Hello again, my social networking friend!

It’s all about the backlinks, baby! Offline SEO is every bit as important as what you put on your website content pages and you want to have as many good quality, one way links back to your site as you can get. There are many benefits of bidding directory to consider, such as the valuable SEO link, of course, but also the traffic gained through bidding on a good spot.

There are a few things to consider here, like making sure you pick the right category for maximum benefit. Where you get listed may depend on your advertising budget, but you should always have money put aside for advertising on bidding directories. After all, when you use those free sites you sometimes get what you pay for, and that’s not a good thing if your online income depends on it.

Getting the word out about your new online enterprise should be done in as many meaninful ways as you can afford and learning the benefits of bidding directory submissions should be one of them. Read about how it works and then use it to your advantage, as it can be yet another useful tool to add in your arsenal of ways of dominating the SERP for your keywords. You ARE trying to get to the top, right?

Lately there has been much ado about Dofollow, and Nofollow links.  Links are Dofollow by default, but can be made into Nofollow links by adding just a bit of html code.  On the other hand, links in wordpress blog comments are automatically set to nofollow.  Many people believe that making their links Dofollow is a big enough incentive to attract many visitors to their website.  Dofollow blogs do infact attract more commenters, because they want links back to their site, but is it really worth it?

Too many Dofollow links can actually have a negative effect on your webpage’s pr.  I’ve had first hand experience in realizing that.  Back on my old webmaster blog I’d had a list of forums that allowed signature links, but I’d foolishly linked to every one of them!  Since the list was Dofollow lots of people wanted to be on the list, hence more traffic to my website, but there was a downside as well.  My website went down in pagerank, and I got less visitors from search engines.  After I learned the cause I removed the links, and my page rank went back up soon after.

The moral of the story is; having to many links on a webpage has a negative influence on your pagerank.

The Solution: The solution is actually quite simple, let me list a few ways to avoid loss of pr.

• Don’t use the Dofollow plugin which makes your comment links Dofollow.  It may seem like a good idea, but if you get a lot of comments then you’re actually hurting your blog.  Simply leave it as is.
• Try not to use too many links in your posts, only throw in a few when you need to, or you really want to.
• If you need to make a list of links, or you want to as an incentive for your readers, than you can download the plugin “Nofollow Links in Posts“.  This allows you to choose whether each link is Dofollow, or Nofollow.
• Don’t think too much about it, when you’re linking to someone who you’ve learned from, or something you want your readers to see, try not to be stingy about using Dofollow or Nofollow.

You may have been under the impression that submitting your website to hundreds of search engines could boost your organic traffic, and improve your rankings in the long run. Then again, you know that it would take hours to submit your site to hundreds of search engines, and anything other than manual submission is out of the question. When search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN are dominating the search engine market because of their ability to automatically index new websites, you might wonder what the point of suggesting a url is anyways.

The biggest search engines of them all, Google, along with Yahoo and MSN are constantly searching the web for new websites and pages to index. LookLinkLove was actually indexed days after it’s creation because of links pointed towards it from popular websites. The common misconception of most people have is that suggesting a url will help get your site listed sooner. On the contrary though, suggesting a url just puts that website in a queue to be indexed behind thousands of other websites. That’s why sites like Google say that it make take up to 6 weeks for a site to be reviewed and indexed.

It’s easiest for you to just allow your site to be indexed naturally. If you were to link to a new site in your signature at a popular forum like Digitalpoint, then google’s spiders would follow the links back to your site and index it pronto. Basically, there is no need for you to suggest a url to your website, unless it was formerly blacklisted by google and the content has since changed.

Listed Downsides:

• Puts your site in the back of a six week queue
• Wastes your time
• A lot more complicated than just putting a link in your forum signatures
• Completely pointless?

Sorry for this short post, just consider it a quick tip sort of thing. Now you’re aware that submitting your site to search engines is probably one of the most pointless SEO tactics.

In a perfect world, only the websites people like would be at the top of the search engine results. In a perfect world, webmasters would focus only on building up their content so that people wanted to read it. In a perfect world, Search Engine Optimization Does. Not. Exist. Google is trying harder and harder to stop webmasters from gaming their websites to the top of the search engines. I’m assuming that they’ll never be able to completely end webmaster’s ability to purchase success.

A friend brought this to my attention when he told me that most webmaster’s were spammers. Buying, selling, and trading links are all against google’s wishes. Though Google is not the law of the internet, they’re plenty powerful to make it seem so. As far as I’m concerned, Google is right to deem the actions of certain webmasters’ wrong, or right.

Think about it, if the websites with the best content were at the top of all your search results, you and everyone else would get the information they really wanted. Unfortunately for your search for greater knowledge, depending on a webmaster’s ability to get people to link to him, he’s able to put any site he wants at the top of the search results. To me, it’s spam when you put a link on your site just because you were paid to.

Don’t get me wrong though, I have no problem profiting from people advertising on my website. Google does it with their contextual advertising company, Text-Link-Ads does it, Kontera does it, John Chow Does it, and so do many other websites. I feel so redundant right now I think I should end this post, but I’m ending it knowing you’ll see SEO in a new light. If you see the flaws of your old disgusting SEO habits, then repent, and try social networking. Since only the good stuff really gets popular, it’s not as spammy as Search Engine Optimization.