It's time to think of another component - The Plan - Its where you should use the SEO tools.
What good are all the tools in the world if you don't understand where you should be using them.
You would have no use for a garden hose in an electronic store - and no use for a wrench in a flower shop.
..and the same - you will have no use for backlinks to appear on any websites that have no relation and no purpose for your site's PR.
Over time people may give you links on sites like that and that is fine - but when prioritizing which sites you should create backlinks on it should be based on the following factors:
1. The same or very similar keyword content and relevant topics.
2. High PR sites - most popular, good reputation sites - the better for your site.
3. Activity - if its a forum - check to see when the last post was made
( the higher activity sites -tend to get faster indexing into search engines)
At this point you are scouting for web sites that share the same relevant topics, keywords etc. You will want to make a bulk list of URLs (website addresses) so that you can sort them to their specific categories afterward.
You will want to search forums, blogs, education (.edu) and government (.gov) websites that have your keywords in any of their website pages. You will also want websites that have a dominant keyword theme similar to yours. For example: the online computer store wants all blogs and forums that are specifically about computers. It's possible to find sites and forums about auto parts that might have a few mentions in a post that mention the word computer. Those sites are fine too but obviously you want the keyword density sites as priority. Grab them all - make notes of their value you assign to them. Throw them in a bulk list.
Something you must keep in mind when you are mining out these bulk 'rocks' perse is that you are going to then filter and seperate them to lists that specifically assign them for their purpose and value. For example: Some web sites may not allow PR vote - yet they may be worth it to send you traffic from a link. You will put those sites into the "Backlinks for Traffic" list - and the PR score sites that you can place backlinks on - into a "Backlinks for PR" list.
Maybe this example visual will help you:
Imagine that at first you are mining bulk 'rocks' and making a note on them with a marker of which sediment is in them: copper, gold, iron etc.
You toss them into a bulk list - and afterward you will seperate them accordingly to their own lists.
This step is important and is how you must test to see which type of site (rock) it is.
I will show you how to test these sites to see which value they have. Since all of the sites will be about your keywords, you will then need to know which priority of 'sediment' (value) they have within them. Here's an easy way we'll keep track of it
Values
Level 1: Priority List: Sites that allow PR (score) vote to be passed to your site
These are full sites that are specifically about your topic and keywords.
High PR websites that allow PR vote and allow you to make anchor text link = diamond
High PR websites that allow PR vote - but only allow static "http://www" text link = Gold
Medium PR websites that allow PR vote and allow you to make anchor text link = silver
Medium PR websites that allow PR vote - but only allow static "http://www" text link = bronze
Low PR websites that allow PR vote and allow you to make anchor text link = copper
Low PR websites that allow PR vote - but only allow static "http://www" text link = tin
Level 2: Priority List: Pages that allow PR (score) vote to be passed to your site
These are individual pages (within sites where sites may not be 100% related to your topic)
.edu or .gov pages that allow PR vote and allow link (especially anchor text link) = rare diamond
High PR pages that allow PR vote and allow you to make anchor text link = diamond
High PR pages that allow PR vote - but only allow static "http://www" text link = Gold
Medium PR pages that allow PR vote and allow you to make anchor text link = silver
Medium PR pages that allow PR vote - but only allow static "http://www" text link = bronze
Low PR pages that allow PR vote and allow you to make anchor text link = copper
Low PR pages that allow PR vote - but only allow static "http://www" text link = tin
Level 3: Lower Priority List: Pages that allow PR (score) vote to be passed to your site
These are pages that are NOT related to your topic/keywords but allow a link on their site.
.edu or .gov pages that allow PR vote and allow link (especially anchor text link) = rare diamond
High PR pages that allow PR vote and allow you to make anchor text link = diamond
High PR pages that allow PR vote - but only allow static "http://www" text link = Gold
Medium PR pages that allow PR vote and allow you to make anchor text link = silver
Medium PR pages that allow PR vote - but only allow static "http://www" text link = bronze
Low PR pages that allow PR vote and allow you to make anchor text link = copper
Low PR pages that allow PR vote - but only allow static "http://www" text link = tin
Level 4: Traffic Only List: Sites that do NOT allow PR (score) vote to be passed to your site
These are sites that allow links but links will only bring traffic (visitors) to your site.
