Good Sites For Backlinks

[Eco]

How can we find out what Google sees when it looks at our site? I apologize - not as proficient with technology as I would like to be.

Right click while viewing a page and click on view page source.

On good sites you will see:

A title that tells the search engines (google,yahoo...) what the site is about.

Meta tags that give the site's keywords= what the site or page is about.

Further down you will see the written content and hopefully images that have tags/titles so the search engine knows that they support or are about the written stuff.

Everything comes together when you source links that support the keywords or title on a page of your site. For example, create a page titled "Gay Wedding Photographer Denver". Next write a 300-500 word article that uses keywords that are related to the title. Then support your article with 3-5 pictures that all have "alt tags" <---titles that let google know what the pictures are about.

"Good links" for this page can now come from:

1. Photography sites.
2. Wedding sites
3. Gay sites
4. Denver related sites

"Correct links" will look like:

Wedding Photographer Denver

Gay Wedding photographer

Same Sex Wedding Photographer

Google and a few others have some great tools to find the keywords that people are searching for.

 

[NateWagner]

I do know that a number of the backlinks coming from here are "no follow" links which supposedly keep the backlinks from helping your site.

 

[Sachphotography]

How can we find out what Google sees when it looks at our site? I apologize - not as proficient with technology as I would like to be.

Right click while viewing a page and click on view page source.

On good sites you will see:

A title that tells the search engines (google,yahoo...) what the site is about.

Meta tags that give the site's keywords= what the site or page is about.

Further down you will see the written content and hopefully images that have tags/titles so the search engine knows that they support or are about the written stuff.

Everything comes together when you source links that support the keywords or title on a page of your site. For example, create a page titled "Gay Wedding Photographer Denver". Next write a 300-500 word article that uses keywords that are related to the title. Then support your article with 3-5 pictures that all have "alt tags" <---titles that let google know what the pictures are about.

"Good links" for this page can now come from:

1. Photography sites.
2. Wedding sites
3. Gay sites
4. Denver related sites

"Correct links" will look like:

Wedding Photographer Denver

Gay Wedding photographer

Same Sex Wedding Photographer

Google and a few others have some great tools to find the keywords that people are searching for.

Did you really have to go there?????? I think you could have explained it with using such a controversial subject. think beore you type.

 

[Eco]

Sach, did you just read a 3 page thread and only pick up on one 3 letter word? Ignore my post and reread the others, you might find some interesting things that could help your site.

 

[LarissaPhotography]

I do know that a number of the backlinks coming from here are "no follow" links which supposedly keep the backlinks from helping your site.

If you're talking about The Photo Forum, it's actually a forum that does a good job with not adding no follow to links. Can you give me an example where you see a nofollow in the forum?

 

[Sachphotography]

Sach, did you just read a 3 page thread and only pick up on one 3 letter word? Ignore my post and reread the others, you might find some interesting things that could help your site.

There are just some things that you should not go near and same sex practices are one of them. Falls in the same realm as politics and religion.
You could have easliy provided the information without having to bring up that topic, but no.... You went there.....
It not a good idea to go there and other GRAY areas. The Mods will boot you very quick. Im not taking a stance regarding the subject. I just think you should think before you type. It will earn you more respect. I learned the hard way regarding a different subject. So no offense to you....

 

[Eco]

There are just some things that you should not go near and same sex practices are one of them. Falls in the same realm as politics and religion.
You could have easliy provided the information without having to bring up that topic, but no.... You went there.....
It not a good idea to go there and other GRAY areas. The Mods will boot you very quick. Im not taking a stance regarding the subject. I just think you should think before you type. It will earn you more respect. I learned the hard way regarding a different subject. So no offense to you....

There= a market that is not flooded and a market with more $$$ than other markets. If the moderator(s) had an issue with my post then I would assume I would of received an infraction or banning of some sorts after a day.........maybe they don't care since I was not passing judgment on people?

In regards to earning respect, I'm not here for that. When it comes to websites and SEO I'm on top of the game.....when it comes to photography I need a bunch of improvement and that is why I'm here.

Thanks for the heads up even though I have no plans to change my views on what types of clients to target.

 

[Heretotherephoto]

So I am working on titles for each page, I am adding some textual descriptions on the pages themselves and am entering the kewywords where the SEO tool says to. i think these are the metadata tags someone else referred to. Once this is done, if done properly is there any way to tell how effective it is in a short time? i mean should we see an increase in traffic shortly or does it take awhile to work through the search engines?

I was searching for our site on the search engines last night and saw us listed in photocafe which is weird because we have never posted in there. And when I went into the link I found nothing regarding us. Why does that happen?

Thanks for the help

 

[KalaMarie]

When it comes to websites and SEO I'm on top of the game.....

Eco,

1) thanks for telling us about the right click view on page source. i think i'm heading in the right direction there although i need to move my blog from WordPress.com because I am really limited to what I can do under the fixed Misty Look Theme.

