77 Best SEO Practices - Linking Edition

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SEO Best Practices
SEO Best Practices

SEO Practices for Links

Seo practices for links that affect your page rank and search accessible with Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask and other search engines.

SEO Legend
SEO Legend

SEO Legend for Links

The SEO legend contains best, good, okay, and neutral factors on one side and bad, worst, and awful on the other. The numbers represent the affect the includes rules will have on your page rank.

SEO Bible
SEO Bible

SEO Bible - The Complete List

For a complete list that contains 77 SEO rules please read the SEO Bible.

  • 16 - Keywords
  • 18 - Links
  • 4 - Meta tags
  • 13 - Content
  • 7 - Appearance
  • 19 - URL
Reciprocal link, two way links to and from websites, also known as "link swaps", "link exchanges" and "link partners" Hyperlink, a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource Hard link, a reference or pointer to physical data on a storage volume LINK+, an online library catalog Static link, used in programming languages like Pascal to support nested functions, allowing a nested function to access the local variables of its parent Symbolic link, a special type of file that serves as a reference to another file Data link, downlink, point-to-point link, satellite link, electronic communications links Linked list, a basic data structure Linker, a program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program Links (web browser), a web browser for Unix-like systems Magnet: URI scheme, a URI scheme for magnet links for downloading resources via peer-to-peer networks <link />, a HTML element that is used to link web pages with other resources such as CSS style sheets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links

Best SEO
Best SEO

Best Linking Rules

  • Include keyword in your inbound links
  • Get inbound links from sites with good page ranks
  • Have links from similiar sites
  • Links for edu, org and gov are very good
  • Get as many backlink with your keywords as possible

Good SEO
Good SEO

Good Linking Rules

  • Have internal links (links point away from your page) that include your keywords
  • Surround your links with keywords
  • Age of inbound links
  • Links from directories

Okay SEO
Okay SEO

Okay Linking Rules

  • Number of links leaving your site
  • Anchor of outgoing links
  • IP address of links pointing to your site

Neutral SEO
Neutral SEO

Neutral Linking Rules

  • Stay away from link farms - Don't use them for backlinks

Bad SEO
Bad SEO

Bad Link Usage

  • Don't create page with just links
  • Don't have too many links pointing to the same site

Worst SEO
Worst SEO

Worst Link Usage

No rules with this rating

Awful SEO
Awful SEO

Awful Link Usage

  • Don't use link farms on your site (links leaving your site)
  • Don't cross link (A links to B, B links to C and then C links back to A)
  • Don't link to content that is unreadable

Comments

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Jen's Solitude Level 2 Commenter 3 years ago

Well, I've learned more about links than I thought possible. Thanks for the info!

~Jen

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