How to Create One-Way Permanent Links for My Website?

If you run a website or operate a business online, then you know the importance of backlinks. Along with a few other factors, backlinks are how the search engines view how valuable your content is. In a very simple way, each backlink is like a vote for your website, and the website with the most votes, gets the best ranking.


1. History of Backlinking
There are many ways to build backlinks and it seems that each week a new method is being promoted as the best way to build links. While the hype may surge and fizzle out, there are a few methods of link building that continue to yield favorable returns.

2. Directory Submissions
Web directories were how the web was once categorized. Early search engines basically operated as a large directory system where people would add their site, choose a category and others could find it by drilling down to the topics they were searching for.

These days, the effectiveness of directory submission is being disputed, however, since it is still perhaps the easiest one-way backlink to get, it is still a good strategy to implement when promoting your website. That being said, not all web directories are created equal.

There are thousands of other directories to submit your site to as well. While you could spend months doing just directory submissions, you should specifically target web directories with high "page rank." You can see the page rank of a site by downloading the Google toolbar and checking the page rank (PR) whenever you visit the site. The directories with the highest page rank often charge an inclusion fee, but once again if you can justify the cost, then it is worth the price of submission.

3. Article Marketing
While trends in backlinking come and go, one method of building one-way links to a site that has remained relatively stable is article marketing. Article marketing, also known as "bum marketing" involves writing articles and submitting them to article directories with backlinks to your site. The power of article directories is that your backlinking efforts can grow exponentially, as article directories often allow other webmasters to syndicate your articles as long as the backlinks stay intact.

As with web directories, there are also thousands of article directories across the web, and the mileage from each one varies.

4. Forum Posting
Forum posting is another avenue for gaining valuable backlinks to your site. With forum posting you have a few opportunities to post your link. The first and most common is in the signature file, a little statement that gets displayed beneath every forum post. The second opportunity is with your profile page, where you can write a little bit about yourself and post a link to your website.

As with article marketing and directory submissions, not all forums are created equal. When posting to forums, you want to find forums related to the topic of your website that also have a high page rank.

Unfortunately, forums with the highest page rank are often the most heavily moderated. To get your backlinks to stick, become an active member of the forum community, answering questions as providing insightful comments. Then, when you add a link to your website, it is not seen as a disturbance.

5. Blog Commenting
Blog commenting is another method, very similar to forum posting. With blog commenting, you post comments on relevant blog posts, and provide a link back to your website.

When blog commenting, you should follow the same guidelines when making forum postings. First, try to make insightful comments on the blog post and do not just randomly add your link to your comment. Both practices will likely get your comment deleted and marked as spam.

If you are able to provide useful information or provide an appreciative comment, then your comment is likely to be published and stay on the site.
contributed by, Abhishek SEO

Manual Search Engine Submissions Links

Free Manual Search Engine Submissions Links

Add your site to all search engines given below using the submission links. Your site will be indexed in all search engines in less time and your pages will be displayed in the search results, driving enormous traffic to your sites

• Google – http://www.google.com/addurl/
• Yahoo – https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
• MSN LIVE – http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx
• Cipinet – http://cipinet.com/addurl/
• Alexa – http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters#crawl_site
• Aesop – http://www.aesop.com/cgi-bin/sub/submiturl.cgi
• Burf – http://www.burf.com/submit.php
• Guruji – http://dir.guruji.com/misc/SubmitSite.php
• Accoona – http://www.accoona.com/public/submit_website.jsp
• Entireweb -http://www.entireweb.com/free_submission/
• FyberSearch – http://www.fybersearch.com/add-url.php
• MixCat – http://www.mixcat.com/addurl.php
• OneSeek – http://www.oneseek.com/listings.htm
• WhatUseek – http://www.whatuseek.com/addurl.shtml
• Scrub The Web – http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html
• Search Site – http://searchsight.com/submit.htm
• SonicRun – http://www.sonicrun.com:8081/add
• Abacho – http://www.uk.abacho.com/anmelden.html#nogo
• Acoon.com – http://www3.acoon.com/addurl.html
• Amfibi – http://addurl.amfibi.com/
• homerweb – http://www.homerweb.com/submit_site.html
• JGDO – http://www.jdgo.com/add.html
• Myahint – http://www.myahint.com/addurlmyahint.html
• Walhello – http://www.walhello.com/addlinkgl.html
• Stopdog – http://www.stopdog.com/submit
• searchengine.com -http://www.searchengine.com/List_Your_Site/Basic_Submit/
• eXactBot – http://www.campubco.com/cgi-bin/exactsearch.cgi?action=showadd
• Megaglobe – http://www.megaglobe.com/urlSubmit
• Find Once – http://www.findonce.co.uk/submit/
• Net Search – http://www.netsearch.org/adds/addurl.php
• Susy Search – http://www.susysearch.com/addsite/

contributed by, ABHISHEK SEO

What is Linkbaiting?

