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SEO Terminology (Dictionary of terms)

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:41:00 +0000

Format for Dictionary is as follows:
Term: Definition
link to Article 1
link to Article 2
link to Article 3

Backlink: The links coming into your site.
Back Link Article

Directory: A listing of businesses and websites compiled by humans. Web masters submit their websites to a directory instead of relying on spiders.
A Good List of Directory Here

Forum:A discussion group on the Web about a particular topic. It is similar to a Usenet discussion, but uses a Web browser for access. Before the Web, text-only forums were common on bulletin boards and proprietary online services (see BBS). Web-based forums can include all the extras people expect from Web pages, including images, videos and downloads.

Although they can be entirely anonymous, forums often require registration of an e-mail address, username and password. Messages may be displayed in chronological order of posting or in question-answer order (a user posts a question, and all related answers are displayed under the question).

There is a variety of forum creation software for the Web, typically written in Java, PHP, Perl or ASP. The software can be used to create forum-only sites or to add a discussion section to any Web page.

A Good List of Forums Here
Keywords, keyterms, and keyphrases: Keywords, keyterms, and keyphrases are the words often entered into a search engine by users. It could be just one word, a combination of words or a phrase.
Keyword Suggestion Tool
SEO Keyword Checklist
Keyword SEO for AdSense Optimization
Keyword Clouds (and Tool)
Top-left-down Webpages for Optimal Keyword Placement

Link farm: A page full of links to a bunch of different websites. Used to trick search engines into giving a higher ranking for a keyterm on a particular page.

PageRank: PageRank is the measurement for ranking of a page used by Google.

SEO: Search engine optimization.
SEO Tool 1: Backlink Checker
SEO Tool 2: Search Engine Simulator
SEO Tool 3: Keyword Cloud
SEO Tool 4: Keyword Suggestion Tool
SEO Checklist: Keywords
SEO Checklist: Links

SERP: Search engine results page - the results page of a search.

Spider: A spider is a computer program that crawls through the Web looking for web pages to add to a search engine index. It is also referred to as a webcrawler, crawler or a bot.
Top-left-down easy spiderable pages

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Auction Ads

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:41:00 +0000

Free $25.00 AuctionAds Bonus For New Publishers!

AuctionAds Publishers, there is a great way for you to promote AuctionAds and earn 5% affiliate referrals. Spread the word (using your affiliate link) that AuctionAds is offering an instant $25.00 balance to all new publishers who sign up for AuctionAds! New publishers just need to sign up and they will receive a balance of $25.00 automatically.

Please note if you signed up with AuctionAds previously and have never earned a payout you will get a bump up in your current balance to $25 too! Their minimum payout is also being raised to $50.

They also have new ad formats now that are suppose to increase click-through-rate. The pictures on their ads have also been optimize so that it doesn't appear stretchy. I think they are a lot better.

Keyword and Keyword Suggestion Tool

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:53:00 +0000

What is important in implementing SEO is that you optimize your pages for the right keywords, keyphrases, and keyterms. Optimize for a few of these keyphrases only, per page and make many pages with each page optimized for a handful of keywords and keyphrases. Try to determine what people would enter into the search engine to find your material and use those as keywords. This tool will come up with suggestions for keywords based on actual searches at Yahoo! You can bet though that for many words, people used the same words at Google as well. Just enter a keyword and press 'submit' and the tool will come up with a list of keywords and phrases with similar meaning as well as the frequency of their search.

