Search Engine Optimization

Admit it, every SEO guy must to spy on competitors. You would be stupid not to; just look what top rated sites in your niche are doing SEO wise and follow in their footsteps. At some point in the future you’ll need to do better than this, because by only repeating you will never get higher then aforementioned sites. However for beginning this is one of the best and easiest tactics. This coin comes with two faces and soon enough somebody will start looking for your backlinks. Nobody likes to work too hard and why to look for webmasters who will be willing to link, send hundreds of emails and wait for positive reply when you can just google competitor’s site and find all those links that helped him to be ranked. Well, I red on this SEO forum that there might be a solution for hiding your links! That’s right, presumably you can veil your links and still remain link juice “beneficiary”. Imagine having you site on first SE page with just a few backlinks (rest of them are just hidden), I bet many of your direct competitors will scratch their heads and think to themselves “how in the world did he got there?…. it must be some black hat SEO”
In theory it works like this: Instead of writing your link the usual way www.example.com, make it www.example.com#hide
Apparently, these kind of links won’t appear on link:www.example.com search results, but the big question is will they bring you any good at all?!
I will do a little experiment and let you know how it comes out. All I need is new blog about any topic and several “#” links pointing to it. Anchor text of these links should be about something that doesn’t exist, so that there will be no competition in my way. In one or two month, I will be able to see if this scheme really works:
1) My test blog should rate high in SERPs for anchor text keywords combination.
2) Neither of it’s back links should be visible to curious people.

Wish me luck!

You heard thousand times that good content is the most important thing. In theory, if your site is interesting – people will link to it naturally and you will climb in the rating. In practice, there are several problems with this statement. Let’s say you’re real estate agent from Boston and want to be found in Google organic search when potential customers are looking for “real estate Boston”. Bad news are that there are 49 million results for this keyword, the good news are that there are SEO companies that can help you with Google optimization. Think about it, you can write articles on your site about fluctuation of apartment prices, but hey, your competitors were not born yesterday and probably writing about this as you read this article. You need to have an edge over everyone else by hiring specialist who will help you to be placed on first page of most important search engines. This can be achieved by promoting your website using many techniques; one of them is link building.
On every SEO blog you’ll find scores of articles about importance of inbound links (those who point to your site from other places). The point that many people miss is that the weight and authority coefficient of links might be very different. For example you can get 1 link from PR 3 homepage and another link from PR 1 page. Since the age of three we know that 3 is greater than 1, so at first glance first link is the preferred one, however you should also take in consideration many other factors. For instance, how many other outbound links these two site have, because if there are 12 or more links on PR3 site and just 2 on PR1, then second link brings you more value. It is known trick in link exchange. You’re offered to swap links with page rank 5 site that has hundreds of outgoing links and your site that doesn’t have any page rank. High, wide, and handsome you exchange links, but actually you give more than you get.
Another very important attribute is relevancy of topics between your site and the one that links to you. If you sell cars and get link from cooking recipes website, in search engines eyes this link has no value. Most probably Google won’t index it or will ignore it later. The trick is to create valuable back-links that will get you closer to top and bring traffic.