Link Building Tip - Use Stop Words

Last week, I did a Link Building Tip post, and I was asked by Wayne of WayneJohn.com, what my goals are for my videos. At that point in time I really did not have any goals. But Wayne got me thinking, and I decided I would start doing a weekly Link Building tip post with at least one little SEO/SEM related nugget in each video.

This weeks video tip goes over the use of “Stop Words”.  Check the resources at the end of the post for a definition of Stop Words.

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Written by Pixelhead on August 13th, 2008 with 8 comments.
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Link Building Tip

Here is another link building tip that you may or may not have considered. Do you build links to keywords with both capitals and lowercase? I did a search for one of my clients, and noticed there is a difference between the serps when a capital is used instead of when it isn’t.

For example, try the keyword “tyco”. The first page serps(search engine results page) are almost identical, but look at the number 10 spot on both SERP pages.

Sure it maybe only number 10, but the number 10 spot I have heard often yields better results than the middle numbers.

My wife, Lizzie and I have a little bit of a disagreement on this issue. She thinks

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Written by Pixelhead on August 6th, 2008 with 34 comments.
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Link Building Advice

Sorry I have not posted in a week or so. The past couple of months have been really bad for posting. I must be doing too many other things…got to stop Plurking.

Anyways, it is the end of the month, and I am compiling reports, and going through some directory links, and I am weeding out crap, clicking on the clients links in the directories when I find they have been added. Doing this as I have said before will often times(if the directory sorts by hits) move your link to the front category page, which often times is the only page in the category that is cached in Google. Some directories also have a “most popular link”, so clicking your link could also result in two links, even though this will only be temporary.

Linking Building Gripe

When I come to a directory and the directory redirects me to an advertisement(Check this Directory), I without a moments hesitation will delete these types of directories from my directory list.

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Written by Pixelhead on July 29th, 2008 with 20 comments.
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Do Follow Blog Search Engine for Link Building

I know I have been getting a lot of traffic due to being a Do Follow blog, and I also know that a lot of marketers are using Do Follow blogs for SEO purposes. If you do, please leave great comments that add to the conversation, and I would also suggest installing and operating a blog of your own that is connected to your site if it is an e-commerce site.

Several days ago, in my Mybloglog statistics I noticed several hits from DoFollowDiver, which turns out to be a “Do Follow” blog search engine. Funny thing, not to long ago, I made a comment somewhere that someone should come up with a search engine for Do Follow blogs. Low and behold here it is.

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Written by Pixelhead on June 6th, 2008 with 38 comments.
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Link Building Update: Checking For Google Cache

Here is a little Link Building update post. I recently noticed something and would like to update the information that I posted in the post Checking for Cache when Link Building.

As I frequently do when link building for clients, I often use the “site:” search phrase with the deep category links. For example, if I was looking for a medical category to submit a site in Pixelheadonline’s directory, I might put (more…)

Written by Pixelhead on February 13th, 2008 with 9 comments.
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Checking for Cache when Link Building

Sure it seems that Directory links are having less and less Google juice. Deep more relevant categories often are not cached by the deep Google spiders. So what can you do to ensure that you are getting the most Google juice for your buck or if the directory is free, for your time?

Before paying for a link, I always check to make sure that the page I am submitting to is cached. That is I copy the url, paste it into the Google search bar. If the page has been visited by the Google spiders, it will show up in the SERP’s.(Search Engine Result page). You can either submit to a page that Google has not visited and build links to the page so that you encourage Google to visit the page, or you can find a page that has been cached already.
What you can do is click around the different related categories of the directory, and copy and paste into the desired category page urls into the Google search bar until you find a cached page, or you can check the whole site to see what pages are cached using site:url. This will show you all the pages that are cached by Google. For example, putting site:http://www.pixelheadonline.com into the Google search bar, I see that 1,430 pages are cached in Google. Then all I need to do is page through the results and find an appropriate cached category page to submit my site.

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If I go to the next level down in the directory, such as Business, and copy that url, and put in site:http://www.pixelheadonline.com/Business/ I can see that 17 sub-pages are cached. Using this method allows you to find cached subcategory pages in relevant categories without having to page through unrelated results.
So that is my tip for link building this post. Got any other link building tips you would like to share?

Update:

Check for cache with the site:url and with out the site:url. I believe that using the site:url returns pages that have been visited by the Google Spider that does deep searches, which are done with less frequency. If paying for links, I want to make sure that the links are cached by regular spiders as well as deep searching spiders for more Google juice for the link.

see Google Cache Update post for more current discussion.

Written by Pixelhead on October 2nd, 2007 with 18 comments.
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