Top 100 Directory Listings

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:00:00 +0000

dmoz.org --- PR9 ---

dir.yahoo.com/ ---PR9 ---

lii.org/pub/htdocs/home.htm --- PR8 ---

ilovelanguages.com --- PR8 ---

musicmoz.org --- PR8 ---

yahooligans.yahoo.com --- PR8 ---

open-site.org --- PR8 ---

bloggernity.com --- PR7 ---

podcastzoom.com --- PR7 ---

blogrankings.com --- PR7 ---

bloguniverse.com --- PR7 ---

femina.com --- PR7 ---

2rss.com --- PR7 ---

exactseek.com --- PR7 ---

lanic.utexas.edu --- PR7 ---

selfgrowth.com --- PR7 ---

lsblogs.com --- PR7 ---

nationaldirectory.com --- PR7 ---

worldhot.com --- PR7 ---

kinderstart.com --- PR7 ---

portal.eatonweb.com --- PR7 ---

envirolink.org --- PR7 ---

findmyhosting.com --- PR7 ---

businessweek.directorym.com --- PR7 ---

http://www.web10.us --- PR7 ---

Directory #26-50

Webmaster Forums

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:54:00 +0000

This is a list of the best forums on the internet. These forums are good for link building and to market your products and services. All of these are high traffic forums.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com --- Alexa: 140 ---- PR: 6 --- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://talk.iwebtool.com --- Alexa: 1198 ---- PR: 6 --- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://sitepoint.com/forums --- Alexa: 413 ---- PR: 7 --- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://webmasterworld.com --- Alexa: 447 ---- PR: 8 --- Signature link: No signatures

http://warriorforum.com/forum --- Alexa: 582 ---- PR: 5 --- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://v7n.com/forums --- Alexa: 960 ---- PR: 6 --- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://webhostingtalk.com --- Alexa: 1557 ---- PR: 6 --- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://namepros.com --- Alexa: 1767 ---- PR: 5 ---- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://dnforum.com --- Alexa: 2286 ---- PR: 5 ---- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://webmaster-talk.com --- Alexa: 5131 ---- PR: 6 --- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://kirupa.com/forum --- Alexa: 8224 ---- PR: 7 --- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://earnersforum.com --- Alexa: 9650 ---- PR: 5 --- Signature link: Without Nofollow

http://forums.seochat.com --- Alexa: 1452 ---- PR: 5

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Backlink Checker

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:47:00 +0000

Traffic is key to promoting your website. One way to increase your ranking on search engines is with backlinks. This increases the page ranking.

So what are backlinks? They are links to your website from other websites. Another term for them is Inbound Links (IBL's). Search engines such as Google will rank pages higher that have more quality backlinks. The highest quality backlinks are from websites with content that is similar or relevant to your website. A really good tool for checking the number of backlinks to your website is the Back Link Counter. Just enter your URL below to find all the backlinks to that website.

This tool will give you statistics like Alexa traffic rank, the age of the domain, DMOZ listings, and the number of pages that are indexed by popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. You can also use this tool to check out your competitors. All you have to do is paste the URL of the website into the box and do a search and it will return all the data.

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SEO Checklist: Keywords

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:59:00 +0000

Here is a SEO checklist of things to consider when building your website. The checklist covers factors that affect your rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo! and other search engines as well. The elements are categorized as being positive, negative and neutral.

Keywords

Keywords in < title>< /title> tag
One of the most important places to have a keyword is within the < title> tag. What is inside the < title> tag is what will display in the results page as your page title. The title tag should be short (6 or 7 words at most) and the keywords must be near the beginning.
+3

Keywords in URL
Keywords in URLs increases ranking a lot - e.g. - http://www.domaine.com/seo-services.html, where “SEO services” is the keyword phrase you want to rank well for. For this to work well, your URL must accurately describe the contents of your page. You should have some keywords in your page as well.
+3

Keyword density in document text
Keyword density is an important factor in search engine ranking. For optimal density, you should try to have 3 -7 % for major keywords and 1-2% for minor ones. Keyword density of over 10% is suspicious, reads like spam, and looks more like keyword stuffing, than a naturally written text.
+3

Keywords in anchor text
The anchor text of inbound links should contain keywords related to your site.
+3

Keywords in headings (< H1>, < H2> etc. tags)
Keywords in heading tags count a lot if they are relevant to the contents of your webpage.
+3

Keywords in the beginning of a document
Use your keywords near the beginning of the page. This does not count as much as having keywords in the anchor text, title tag or headings. It is important to have keywords here regardless if the beginning of a document is text or not. For instance, if you use tables the first paragraph of text might be in the second half of the table.
+2

Keywords in tags
Spiders can't read images but they do read the descriptions in the tag. Make sure to fill in the tag of any pictures you have on your website, with some keywords about them.
+2

Keywords in metatags
Yahoo! and MSN still rely on keywords in metatags, but it is becoming less and less important to Google. If you are optimizing for Yahoo! or MSN, fill these tags out properly.
+1

