I will show you an example of "good merit based" link building that Google likes. About the best backlink you could obtain in the software, Internet and SEO industry would be a link from a prestigious university, from a top expert and a famous award winning distinguished person, e.g. the father of the Internet. Please click here, then click on the #3 video listed on the webpage and see where it links you to.
The reason search engines will most likely never change this is that this methodology works great, and no other technique works better. Why Do you think Google named it PageRank?
SEO Link Building Service and Strategies We receive thousands of phone calls, emails, link building questions and listing requests every year about SEO and link building techniques. Eighty percent or more of the people contacting us have terribly wrong ideas about what works and what is important for outstanding results in the major search engines. Below are details, samples, and history of people contacting us with their requirements. Hopefully, you will find useful SEO information that will help your company grow and increase your profits.
Many people phone our company saying, "I need low cost SEO, low quality backlinks, and tons of cheap links."
I respond, "Why?".... They say, "I want to out rank my competitors." They think it is a pure numbers game, all links are equal and you get more and you win. This is the wrong link building strategy, and these "cheap low quality techniques" will cause your website to be penalized by Google.
These people want fast outstanding results; they want to be #1 for competitive keyword phrases in 1-5 months. Most people still do not understand that Google has penalized almost all of these cheap, crappy links and many people still do not even realize to vary their anchor text. So the fastest way to be penalized by Google is to put up 1000+ low quality links on crappy websites and low quality Directories. Important Note: "If every url passes a review, the directory gets closer to just a list of links or a free-for-all link site." - Matt Cutts of Google Then use the exact same anchor text for all these poor quality backlinks. People who do this might as well just email Google and say "please penalize my site, I am a dumb-ass and I deserve to be penalized."
I reply, "You do not understand how search engine optimization works,you need to look at this as a long term investment that you will be making as long as you are in business. Good ranking results take at least 6-12 months to achieve. Highly competitive keywords may take several years of SEO work and high quality merit based link building. Then you have to maintain all this work forever or you will lose the top rankings you worked so hard to achieve. Please remember your competitors are also working hard on their SEO and want to outrank you." More on Link Building Someone with fewer backlinks , e.g. Site A has 300 high quality natural embedded text links from topic related authority sites can out rank Site B with 20,000 low quality text links. Google now gives thousands of web site owners penalties for these low quality backlinks.
This includes all the webmasters that do article submission SPAM (duplicate content SPAM), free low quality directory listings, excessive and only low quality link exchanges, these do not work because Google considers that all junk and SPAM. E.g. A PR0 site exchanging links with other PR0 sites, to Google this is just junk to junk SPAMMY stupid SEO methods. Please watch this video by Matt Cutts of Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuhSmwsL7s
Google implemented much stricter spam algorithms in 2014- 2015, and really turned the screws on low quality SEO businesses, however they also increased the importance of sites that have higher editorial standards. Also it is more important than ever to keep high quality long (many years) aged backlinks. If you lose our well-aged backlinks Google can really punish you and drop your rankings significantly and even worse you cannot replace these long aged backlinks, and you have to start all over again from the beginning.
The following article and video has useful information that I agree with about 85%. I have ways of enhancing what this gentleman states in his outstanding video: moz.com/blog/high-value-tactics-futureproof-link-building-whiteboard-friday Cyrus Shepard - I feel your pain! It's difficult to convince inexperienced clients to invest in high value, future-proof link building - especially when they are spammed everyday with emails promising top 10 rankings for $49/month.
Below are some more facts about SEO.
Search engine optimization is not something you can turn on and off without Google not liking it. Google sees all these SEO improvements we have done for you and when they see this stopping and going away Google marks your site as a "Devious website" that Google should not trust (suspicious unnatural activities) , and may filter and penalize you. Then website owners hire a new SEO Company and this makes it even worse. E.g. Google sees: up, down, up, down ... all these changes, unnatural activities, and lack of stability is detected by Google. This is not our fault, as we cannot continue doing work for you for free. This is a bad consequence of not staying with SEO long term. Web site owners should choose one SEO Company and stay with them for many years to achieve the best results.
We see this over and over again and we warn clients that they are harming themselves with Google perhaps long term if they do not have a long term commitment to SEO. Once Google marks your web site as a "Devious website" it is very difficult to recover, some web site owners never recover from this mistake of thinking you can turn SEO on and off without any negative consequences. I have many people who phone me 1-2 years after I talk with them and say: "Tom I wish I would have listened and followed your advice, and since I did not follow your SEO advice I have had terrible results." Based on my 15+ years of fantastic SEO results I am one of the top SEO experts in the world. I am also modest J→htpcompany.com/gototom_tom_forrest.htm.
