Is it possible to get a backlinks for a 1 day old blog or website without…

- Submitting your site to directory?

- Exchanging links?

- Commenting on other blogs?

- Press release?

You might be wondering, how can it get backlinks if it’s not even indexed by the search engines such as Yahoo, Bing and Google?

Yes, it’s very possible and I did it with the latest niche blog that I’ve just setup containing one post only!

And now I want to turn this into case study. Don’t worry, I’ll tell you the secrets as time goes by. Promise, I won’t bore you with technical details. If you  are curios on how I did it, keep reading.

To start with, I bought a new domain a month ago which I’m planning to sell later on,  but I decided instead to a make a mini-niche site out of it instead. Since I was able to make one of my niche site to be listed on page 1 of Google and got a PR in less than 3 months, I decided to try it on a new domain and applying all the SEO and other tricks I’ve learned over the years. Mind you, these are white hat SEO tricks, no gray nor black hat or any other magic voodo here.

BUT, that’s a big BUT here,  I’m using cheat sheets which I’ve documented and planning to share in this case study that I’m doing. Let me know if you are interested and I’ll tell you everything all the tricks I’ve under my sleeve. If you are, I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS feed so you’ll get the latest update from me.

Of course, just like any blog that I’ve set up for my own personal consumptions, my main goal is to monetize it. Come on, doesn’t most bloggers wants to earn? However, for this journey, I want all BlogDeManila readers to learn from these tips ((Warning: if you already know them – just don’t read any further), and I’ll write in a procedural way so you can follow step by step.

Again, the lessons you will learn here might be too basics for some but I hope you will still learn one trick or two. You can always unsubscribe from my RSS, if you think that you are not learning anything and if you feel I’m wasting your time. I’m sorry there’s no money back guarantee here, because I’m not selling you anything.

And again, the succeeding posts on this case study, although I’ve tried to be as accurate and complete as possible, I don’t guarantee that the contents are accurate due to very fast changing of SEO landscape. The tricks that I’ve applied today might not be permissible tomorrow. Like anything else, there are no guarantees whatsoever, including increase in traffic and SERP, and of course the most important thing – in monetary value. Results may vary according to your background, willingness to learn and passion on what you are doing.

I encourage you to leave your comments here if you are really interested,  so I’ll be encourage as well in writing my succeeding post. If you have any questions, you can already start to ask them now. And, don’t forget to subscribe to RSS.

Learn The Top 3 Major Components That Is Important To The Search Engines Like Google

That should have been the title of my post today. Unfortunately, based on my previous post, a lot of bloggers were cautious if their blog or site will be banned by Google for using some tricks in their back link building efforts. I guess a lot of my readers are aware of what happened to JCPenney being banned or sandboxed by Google for using black hat tactics.

Afraid of Google Ban? Read for more information

According to the news,as reported by New York Times, JCPenney created a lot of buzz in time for the 2010 holiday season. Unfortunately, it was found out that thousands of unrelated web sites were sending link juices to JCPenney.com. This is a broad day light cheating, at least to the eyes of search engines.  As I’ve mentioned in my last post, linking strategies takes time and lot of efforts. If you will hire an SEO company or a professional to do it for you, make it a point that company or individual is not using black hat SEO tactics. This is a crucial step in choosing for the right SEO company if you don’t want Google to de-listed your website.

Now, instead of looking for the negative aspect of back link buildings or linking strategies, let’s concentrate our focus on the major components that are relevant not only for the search engine but for the readers as well.

1. Great and Relevant Content. By having a great content and relevant, you are not attracting the readers but the search engine as well. Make sure you contents are unique and don’t just stuff it with keywords. Create content the users and the search engines would grow to love.
2. Build Natural Backlinks. Don’t ever participate in any linking schemes.  If you remember, I promoted a backlink tool where you can submit your URLs and they will be automatically submitted on their own network. There’s nothing wrong in using an automated software in building back links. The tool that I’ve mentioned, even though it is a legal way to build natural links,  I suggest that you be cautious in using it. Don’t be greedy in submitting your sites. Take it slowly, make it natural by pacing it over time rather than getting 200 or more links in one month and nothing on the following.
3. Submit Site Map. This is one of the requirements of most search engines if you want your site to get index and rank. Submitting a site map will help the search engine spider to craw your site properly. It can identify easily the pages that belonged to your site. If you want to know how to submit your site to Yahoo and Google, you may want to check the instructions here: Submitting your Sitemap file to Search Engines

The three major components that I’ve mentioned here are just some of the things that you can D-I-Y SEO for your site or blog. They are not hard to implement but please take not that optimization is just one of the tools that you can use in promoting your site. I hope that you will see an improvement in your traffic from the major search engines after applying the  major components described above.  The only thing that I can assure you is, if you follow them then expect a great result.

For more information, I encourage you to check the following:

1. SEO Tips – All you need to do to have a site optimized for SEO

2. SEO Tools to Help you Rank Higher

3. SEO Services Firm you can count on

My wife is so happy to know that her blog’s Google PageRank is finally back. She doesn’t have any idea why she lost it last year. The only reason we assumed is because of the local host provider she was using which was always downtime. It’s good that she transferred it to a better host already.

