Paying for Backlinks, Generally a Bad Idea and Waste of Money

As one who has learned all my SEO techniques on my own, I've had to do my own research and experience my own learning curve when it comes to backlinks.  I'm determined to share my own opinion on paying for backlinks, I realize SEO is a ultra-complex topic with so many experts, and that there will likely be many who have their own differing opinion on this topic; I welcome your feedback.

Backlinks are one of the keys to a websites success in search engines as the number of backlinks can be indicators of the popularity or importance of a website (they are not the only indicator.)  There is not a day that goes by where I don't see advertising for 'backlinks for sale.' There are those that would assure us that buying backlinks is a sure fire way to get your website to the front page in search engines.  I'm fairly certain however that in many cases those assuring us of this are the same people selling us the backlinks.  In my research buying backlinks is a risky business in which you are almost always throwing your money away.  When I say this, I do say it with a reservation realizing that there are always exceptions. Also recognize that I'm primarily referring to services that sell mass amounts of backlinks, guaranteeing 'thousands instantly'.

There would be two primary motivators for purchasing backlinks, 1. search engine placement, and 2. drive traffic to your site. If you were to decide to pay for backlinks you need to realize the bottom line needs to be increased traffic to your site, what I mean is that you need to be assured you are paying for a link that will generate traffic - that is what you are paying for, not the link.  Since paid backlinks 'en masse' at least the ones that advertise the will get you thousands of backlinks instantly, are very likely garbage links (low quality links on pages that do not rank well) that will generate no traffic, you can be assured you are wasting your money.  You can also be fairly certain that these links will be placed on link farms and other such sites which will not accomplish much of anything in your search rankings.  There has been much discussion over the quality of a backlink and it has been stated directly by Sergey Brin and Larry Page that "PageRank... [does] not count links from all pages equally, and by normalizing by the number of links on a page."  What Brin and Page are clarifying for us is 1. not all links have the same value for search engines and 2. pages that are nothing but link farms or have low PageRank's are noticed and backlinks on those pages are very ineffective.  What's more, how many humans do you know that spend time looking at link farms?

In addition you can bet there is a time limit on your purchase, and that the link(s) will eventually disappear... once it's gone anything that was accomplished for traffic or search engines will be undone, and you will fall off the map... unless you pay again.

Many website owners successfully optimize for SEO and build fantastic traffic in their niche without ever paying for a single backlink.  What's more with the social web word of mouth, and social networking can effectively build you quality backlinks as well.  It may take a bit more work and time, but you can be certain the individuals you are connecting with are human, and that their loyalty goes deeper than that of a backlink machine.

Here's an interesting article I read recently titled, Does Backlink Quality Matter.  It's worth a read. What are your thoughts on purchasing backlinks, or your experiences?  How do you think the companies that guarantee results and money back are able to do this?  I'd love to hear from you.

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Daniel Snyder was raised just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia. I am a huge fan of social media and a total twitter addict. Completely intrigued by all things security related, I seem to be exploring my potential by blogging. One of my goals is to inform & educate on the importance of proper computer security.  You can follow me @danielsnyder1 on twitter or visit infocarnivore.com

Why I hate Directory Submission ?

Once upon a time Directory submission is an effective way for link building. I have faced many kind of problems with directory submission while submit my sites. Probably it may be a mistake of the directory moderator or owner which is really sucks our link building work. More over, submitting same title, description and keywords on 100 directories wont help us. It would be considered as a spam by Search engine.

Whilst, i am trying to post my web URL on directories , i found some mistakes on directories. I wanted to let you all know the some common mistakes occur on directory submission. 

Worst Captcha Image:

Some directory has the worst captcha image and no one can really type the image. Captcha is a simple concept to avoid automated submission and to check whether the user is human or not. There is no need to place this kind of captcha image on directory submission which really makes users skip from directory.

Captcha Text box Length:

It is an another irritating error on directories that captcha image have 5 characters but the text box where we type the image have only 4 character maximum length. Even we type that first four characters and submit the form, it displays, “The Entered Captcha is Incorrect”. Trying to submit our sit e on this kind of directories is like finding dissolved salt on water.

Already Exist Mistakes:

Generally, we are only doing directory submission for our site and we know exactly which directories we have submitted already. Some directories which display message like this when you are new to that directory “ URL already exist in our directory” which is really humbug. We tried to look our listing on that directory after seeing this error message, but definitely there will be no link of our site. It is an error commonly displays for all submission.

Mistake on Reciprocal link:

Every directory submission form having the special cell for reciprocal linking. We need not to use it compulsory and it wont be in mandatory field excluding some directories. We select free submission button and fill out all the details of our site and click the submit button, but the error displays “ Need Reciprocal URL for submission”. If they really need reciprocal linking, they should specify it on beginning of the form.

No confirmation Mail:

All the directory submission forms collects our email id while submitting our site. But some rare directories only sent confirmation links and approval intimation to our mail. We submit our site on more than 100 directories and we cant check our links submission status on every directory on each day. So the directory owner has to make proper arrangements to let users know about their site status on directory.

Message to Directory owners :

If you are really capable person to run directory in proper way, you do it. Or else kindly appoint a moderator to run your directories properly without any mistakes. Once people find this kind of mistakes in you directory, they definitely wont come back to your site. Please do check you directory status, functions and navigation often.

Time for comment:

These are some things which i found while submitting my sites on directories. It is time for you guys, can comment me if you find any mistakes on directory submission or thing makes you irritating about directory submission.

