Today morning ,I got my vanity facebook url as http://www.facebook.com/lijogeorge  (9:30 AM)

The url can be used as

1 . http://www.facebook.com/lijogeorge

2. http://www.facebook.com/lijo.george

3. http://www.facebook.com/l.ijogeorge

4. http://www.facebook.com/li.jogeorge

..

You can add a dot wherever you want .

This post is in response to may queries regarding the listing of back links by google . Take a look

Hi everyone

I wondered if anyone could throw a bit of light on this for me?

I’ve worked hard at getting some good back links for my online shop, and guess I probably have quite a few now.

However If I look at link: (my web address) in google its showing up as no back links.

Does anyone know why this might be? Is it something to do with the company name being R xxx and my web address being www.xxxx.com

I’m totally confused.

Thanks

xxxx

I have seen many quaries in various forums where people wondering “After all the link building i had donw , why google not listing all my backlinks ?”

Lets take a look about two sites Just for study purpose)

Site 1 :

URI : mobile9.com It a Mobile site

Backlinks in google : 863( try link:mobile9.com search on google , 6th april 2009)

Backlinks in yahoo : 923,808

Percentage of backlinks listed by google with respect to yahoo : .92 or 1 %

Site 2 :

URI: techseol.com Home page of a SEO company

Backlinks in google : 75 (6th april 2009)

Backlinks in yahoo : 2184

Percentage of backlinks listed by google with respect to yahoo : 3.34 %

Conclutions ( Not so accurate , just based on above results)

• Google won’t list all the backlinks of a site by the quary (link:mysite.com)
• At the time Yahoo list most of the backlinks
• Google lists less than 5% of the total links listed by yahoo .

I know a few questions arises in your mind now

• ” So all my links not listed in google are not valuable or discounted?”

Answer : No all the links have it’s value . Noone except google can give the actual value .

• “So how can I see all my backlinks ?”

Answer : Go to google webmasters tools(google.com/webmasters/tools) . Add your site there are verify . Then click on the links tab and you can see all your backlinks and the date at which that backlink was idetified by google .

Social Media :

Sites that is based on user participation and user-generated content are called social media . They include social networking sites like LinkedIn or Facebook, social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, social news sites like Digg or Sphinn, and so many other sites.

Social Media Optimisation(SMO) :

Social Media Optimisation is the process of generating traffic , brand and buzz by participating in various social media sites. Social media allows people with same interest and views to come together,participate and share their ideas and knowledge.

Social Media Sites :

Myspace is a Social Networking site with millions of users (around 189 Million) . Here links are re-directed , so no SEO value , but can acquire trafic.

Face Book got around 90 Million users . Face book allows HTML tags , but the pages are not indexed by search engines . So you can except traffic.

I will soon publish a full list of social media sites , so that you can download and use

Take a look at what Mattcutts has to say about Image alt tags and SEO .

If you are new to websites and if you don’t have a previously developed blog , then the first step is to find a niche or topic . Finding the correct niche or topic is the most important factor in the SEO process. The topic or niche can be divided in to three according to the competition

1. Highly competative : Highly competitive niche includes credit cards, mortages etc. As the name suggest it takes some takes a lot of time and effort to rank some where in the competitive area.
2. Moderate competition : Moderate competitive areas are where we can get a place in the search engine listing much easily .
3. Low competition : There are areas usually local important like kerala cars,new york city bar,..etc

Finding Your niche for blogging ?

Ask the following questions to yourself ..

• which is my area of interest ?
  • Are you a technology freak? are you a good reader of books? are you good in body building ? Try to find your area of interest .
• If i start a site on a topic , can i provide something current sites are nor providing right now?
  • I know many new tricks for a computer user which none can’t find in the websites. Then go and build a computer tricks and tips site.
• What is the competition for my niche ?
  • Don’t go for highly competitive niches like mortages , loans etc .You can go for such keywords , if you can emply somone for blog promotion or you have a very long time frame .
• Who all are my target audience?
  • Find the tareget audience , age ,geographic location (good while deciding about monetisation and advertising ).

If you go through the questions above , you can easily get one niche . Best of luck . Do comment below .

dofollow and nofollow links?

Google follows the pagerank algorithm . So as the number of relevent links increases , the site get more and more top rankings in search results. getting regular links need

• Quality content &

• Daily updates

As black hatters dont have both , they started finding out for new ways to get more links much hassle free .So they started making softwares that can comment on various blogs ,wikipedia etc.. They started getting links more easily .And many SPAMMY sites got high rankings . So google and so many other software developers united to make a chage in the linking text where there will be a provision to specify the google bot to follow the link-dofollow or do not follow-nofollow,so that these spammy sites wont get in rankings due to massive spam links.

A regular Link code will be of the form,Where the google bot will follow the link and crawls.

<a href=”http://www.iamlijo.com”>Lijo George</a>

A no follow link will conatin a rel=”nofollow” ,here PR juice will not be passsed to the link .

<a href=”http://www.iamlijo.com” rel=”nofollow“>Lijo George</a>

Do follow blogs

Do-follow blogs will be having the links in the comment as a follow link . So the commenter will get PR juice from the link. So as in the case of SEO and link popularity , these links will be very helpful

Things to remember before commenting on do-follow blogs

• Don’t SPAM
• Only comment on relevant sites.
• Take a while and read the post fully and understand the topic before commenting.

I am sure many times you have seen while searching like below

You can see site links in the redbox (Nokia mobile softwares,ringtones, etc). These links are called the sitelinks. Site links usually increase the authenticity of your site.

How can i add sitelinks to my site ?

The answer is simple “YOU CAN’T ” .

Then is it possible for me to remove the sitelinks which is irrelevent to my site ?

Yes, you can . Follow the steps

* You just go to Google webmasters tool
* Add your sites to google sitemap
* Verify the site ownership adding a file .
* Then click on your site name
* Select links>sitelinks>

Click on the block tab near the link you want to remove from your site links.And this will be removed within one week

Then last question, how can I get sitelinks for my site?

Google automatically finds the sitelink related to your site . This process can be accelerated by the following steps

* Get Quality content
* Get links from sites to the inner pages of your site.Try to get quality and authetic links.
* Avoid linking from irrelevant sites.
* And wait for Google to update , it can take anywhere from 3 months to a year for your sitelinks to appear.

Good luck .

Importance of links

Link building is one of the most important practise of SEO . Often companies can’t always depend on natural links for SEO .

Danger of Buying links

According to google’s algorithm,buying links are agaist the TOS( terms of service ) of google. But the fact is that

” If you Buy links carefully , you can get good SERPS . If you buy links without caring , you could even get banned from Google”

Tips to Buy Links

• As  far as possible buy links only from related sites.
• Avoid buying irreverent site wide links
• Avoid using the same anchor texts in all links.If you are
• Try to get some links like ‘click here ‘ … etc .. so that your links look natural.
• Never buy links in sections like ‘Our Sponsours‘ , ‘Sponsoured by ‘ , ‘Supported by ‘ etc
• Don’t buy links from sites and pages already having lot of external links.
• Don’t buy links from site which is linking to Irrelevant sites.

Best Buy Links:

• Get links from articles, where link is surrounded by words.
• Get links from similar category sites.