Keyword phrases
Keyword phrases consist of several words – e.g. “SEO services”. Since a lot of keywords are highly competitive, you should also be optimizing for keyphrases. Optimize for lesser use keyphrases is a good strategy because they are not as competitive.
+1

Keyword proximity
Keyword proximity measures how close to each other the keywords are. It is best if they are immediately one after the other (e.g. “dog food”). For instance, if you have “dog” in the first paragraph and “food” in the third paragraph, this is not as good as having the phrase “dog food” without any other words in between. Keyword proximity is applicable for keyword phrases that consist of 2 or more words.
+1

Secondary keywords
Because there is so much competition for the popular keywords, it is a good strategy to target secondary keywords. Since there will be less competition for these keywords, your page will get more hits. For instance, “real estate Toronto" might have a thousand times less hits than “real estate” but if you are operating in Toronto, you will get less traffic but it is higher quality and better targeted.
+1

Keyword stemming
In English, words that stem from the same root (e.g. dog, dogs, doggy, etc.) are considered related and if you have “dog” on your page, you will get hits for “dogs” and “doggy” as well. In other languages keywords stemming is an issue because different words that stem from the same root are not considered to be related, in which case you need to optimize for all of them.
+1

Synonyms
Use synonyms for your target keywords and then optimize for those as well. This is especially important for sites in English, because search engines are smart enough to handle this. With other language, it might not be as important.
+1

Keyword Mistypes
A lot of words have common spelling errors and if you know these common misspellings, you can optimize your web page for these as well. (i.e. Christmas and Xmas). This might get you some more traffic but leaves a bad impression so you might want to only do it in the metatags.
0

Keyword dilution
When you have a webpage optimze for too many keywords, especially ones unrelated to each other, this will negatively affect the performance of all your keywords.
-2

Keyword stuffing
Artificially inflated keyword density (10% and over) is keyword stuffing and you risk getting banned from search engines. It also tends to make your post look spammy which is also bad.
-3

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Keyword SEO for AdSense

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:42:00 +0000

When the AdSense web crawler scans a website one of the things it will look for are keywords that are logically placed and are within the right locations. Those are the two most important elements: keywords and location. Keywords on the webpage should be conceptually similar to keywords on the website's title, otherwise the AdSense ads might not make sense. The AdSense web crawler actually uses these two elements to determine what type of ads to send to your website. If it can't make that determination you might just get P.S.A (Public Service Ads) ads which will not create any revenue for you. To be certain that your ads will be appropriate make sure you do the following:

Create a clear title that easily captures the reader's attention.
Example: Make Money with Google AdSense
Not: There is a way to make money.

The keywords must appear in your first paragraph. This is really important. I am actually going to rewrite all my articles to reflect this.

Don't go off topic on your website if you want to get maximum revenue. This of course doesn't count if you are just blogging about your life or something leisurely like that.

Use the keyword once again, as the last word of your post.

Check the density of the keywords in your post. If it is too low, just re-edit until you get the right level of density. It is optimal to have 7-8% density for your keywords. Too much density will actually decrease your ranking so don't over do it. You can check your keyword density with the keyword density checker.

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Search Engine Simulator

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:31:00 +0000

This tool is a search engine simulator. It simulates how a search engine will see your web page. It also displays hyperlinks that will be crawled by search engines when they visit your page.

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eBay Store Fees

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:28:00 +0000

Here is a break down for the fees for eBay Stores.

Subscription Fees
Store Level
Fee

Basic
$15.95 / month

Featured
$49.95 / month

Anchor
$499.95 / month

Store Inventory format basic fees

As an eBay Store owner, you'll have access to an additional listing format called Store Inventory format. Use this format to list your items at a set price, so buyers can purchase items immediately (no bidding).These listings have a longer duration and lower Insertion Fees but have limited visibility compared to the Online Auction and Fixed Price formats. If your item sells, you also pay a Final Value Fee.

Note: Store Inventory listings appear in your Store with other regular Online Auction and Fixed Price listings. They also appear in certain circumstances on eBay.com search results pages.

Insertion Fees
Starting or Reserve Price
30 days
Good 'Til Cancelled*

US$0.01 - US$24.99
US$0.05
US$0.05 / 30 days

US$25.00 - and above
US$0.10
US$0.10 / 30 days

*Good 'Til Cancelled listings will be charged the relevant fees every 30 days.

