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I suppose the question really is, could that extra $60 be used somewhere else that would benefit the SEO more then hosting the sites on different IP's.

Personally I would go with one server and use the $60 on SEO, ive seen a video from Matt Cutts saying its fine to inter-link websites but make sure they are relevant to each other.

If its a directory you must have been collecting email address? Can you not use the email db to expose the new directory to these users?

Cheers for reply.

I understand that the referring traffic would not find the site relevant in your example but would it still give some sort of benefit regarding link building?

Lets say my competition all have low scores regarding the mozbar (me included) so PA:12 / mR:3.49 / mT:3.29 / DA:17 would you say gaining links from guest blogging (even if the sites are not relevant) will still doing something?

PA: 50 / mR: 5.39 / mT: 5.56 / DA: 41

Would you say from a website point of view these are ok stats and a guest post on here would be ok?

Thanks Alan,

See I like guest blogging because usually the posts are picked up quickly and rankings start to fluctuate in a fairly short time.

I agree with you on the directory side of things as well, a lot of negativity on them but once again I have seen some movement when using these, although it does take sometime for the links to be excepted into the directories.

I see you say the rest is going to be a waste of time but I kind of think the squidoo thing might be a good one, when I check out some of the pages on there they have some good PR, I guessing Google crawls this website a lot as well so maybe I would see some movement quickly using this method.

Cheers

I know to increase rankings involves link building, but what kind of link building is worth it and what type is not?

At the moment most of my link building effort is focused on guest blogging, which has worked well for me, I have seen some good movement on a range of keywords using this tactic but I cant help but think I could get a lot more movement in the serp's if I mixed it up a little.

A few other link building techniques I know of are below, but I don't really use them, so my question is what ones should I be using combined with my guest blogging to give my rankings that little extra help.

1. Directory Submissions

2. Article Submissions

3. Press Release Distribution

4. Forum Signatures

5. Blog Comments

6. Social bookmarking

7. Social Sites (Squidoo, Weebly, Wordpress, blogger)

If I have missed something please let me know.

Cheers

Thanks James, this also helped me.

Thank you for the great reply, I will try and follow your advice on my next guest blog (although I do find it a little difficult to find those blogs which use ''write for us' but I will give it another go).

Hi,

In the mozbar it has the following for this post:

PA: 55

mR: 3.28

mT: 4.43

DA: 88

What does this data mean and how would you use it to spot a weakness in a competitor?

Now the domain strength is very high 88, so I know you would have trouble attacking that if your own DA was 48.

p.s this is just an example

So even if the blog is not relevant, making the article relevant to my site will help more with ranking.

Do you think having the anchor text link in the body of the article would work better then in the byline or this has equal benefit? I have read the further up the page the link the better.

Just wondering, do you use guest blogging for your link building? What do you find is the best type of link building?

So I use myblogguest to find blogs to exchange content for links with.

So a few things I need clearing up really,

If you cant write relevant content to the website you want to push, does this mean writing content on something you know something about lets say football and putting anchor text links in the byline to a electronic shop would not work and is not worth doing?

On the flip side lets say you get a copy writer to do it for you but the blogs wanting to use the content are not relevant to your website.

So your articles about football and your website sells football equipment but the blogs wanting to use the content are general blogs with 20 categories covering everything.

Cheers

Me to on a few terms.

As an example for others to see what the guys here are talking about:

'Birthday Presents' as an exact match according to the Keyword Tool gets 0 search in the UK but 'Birthday Gifts' gets 9,900 ems.

Well according to Google Insights thats not the case:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22birthday%20presents%22%2C%22birthday%20gifts%22&geo=GB&cmpt=q

I find it actually works quite well, if I gain some facebook / twitter exposure it actually has a positive effect on rankings.

I would say there is little benefit at all to anything other then a .co.uk or .com exact match domain.

If I was to choose anything I would probably go with .org.uk.

Hi Everyone,

Bit of a serious question here for me,

Is it worth doing a guest post on a blog more then 2 times?

As an example one blog I guest post on has a homepage PR6 which I have posted 2 times, now they have requested another guest post but im thinking would it just be better to guest post on a different blog?

So my question in simple terms is:

5 guest posts on two PR6 websites

or

10 guest posts on ten different blogs with PR3

Thanks for the replies.

One other thing I thought about as well, was when link building if the anchor text was 'cheap football boots' would this benefit both terms at the same time? basically kill to birds with one stone or would mixing it up a bit with some 'cheap football boots' and some 'football boots'.

Hi,

If I wanted to rank for 'cheap football boots' and 'football boots' which tag would be the best option:

1. Cheap Football Boots (notice both keywords im targeting are included)

2. Cheap Football Boots, Football Boots (both keywords separate)

and the keywords sit on an EMD (cheapfootballboots.co.uk)

Cheers

Maybe you could show your client this http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Vacation%20in%20Greece&geo=US&cmpt=q

Which shows, although you get more traffic in summer there is still search traffic for the rest of the year for the pages they are taking down.

This is an incentive for them to keep those pages up and for you to maintain your SEO plans.

Just an idea to try win them round to keeping the pages up.

Leave the links to the seasonal categories in the footer, when it comes round to the season just reactivate it in the nav.

Ryan, if he built a large number of links in one month to the homepage could that effect his ranking as it might look unnatural?

Or the likely-hood of that happening is very unlikely?

When you say obtained links in the last month, how many are we talking? and did you use the same anchor text link?

Are you sure when you unlocked the PR it defiantly did not have a route to the homepage before you did it? and roughly how many pages on the site? 100, 1000, 10,000.