Things I Could Have Done / May Do in Google
March 1, 2005- Host presell pages on Ad Buys: I was renting about a half dozen sitewide links. I also get a bunch of free links from various SEO forums. I could have asked some of these people to host a presell page on their site and had them link into my site from it.
- Mix Anchor Text Better: When I first started my other site this one was not popular. I had no idea that my other site was going to become as popular as it did.
- When I first started building links I did not mix anchor text that much because I wanted to build a strong brand. There is something contrary to building a strong brand and telling people to link to your site with fried gibronie or other random words the anchor text.
- I have been mixing anchor text for a while, but it was not enough to overcome the sheer number of sitewide and keyword rich links pointing at my site.
- Host Articles Like this One on That Site: My blog does not get a ton of deep links, but is on a good number of blogrolls. The articles I write on this site build a good number of unrequested links. My information segregation hurts my deep link ratio.
- Make more long posts on my blog: Most of my blog posts just link to a bunch of sites with little commentary in them. In doing that and combining many topics in many of the posts it makes the posts less likely to build linkage data.
- Most of my would be longer essay type blog postes wound up as articles on this site.
- Not cross-link (or redirect the links): I was linking to SEO Book.com from a few of my sites via sitewide links. Primarily this was for advertising (as there is rarely any other ad space which has better targeted traffic than a person who just read a 3-page article you just wrote.
- Use a better affiliate program: I was using Clickbank and another tracking script, but it was using many 302 redirects. Instead I probably should have used one hosted on my site to have better control of my linkage profile.
- Create free SEO Tools: I could have created free SEO tools, added forums to my site, or create ideas designed to be viral in nature and point link popularity into other nodes of the site.
Part of the Doing SEO in a Vacuum article by Aaron Wall here..
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