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How to gain an audience, avoid other people from usurping your ideas, and avoid duplicate content filters.

Seeding articles, graphs, PDF documents, research, charts, images, videos and quotes to other websites is an excellent way to increase awareness of your website. You will be inserting your brand into a natural source of information and can reach users at a critical point in their decision making process.

When seeding your content the key is to get links back to your site from half a dozen sites. Without this quantity your efforts could be lost.

Doing Content Wrong

1. Find trending keywords
2. Get low paid writers to mashup content and rewrite words
3. Semi automated process – publications still need writers and editors like McDonalds needs cows
4. You may find articles written by Mr. Al Gorithm
5. Machines can’t differentiate between “time flies like an arrow” & “fruit flies like a banana” but some people can overlook this
6. Automated baseball sports writing program exists – developed by Northwestern University. It gets the facts but not meaning of games.

Doing Content Right

1. Create a great article
2. Find trusted, high quality, relevant sites to share it with
   • Ezines
   • Blogs
   • Niche websites
   • Small publications
   • Industry specific websites
3. Share with at least 5 sites and have them all link back to your website. If you only share content with 3 sites there is a chance they will outrank you for it.

Read the official Google policy on cross-site duplication:

If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show the version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which may or may not be the version you’d prefer. However, it is helpful to ensure that each site on which your content is syndicated includes a link back to your original article. You can also ask those who use your syndicated material to use the noindex meta tag to prevent search engines from indexing their version of the content.

With this strategy you will never have to worry about other people stealing your content again, as you will always rank #1 for your work.

I just received a link request email for a great offer linking to Intel. I thought I misread the company name, but it is indeed the behemoth computer chip manufacturer.

This is a really low budget way for Intel to go about getting more links, and I thought they could be a little creative and try to use some Digg spam bait to get more links. Intel just got hit with a 1.45 billion dollar fine from the EU so they must have had to slash their search engine optimization budget.

The email is below:

Software 3 Way- Link Partner Proposal ! http://sx.intel.com

Dear Webmaster,

My name is ANDY, marketing manager of sx.intel.com website. I really liked your site So, I thought why not we do link exchange ?

Due to the possible harming nature of too many reciprocal links we suggest non reciprocal links. You can link to us from your site and we will link back from another of our sites.

I can add your link here ::
http://www.netsalad.com ( Any Inner Page )
OR
http://www.boogiedada.com/ ( PR 1 Content Rich).

If you are interested, please reply to this email and I will be happy to discuss our link exchange requirements.
Please add my site information under any Quality Inner Page. Here the our site details:

Link Title: business software
Link Url: http://sx.intel.com
Link Description: Business Software Solutions with Intel’s Software Download Store, Special prices, Featured software downloads with superb discounts.

Again, awesome site!

Sincerely,

ANDY
sx.intel.com

I wonder how this 3 way link strategy is working for this multi billion dollar company. The top backlink listed is from HV Web Directory :: SEO Friendly Web Directory.

Intel should be proud of the money they are saving from having axed their online marketing department.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain:sx.intel.com%20-site:sx.intel.com&n=100

Some people seem to get all the luck. In an article about the new Tesla Model S Sedan electric car, the New York Times blog author links to Mahalo founder and controversial tech blogger Jason Calacanis twice as much as any other source.

A link from NYtimes.com is very valuable and the only thing Calacanis has to do with the new Tesla sedan was to put a down payment on one.

Outspoken online media figures tend to get the most exposure, and therefore the most links. This is a great example of how to use your popularity in social media to expand your website, get high quality links, and improve your reputation. Many people resent Mr. Calacanis for this, but his online force is undeniable.

Original Blog Post

About 5 years ago search engines realized that blogs, comments and user generated content were going to pollute the web with an endless stream of low quality, off topic, unmanaged links. As the search engine ranking algorithm is primarily link based, this had the potential of making search engine results unusable.

How to Stop Links Gone Wild

The answer to a new influx of links was the nofollow tag, which literally would tell a search spider not to crawl this link. the tag looks like

<a href=”http://questionable site.com” rel=”nofollow”>questionable anchortext<a>

The question we are asking is if the nofollow link tag is dying. The answer is no, but it is changing. Increasing use of nofollow for a range of purposes.

Google lists the three main intended uses of nofollow as:

• Linking to untrusted content
• Paid links
• Crawl prioritization (typically linking to yourself with nofollow)

See more opinions on the nofollow tag and the rise of microblogging from a Will Chritchlow.

Links are one of the largest untracked forms of online currency, and as soon as the IRS discovers this they will try to find a way to tax them. Every link is an indication of an exchange of real value, even if the parties are linking naively.