Note: The Insertion Fee covers a single listing(with any quantity of items in the listing), whether you list 1 or 1, 000 of the same item. For example, you have a listing with 10 items for $5.00 each. The Starting Price for the listing is $5.00. The Insertion Fee for this listing would be $0.05 per 30 days regardless of the item quantity of this listing.

Final Value Fees
Closing Price
Final Value Fee

Item not sold
No Fee

US$0.01 - US$25.00
10.00% of the closing price

US$25.01 - US$100.00
10.00% of the initial US$25.00 (US$2.50), plus 7.00% of the remaining closing value balance

US$100.01 - US$1,000.00
10.00% of the initial US$25.00 (US$2.50), plus 7.00% of the initial US$25.01 – US$100.00 (US$5.25), plus 5.00% of the remaining closing value balance US$100.01 – US$1,000.00

Over US$1,000.01
10.00% of the initial US$25.00 (US$2.50), plus 7.00% of the initial US$25.01 – US$100.00 (US$5.25), plus 5.00% of the initial US$100.01 – US$1,000.00 (US$45.00), plus 3.00% of the remaining closing value balance (US$1,000.01-closing value)

Note: As a Store seller, you can earn a Store Referral Credit and save 75% off Final Value Fees for Store Inventory listings when you drive traffic to your Store!

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eBay Auction Fees

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:17:00 +0000

If you are going to open an eBay store the first thing you have to know is eBay auction fees. eBay charges an insertion fee and a final value fee. There is a completely different fee schedule for eBay store items.

Basic fees
When you list an item on eBay, you're charged an Insertion Fee. If the item sells, you are also charged a Final Value Fee. The total cost of selling an item is the Insertion Fee plus the Final Value Fee.

Insertion Fees
Starting or Reserve Price
Insertion Fee

$0.01 - $0.99
$0.20

$1.00 - $9.99
$0.40

$10.00 - $24.99
$0.60

$25.00 - $49.99
$1.20

$50.00 - $199.99
$2.40

$200.00 - $499.99
$3.60

$500.00 or more
$4.80

Final Value Fees
Closing Price
Final Value Fee

Item not sold
No Fee

$0.01 - $25.00
5.25% of the closing value

$25.01 - $1,000.00
5.25% of the initial $25.00 ($1.31), plus 3.25% of the remaining closing value balance ($25.01 to $1,000.00)

Equal to or Over $1000.01
5.25% of the initial $25.00 ($1.31), plus 3.25% of the initial $25.01 - $1,000.00 ($31.69), plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($1000.01 - closing value)

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Keywords and Keyword Cloud

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:05:00 +0000

Keywords are key to understanding search engines and their ranking. Users doing a search will enter keywords or keyphrases in the search engine and the search engine uses these keyphrases to return a search. It is crucial that your website is optimize for such keyphrases. This tool actually will give you a Keyword Cloud which is a useful tool for checking keyword density.

How it Works

A Keyword Cloud visual depicts how your keywords are represented on a webpage. The more often the keyword is used, the larger the font will be. What you want in terms of optimizing your website is for your main keywords to appear in larger font at the beginning of the cloud. When a search engine crawls your website, it will extract the text and then after removing all stop words will analyze the density of the keywords in your text. It is important to have the correct keyword density to rank well on different search engines.

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Top-Left-Down Web Pages

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:32:00 +0000

Your website should contain top-left-down web pages as a white-hat SEO strategy. If you are publishing in English this is already true because that is just how you read or write naturally. That is not enough for Google though. For SEO optimization, you have to put the keywords in a contexually relevant manner in as close to the top left hand corner as possible.
In the western civilization things are read top-left-down (start from the top left hand corner and go right and downwards) so Google gives higher PageRanks to websites that follow this rule. Google has made their bots read the web pages in this manner as well. This is a good reason why you should not be using an image header as a title. Webcrawlers won't be able to recognize images and you will be using up your most important real estate if you do that.

Bear in mind that the closer to the top left hand corner you place your keywords, the better. A good strategy would be to first determine what your web page is going to be about, then select the keywords that your readers would use in a search and then use these keywords in the most upper left of your web page. A good amount would be 3 to 5 keywords per page.