2) On November 11 I ran my blog here: Website SEO Tool | Website Grader and the result was 19 inbound links and 53 Google Indexed Pages. Today I ran it and I now have 199 Google Indexed Pages but still only 19 inbound links. How can that be? I know I have more inbound links than that!

 

[Eco]

Eco,

1) thanks for telling us about the right click view on page source. i think i'm heading in the right direction there although i need to move my blog from WordPress.com because I am really limited to what I can do under the fixed Misty Look Theme.

2) On November 11 I ran my blog here: Website SEO Tool | Website Grader and the result was 19 inbound links and 53 Google Indexed Pages. Today I ran it and I now have 199 Google Indexed Pages but still only 19 inbound links. How can that be? I know I have more inbound links than that!

1. Don't move it if you can, it might be better to start over and use your existing one for links to your new blog.

2. When you select your new domain name try to use keywords if possible.

3. If you use Firefox get the SEOQuake plugin, you will be able to see page rank, google indexing, google links, yahoo links and a ton of other stuff. Your site is showing 202 pages indexed and 34 links in google. In yahoo you are showing 1680 incoming links but they count everything including forum links.

*Google plays around with what they show for results outside of the webmaster tools. One of the main reasons is that if you outrank me then I could just find out where you get links from and get them from all of the same places. Even their amount of indexed pages is all over the place when viewed by the public.

Once you get your own domain name start to limit your outgoing links since they take away from your internal link structure. Currently you are showing 82 outgoing links and that's 75-80 to many IMO.

 

[Eco]

So I am working on titles for each page, I am adding some textual descriptions on the pages themselves and am entering the kewywords where the SEO tool says to. i think these are the metadata tags someone else referred to. Once this is done, if done properly is there any way to tell how effective it is in a short time? i mean should we see an increase in traffic shortly or does it take awhile to work through the search engines?

I was searching for our site on the search engines last night and saw us listed in photocafe which is weird because we have never posted in there. And when I went into the link I found nothing regarding us. Why does that happen?

Thanks for the help

For Titles try to use https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and use less popular ones until Google really loves your site and you have good link building down. The Google tool will help since they know the terms that people search for and we can only guess without their help.

For traffic you will need to use titles and keywords that people search for AND incoming links from RELATED sites---they tell google that your site is a good place to go for the title/keyword. Social bookmarking is a good place to get a few incoming links if you mix it up with other links to the same page (not all going to your main page).

Traffic can come in minutes, days or weeks all depending on your efforts and what people are searching for. Your main goal should be converting traffic (people that buy your goods/services) but it's still fun having xx,xxx unique visits a month!

When you track traffic always look at;

Unique visits (not hits)

Bounce rate= If people like your content they will stay on your site and not bounce away. Bad traffic (spamming, social bookmarking in some cases) will drive up your bounce rates.

% of traffic from search engines

% of traffic from image searches. Image searches are generally horrible at converting but it's really cool to Google for an image and see yours come in the first few!

I have no idea who "photocafe" is or why your link was showing up there. There are programs that shady sites use to show incoming links in your Awstats (server stats) just to get you to click on the link.

 

[Heretotherephoto]

thanks why less popular. Is that for uniqueness?

 

[KalaMarie]

1. Don't move it if you can, it might be better to start over and use your existing one for links to your new blog.

2. When you select your new domain name try to use keywords if possible.

3. If you use Firefox get the SEOQuake plugin, you will be able to see page rank, google indexing, google links, yahoo links and a ton of other stuff. Your site is showing 202 pages indexed and 34 links in google. In yahoo you are showing 1680 incoming links but they count everything including forum links.

*Google plays around with what they show for results outside of the webmaster tools. One of the main reasons is that if you outrank me then I could just find out where you get links from and get them from all of the same places. Even their amount of indexed pages is all over the place when viewed by the public.

Once you get your own domain name start to limit your outgoing links since they take away from your internal link structure. Currently you are showing 82 outgoing links and that's 75-80 to many IMO.

So I buy another domain name to replace A Matter Of How You See It and that domain name should relate somehow to fine art macro,flower,nature photography since that's what I do. Is this correct?

EDIT
I added the plugin for Foxfire and found those inbound links.

 

[HikinMike]

So I am working on titles for each page, I am adding some textual descriptions on the pages themselves and am entering the kewywords where the SEO tool says to. i think these are the metadata tags someone else referred to. Once this is done, if done properly is there any way to tell how effective it is in a short time? i mean should we see an increase in traffic shortly or does it take awhile to work through the search engines?

I was searching for our site on the search engines last night and saw us listed in photocafe which is weird because we have never posted in there. And when I went into the link I found nothing regarding us. Why does that happen?

Thanks for the help

If you add a 'Google Alert', like your website name, then you can find out when/who posts/updates your site. I have several Alerts from my name, my business name and some of the keywords I'm following. :mrgreen:

 

[HikinMike]

For Titles try to use https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and use less popular ones until Google really loves your site and you have good link building down. The Google tool will help since they know the terms that people search for and we can only guess without their help.

Doesn't this only work if you are a paid AdWord user?