Reviewing AJ2008 some more – linkbuilding
An SEO review is not complete without a look at links.
Yesterday I tackled on-page SEO factors: what AJ can do on her lens to make it most likely the search engines know what it’s about, and which serps (seach engine result pages) it should show up in.
Today it’s: how to get links for a lens about a spammy topic…
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Tony said :
January 13, 2009 at 11:48 am
More really useful information.
If AJ can do all of this, it will be very interesting to see how successful the lens is, not just as far as traffic and ranking, but also earnings.
MiMi said :
January 13, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Very helpful post! Indeed, knowing AJ, she will be able to take this information and make that lens a huge success.
Susan52 said :
January 13, 2009 at 4:24 pm
More great information. I’ve used the blog search module and it has been very helpful. I find blogs represented there and post comments and always get traffic back. However, I haven’t done that lately. Ack! Great reminder. Thanks again for the very helpful advice!
aj2008 said :
January 14, 2009 at 5:59 am
WOW AGAIN!
What have I done to deserve all this fantastic help? I cannot wait to get going on this. Thank you again Katinka for all the help you are giving me with my Weight Loss lens.
Note: I have taken on board your suggestion about leaving a link in any comments I make (relevant ones of course!)
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AJ is Always Juggling » Blog Archive » Whaaaat? Even more help! said :
January 14, 2009 at 6:18 am
[...] You can see what Spirituality has to say about links to my lens on her: latest blog post about building links to a lens. [...]
spirituality said :
January 14, 2009 at 6:30 am
You’re welcome AJ. That link somehow didn’t work. Here’s the working link: lose weight
spirituality said :
January 14, 2009 at 6:31 am
The trick: always copy past URL’s
Don’t try to type them. Don’t delete the http:// part just copy paste.
aj2008 said :
January 14, 2009 at 6:43 am
Oops!
Katinka – thanks for putting up the correct link. Now I must go and do some other work!
mulberry said :
January 14, 2009 at 6:56 am
Excellent advice again. When I first started at Squidoo I really didn’t realize that in order to succeed I needed to promote my lenses just as I would my website or blog and get backlinks going! I realized it once I saw all the backlinks I generated when posting in the Squid forum…consistently those where my top ranking lenses. Geez, 250 back links versus 0, wonder why? I then started taking time away from lens development to start doing lens “promotion”. I’m no queen of backlinks but I’m working on it all of the time.
spirituality said :
January 14, 2009 at 8:27 am
Mulberry: You’ve had lenses rank mainly by posting them in the squidoo forums? Really? That’s certainly not a pattern I’ve seen – but then I’ve been mainly seeing another pattern: blog (and twitter about your blog) and you will see lenses rank better.
But then, my blog has been getting backlinks as well – and I’m not even talking about the backlinks this blog has gotten (not bad either, but not as good as my spiritual blog).
cleanerlife said :
January 15, 2009 at 10:00 am
Very helpful information!
Reading your SEO Lenses was the first time I really started understanding how to optimize my Lenses for search engine traffic.
I’m sure I’ll get even better results as I go back over them using your tips to improve, and promote them.
spirituality said :
January 15, 2009 at 11:52 am
Cleanerlife: Glad to hear it
And the great thing is: once you get the hang of it, it starts to build on each other. Because one project (lens, blog, whatever) you’re into is trusted by google, the next one has a better headstart as well. And once you’ve got search engine traffic, you’re also more likely to get links from blogs and websites you hadn’t even thought about.
On Squidoo it even works (to some extent) like a reinforcing cycle: traffic means higher lensrank means more links within squidoo, means more traffic.
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