Build Quality Backlinks: Authority Sites

Build Quality Backlinks on Authority Blogs

Back-link Background

The truth is, targeted keywords are necessary for your blogs search engine results, but the affects on your rankings are not a strong has we all would hope.  In order for the search engines to absolutely love your blog, you need quality back-links.

As a general rule of thumb, the more links to your blog, the more the search engines think you are an authority in that particular niche and hence the higher they rank you. However, you have take care to observe the quality of the links. For example, a thousand links from irrelevant sites like will not gain your blog more interest as far as the search engines go.  You need back-links on relevant sites and even more effective, back-links on authority sites of the same niche.

Pointers on Getting Authoritative Back-links

There are many ways to go about getting back-links on authoritative blogs.  The most cost effective way of getting high quality links from authoritative sites is simply to ask for it. If your blog contains high quality content that is original and will provide valuable information to the site’s readers, chances are the webmaster(s) will link to your blog or even write about you!

Let’s talk about how we should ask these webmasters of authority to link to your blog. We’re discussing this based on the presumption that your blog is really content rich and offer high quality information to anyone in your niche or topic of discussion. The most viable option would be to send an email directly to the webmaster.

First, let’s look for the top sites in your niche. Simply search the major search engines for the term that you’re targeting. Let’s go through an example.  Say you search for, building quality backlinks.  We’re looking for community-based sites and other blogs that are more accessible to a complete newcomer like you.  So maybe try webconfs.com or marketingblogtools.com.  Now just simply write them an email praising their site and suggest reasons why both of you could benefit from the back-link.  Some will be nice, and some will not.  Either way, back-links on just a couple authority sites can make the difference in having a popular blog or one that is virtually non-existent.

You can also get back-links from authority blogs easily if they allow comments on their posts.  In this case, you would join their blog, find a post and add a comment worth reading.  Make sure the comment and the destination of the back-link add value.  In most cases the webmaster (owner of the blog) will check the comment and also the link.  If either is insufficient then it will never be publicized.

It is somewhat of a challenge to gain back links on an authority site and can involve a lot of time and effort searching and choosing.  Either way, the benefits far exceed the work.  You can also find more free blog tips on building quality back-links at MaxBlogMoney.com, where we look out for you blogging needs.  Good luck on building your quality back links and happy blogging.

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Starting An Online Business: Blogs Make It Possible…

Author: Shannon Murphy

MaxBlogMoney.com

Hey there, I want to talk to share with you why a blog is the easiest way to make money online, especailly for those of you just starting out. I’ll also give you a small lesson overview on what you will need to do, start to finish, to begin your successful online business with a blog.

Ok, there are four main reasons why a blog is the easiest way to develop a solid income online…

First, A blog is very easy to manage. Anyone, no matter what their website or blog experience, can install, build, and maintain a blog with out a problem and for very little cost.  On top of that the blog platform makes it extremely easy for the administration (blog owner) add content, change appearances, and maintain quality.  Virtually everything within the admin area of a blog is self-explainable (WordPress has very good forums to answer questions).

Second, blogs are extremely user friendly.  They give your visitors many options, which are of course, determined by the blog administrator.  Direction can be clearly mapped out for any visitor through archives, searches, and tag clouds.  In addition to the organization of a blog, they can be easily setup to give a targeted visitor exactly what they are looking for, whether it be strictly content or a product or service, thus increasing user friendliness through simplicity.

Third, blogs get the most exposure of any other websites on the internet.  Its versatility and ample content make it prime for search engine rankings. If you develop a quality blog, you can literally take over the search engines for the keywords you desire. This makes it possible for your blog to attract thousands of visitors each  day once an authority is obtained.

Fourth, the income potential is pretty much limitless.  You are getting thousands of targeted visitors, now just simply offer them the products and services they long for.  This will make your visitors happy, as well as yourself when your bank account begins to grow tremendously. Infact, a blog has the potential to make well over $1,000′s per month.  Add a list building campaign and then you have 100,000′s of potential buyers at your disposal…and you know exactly what they want!

Short Blog Lesson

Step 1:  The Start

Choose a domain name that is consistent with your blog niche, this will help with search engine optimization.  Make sure you have a hosting account.  This is the bridge your website needs to get to the World Wide Web. Most hosting companies you Cpanel as your domain manager.  Either way, you want to access Fantastico deluxe (install wizard).  There you will find a WordPress installation and then install.

