This is a sort of follow on from my last post Honest Assistance, where I talked about helping out your other sites with backlinks to specific posts or keyword anchored text links to give the site or blog some keyword authority to help them climb up the SERPs.
This post is going to be short and to the point as I don’t have a lot of spare time just lately and I have a lot of sites that are all screaming out for my attention!
The whole point is to help out two of my sister sites in the difficult and highly competitive make money niche to gain a little more keyword authority on the long tail keywords they are targeting at the moment.
One is my Money Hints site which is still fairly new but has a domain age of around 5 years so it has plenty of antiquity but no page rank. So I’ll just give it a leg up with its foray into the home make money long tail keyword arena.
Next up is the subdomain to this site, Make Money The Honest Way, which is also targeting a similar long tail keyword in the work from home make money category.
It always helps when the post and the site that the links are coming from are in the same niche, as it gives additional weight to the link juice being given out. So being in the make money niche and having that in the title of this post is a good way of passing around some of this site’s authority to sites that need it!
Terry Didcott - Freedom Writer
The Honest Way
Honest assistance is the topic of this post and by that I mean when you’ve got several sites in your portfolio, then at least use them intelligently to bolster them all up in the Page Rank wars that seem to forever be raging, especially (and probably exclusively) amongst Internet Marketers.
So how best to give that honest assistance to your menagerie of sites without alerting the search engine radar to focus it’s attention on you and possibly putting a hand to that red flag that might be raised if they think you are using underhand tactics to artificially boost your sites.
Well, honesty pays here in some ways. Rather than filling all your sites with hundreds of links to all your other sites, which will obviously be seen as spamming, be more selective and interlink your sites that are first, relative to each other (otherwise you’d be wasting your time) and then making individual posts highlighting each site you want to link to, then including a main keyword text anchored link within that post.
This works well especially with blogs, as each new post is effectively a new page in your blog, so the search engine spiders will treat them as such and follow the link to your site that each page has created. This is seen as merely one page, one link and the link be given considerably more weight because of keyword relevancy and the fact that it’s the only link on the page containing content specific to the site being linked to.
Of course you don’t have to restrict this practice to your own sites, although you should give them all the help you can. You can also do the same for other sites that have helped you and as long as you link to one site from one page (or blog post) then you are transferring much more link juice than you would have by filling a page up with numerous links to all and sundry.
So who is the recipient of this particular post?
Well, as I got the idea from my good friend Grizzly, and his blog post: “Backlinks - The Root of All Evil,” I think it only fair to not only link to his site, but also to make the link direct to his post so not only does the link juice go direct to the place it is intended for, the deep linking effect will carry that much more weight. Add to that if you are reading this then you can follow that link directly to Grizz’s post and get his fully explained and highly informative version for yourself!
In the meantime, I’m going to sneak a link to one of my other sites that needs to get indexed, as for some reason the usual tricks are not working. So as this place gets spidered pretty much daily, a semi-relevant link might help things along. You see, (and this is all hypothetical) Toyota make very good cars. Actually my partner drives around in a Toyota Yaris, so this is no idle comment - it comes as first hand experience - the Toyota Yaris is a good little car. Very economical which is so important in these days of high oil prices. But I wonder, if I wanted to find Toyota, Salt Lake City, where would I look? I could try to find Toyota Salt Lake City in a blog I came across in that link I just used. All hypothetical, of course as although there is a Toyota in the household, I don’t live anywhere near Salt Lake City!
So now its off to my other blogs to start creating some nice honest one-way links to my other blogs!
Terry Didcott - Freedom Writer
The Honest Way
I’m following on from my post entitled: How Can You Get Your Site To PR6 Fast?, where I explained that you can buy what are essentially second-hand domains that are set to expire and save yourself a lot of work in building them up as they are already aged.
It’s interesting as well as addictive to watch the domain auctions and get involved yourself. I’ve been pretty active since that last post where I’d managed to get my hands on a PR6 domain. Well, I also got a PR0 domain that had a usefully long life (five years) and a nice name for the dreaded make money niche (where very few people actually make money!) called Make Money Hints. I liked the name and its age means that it will grow in the SERPs much more quickly than a new domain. I’m just getting it off the ground as a Wordpress blog - it should start attracting some PR at the next Google update and then it’s off to do battle with all the competition!
On a calmer note, I’ve also been collecting high PR sites in different niches in order to get a good foothold in them. I already have a small army of free Blogger blogs occupying the niches I’m now targeting with the big gun PR6 sites that I’ve acquired, so they will provide some useful links to the free blogs to push them up in the SERPs.
It’s all an interesting challenge and a lot of hard work, which is why my frequency of posts has slowed down a bit. Onwards and upwards, I say!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
