Building Links and Off Page optimizing

[Ruben Ricart]

Hey Everyone,

As many of you may know; there are many factors involved in improving your ranks in the search engine results - we all have heard of off page optimizing and on page optimizing in addition to link building etc..

I wanted to share one important tip for improving your rank..

We all know how important the word press platform is for all of us bloggers out there - it seems to be the most popular and most used......if you want to improve your rank for a particular keyword I would recommend that you hire some web designers via e-lance or one of the freelance services out there and request that they design some pretty neat wordpress themes for your....make sure that they include a designed by section in the footer of the theme and since you're paying for the design make sure that they use the keyword you are trying to rank high for in the footer linking back to your site or blog.....

after you get all of the core files; submit them to the free wordpress themes directory....once folks begin to use them on their blogs you will automatically get backlinks to your site with your targeted key phrase as the anchor text....

I would also submit my blog link to the following blog directories...

GlobeofBlogs.com: PR 7, 62949 Alexa Ranking
BlogPulse.com: PR 7, 92121 Alexa Ranking
BlogTopList.com: PR 6, 2904 Alexa Ranking
Best of the Web: PR 6, 20314 Alexa Ranking
Ezilion.com: PR 6, 20790 Alexa Ranking
Weblogs.com: PR 6, 26641 Alexa Ranking
Eaton Web: PR 6, 56324 Alexa Ranking
BlogsByWomen.com: PR 6, 209296 Alexa Ranking
BlogScholar.com: PR 6, 391402 Alexa Ranking
BlogsCanada.ca: PR 6, 410322 Alexa Ranking
BlogHop.com: PR 6, 48528 Alexa Ranking
LSBlogs.com: PR 6, 90768 Alexa Ranking
BlogBurst.com: PR 6, 99623 Alexa Ranking
FeedMap.Net: PR 5, 111776 Alexa Ranking
BlogUniverse.com: PR 6, 123748 Alexa Ranking

I found this list on the websucccessdiva blog - also consider using blog carnivals and blog memes for bulding links....the more good quality links you have the more your rank on the search engines will improve for your targeted keyphrase...

[Herb Stalk]

Great post and good advice!

[Mary Leedy]

Great post Ruben! Just a couple questions for you. When I submit my blog to those directories you mentioned above, does that mean my blog is "listed" for people to see/read, or would I have to create a profile/account with each of those and make a blog on them? I'm assuming you mean list it as I would list a site on a bunch of search engines. Also, if you could write a post on what the Alexa rankings mean, such as what's considered low and high, the prime range to strive for, and what does PR mean and the numbers for that as well as their range to strive for. Some of us may know this information but I'm not very clear on it and I think it would be a great asset of information to have on this community. Thanks! :-) Happy Holidays!

[Ruben Ricart]

Hey Mary! Thanks for reading the post - The directories I mentioned above are just directories where you can submit your blogs to be archived within a category of their directory - you will have to sign up to some of them but you wont have to create blogs on them - all you need to do is create an account, submit your link, blog title, and a short description of your site/blog....and that's it. - for some of the directories you will have to wait until the admins approve your entry and some require that have a reciprocal link to their directory in order to be indexed but at the end of the day its a benefit from an SEO point of view....

I'll talk about the topic you suggested on my next discussion submission :-) Thanks!