In terms of web pages and HTML tags, and looking from the topmost leftest down, we have --title tage, headings, abstract and then paragraph. These areas are actually consider the 'golden triangle' because research has shown over and over again that when people do a search, thats how they view the searches.

You really want each page to have its own focus, and the best way to do this is to create distinctive information at the top of each page. If you must use a standard header you may consider using a graphic with some technique for customizing the text for each unique page -- for instance by leaving a spot for a unique headline.

The second reason is equally important. The Search Engines read your pages from the top left down -- since this is the way the code usually appears in your html documents. The Search Engines look for h1 tags near the top in order to determine what the page is about. Then they look for keywords -- especially in the top portion of the page in order to reinforce their conclusions about the subject matter of the specific page.

In other words, you should use the top portion of each page to focus on those things that tell the Search Engines what each page is about. The most important components are:

- the "title" tag (the page title that shows up in the title bar of the browser)
- the major headlines h1 and h2
- the first few paragraphs of text
- the names of graphics and the "alt" tags of graphics near the top of the page
- outbound link text

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Referral Ads from Google

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:18:00 +0000

With AdSense, you can also make money by using referral ads from Google. With referral ads, when you connect a customer to one of the referral products, you get paid. The type of referrals available depend on your geographic location and language. The best tips for referral ads are:

Actively endorse the products you refer. Because payout depends on an actual referral and not on the number of impressions or the CTR, you are encourage to endorse the referral products. This means you are allow to call attention to any button or links on your page. If you really believe in the product, make sure tell users how much you love it.

Treat referral ads as actual content rather then advertising. This allows you to integrate text links or buttons into the contents of your page. This increases user experience by allowing them to easily find what they are reading about.

It is best to experiment with the various text links and buttons available to see how it will perform on your own website. You are allow to put one referal unit per product, and up to four products per page. As long as you don't break this rule, you are ok.

You are allow to change the font and size of the text links on Google ads using HTML around the links. Play around to see what works best. The font size must be reaonable to match the theme of your website.

Choose the most relevant products to refer because those work best.

If you are rotating content then you should rotate the referral ads as well. Make sure the ads stay relevant when you change content.

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AdSense Optimization

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:01:00 +0000

Here are a few tips for AdSense optimization.

Ads placed in the top left corner and sandwich by content do best.

Ads placed near rich contents and navigational aids do well because users are focused on those areas of the page.

Focus on user behavior and tailor the placement of your ads to those behavior.

There are always exceptions. Pages with recipes, articles or other long bodies of text do well with ads placed at the bottom.

Wider ads perform best. This is because it lets users read more of the text without returning to the left margin everytime.

The best ad format are:
- 300x250 inline rectangle
- 336x280 large rectangle
- 160x600 wide skyscraper

A 300x250 size ad above the fold (top half) can capture more rich media (image and video) advertising campaigns from Google's premium advertisers.

Ads should blend with your page to get the best CTR. If the ads contrast too much with your site, it will create ad blindness. It is most effective to have a few different color palette sets that blend with your site and to rotate through these palettes so as to minimize ad blindness.

Put ads on as many pages as possible.

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Posting to Craigslist

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:22:00 +0000

Here are some tips on posting to Craigslist.com. Craigslist is a great site to advertise on but you have to be careful so you don't get ban.

Use a lot of different email address. The more you have, the better.

Mix your ad description up. Be careful that you don't get flag for posting the same ad over and over again.

Change your IP address. If you post a lot of ads from the same computer, you could end up getting block. Craigslist will also detect and delete your post if you are trying to post an ad in a different country. Craigslist is meant to be local and they guard against this.

Your ads should be in the right category so as to avoid being flagged by other readers. Also, vary your title.

Do not post more then 10 - 15 ads at a time. Craigslist is a great place to market yourself but don't over do it or you will get banned. Let some time past before you do your next postings.

Don't post the same ads over and over again. Don't repost the same product or service withine a 24 hour period.

Don't make your ads look too spammy. This will make it less likely to be flagged.

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Kontera Ads

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:10:00 +0000

Kontera is an alternative way of generating revenue from ad placements on your website. Kontera provides in text contextual advertising and is considered a good alternative/complement to Google AdSense. If you don't know what contextual advertising is, then check out the Kontera preview tool. Just enter the URL in the box below and it will show you what the website will look like with Kontera ads.