The rumors of Google PageRank is already all over the place. It’s the buzz among the webmasters. The Unofficial date Google updated the PR was on the 19th of January. Why unofficial? According to some webmasters, there’s still no announcement from Google itself.Google’s engineers are still silent on the update. So as of this time, it still not confirmed.

Confirmed or not, I’m sure a lot of bloggers are already happy to know that their hard labor of building links paid off. It took 9 months this time for Google PageRank update. Unlike in the previous years,  it is being updated almost every 4 months.

How to Increase Your Google PageRank

If you are not satisfied with your Google PageRank or simply wants to improve it, I suggest that you review the following posts. I assure you these tips will make wonders on your blog or site.

1. Secrets and Tips on How to Generate Traffic Like a Pro
2. Make Your Site Visible To Google And Other Search Engines
3. 3 Tips For Creating a Google-Friendly Site
4. Improve PageRank by Linking Automatically
5. SEO Here, SEO There, SEO Everywhere: The Secret – Revealed!
6. WordPress SEO Secrets
7. Use Drag and Drop WordPress Theme – a Super Optimized wordpress theme.

Are you one of those who are waiting and waiting…and waiting for the next Google PageRank update?

Are you concerned that your site has gone down because of the paid links?

or…Are you excited to find out the result of your website optimization?

The official and confirmed latest Google PageRank update was on April 2 of this years. There has been an update of PageRank, sometime in June 3 and June 29 but those were a minor update only.

Historically, Google updates or published its PageRank four (4) times a year usually with an interval of 3-4 months. If you have noticed, there’s no PR update for the last four months already. I’m not a prophet but I’m predicting that Google PR is on it’s way …soon.

While waiting, I’m suggesting to all bloggers and website owners not to focus much on Google PR. Don’t be obsess with it. Try to get as much as quality back links  and keep on building the right high ranking keywords instead. What matters most is your SERP and not PR.

If you don’t have Google Toolbar installed on your browser, you can use the tool below to check on your Google’s PR.

If you are not aware, according to some webmasters, Google had a PageRank update last month of June and they are “predicting” the next update could be on September.  Historically, it has been observed that Google updates its PageRank every three months.

Are you ready for the next Google PageRank update?

Do you want your site to improve its rank?

Do you want to increase the current PageRank of your blog?

It’s just past four days of the month of July. You still have  more or less 90 days to improve or gain Google PageRank. Now is the right time to do it!

How can you increase the PageRank of your site in 3 months the fastest way possible?

Before I introduce you the fastest way (automatic), let me tell you first the 4 Easy Steps on How To Get Quality Back-links for your blog.

1. Look for blogs that provide “do follow”. Only “do follow” blogs will give you the Google PageRank juice.  There’s a lot of them out there. Of course, BlogDeManila is a DoFollow since 2008.

Most DoFollow blogs are using a badge like this

You can actually locate blogs that allow back-links(dofollow) by using the  free Firefox plugin available from SEO Quake. You can download it  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/seo-tools

2. If you want to get PR (Page Rank), start making sensible comment on DoFollow blogs. “Drive by” comments are not effective. Make an insightful, useful or relevant comment to the post that is likely to be approved by the blog’s administrator.

3. Instead of using your name (or your blog’s name),  you can use  relevant anchor text on the blog to include your back-link with. For example if you want to rank on “Car Accessories”, you may use it like this:

Sample on using Relevant Anchor Text (Keywords)

You can include your back-link within the website URL on your post and  actual comment box as well, just make sure it’s permitted.

4. The last is easy. Rinse and Repeat 1-3 steps.

The process that I’ve told you is simply similar to manual link exchange.  The only drawback of this process is -  it is extremely time consuming. You need to do a lot of commenting (and manual link exchange) for you to gain quality PR.  I’m not saying that it doesn’t work. It does!  In fact, it still being use by a lot of bloggers.

Semi-Automatic BackLinks Strategy

With the usage of what is known as Web 2.0 technology, acquiring back-links is easier now than in any time in the history of the internet. Many blogger build back-links for their site using Social Bookmarking websites. All you have to do is  often sign in and create profiles. Still, you need to manually add your link to all the social bookmarking sites.

What we need is a fully automated process that will auto-link our site to other high-quality pages.

Fully Automatic BackLinks

Here’s where the fun of of backlinking comes in.

Do you want your links be automatically placed on up to hundreds of sites simply by displaying links on your own page?

If your reply is no, then just contain yourself in manually building your links but if your answer is a BIG sounding YES, then head on to AUTOMATIC BANKLINKS.

But before you do that, let me give you some background about this new service that is set to revolutionize the concept of link exchanging for web masters and bloggers.

What is Automatic BankLinks?

I’ll sum it up for you. It is a  FREE service that enables webmasters and website owners to quickly and effortlessly build up good quality, relevant backlinks, by agreeing to display a small amount of links to other user’s sites on their own pages.