Here is one example where an innocent link exchange with no money changing hands is increasing the value of a site:

Site A finds a cool image they want to use on site B. Site A copies the image and gives credit to site B via a link. In this example, a link has replaced payment for usage of the image. This is a basic barter deal and no search engine can complain about the link exchange.

Here Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead at Google talks about outbound links, but forgets to mention it is a multi million dollar business.

Relevant outbound links can help your visitors

• Provide your readers in-depth information about similar topics
• Offer readers your unique commentary on existing resources

Thoughtful outbound links can help your credibility.

• Show that you’ve done your research and have expertise in the subject manner
• Make visitors want to come back for more analysis on future topics
• Build relationships with other domain experts (e.g. sending visitors can get you on the radar of other successful bloggers and begin a business relationship)

Read more about how Google tries to downplay the global linking cartel.

In another twist of irony, this article is published as a subdomain on blogspot.com which is the number 1 source of link spam and autogenerated content online.

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The popular Long Island New York newspaper Newsday was penalized by Google for selling text links that pass pagerank.

Here is a screenshot of the crazy amount of nofollow tags used by Newsday.com

There are nearly 100 no followed links, but it’s quite curious to see which links are still passing PR. Semi related links to small local destination sites are still getting a link boost from this PageRank 8 site including a wedding, travel, health and shopping site.

Links that are directly related to this large print publication including the LA Times, Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel and other huge newspapers are nofollowed.

The archive shows a section labeled ‘ Featured Links’ which carry sites such as :

• Mesothelioma Lawyer Lung Cancer
• Personal Injury Law Firm
• Buy Mets Tickets
• Buy Yankees Tickets
• Wicked Tickets
• Hamptons Travel

So Newsday.com can boost its fledgling sites while trying to negate the association of major newspapers, and the Hamptons Travel site is still linking with full credit. Hey newsday, i’ll sell you one of my content sites so your PR8 site can link to it and we can dominate the SERP’s.

Google has always been inconsistent in dealing with link sellers. There seems to be no complete method to find out which sites will receive a penalty for selling links that pass page rank. Google has not algorithmically solved the problem of link brokering and must rely on a semi accurate computer model with heavy human intervention.

Loren, WPN, Barry posted about this interesting case.

*update*

The SEO Manager, who was hired after the link selling program was implemented, posted a request in Google Groups and apparently got the problem resolved within 1 week. Newsday.com instantly jumped from a toolbar PR 5 to 8.

Google Engineer Reid

Thanks for your post. I’m glad you’re posting here in the Webmaster
Help Group, because the discussions here help educate webmasters
around the globe. I just checked over newsday.com and compared it to
the most recent version of newsday.com that was indexed by
Archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070829225145/http://www.newsday.com/

Scrolling near the bottom of what your site used to look like, I see
the following “Featured Links”:
Mesothelioma Lawyer Lung Cancer Personal Injury Law Firm
Buy Mets Tickets Buy Yankees Tickets Wicked Tickets
Hamptons Travel

Please remember that participating in link schemes intended to
manipulate search engine rankings, including buying or selling links
that pass PageRank, is a violation of our Webmaster Guidelines, and
may impact your site’s standing in Google:

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DMOZ the open directory that gets huge exposure from prominent position as the Google directory is blogging. DMOZ bloggers are publishing major PR for their directory to encourage quality submissions and keep the project alive. I applaud this.

The comments below are from their blog post and seem out of synch with most DMOZ editors philosophy of natural linking.

I think we can all agree that the most exciting take away is that search engines love place a different value on free, human edited directories. The point is easily debatable. Perhaps a link in DMOZ is as valuable as any other link on the web or maybe it is worth more.

Getting a site into DMOZ is like Gold.

Google loves links from DMOZ and your site will reap the benefits.

Pointed out by the anti-SEO Shoemoney. It is quite ironic that DMOZ editors hate SEO’s multiple scales of magnitude more than Shoemoney, yet are advertising their benefit to the search engine optimization process.

The open directory project needs a huge sign that says: only quality sites need apply. This would drastically reduce the acceptance time for new website submissions.

The questions all upcoming webmasters and SEO’s ask themselves: Should I ask for links or not? Can I get targeted paid ads/reviews? Are relevant reciprocal links worth the effort?

The short answer is: anything you do to your website that benefits your users will also help you in the search engines. If this means getting links to your electronics site from manufacturers, get these links. If it means getting reviews on blawgs for your law firm site do it. It may mean sending out articles and press releases for your fashion news site.

Different websites have different search engine optimization requirements and need to be promoted uniquely. It is probably not a good idea to try to get lots of .gov and .edu links for your home improvement website.

video http://www.youtube.com/v/B4aVSlnFITM

Matt Cutts acknowledged that Webmasters are free to do whatever they please with their Web sites and Google is free to do whatever it wishes with its index. Read more from Esoteric.