Wed 16 Jan 2008
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







January 17th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Interesting, if I write post about my blog in one of other blogs, it will have value?
January 18th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Ciao, Terry, I wanted to ask you a question off topic. I have a blog on blogspot that I transformed in a travel blog after request of advertisers. I changed the address of that blog too. That blog was perfectly integrated with all programs befor, but now noone accepts it. Technoraty ecc ecc similar. When I want to add it to Technoraty for example, I have error as a result. The same with autopinger and Feedburner. I controlled settings and repeated all them but have the same result. Maybe you know, what could it be? Thank you very much. Hope I do not abuse your friendship. L
January 18th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hi Liudmila,
as for your first question the honest way answer is yes, it will have value – more so than simply putting a link in your blogroll to your other blogs, as you not only use your main keywords in the anchor text, but the post itself is all about your other blog, giving the link much more weight.
January 18th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
…and your second. That’s harder.
Blogspot blogs have certain rules that must be followed of which I’m not entirely sure of all of them. If you could tell me whether you have changed only the title of the blog or the actual blog address (ie www. yourname.blogspot.com).
If you just changed the title of the blog it could be that by using the same blog but changing the name it has confused technorati, feedburner etc and they perhaps think you are trying to submit the same blog twice.
It would have been better to start a new blog fresh from the beginning, although if you intend to use it for paid reviews, you would have to wait 3 months before they accept it.
To go and change an existing blog and give it a new title would be fine in a self hosted blog – in fact I have done this with some of my newer domains, although the problems then exist with getting it indexed by google and alexa.
I’m not sure if this has helped you, but I’m also not sure exactly what you have done. Can you email me and tell me the name of the blog so I can have a look at it please?
January 25th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Thank you, Terry. I think, I have to change some settings more. There was a OpenID not enabled. When I did it, I could add this site to Technorati. Now the most important for me is to repair PC that do not work good -and maybe it’s the matter too.
Thank you for your help.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
That’s ok, there are always many things to learn and problems to fix when we work online – my jobs never seem to end!
January 29th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
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