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Advanced technique
Last time we briefly discussed about three ways link exchange network, some revision of SEO basics and some advanced command. This time I want to show you some advanced techniques that you need to know before you and build your links. This is the advanced search command, “link:” or “linkcommand:” that you will use with Yahoo!. Now a question, why use that command with Yahoo? This is because it usually shows more results than Google and MSN.
Check If Your Link Counts
Ok now as there are other components that you need to check with the targeted link page but we will show you the use of the Yahoo! “link” command first. Let say’s you wish to build link from articles, (that what most of my time are doing) and your target directory is ezinearticles.com. This is a SEO friendly directory as my links always count. I use it as an example here.
- First you need to go to Yahoo home page, any domain will do.
- Then instead of you type in a keyword in the search box, you type in this command:
[quickcode]link:http://www.prosoncheng.com/ site:ezinearticles.com [/quickcode] as you see in the screen shot
If Yahoo! returns you something, it means the targeted directory or webpage that you wish to add your link is some how SEO friendly. Why somehow? You asked. Because it depends all other factors such as the targeted site domain Page Rank or how many inbound links that your targeted site is receiving. The more it gets, potentially search engine would pay more attention to it so it would index more deeper pages on the web site. Of course it depends all other site architecture factors such as XML site maps, the use of RSS feeds, site inter linking structure and so on.
Therefore, before you start building links yourself, make sure you do a quick check and see if the links are potentially counted. One way of doing it is to check all other people’s links on that website and see if they returned any Yahoo! results by using the above shown command. If there are majority of the links won’t show in the Yahoo! results, then I will NOT bother getting links with this website.
Others Factor that Affect Your Inbound Links
There are also other factors that may affect if your link counted towards the search algorithm. For example:
- NOFOLLOW attribute in the link
- Any form of redirection of the link, javascript, php etc
- Framed Website
- IP address of the targeted site
- and many others
But the Yahoo! command helps to filter out factors like framed website and the use of Java-script or any form of redirection. You just have to manually check if the targeted site employs “nofollow” attribute of the links or not by checking its HTML source code by clicking on “view-> page source” in Firefox or “view->source” in Internet Explorer. Next time I will show you the methods that I use and also covering their benefits and disadvantages of each methods so stay tuned!