Contextually advertising is when you embed relevant keyword within a text. These relevant keywords are actually links to some of Kontera's advertisers. The most relevant of Kontera's advertisers gets a link for that keyword.

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SEO Checklist: Links

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:07:00 +0000

Here is a SEO checklist for optimization of links.

Links - internal, inbound, outbound

Anchor text of inbound links
One of the most important factors for good rankings. It is important to have good inbound links but if it has a keyword in its anchor, even better.
+3

Origin of inbound links
The inbound link to your website should come from a reputable site with a high PR.
+3

Links from similar sites
The inbound links should come from a website with content similar to yours. This indicates that even your competition is voting for you and you are popular within your topical community.
+3

Links from .edu and .gov sites
Since, .edu sites and .gov sites are considered to be reputable, it is good to get a link from these types of websites. Domains with .edu and .gov are consider more reputable than .com. .biz, .info, etc. domains. Also, such links are hard to obtain.
+3

Number of backlinks
The more, the better. Also the reputation of the sites that link to you is very important. Try to have the appropriate keywords in the anchor text for optimal results.
+3

Anchor text of internal links
Since you have complete control of your links within your website, you have full control over this. Not as important as having the appropriate keywords in inbound links but it still affects you.
+2

Around-the-anchor text
The text that is immediately before and after the anchor text also affects SEO because it is a further indication of the relevance of the link – i.e. if the link is artificial or it is content relevant.
+2

Age of inbound links
The older the inbound links are, the better. A slow build up of inbound links over time is best. Getting a whole bunch all at once is not as good.
+2

Links from important directories
Being listed in DMOZ, Yahoo Directory and similar directories can boost your search engine ranking considerably. It is important to have links from quality directories otherwise your website might be flagged for link spamming.
+2

Number of outgoing links on the page that links to you
The fewer, the better because your link looks more important.
+1

Named anchors
Named anchors (the target place of internal links) are useful for SEO because it points a finger at a particular page, paragraph or text that is important.
eg. Jump to the Useful link Section “#links” is the named anchor.
+1

IP address of inbound link
MSN and Yahoo! may discard links from the same IPs or IP classes, so if you get inbound links for a website with the same IP, they might not be good. Google denies that they discriminate against links that come from the same IP address, so for Google the IP address can be considered neutral to the weight of inbound links.
+1

Inbound links from link farms and other suspicious sites
Stay away from link farms or similar sites. While having an inbound link from a link farm will not affect you negatively, you should not reciprocate the link in any way. You have full control of the website you link to so if you link to Warez or similar websites you will be penalize. If you are just getting an inbound link from such websites, search engines might not like it but they at least won't penalize you for it. The idea is that it is beyond your control to control what the link farm links to.
0

Too many outgoing links
If your page has too many links it is almost like a link farm and Google does not like that.
-1

Excessive linking, link spamming
It is bad to have too many links to/from the same sites (links to bad neighborhoods eg. Warez) because it suggests link buying or link spamming. In the best case, only some of the links are taken into account for SEO rankings.
-1

Outbound links to link farms and other suspicious sites
Outbound links to bad neighbors will kill your ranking.
-3

Cross-linking
Cross-linking occurs when site A links to site B, site B links to site C and site C links back to site A. More complex schemes are possible. Cross-linking looks like disguised reciprocal link trading and is penalized.
-3

Single pixel links
Single pixel links are an obvious attempt to manipulate search engines because no humans can se the pixel and no one would ever click on it.
-3

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Top 100 Directory Listings - #26-50

noreply@blogger.com (emarketer) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:02:00 +0000

zensearch.com ---PR6 ---

bluedir.com ---PR6 ---

tekguide.net ---PR6 ---

linkcentre.com --- PR6 ---

aigam.com --- PR6 ---

nzs.com --- PR6 ---

aardvark.co.za --- PR6 ---

canadianeh.com --- PR6 ---

vxbox.com --- PR6 ---

toronto1.biz --- PR6 ---

epooch.com --- PR6 ---

yourwebloghere.com --- PR6 ---

globalgateway.com --- PR6 ---

ezilon.com --- PR6 ---

canlinks.net --- PR6 ---

albanywebsites.com --- PR6 ---

searchsight.com --- PR6 ---

siteranking.com --- PR6 ---

findingblog.com --- PR6 ---

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