Wordweb Tool for Vocabulary Rich Blogging.

We all know the slogan “ Content is king” for both blogs and websites. With out any promotional work, content itself can provide you more traffic. Some people are genius in writing content for blogs and websites, because they have excellent vocabulary power. This blog will not help for those who have well versed vocabulary power. Definitely helpful for some weak people who struggling to use proper vocabulary in their blogs.

I don't know, how many of you having tools to check vocabulary. Some may waiting to get tools for spell check, meaning finder, nearest meaning finder, antonyms finder. I wants to refer the tool “ WORDWEB” which i am using since i started my blogging. Word web is absolutely free tool which has smaller windows with great power.

The above image shows the screen shot of the tool. You can see the top menu containing bookmark, copy, options and help. Book mark option will let you make some important book marks. You can copy the word by clicking copy option of the menu. Help menu is there to help for users in many ways.

How it Word web tool works?

• You can simply type the word in look up text box shown in image and click the search option. With in the fraction of seconds , you can get meaning of the word. Word meaning will be more or less in the dictionary format

• Word web also displays the word type which you search for, like whether the word is adjective, noun, adverb or verbs. It will help us to make right sentence and grammar error free articles.

• Bottom menu having four more options which are “Nearest, Antonyms, See also, Similar”. These options will help user to find nearest meaning of search word, antonyms of the word and more similar word to the search word. It will help us to stop using the same word again and again in blogs. We can use the similar words using word web.

• The special features of word web tool is audio sound, if you have audio system enabled in your system , you can get the audio which let you know how the word should be pronounced.

Iphone users can get word web application for their iphone. Dont need to hold a large size or pocket size dictionary. Just have iphone wordweb app on your iphone. Get download your app on apple store.

This free tool is available on wordweb.info portal. Finally the draw back of the tool is that it will be applicable only for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7. Other OS users cant get it now. Hope my tool suggestion will help you for you to make vocabulary rich blogs.

Have you tried Forums for your business promotion?

Forums are major resource to build quality links. Most of the people using forums only for building back links. We can also use forums for business promotion. Especially here i am going to talk about the most two popular forums. Yes, Digital point forums and V7N forums. To become a member in these forums are not that much difficult. By filling simple registration form will let us be a member of a forum.

Signature, The most important concept of the forum. The users can place their links on signature link field. There fore, links will display each and every thread of the member. Unfortunately, Forum will not let new users to use this facility. They have to make 50 valuable post on the forums to build their signature links. It is the type of forum policy to avoid spammers.

These signature links are considered as a back links to a site. Rather than back links generation, one can use forums for business promotions, especially for e-commerce and Affiliate program. E-commerce and Affiliate Programs are two major categories of a forum. If you have quality e-commerce product or want to invite affiliates for your affiliate program, then forums are right place to you.

I found some questions on e-commerce and Affiliate program categories of digital point forums which listed below.

• What E-commerce cart should i use ?
• What is the best shopping cart ?
• I need shopping cart like amazon?

• What is the good affiliate program for Email Marketing?
• What are the best web hosting affiliate programs?
• Suggest some high referral commission affiliate program?

I just shocked, each of this threads having nearly 300 views and 50 replies. If you really having quality e-commerce product or affiliate programs then why let it go without your reply. Make use of these categories, keep watching often and post reply with proper description of your products and affiliate program. It will bring you more business.

More over, if anyone searches these question in Google, the digital point thread will be shows in Search results of the search engine. So participating in forums will give you business via forum thread as well as Google SERP too. Don't let your customers will have been stolen by others who are active in forums. So be an active members in all forums especially in the niche which your business belonging to.

Basic Blogging Tips for Beginners

Blogging is an art and now it is commercial platform too. Blogging may be a passion for some people and some writes blogs to earn money online. So blog may be a commercial or non-commercial. Whatever may be, now a days people are getting more interest to read blogs and of course to write blogs. Because they no need to spend money to write blogs. There are plenty of free blogging portals available like blogger and wordpress.

Before get into blogging, one should decide the niche of the blogging. Blog will be good, if and only if we select our interesting and well known niche. So that people who are all interested in that niche will come to your blog again and again to watch your updates. Generally readers wants to know about the author. So write about you on your blog's ABOUT ME or PROFILE section. It makes good understanding and relation between your readers on you.

Title is another important thing for blogging, Dont put irrelevant titles for your blogs. It will definitely let your readers skip from your blogs also dont make your blog title so long. Fix it up in particular length which suits for your designs and template. My suggestion is that dont let your title go on second line. The next important thing is keyword. You should write Keyword rich blogs to get readers from Google Organic search. You can use Google Adwords Tools to get relevant keywords to your blog which is a good and free tool offering by Google.

Try to add inner links of your older blog with your new blog. So that reader will get interest to read you old blog too. Mind one thing, dont link with irrelevant blogs. It makes readers irritates on your blogs. The common mistake that all beginners will do, is copying content from some other blog which is really so bad. You can promote your blog easily only if you write your own and quality blogs. Readers likes to read original content and not copy pasted content.

After writing your blog, Please keep check your contents for spelling mistakes which every beginners forget to do. You can use free online spell check forms to check your spelling. If you not provide quality blog, readers will not supposed to be your subscribers. Publish your blog on blogging portal by adding more relevant keywords on tags section. After publishes your blogs keep building some quality links for your blogs also tweet your blog link on twitter to get traffic.

Hope, This blog will hepful for beginners of blogging to know more about basics of blogs and blog writing. Happy Blogging !!