It is funny to me that people hire us as SEO experts and then do not follow our advice. I feel like saying to them, why did you hire our company if you already know more about Search Engine Optimization than we do? I will not even respect any other person that claims to be a SEO expert unless they can prove to me that they have achieved top rankings for many years for tough competitive keyword phrases. I often tell people that claim they are SEO experts to show me proof of their outstanding results. Most people have no proof of any top ranking results on Google. One quick way to find out the truth from people is to have them show a top ranking for their own company, as it is easy to claim you made Ford, Amazon, Boeing, etc. #1. How could you ever verify these claims? If you are a newer SEO person and want to try to rank for important keywords, I suggest staying away from the keywords "SEO Company" as I used to be #1 for this for 5 years and it just brings too much attention and potential problems from Google. It is better to stay off Google's radar screen if possible. One of the most important reasons I have had such outstanding long term success for our clients is that I am a long term thinker. We follow all Google guidelines and have had the same merit based backlinks in place for our clients for over ten years. Google loves this.
We will make it easy for you to submit, then have your website approved and listed in 5 top quality Directories. This includes all the work and time to properly submit your website, plus all Directory fees. This is a non-refundable one time charge. Please click on the "Buy Now" button below. Email tomforrest@htpcompany.com or phone 805.807.4645 with any questions.
By Tom Forrest List of Directory Submission Sites. List of directories that Google likes and that follow Google Guidelines. Google has cracked down on web directories that violate Google guidelines. You should not place your website on any free and low quality directories or websites, you need fewer directory listings with better quality in order to be successful with Google and Bing. Please read the following new article about effective SEO Link Building to learn more. So I decided I should give people a list of Internet directories that Google thinks are valid and that if you obtained a listing from these directories it would help you with direct traffic generation and also as a "good" backlink as far as Google is concerned. The Directories below are valuable worldwide and businesses from all countries should consider submitting their website to these top quality Directories. 1. http://www.AllBusinessNow.com 2. http://www.Clasione.com
Please see comments below from Matt Cutts of Google on what to consider when submitting to a Directory. I see many articles that give incorrect SEO information and promote "free directory sites" (low quality), and it is important to study what Google has previously stated. Please understand that Google has penalized many sites for not following the Google guidelines.
When considering submitting to a directory, I’d ask questions like: - Does the directory reject urls? If every url passes a review, the directory gets closer to just a list of links or a free-for-all link site. - What is the quality of urls in the directory? Suppose a site rejects 25% of submissions, but the urls that are accepted/listed are still quite low-quality or spammy. That doesn’t speak well to the quality of the directory. - If there is a fee, what’s the purpose of the fee? For a high-quality directory, the fee is primarily for the time/effort for someone to do a genuine evaluation of a url. Matt Cutts, Google
Unfortunately there are many other articles regarding Directories that are highly ranked by Google that give bad SEO advice which may cause you to be penalized by Google. I even emailed HubSpot that one or more of their blog articles give terrible SEO advice about Directory submissions. You do not want to automate Directory submissions. Each listing should vary the anchor text and the content (description). This will yield the best results with the search engines, and prevent penalties. More importantly it makes for a unique better quality directory that visitors will like. Google does not want to see hundreds or thousands of free low quality directory listings all with the exact same anchor text and the same description word for word. That is what Google penalizes and it is good that Google penalizes these spammy black-hat methods.
I am generally not a fan of CNN and I do not always agree with Don Lemon. It is funny to me because Don Lemon claims he is an Independent and not a Democrat or Republican, which is a joke to me because I have watched him since he has been on CNN and I have never seen him support a Republican party position. Don Lemon seems to always agree with the Democrats, plus he dislikes President Trump. We do not have many "real" Journalists any more, I am more of a journalist then most of the people on CNN. Then you have Fox news which is biased the other way and only supports Republican policies. It is very frustrating for people like me that truly are not affiliated with any political party.
Yet the truth is the most important thing to me. In this case Don Lemon is correct and he helps prove Brett Kavanaugh is a big liar and that he should be charged with perjury for lying under oath. Brett Kavanaugh should be charged with a felony for being a sneaky scumbag lying lawyer. Mr. Kavanaugh made an inappropriate attack on the Clinton's in his confirmation hearing, when in fact Brett Kavanaugh is worse then Hillary Clinton in regards to being an unethical lying attorney. I dislike Hillary Clinton and I am not happy with Donald Trump either. I wish we could find and elect a President like Ronald Reagan again. I did not agree with all of Ronald Reagan's policies, yet almost everyone would agree President Reagan had true integrity and acted very presidential, unlike Donald Trump. In my entire life the biggest political surprise I have ever seen or heard is the Donald Trump video and recording of what Mr. Trump said about women, "grab them by the pussy, you can do anything ...", the surprise being that he was still elected President of the USA after this was released by the media companies. President Trump won the white women vote, with 52% of white women voting for Trump. President Trump has ruined his credibility with too many lies, incorrect statements, and he cannot be trusted to tell the truth, and the entire truth. I will give you one of many specific examples. President Trump claims he believes Brett Kavanaugh was #1 at Yale undergraduate and also #1 at Yale law school, neither are true. I am sick and tried of hearing about how wonderful President Trump is from egotistical Donald Trump. Furthermore I bet Ronald Reagan would have detected that Brett Kavanaugh is not telling the truth and he would have withdrawn his nomination to the USA Supreme Court. Now Mr. Kavanaugh's supporters are trying to pretend that Brett Kavanaugh did not lie under oath to the USA Senators. This claim is ridiculous and incorrect. Let's look at the exact words of the oath Mr. Kavanaugh took: Oath: Do you solemnly (swear/affirm) that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, (so help you God/under pains and penalties of perjury)? Did Brett Kavanaugh tell the truth? Answer: No Did he tell the whole truth? Answer: No, absolutely not. This is not even debatable based on all the evidence presented below. Nothing but the the truth? Answer: No, Brett Kavanaugh did not. Some of the proof Brett Kavanaugh lied is in the following articles below.
