am i in the right direction here??
Cheers
Hi Dan,
Great video – really appreciate your efforts.
Ok – I understand you are basically suggesting a content building method and using this to power internal linking
i.e. commenting on others content / feeds and making a post of your own based on these.
Also giving the person a backlink / acknowledging the source of the content for the useful pages you are commenting on or used as the basis of an idea for creating your own blog post’s content.
I just had a couple of questions, if I may:-
1) Internal linking – guidelines
a) Are links one way i.e. ONLY from your blog to your other internal pages?
b) What quantity of links would one want on the blog page to other internal pages?
c) What quantity of internal pages would you want linking back to the blog page?
e.g. if I have a blog post on “Tips for controlling contrast modes on your camera” – would I want this on EVERY product page which has a “contrast mode” product feature OR is there a maximum or minimum number of internal pages I should be aiming to link to OR back to the blog?
Any guidelines on this would be appreciated?
2) External Links (i.e. not internal) going out from the blog page
a) Is their any minimum or maximum number of external links for each blog page, that we should aim for (any guideline rules)?
b) Is their any % relationship to the number of links we want to be external verse internal links, for each blog page?
Please don’t just answer that it varies on situation – please try to explain with an example clearly if you can (as this is the only way I can go from the idea in the video, to useful implementation of the idea).
Thanks in advance for clarifying these points… Andrew
Any chance of some clarification / reply on this one Dan?
Whole lot of questions there, Andrew, and you want a “one size fits all” answer that doesn’t depend on anything? Sure. No problem… after all, one size always fits all, and nothing in SEO ever depends on your situation, goals, etc. (kidding…)
With Internal linking – you may want to do different things depending on what you are trying to achieve, but the easiest thing to do is just integrate the blog into the site, so that it has the same internal links as every other page. In terms of linking TO the blog posts – at the very least, a link to the blog home page in your run-of-site navigation would make sense.
If your goal is to get blog posts to rank for something (not part of this video, but something you might want to do depending on the situation) then you may want more internal links pointing to blog posts.
With External linking – you would likely only have the one external link on a post, if you’re writing a post to describe something you are linking to. If you find that (as an example) weekly summaries, “best of,” “top 10 whatevers” posts work well, then naturally you’d have more outbound links from THOSE specific posts.
Typically, you’re going to have dozens of Internal links (part of your navigation) vs. 1 outbound link on a post. If you have more than 90% internal links on every post, there’s no way that you LOSE by adding content.
Thanks Dan – I have got the full idea now… even though a reasonably general answer it does fill in the gaps for me (and I do understand why it can not be more detailed, as that depends on a person’s aim and link structure as well ) – basically treating the blog posts as an internally generated (back link), that hopefully gets it’s own love, seems to be the core idea.
In our case the main focus is what appears in site navigation – so we will include that structure as suggested and initially share the juice among those pages that matter the most.
Also thanks for the comments on if you want a blog page to rank part – as yes, sometimes it will be useful to do that to widen our keyword scope, where those keywords don’t immediately fit into our categories / products / informational pages structure per se (e.g. industry product news, celeb news and general topical posts etc.).
Nice & easy to do (generally) – thanks again for your feedback & comments – cheers, Andrew
“In terms of linking TO the blog posts – at the very least, a link to the blog home page in your run-of-site navigation would make sense.”
That is your general recommendation right or should most link to the blog more than run of site nav?
You just need to do what it takes to get the blog pages indexed.
Dan,
Thanks for the info. Am I understanding this correctly..
1. You add a blog to your own site – it needs to be on your site so that your content increases on your site.
2. Say you add a 350 word article about digital cameras, you then link from the article text to the camera product page
(e.g from the mention of the Nikon DX to the DX Product page.)
3. Now there is new anchor text pointing to the product page that you want to rank higher.
One question is that the new article you just added has no link juice at all because it is newly indexed. So
does the anchor text to the product page actually count for anything other than new anchor text?
thanks
Andrew
Dan
I have an xcart ecommerce site and a blog related thematically but with a separate domain. Is there a way to use this or should it be on the same domain? I have read that a blog is not recommended (for security reasons) as a subdomain. Is this true?
I don’t know of any security issues specifically with a subdomain – since a subdomain need not even be on the same web server.
thanks for it. . ireally like this seo video i helps much more for seo work & make me more confidence in his field. . global web marketing
Great post,
I liked the content but to be more honest I am fascinated by the facts that
1, Your audience would at first glance be classified as having novice to middle level knowledge … why would an absolute beginner with zero knowledge of SEO be here ?
2, Your presentation style is clear, concise, your speak slowly and you are wonderfully articulate
And yet still so many people just don’t seem to get what your talking about or don’t listen or don’t read, like ” where can I download the video” when there is a link under the video that says “download file”
Hmmm.
Victor, I think alot of beginners are an audience here because they want to learn and do so the right way from the beginning from some of the greatest SEO guys. And probably it just seems like that from the comments, because the beginners are the ones that need to ask more questions.
Maybe it’s just me but the new terminology is throwing me off here and making it seem more complicated than it is…
We’re talking about mergeing RSS feeds into one centralized location to link to other RSS feeds for other link wheels sites, profiles feeds etc… I get that and I do that…
Is this PDF supposed to be a teaser ?
If so, I’m OK with that, actually more than OK with that, it’s good marketing..