High Traffic websites = diamond
Medium Traffic websites = Gold
Low Traffic websites = silver
Tools: Mining Sites and Determining their Value
1. Mining sites that relate to your topic and keywords.
2. How to determine the value and PR vote passing ability of sites
When you mine these sites you will need to test them to determine their value. Below are the
the tools you will use.
Tool 1: Google PR greenbar
You should install the Google PageRank Green Toolbar (if you already have the Google toolbar on your browser - you can turn the google PR greenbar on by going to:
Settings (in the Google toolbar on your browser) - Options - (then to the 'More' tab) on your Toolbar Options box.
Approximately the 3rd Option category down = "PageRank and Page Info" (click the box to turn Google PR bar on)
When you open a web site after searching them on search engines like google - you will be able to see their PR score.
when you copy the URL of these sites to a list that you will make you will note their PR score ONLY if they allow PR vote score. (shown lower on this page)
Tool 2: Alexa Tool Bar Get Alexa Toolbar here (opens in new window)
With the Alexa toolbar you will be able to see the traffic rank for the sites you are mining. The lower the number is in the Alexa toolbar
the (better) higher the traffic rank.
Tool 3. Determine if a site passes their PR vote (score)
This is a process you will need to do - it is a very simple test - YET one of the most effective and important in determining which category
a site falls into - either for PR or for traffic.
To run this simple test on any site: right-click on the site anywhere that there is not an image, or Flash, etc. You want to RIGHT-CLICK (mouse) on the background of the site and when the gray box appears - click "View Source" (10th option down on list usually) - When NotePad opens showing you the source code for the website - goto "Edit" at the top of Notepad - and then to "Find" - In the Find search box that appears TYPE this text string: rel="nofollow" into the searchbox (dont copy and paste it - it can malfunction because of invisible spaces copied when copy/pasting)
* NOTE: There are NO spaces in rel="nofollow"
If text in the source code suddenly becomes highlighted blue - then the site is blocking PR vote (score)
Place all blocked PR sites into the 'For Traffic' list. Their PR score is no longer relevant to you but because they are
in the same topic of your site you can use them to draw traffic to your site.
If a prompt says "Cannot Find rel="nofollow""
This means the site has allowed for their PR vote (score) to be allowed to flow out from their site over the links you place on their site. It does not take away the sites PR - but it DOES give points/score/vote to YOUR site when you have a link there. These are very important for building your sites PR.
Place these sites in your list and label with the site's PR score - Value - and color code their Rating as shown above in the Mining Sites section.
The above table is an example of how you might organize and keep track of the sites you are mining for each keyword.As you can see
there is much time and effort involved in mining sites for your keywords - and then in placing your posts with the according links.
In most events you will have to read the forums or blogs at least on a minimal level to be able to post in cohesion with those sites. Failure
to do so can trigger those webmasters to think that you may be tyring to spam their site - and result in getting banned from that site.
On the bright side though: After much time and effort, a single page on your site that has a PR 6 (or above) ranking - could rent for several thousands of dollars to other sites that need the PR link on your site.
That is where 'link brokers' come into the picture. Link brokers basically rent hundreds - to - hundreds of thousands of links across many thousands of websites. While this can get you moving much faster - it also has its serious draw backs. The draw back and catch is that if Google sees your links on sites that it knows are being rented - it will ban you. If your site gets banned, then no matter how many links you had they all become useless and your site disappears off the search engines into the oblivion of Internet void.
Another draw back is: link brokers can charge anywhere from $10,000 per month to $100,000 per month to $1 million and up - for millions of links across the Internet.
If you have a multi-million dollar company that can afford to rent thousands of domain names and keep them on stand-by while you rent links for hundreds of thousands of dollars - that way if those types of large companies get busted and banned, they just pull out the next domain name - rent the links and go again until they get banned.
Since the topic of domain names comes up: It is BEST to register your domain name to your site for as long as possible or for at least 10 years. The reason being, it is one of the factors in rating your site. Sites are rated for popularity, traffic, and credibility. A 10 year domain registration shows search engines that you're not a spam site that only rented for a year because you assume to be banned by then.
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