12 Web Design Directories To Improve Your SEO List of Web Design Directories Links from niche directories are of more value in SEO than submitting to general directories, and there are a number of specialized directories catering exclusively for web designers. Below are some of those. Many of these require a reciprocal link and which have fallen out of favor since Google declared against “excessive reciprocal linking”; but in moderation it is fine as Matt Cutts talked about in 2007 – “Trading links is natural and it’s natural to have reciprocal links. At some level, natural reciprocal links happen, but if you do it way too often, it looks artificial.” 1. Year Site Created: 2001Indexed Pages in Google: 15,400Backlinks in Yahoo: 155,988PageRank: 6Link Status: NofollowQuantcast Ranking: 24,796Submission rules: Read the submission rules here 2. Year Site Created: 2008Indexed Pages in Google: 319Backlinks in Yahoo: 837PageRank: 4Link Status: DofollowQuantcast Ranking: No dataSubmission rules: Reciprocal link required. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
20 Free Keyword Research Tools Before you write any good article or optimize website, you have to know how and why you have to select right keywords. SEO is very easy to overuse and do even worse, if you for example start to do keyword stuffing or repeating the same words over and over again without good thought. For regular content like blogs, people always like to argue about what you need to put in the first place – SEO or your readers. I am thinking you must do both – using simple but consistent and smart SEO and try to write as compelling article as possible to your readers. If you haven’t already I strongly you suggest to read the first post -How To Create Popular Blog With Keyword Research, Heatmaps And SEO? In that case you’ll get good search rankings because of SEO and trackbacks,comments you’ll get if article will be really good. ( of course, don’t forget about PageRank – new blogs usually don’t rank very well in Google). 1.Google search based keyword tool 2.Google AdWords: Keyword Tool 4. 7.Good Keywords v3
Link Building 101 - The Almost Complete Link Guide A lot has changed since I got into link building a few years ago - link exchange is dead, ad banners are no longer all about gaining referral traffic, and buying links is more dangerous than ever before. Because of the changes mentioned and a whole load of others the majority of link builders don’t like to give away their secrets to sourcing links, even though it’s all pretty much the same at most agencies. Most of the advice I will be giving throughout this post is most likely available from a large number of sources including SEOmoz but I felt it would be great to bring everything together under one simple guide. Creating your link building strategy Before building any links to a website it is important to ask yourself a few questions like: What kind of links do you need? Do you need nofollow and branded links? Sadly every strategy is different and people can’t answer these questions for you but hopefully you can use the following information to help answer the questions.
Top SEOmoz Posts of 2010 Over here at the mozPlex we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some of our “Best Posts” of 2010. But how do we determine what a best post is? Do we look at the number of thumbs up… or do we care more about traffic generated by the post? Or since we’re SEOs over here, is a top post based on the number of linking root domains it’s obtained? Well why not look at all of these aspects? Back in April, 650+ people voted and the following 10 topics were the ones the community wanted to see more of on the blog: Link Building & Link Analysis SEO Tools & Automation On-Page Optimization / Keyword Targeting Conversion Rate Optimization Site Architecture & Navigation Analytics & Tracking Social Media Marketing (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, etc.) Now let's take a look at the "Best Posts of 2010" based on Thumbs, Traffic and Backlinks and see if we've brought you the content you wanted. Top Posts of 2010 By Thumbs Up 1. 2. Link Building 101 - The Almost Complete Link Guide
6 New Tools Every SEO Should Check Out There's some terrificly useful new tools on the market that very few SEOs are aware of or using (at least, if my experience is any indication). It's my duty, therefore, to share with some of these shiny new sites and let you explore, engage and apply to your campaigns and efforts. Hopefully, these will add great value for you, and expose them to folks who really need their help. Ontolo: An Expert Link Builder's Dream Link building is hard - really, really hard. Below is a screenshot of Ontolo's Authority Links searching tool. Ontolo isn't for everyone - you should be a professional or semi-pro link builder (the tools and their results, rely on a lots of prior knowledge), but for those it's geared toward, the reviews have been outstanding and Ontolo's team (Ben Wills + Garret French) are constantly upgrading the service and functionality. SEO Gadget's Keyword Research Beta Richard Baxter is constantly lauded as one of the SEO industry's best, brightest and most driven minds.