Step 2: Blog Guts

Plug-ins need to be installed, but not just any plug-ins.  Specific plug-ins will help your blog results more than others.  Specifically Maxblogpress Ping Optimizer, All-in-one Seo Package, wp-stats, are must haves to be able to optimize your blog and track your visitors.  Plug-ins for added appearance and hightened user quality are also helpful.

Theme’s are very easy to install within a WordPress Blog.  The themes I recommend have built in search engine optimization attributes and can be easily monetized (made profitable). A specifc one is Small Business SEO theme.

Permalink structures are very important for search engine optimization.  When publishing a post, the default wordpress permalink assigns a number (permalink # example: www.gvoteamlovelife.com/22).  This is no good, you want the number (22 in the example), to be the post title and category(permalink-right example: www.gvoteamlovelife.com/MLM/profits).  MLM being the post category and profits being the post name.  This can be changed in the setting area of your blog.

Step 3:  Blog Content

Quality + Readability = Profitability.  You want to write reader friendly content and make sure the content flows in a manner that is understandable for every potential reader.  If your content is sour and lackluster, readers will leave and never come back, and hey there goes your potential income!  Make sure you have fresh content over a long period of time as well.  New posts everyday or at least every other day is ideal and no duplicates, its not helpful!

Step 4:  Blog Profitability

First is Google Adsense  of course.  a and placement are critical with Google Adsense.  The most profitable means to make money with a blog is through affiliate programs and products.  Simply post relavant banners on your blog that will grab your targeted traffic’s attention and watch them buy.  This is where the real income starts pouring in.  If you do place some banners on your blog, write some reviews on those specific products you are advertising for even more targeted traffic.

Well that’s a small overview of a blog for money from start to finish, but hey, you’ve got to start somewhere.  I suggest you check out MaxBlogMoney.com.  We are giving away free blog lessons, from start to finish, that are way more in depth than the overview I just gave you.  Either way, I hope this article has given you some insightful information about blogs, their simplicity, and their potential.

Happy Blogging My Friends…


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Get Your Blogging Started…

Part 1: Setting Up Your Blog

Blogging is a lucrative source of profit and blogs are easy to set up and maintain. Imagine a life where you are paid to write on stuff that interests you, whenever you want, wherever you are. The mere flexibility of blogging makes it easy for you to just kick back, relax and go on a vacation whenever you feel like it.

In this article, we are going to look into the profitability of a blog and set up a blog of our own at no cost! Interested? Read on!

First, we need to obtain a blog. There are several options – host a blog on your own domain or get a free blog. For starters, let’s talk about the free blogs. You can obtain a free blog at www.blogger.com or the newer (and better!) www.wordpress.com. If you are a techie, you must have heard of WordPress, a free blog engine that is robust and infinitely expandable.

Blogger.com is actually owned by Google, so it will be detected on Google’s radar faster and you will be indexed faster. WordPress.com, however, is a relatively new option so I have no comparison on the speed of getting indexed by search engines. However, WordPress is better in the sense that it has more advanced features such as Trackbacks and Categories. You can also manage your sidebar links more efficiently (more about this later).

Get a free blog at either Blogger.com (http://www.blogger.com/signup.g) or WordPress (http://wordpress.com/signup/). Then, familiarize yourself by posting your first post on your blog and tinkering around with the options and templates.

Here are a few common “blog-related” words to help you out:

1) Permalink – Permalink stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource locator) that leads to an individual post that you make in your blog.
2) Trackback – When you post about someone else’s blog post elsewhere, your post will show up in their “trackback” section. This feature, however, is not available with a Blogger.com account.
3) Pinging – Blogging seems to be paired with pinging almost every time either one is mentioned nowadays. Pinging is actually the action where a certain aggregator is notified whenever your blog is updated, so that the aggregator may show the newest post of your blog on their website. This is a useful way to gaining traffic, which we shall discuss later.

For now, I shall leave you testing out your new blog and the features that come included with it. In the next articles, we shall discuss the many ways we can gain profit from a blog, as well as tips on how to write posts that keep visitors glued and keep coming back for more!

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