Linkbait is a word that gets passed round a lot in SEO - but it's not a massively used or understood term, and a Google search only yields a few specialist sites based on SEO. Some describe it as a technique; others dismiss it as a by-product of producing quality content.

But what is linkbait exactly, and how does it fit in as an SEO technique?

Definition
Linkbait is essentially a piece of content placed on a web page - whether it's an article, blog post, picture, or any other section of cyberspace - that is designed for the specific intention of gathering links from as many different sources as possible.

With the rise of the blogosphere, meritocracy and social bookmarking sites, all it takes is one interesting page on a site, someone to notice the page, and a few people to share the link - and before you know it, you've accrued a large number of links across a wide variety of sites.

Modern Life is a great example of this - having only launched the site a couple of days ago, our article on common passwords accrued a large amount of interest. According to Yahoo, the MLIR domain now has 1,240 backlinks, all within the space of about a week.

Linkbait as a technique
linkbaiting a technique or a side effect of good article writing? Well, in our case we presented some interesting, original research in an interesting and digestible way - the ever-popular top 10 list. A quick submission to Digg, a meritocracy and social-based tech news site, and a few positive 'Diggs' from the users there, we broke the front page, and was subject to a massive surge in traffic, and perhaps more importantly, a massive influx of inbound links.

So, in theory at least, if you can write great (or at least interesting) content, and if you can submit it to the right sort of site in the right sort of field with the right sort of audience, with a pinch of luck you might just find yourself with a deluge of traffic. There are, of course, any number of ways to garner such links - a few of which are listed below.

Timely, current content
With the advent of constantly-updated blogs and the thirst for news that has grown with it, current affairs can be a good source of links. Many of the meritocracy sites, including Digg and Newsvine, have a predominantly news-oriented approach to their content.

If you can cover a news story whilst it's still a current event, and publicise the link to enough people, you should be able to gather traffic and links as people spread the word and link to you. If you're lucky enough to have a sector with an established.

Structured, Visual Content
Interesting and well-written articles also fare well when it comes to links - this makes sense, of course, as if a reader enjoys an article then they are more likely to share the link with their friends. This can be either over more traditional 'private' sharing methods - word of mouth, email, or instant messenger - or, more increasingly, through a social method.

The most basic of these social methods of sharing links is the common or garden discussion forum - but there are any number of new ways of bookmarking a site in a public way. The most popular site, Del.icio.us, provides a very simple method to store bookmarks in a publicly available fashion. Upon reaching a 'critical mass' of bookmarks, a site will often find itself on the 'popular' page, exposing the link to many more users and boosting your traffic further. This is part of the power of social bookmarking, and with Google et al rolling out this sort of technology you can expect this sort of thing to grow in popularity.

Funny, crazy, or 'cool'
Finally, it would seem that the internet has an ongoing obsession with all that is funny, crazy, cool, or just plain odd. Humour sites, amusing videos and jokes are a massively popular part of the internet today, and people love to share that sort of stuff. In my experience, the links aren't great - they'll tend to be from deep within forums as to confer no ranking advantage per se, but every little helps!

Viral campaigns and sneaky marketing campaigns try to employ this sort of linking - funny videos with subtle branding, or sites crafted to entertain the visitor first and promote the brand second. If done correctly, this can be an effective method of spreading a message below the usual advertising radar, and - although perhaps slower than some other methods - can provide a consistent traffic stream over time.

Good or bad?
So is linkbait a good thing or a bad thing?

Of course, that depends on the content in question and the intention behind it - but one advantage with social linking and meritocracy based sites is that the dull, spammy and unworthy content generally sinks to the bottom, leaving the good, well crafted stuff to float to the top.

So this should be a clear message to all webmasters out there: content is still king, and if you write for your visitors and provide them with great content, you might just be rewarded (with perhaps a little element of promotion and submission to get the ball rolling) with the traffic you deserve. As I learnt last week, the power of the social internet is quite overwhelming should you be picked up by a large site.
contributed by, ABHISHEK SEO