Posts Tagged ‘Back linking’

Reviving Your Previous Posts via Retweets and Comments

Bring Previous Posts Back to Life...But be Careful (courtesy of theMM on Flickr)

Reviving some of your previous posts can be a tricky proposition since many people prefer fresh content but it does have its place. I have 1400 followers and know that 99% of them did not see my tweet or just didn’t pay enough attention to it when I originally tweeted it. So I thought to myself, “Why not retweet it and see what happens?”. I have done this several times with different posts from both of my blogs and have received additional clicks as evident by my URL shortening service statistics. However I must tell you that I did receive a DM from one of my followers telling me that I already tweeted that post 4 days earlier. This was bad for obvious reasons but also good because it showed me that people are reading my tweets and when I say reading I actually mean reading it and remembering it!

I have also been using my post URLs when I comment on other blogs. In one of my recent posts  about linking to other blogs, I briefly mentioned this tactic. In addition to your most recent post, you can use a previous post URL. What this will do for you is not only revive a previous post but also help you create “deep” links (an SEO benefit).  The only problem with this tactic that I see is this; people may delete your comment because once they see the long link, they may think your are spamming. Hopefully this does not happen to you but it certainly may.

Be careful and do not over do it. Wisely choose which posts you want to revive. Give it a try and let me know how it works out.

Please feel free to Retweet and/or share this post if you find the information useful.

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A Simple SEO Tip with Long Term Benefits

Several nights ago I published How to Optimize Your Blog Through Simple SEO on eHow.com. This simple article is doing well and driving traffic to this blog. I point this out because in this SEO article I mentioned linking.

This blog is still very new at only 6 weeks old, so I am continually trying to build high quality inbound links. Writing articles for sites such as eHow.com and EzineAtricles.com has been providing these links for me. I have been writing articles for these sites for a few weeks now and when I signed up for my FREE accounts, I was asked to provide my information. This information included links to my sites/blogs. Each time I write an article, the links I choose to provide are included either in the article or in my bio which is attached to the article. This creates inbound links to my blogs that will remain active for a very long time and most likely they will  never be deleted.

If you want to create your own inbound links (a crucial component of SEO), consider writing for sites such as these. It is fun, in some cases can generate income and will provide you with FREE inbound links.

I also write for other sites but I have not payed the kind of attention to them as I have to the aforementioned sites. If you know of any sites worthy of mentioning just let me know.

Please use my retweet button in the upper right corner of this post to pass on this simple tip. Thanks!

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Linking to Blogs Through Comment Submission

Linking is an important part of SEO

Linking to other blogs in your niche is an important step in SEO (search engine optimization) however it is not always easy. Many blogs do not easily give out links, fearing it will reduce their authority (rankings with search engines). You can try to combat this by commenting on other blogs within your niche, since most blogs include a section in which you can enter the url of your blog or web-page. This will allow you to insert YOUR LINK on their blog.

Now before you go out and make senseless comments on other blogs, please follow these rules:

• Keep your comments related to the posts on which you are commenting
• Do not say “Nice Post”, “Great Job”, “Nicely Done”, “Well Written” or anything similar and leave
• Keep your url limited to the url field and do not write it in the comment field
• Provide a quality or value laden comment and do not comment for comment’s sake
• Don’t use the “cookie cutter” comment style across different blogs; write unique comments since each blog is unique itself
• Do not just enter your home page into the url field, use a post url or your “About” url

Believe me, people will know if you are just blatantly using them for linking. Most bloggers know why we are commenting but if you give them something worth publishing, they will do so by approving the comment during moderation. Spam blogging is huge and many webmasters spam comments hoping for the link. Do not get upset if the blog does not approve your comment.

One caveat to linking through comments is the “nofollow” tag given by many blogs. A nofollow tag  does not mean it is worthless to leave a comment. Your link can still generate traffic to your site and maybe one of those visitors will link to you.  The more traffic you generate, the greater chance you have of someone else linking to you. If would like to see the links within a blog you can. My friend, a blog developer and internet marketer, told me of this tool and its great. It will give you all of the details of any given site’s back links which will allow to judge if nofollow tags are implemented.

Do not forget to encourage commenting on your blog! It takes time to generate a steady stream of comments. As you can see, I am not loaded with comments either but they will come. I am currently trying different commenting systems to entice comments. On this blog I use Disqus and on my fatherhood blog I use JSKit’s new Echo system. I guess we will find out which one I prefer because when I choose, the same system will used on both blogs.

Start here – leave your comment and your link and then jump over to my other blog and do the same on that system. Tell me which you prefer, as a commenter.

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