Link Research Video by Rob Somerville
This will be a manual process. Most of the time this is done with software. This will be about how to use Google and Yahoo to research the back-links of your competitors’ sites and for your own sites. Also use the SEO Firefox tool. Click on the links in the SEO information in Google search research.
Type into Yahoo: link:URL
Yahoo will return all links it can find for that URL.
You do the same thing in Google, link:URL, but Google will return far fewer links than Yahoo. Use Yahoo for back-link research.
?p at the end of a URL in search results means it’s probably a blog post. Those would be good to go to and read, and maybe make a comment and leave your URL in your comment.
Checking competitor back-links gives you ideas of who or where you might want to back-link as well. If a site is niche-relevant, you can leave a comment and your own back-link. This also tells you how much competition you really have in your niche. How many back-links are you competing with?
This is a manual process, but is useful process because it grows your links organically.
Blogs, Forums and Web 2.0
Search Technorati for your umbrella phrase or search blogsearch.google.com. Find other niche-relevant content where you can create a link back to your website. Click through to find blogs where it’s appropriate to make comments. Leave your id tag and URL and comment on the content of the page. This generates back-links.
To search for forums: “keyword phrase” forum
Forums can be useful, but watch for signatures being turned off, heavy moderation and no-follow links.
Squidoo and Hubpages
Google Search site:squidoo.com”signmyguestbook”keyword phrase
Search will return pages in rank authority order.
Google Search site:hubpages.com”submitacomment”keyword phrase
Might want to check out the CoolIris Firefox plugin. When you put the mouse over a link it allows you to preview it before you click on it. Saves lot so time. Makes browsing faster. See www.somercorp.com/gurubob/cooliris.html
Ed Dale’s Video
Pay attention to Rob’s videos and see Caro’s post about individual help on your phrases. A few people will get individual help.
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