What's a backlink package?Hudson Owen said:
Backlinks
Anyone pay for backlink packages (from fiverr?). What did you link to, and how did this affect your book sales?
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I don't visit Fiverr a whole lot so I don't know about them specifically, but I have seen this sort of scheme before. Backlinks to your site increase your standing in internet searches. The idea being that the more sites that link to you, the more informative and interesting your site must be. In practice, it takes an enormous amount of backlinks to produce any sort of bump in search engine rankings. More importantly, "junk sites" don't generally count (and in the case of Google searches, will hurt).
There are companies that charge a fee to essentially spam your website all over the place. Mostly, they post the links on junk sites or use spambots to post links on blogs and forums. If you have a spamblock add-on for your blog, you might notice getting lots of "weird" comments that say something like "Your site is most informative will come back again hope you write more" followed by a link to something like shoes or whatnot. These are often from backlink packages trying to get the link posted on a popular site. They know that a lot of bloggers don't manually check comments or block comments, so they use the 'throw enough crap against the wall" approach to get the links posted.
There are companies that charge a fee to essentially spam your website all over the place. Mostly, they post the links on junk sites or use spambots to post links on blogs and forums. If you have a spamblock add-on for your blog, you might notice getting lots of "weird" comments that say something like "Your site is most informative will come back again hope you write more" followed by a link to something like shoes or whatnot. These are often from backlink packages trying to get the link posted on a popular site. They know that a lot of bloggers don't manually check comments or block comments, so they use the 'throw enough crap against the wall" approach to get the links posted.
wansit - Go to fiverr and search for backlinks or linkbacks, same thing, and see who is advertising what.
Julie - Yea, I get these kind of links all the time on my blog. Guess I don't what to do the same myself. You need a more focused, targeted list, if that is available.
Julie - Yea, I get these kind of links all the time on my blog. Guess I don't what to do the same myself. You need a more focused, targeted list, if that is available.
Don't do it. You want quality, relevant links to your site.
Junky links will backfire and google will sink your site. It's much better to put good, keyword targeted content on your site and climb naturally. Guest post and build links within your genre. You can also use Social Media especially once you have solid content on your site.
ETA: You can really boost your google presence by getting on google +. I've been slow to get on that bandwagon, but what little I have done has really helped.
Junky links will backfire and google will sink your site. It's much better to put good, keyword targeted content on your site and climb naturally. Guest post and build links within your genre. You can also use Social Media especially once you have solid content on your site.
ETA: You can really boost your google presence by getting on google +. I've been slow to get on that bandwagon, but what little I have done has really helped.
How did you use Google+?daphne dangerlove said:Don't do it. You want quality, relevant links to your site
ETA: You can really boost your google presence by getting on google +. I've been slow to get on that bandwagon, but what little I have done has really helped.
Hudson, thanks for asking this. I'd like to know, too.
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Google+ is Google's answer to Facebook, with the added bonus that it gives your sites more credibility in the Google rankings. Google uses it to identify those sites that are yours, and gives them preferred treatment in search related to you and your work specifically. So if someone searches for your book title or your name, they are more likely to be directly to your site.
Julie, thanks for the clear explanation. Going on my "to do" list.
You'll need an account. Then you use it to share your content just like facebook and twitter. You can use circles to categorize your contacts on there. When you share something via Google+, it zooms to the top of search results and it shows your picture/icon beside the result when someone does a search.
There's also Google Authorship Markup which Copyblogger has a really great post on: http://www.copyblogger.com/claim-google-authorship/
Basically this means that your google+ icon/picture comes up next to your search results on google for all of the results related to your blog. This adds a ton of credibility and increases click throughs so if you are looking to get search traffic, read the Copyblogger post b/c it explains the entire thing way better than I ever could.
There's also Google Authorship Markup which Copyblogger has a really great post on: http://www.copyblogger.com/claim-google-authorship/
Basically this means that your google+ icon/picture comes up next to your search results on google for all of the results related to your blog. This adds a ton of credibility and increases click throughs so if you are looking to get search traffic, read the Copyblogger post b/c it explains the entire thing way better than I ever could.
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