You can actually see a real-time sample on my page. Just look for the FREE Backlinks section after the Top Commentators widget.

Three of the most common questions  (based on their site) that you may want to ask them also:

• Isn’t Automatic Backlinks just another link exchange directory?
  Not exactly. Most link directories work on the principal of having a single “Links” page, that is populated with links that are vaguely related to your site’s topic. Automatic Backlinks places links on already existing content pages that have a minimum of Google PageRank 1.
• Are the links reciprocal?
  No. It is widely believed that search engines place less weight on simple “you link to me – I link to you” exchanges. Automatic Backlinks uses sophisticated algorithms to create one-way links between the pages and sites in the system.
• How can I be sure of the quality of the backlinks I get?
  Automatic Backlinks only includes pages that have earned a Google PageRank of 1 or above in to the system.

I have given you the two ways on how to improve your PageRank. The ball is in your hand. You can choose either the manual way (time consuming) or the fully automatic “set and forget” system – the Automatic BankLinks.

It’s your choice on how do you want to boost your search engine ranking. Let me know what way do you want to take.

Major Search Engines

You may have the best website ever created. Your content is superb with correct keywords on the right places.

The question is, how do you attract traffic to your site?

Face the fact, getting a good inbound links are very important  if you want to get high search engine rankings.

The question is, what exactly are good inbound links?

Face the fact,  the more organic links you obtain from relevant websites or niches, the better your site will rank on search engine results.

Search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing and other search engines rank websites according to how many quality backlinks they can find pointing  back to your site. Let me reiterate this,  quality is determined by how relevant the other site is to your site.

The question is, how to find the OTHER good sites that are relevant to yours.

There’s an old saying, “Build it and they will come” is no longer true in a virtual world. You’ve got to find, run after, chase and if needed beg for other sites to link to your site.

There are various methods that are effective in a getting quality back links  like submitting to a directory, article writing, participate and be active on online forums, blog commenting, social bookmarking and press releases, among others.

Sure, you can do all these methods by yourself manually. You can do this  at no cost whatsoever too. Remember, getting quality and good back links are on-going process if you want to maintain your ranking. I’m just afraid that you might lose your energy in actively seeking back links year after year.

This is where you need the help of professional firms that are offering this kind of services.It’s actually easy to find companies that are offering SEO services. Do a  Google search for “SEO firm” and you will find a lot of them

The question is, are they really useful? Will they deliver their promises  ?

Most of these firm will promise you heaven and earth. A lot of them are ensuring that your site will be listed on major search engines and land on top 10!

One firm in particular is SubmitEdge which is listed no. 5 on Google search engine result page for the “SEO firm” keywords. They have what they call “Guaranteed Google Indexing” service. It stated on their website that they make sure that your site gets indexed in 10 days or they will give you a full refund. Wow, what a statement.

Isn’t only Google engineers can guarantee top ranking?

For  a company like SubmitEdge that belongs to Top 10 on Google’s first result page , perhaps they are right. They know the nitty-gritty and methodologies on how to make your site visible on the first page of any search engine.

It took BlogDeManila .com more than a month to be indexed on Google and two months to get a page rank of 2.  This is the reason I want to know the techniques of these SEO firms are using. Are they for real? Are their methods legitimate or are they using black hat techniques?

While the world was doing the countdown for the year 2009, Google on the other hand was updating the PageRank.

I remember it was only 2 months ago when Google updated their PageRank. Back then, Blog De Manila.com was just about to be launched and so it was still zero.

You see, I’m a blogger who doesn’t mind my PageRank.Seriously, I cannot find the advantages of being on the top. Don’t get me wrong, I love the current level of BlogDeManila which is PageRank 2, but it doesn’t tell me much on what good it can bring on my blog.

I’ve have just checked some popular sites and blogs, and still I can’t comprehend how does PageRank works. Take the following examples:

• Yahoo ‘s PR is at 9 while CNN is 10. Does it mean that more people are checking news at CNN and more popular than Yahoo?
• Yahoo’s Mail domain (mail.yahoo.com) is at 9 while Gmail is at 8. Does it shows that there are a lot of yahoo mail user’s than gmail?
• Friendster is 7, MySpace is 9 while Facebook is at 9. Is this their ranking of popularity in a given time?

What puzzles me are these two popular blogs,  JohnChow.com and JohnCow.com are both leveled at PR 3. There is no doubt that JohnChow is more popular than JohnCow. JohnChow SERP (Search Engine Result Page) is even much is even much higher! I can conclude on this two examples  is that PageRank doesn’t ultimately determined who is popular or not. It doesn’t even give you the hint who has the authority.

The theory is, only Google knows the real rank of your page. As I mentioned above, I don’t whine about PR, I’m also one of those who are excited when their PR goes up, but it’s not my obsession to make my site get a higher rank. Search engine result page (serp) is much more important to me.

So tell me, does PageRank matter to you at all? Does it have impact on you getting more money online?