Link Building

Ask For Customer Reviews to Help Build Page Rank

Positive reviews will help your website rankings and more often than not potential customers will call a company with some postive reviews before they will call a company with no reviews. There are a hundreds of customer review websites on the web for all types of products and services. Customers can write a review on... »

What Google SEO Likes for Good Link Anchor Text

Google looks at the number of good quality sites linking to your site to raise your page’s page rank and place your higher in their organic search results.  Note that I said good quality sites, stay away from the link farms and other black hat link strategies.  Get good quality links from reputable sites,... »

Build Link Description Templates for Important Keywords

Describe what should be in each of the descriptions and how to incorporate the anchor text. Create a couple different descriptions for each of your keyword phrases.  Depending on your topic and keyword phrase, you may want to create a short one sentence template as well as a paragraph of 200 words or so. Here are... »

What is Link Anchor Text?

Link anchor text is typically the readable text you see on a webpage.  It’s normally highlighted in a different color and/or underlined.  When you click the anchor text it takes you to a new web page. For example: Sign up for the RichClose dot com Newsletter. In this case “Newsletter” is the anchor text which takes... »

Use Your Friends and Customers for Referral Marketing of your Business

Ask for links and referrals from you friends, family and business associates. Referral marketing is a great way to grow your business and your SEO performance. »

How Can I Avoid Comment Spam On My Website

Follow these tips to ensure that your website is free of comment spam. Your visitors will be confused by the crappy comments. »

Simple SEO Link Request Letter Templates

Here are some examples of a link request letter that you can use when requesting links to your website.  Writing link request letter is a great way to add new links to your website improving your Google SEO results. Every day, you and your team should be working to increase the number of links to... »

Dealing with Low Quality Backlinks

Will poor quality backlinks hurt my Google SEO rankings. The answer is no, focus on relevant content and great links. »

Register Your Business on Google Local to Find Local Customers for Your Business

As part of your local SEO work, you should be listing your business in local business directories as well as industry specific directories.  Most of them are free so start with them first. The first directory that you should register your business with is Google Local.  People looking for products and services in Google Search... »

Detailed Link Request Letter Template

Building links to your website is a time consuming process, but it’s critical to improving your Google search engine ranking.  If you have the time, the following link request letter and process is an excellent way to get high quality links with relevant content back to your targeted page.  Note by writing content for... »


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