So what’s the course going to cost, can that be revealed?
Thanks,
Dan
We’re opening up tomorrow, Dan – and if you get on the ‘early bird’ list we’ll let you know… early.
Thanks for the content…I was thinking about using RSS as a backlinking tool, and I think I’ve got some inspiration after watching your video. Your material is truly an asset. Also, do we really have to put up so many posts (like 200+ of them) every month to get into the search engine’s good books? — Carl
Carl, you don’t need to create hundreds of pages a month, no – even adding a page a day might be rapid growth for a lot of sites. If I recall correctly, Brett Tabke from Webmaster World wrote up a step-by-step plan for Google love several years ago, and adding a page a day was one of the main points. Personally, I’d try to do more than that, but we are all constrained by the available resources.
Hey Dan, the video is top notch, but I have learn’t so much from the comments and answers you have given, another thing I didn’t know was a subdomain not needing to be on the same server. Very interesting. Thanks.
Sandra (forever learning)
Very informative, one of my sites/blogs are on digital photography. my main one is on organics with several newsletters and e-books on topics from composting to harvesting
Wow! fantastic content on this video. Thank you very much. I’ve been waiting to print off you Google book until you update it with the information from your trip and discussion with Matt Cutts.
Clay, if you download the current version – it’s up to date.
So, I’ve been getting Dan’s e-mails for a while. Great stuff…I just haven’t had time to pour through it all what with a full-time corporate job and all. I have a side business (cufflinks) which I would like to make my primary income. I have been dragging with rankings though…between 8 and 12. I think I’m right there…but need some help, coaching, etc. to get to the next level. What’s out there Dan that will help. I true map of “do this, don’t do that”?
Is it ok to read a news article, write up a 200 word post in your own words and simply call that your own unique content and not link to the source? That is what we are suppose to do right, talk about or describe the information in our own words and not copy any text from the news source.
Sure Curtis – there are a lot of ways to create content.
So a 200ish word post is enough to be exclusive content?
Someone mentioned seomoz.org, never heard of them. What are the “brain’s” thoughts on this company? Recommend the service?
Big fan of the SEOMoz blog and I use many of their tools, including Linkscape.
Useful information, trying to implement the information one by one to get result.
Hi Dan,
I have some questions about changing an existing blog to utilize your suggestions.
I looked at my blog blog pages indexed in google and they have a bad seo layout like http://www.domainname/blog/?p=1074 ………I thought that I would go in and set the all in one seo options to try to rectify that so that the tite appeared in the page url….One concern that I had was whether changing that would wipe out already indexed pages and also how soon that I should rerun a new site for the main site which includes the blog.
Another concern about the blog is integrating it with domainname.com From reading what you are saying it would seem that you wou would want to have the blog linked to at least main category pages which would seem to require putting the equivalent of sitewide links on the blog which I interpret as the blogroll and essentially built into the template of the blog…That again raises the question of what it would do to previously indexed pages
I realize this may seem elementary but it also seems that this is like so many other things where the devil is in the details and if you miss them you will end up in h#ll instead of heaven.
I started my blog over 3 weeks ago and something recently happened and not sure what the explanation is. I signed up for Google’s feed burner on Dec 1 if this has anything to do with it. I saw my traffic quadruple on Thursday Dec 3 (unique visitors) and yes it went down as weekend traffic is always lighter, but that is also 2-3 times more than usual. The funny thing is the spike is direct traffic. Google Analytics doesn’t show IP’s, but I did look up the regions & cities of the visitors and all the traffic is from all of the over US and not just a few people. My business didn’t seem to increase, but can’t come up with an explanation for it. Can your traffic get a lot of hits somehow when you add your site to Feed Burner? I have never seen this kind of traffic to my site, wed was normal and then a huge spike on Thursday. Time will tell if it keeps it up this coming week.
Merci,
For this great website
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Dan, any comments on the minimum amount of unique content on a page for Google to consider that page unique?
I read somewhere the world count of the content of the article/post should be at least equal to the number of words that comprising your navigation, links etc on that page, for it to be considered unique. Sound about right?
If you truly can write 100-200 word posts and get them indexed as unique content, then $1 a post would probably be pretty achievable.
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Hi Dan,
Thank you for the great information that is very helpful! After reading all of the comments it became very clear about what you are talking about, so thanks for the questions and answering then Dan.
P.S. when I first started began learning and doing SEO it was your SEO Fast Start Guide that really made a huge difference!!! I went from page 7 to page 2 almost overnight due to your internal page linking strategy.
Now, I am stuck at the top of page 2 and I think this strategy will be the answer to get back on page 1. Thank you so much for your help…and soon I may join your group,
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Very nice clearly understandable videos I was able to view. But how do I get in the club to see more? Signed up for it, got three videos to view, loved them, and now eager to find out more. Unfortunately no contact information is provided, just says we’ll see you on the inside. It does mention private membership, but how to become one I cannot figure out. Perhaps someone reading this post will be able to get in touch with me about it.
Thanks for the insight on the methods.
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Very informative. I really believe this may be the type of info I’ve been looking for. At least this way I can actually create and monitor progress.
Yeah adding more pages is a awesome way to get traffic. I have a 3d models website and i have just ~150 pages and every time I add a new page the traffic increases by as much as 5-10 visitors = and that’s mainly that i have a lot more “juice” in the website PageRank 3 than some top 10 competitors
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