Google has gone on a road trip of banning paid links. Which is causing users to either stay away from buying links or getting their site banned when they are trying to buy links. I believe it is a time to get Organic links. Organic links are genuine links that are gained when some site like your services and link to you. Such as your blog posts being quoted on other websites. But it does become a really hard task to get tons of organic backlinks. Is it possible to trick Google and make the paid link looks like that it is organic?

This is just a theory which has not been 100% tested, though I am trying it just to increase my knowledge.

I never really buy alot of links, but now a days many users are claiming that template sponsorship and sponsorship of these kinds are also being considered Paid Links, but I believe that is only if you use the same keyword to redirect the link to your homepage with no rel tags. Recently, I have started adding rel=”" tags in the links. I have been adding rel=”friend”, rel=”partner” and such type of tags in the links that I have been adding on Balkhis. Another trick that I am thinking about is mainly concernced with templates, but I believe it can be used in other areas also. When I am releasing the template, instead of linking to my homepage, but if I make the links more relative such as Linking to the template page, I believe it would work.

So try to buy links in your own industry and don’t try to be too obvious. Start linking to your inner pages which will make your website more stronger on all pages. Another thing, I have been thinking that now from paid links, alot of people will be switching to Blog Post Reviews because people are paying for a blog review by the writer. Therefore they are going to get organic links and a (honest) review. Sometimes the credibility of the author comes in question, but mostly smart bloggers give honest reviews rather than just writing positive reviews.

I would like to hear the thoughts of my users and other Search Engine Marketers. What do you think about these techniques? What other techniques if any you have.

My title basically explains the subject of the post. What should you do in regards with SEO of your website. I will answer one of the most common questions asked related to SEO. These questions include, What is the first step you should take with SEO when you are starting a website?, Should you do your SEO by yourself, or hire a professional?, and How much is enough, When should you stop?.

So fellas, What should be the first step you take with SEO when you are starting a website?

Your first SEO step starts with a design. A good design is the basis of the SEO of your website. Insufficient use of heading tags (h1, h2, h3) can do serious damage to your SEO Rankings. Basically your designer needs to know where to use h1 tags and what not. Just a little overview if you want to check your site. You should not use the h1 tag more than once in the site. h2 tags are suppose to highlight important titles, categories etc. h3 tags are subtitles etc. Don’t abuse h2 tags and keep them minimum as well. Another big think with SEO is the structure of the design whether the content comes first or not. More about this issue in this post. Once this step is fulfilled you need to look at your options in advertising methods. I have shared multiple ones on this blog which you can look up.

Next Question is “Whether I should hire a professional, or do the SEO myself?”

There is a pro and con side to both. You have to evaluate your options because I can’t make the decision without knowing the criterias.

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Do you know that half the people who claim themselves as seo experts try to rank for strong keywords. Let me use the most common examples. A typical directory owner would target the term “Web Directory”. But do you really think that people will type that in google? I don’t think so. That is just a vanity project to rank for such terms.

If I am researching for something, I want my key term to be very accurate, so if i am looking for a 3 column free wordpress theme, I won’t go in google and type wordpress themes, but I will go type in 3 column free wordpress themes. This keyword is called Long Tailed Keyword.

Many webmasters are interested in making money from adsense. I see alot of websites have adsense some where now a days because of the penalties caused by paid links. Well, the trick to make money through adsense is the more tragetted the better it is. Which means you need to rank for the long tailed keywords to get the targetted audience who will actually click on your ads.

When I call the general keywords a vanity project, Why I call them those is because they will cost you alot of money to make it to the top page, and staying there will require even more investment, and the return from those will not be as much as the return from the long-tailed keywords. The main keyword might get you 10 visitors a day, but 20 of the long tailed keywords will get you 20 visits which out numbers the 10 from that one main keyword.

As a blogger, I pick my titles very carefully because I know when i type this title most likely then not, My blog will show up for that long tailed keyword unless it is a competitive keyword. Since I have launched Balkhis, most of the Search Engine traffic is coming through the long tailed keywords.

A trick to rank higher for the long tailed keyword is to have those in your url and in the title, so for instance if the title of this post is Long Tailed Keywords, then the url of this post should be balkhis.com/seo/long-tailed-keywords

stay tuned and in my next post I will teach you guys how to set your permalink structure in a more seo-friendly way.

Top Level Domains (TLD), there are just to many of those. I was asked a question through the email which TLD is the best for SEO, and which one I should register for my new website? I looked at the question, and i said this will make a perfect post for my SEO Category, so here are what i think about TLDs and SEO based on my experience.

Before i go on and tell you which one is the best first i need to get the basis so we can start. While there are many extensions as there are so many countries in the world each are having their own two letter or three letter tlds such as .in or .pk etc. The main ones that i consider are .com, .net, .org, .info, .us, and sometimes .biz …. While i am a big fan of .in (India) because the extension just sounds cool it is not in my list of the Main Top Level Domains.

Now we all know which is the most popular. So people make the most popular ones and start ranking them for SEO uses as well. So .com will get you a higher pagerank and a higher SERPs, and then after that it is .net and so on so forth. That is not true. In reality these extensions at the end of the domain does not matter at all in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). It will not get you a higher Search Engine Position Rank(s). Also known as SERPs. You might see sometimes a .net website outperform a .com website in search engines. It is really a matter of branding. If i get tons of backlinks for a .net website, I am very sure that i will get it to pass a .com website in SERPs, and this go for all the extensions. Now why do people think one is better than other?

From the past domain sales, and current ones as well more and more buyers prefer .com because that is the most popular one. When a normal person types a website they will unconsciously put a .com in front of the website if they don’t remember the url. Once that doesn’t work, they will try .net, so your website can be on a .tk for all what matters they won’t find you. It is really hard to get that into peoples mind. You will loose alot of traffic that way, and buyers of websites and domains doesn’t want that. They want all the traffic thats why they prefer .com websites.

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While we know that Google is cracking down on Paid links as they have penaltise multiple popular sites along with lowering the Pagerank of many sites. This actions send a message that we need to stop (Obvious Paid Linking), and go toward more of genuine links. Now my definition of genuine links is organic link which was linked because you had something interesting on your website. How the heck will you get something interesting? The process of getting links through the interesting topic of your website for free is called Link-baiting. This idea has been around for quiet some time, but it still works.

Not only just that, they will link to your website on other places such as Online Communities (Forums), their websites, blogs, etc. How will Google respond to that? or any other search engine? Their actions will be somewhat liks this:

User’s site link to yours because of good content -> Search Engine says user’s website is suggesting that your website is quality so they increase your authority -> This automated authority change in their database automatically changes the SERPs -> which leads in you ranking higher than you usually did.

Also this genuine linking directly increases your pagerank because more quality backlinks determines the pagerank of your website.

Now i hope that i have clarified what link-baiting is and how effective it is if used wisely. Now from here on i will explain how to use link-baiting to get genuine links.

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