Are you linking with these Web 2.0 properties?

Sep 21, 2009 in information

Generating links is one of the keys to improving your search engine rankings. Various Web 2.0 properties can be an excellent way to do this and there are a couple advantages to using them.

They tend to be high PR pages
You get to set the exact anchor text

Here are 3 that I like to use.

Squidoo
Hub Pages
Google Knol

All of these are free sites that you can use and they allow you to add in the RSS feed from your blog. You need to add in direct links to your pages using anchor text for what the page is about.

You can use each of these to target one of your long tail keywords per page.

These are just a few of the linking strategies that will be covered in the WordPress SEO Call on Wednesday at 7 pm.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.

After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.

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10 comments

Andre Arnett on September 21, 2009 at 6:28 am

Another useful tip among many looking forward to hearing on the call. Notebook is open and ready to fill it up. Thanks.
Andre Arnett´s last blog ..Actionable Ways To Make Money Online

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Earl Netwal
Twitter: EarlNetwal
on September 21, 2009 at 11:01 am

If you use these sites to send google juice to your blog, do you ruin it by adding the RSS feeds? Arn’t the RSS feeds in essence a link back from your blog to the site?

I have also been taught, and teach others to Link from one of these site to the next and then to the next and on to your site. In my case, I always link from Knol to Hub pages to Squidoo, so I don’t someday forget and create a loop.
Earl Netwal´s last blog ..Content Generation Tool

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Mike
Twitter: thewpmaven
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September 21st, 2009 at 11:27 am
I add my blog RSS to each of those not the other way around so all links are incoming and my new posts keep those fresh.

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Luca Di Nicola
Twitter: rsonline
on September 21, 2009 at 11:26 am

Thanks Mike,
There 3 sites are on my list of things to do. I do have some pages on Hub Pages but need to expand my web 2.0 exposure.
Luca Di Nicola´s last blog ..How To Add An Opt-In Box To Your Blog Using Aweber

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Doug Champigny
Twitter: SuperAffil
on September 21, 2009 at 3:07 pm

Great post, Mike – the evidence of how great your SEO call will be is mounting, post after post. And I couldn’t agree with you more about the power of Web 2.0 sites – not just for SEO results but as a source of targeted traffic in and of themselves!
Doug Champigny´s last blog ..The POWER OF FREE In Affiliate Marketing – Part Three

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Joel Osborne
Twitter: JoelOsborne
on September 21, 2009 at 10:01 pm

There are many worthwhile web 2.0 sites, its hard to keep track of them all. These are the good top 3.
Joel Osborne´s last blog ..Getting On The First Page Of Google Isn’t That Hard

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Brett McEllhiney on September 21, 2009 at 10:21 pm

Great tips Mike!

Really looking forward to this call. The amount of info you have given us already is amazing. Can’t imagine what else you are going to be covering on the call itself!

Thanks
Brett McEllhiney´s last blog ..Three Steps to Help You Identify Your Niche!

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Alex Sysoef
Twitter: thespootter
on September 21, 2009 at 11:23 pm

I have to admin – Google Knol is one thing I haven’t done enough off. I have read multiple info on it and still haven’t seen a solid proof that Google gives much weight to its own tool
Alex Sysoef´s last blog ..Triple “P” Of Total WordPress Security

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Web 2.0 on September 22, 2009 at 8:41 am

Great tips, Squidoo and Hub Pages are a good opportunity..

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Lonnie Minton on September 22, 2009 at 1:21 pm

Thanks for this tip. I have used Squidoo and Hub Pages some but not nearly enough. I have not used Google Knol. there are way to many Web 2.0 sites to try to keep up with and maintain. Knowing three that are considered to be among the top is good information.
Lonnie Minton´s last blog ..Stop Promoting Uninteresting Products

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