The more I investigate Brett Kavanaugh's testimony, I keep uncovering more lies from Mr. Kavanaugh. For example he lied about what "devils triangle" means. Please remember he had this term on his calendar and claimed under oath that it is a drinking game.
Devils Triangle definition found on the Internet is below: A sex threesome with 1 woman and 2 men. It is important to remember that straight men do not make eye contact during the sex act with the women. Doing so will question their sexuality.
Larry: Did you hear that Eric and Brian were in a Devils Triangle with Sarah last night? Brad: Yeah man, I did, what homo's. Larry: No man, its cool, they didn't make eye contact.
So this helps to prove Dr. Fords sexual assault allegations.
Also Brett Kavanaugh stated that the legal drinking age in Maryland was 18, that is a lie the legal drinking age is 21.
Maryland's minimum legal drinking age for beer and wine was changed to 21 from 18 in July 1982, during the summer before Kavanaugh's senior year. It was already 21 for hard liquor. Therefore, any drinking that Kavanaugh did in the state of Maryland during high school was illegal.
Kavanaugh incorrectly suggests legal for him to drink in high school ...
There are many more lies and this clearly proves Mr. Kavanaugh should be charged with felony perjury. The part that really makes me angry at Brett Kavanaugh is that he thinks he is smarter than everyone else and can get away with these terrible lies.
Also the Senators should have been able to do a much better job of detecting Mr. Kavanaugh's lies like I have. This makes Senator Lindsey Graham and other Senators look like complete idiots and extremely incompetent. If possible these dumb-ass Republican Senators would have confirmed a man that should be in jail for lying under oath. They still might, this is why I have little respect for the USA Senators. Also Brett Kavanaugh should be impeached and removed from his current job.
The Democrats also play their political games and I have a very low regard for them also.
"Chad" Ludington, who now teaches at North Carolina State University, said he was a friend of Kavanaugh's at Yale and that Kavanaugh was "a frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker." "On many occasions I heard Brett slur his words and saw him staggering from alcohol consumption, not all of which was beer. When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent and aggressive," Ludington said. While saying that youthful drinking should not condemn a person for life, Ludington said he was concerned about Kavanaugh's statements under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I have direct and repeated knowledge about his drinking and his disposition while drunk. And I do believe that Brett's actions as a 53-year-old federal judge matter, If he lied about his past actions on national television, and more especially while speaking under oath in front of the United States Senate, I believe those lies should have consequences. It is truth that is at stake, and I believe that the ability to speak the truth, even when it does not reflect well upon oneself, is a paramount quality we seek in our nation's most powerful judges."
Yes some of Mr. Kavanaugh's old friends might say the above is not correct, the truth is some of Brett Kavanaugh's supportive male friends took part in his drunken misdeeds and may have wanted to be in a "Devil's Triangle" with him. Which probably is the case with Mark Judge and Chris Dudley. There is evidence supporting this idea. Also these guys better be careful if they plan on lying to the FBI, that is a serious crime with jail time.
Please forward this article and link to the Google employee's video exposing the facts about what Google is really doing. E.g. how Google is trying to control people's thoughts by inappropriately censoring content and unfairly manipulating Google search results. Is this the USA or North Korea? FTC and Department of Justice, please wake up and protect the American people from evil Google. People talk about Russia trying to influence our elections, the real danger is coming from Google. We need to stop and expose the "blacklists" of people that Google is unfairly censoring.
Google will unfairly censor this article and many other articles that challenge Google's integrity. I have been following this Project Veritas Google investigation and all citizens of the USA need to know the facts. So far two senior Google software engineers have made very disturbing videos about what is really going on inside of Google. Please watch the Google ex-software engineer's video below. Why is the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission not making an investigation of Google? Google is lying to Congress and the American people.
In the video of the Google senior software engineer (please see the next article below), it shows a real Google "blacklist". Google has stated under oath that these "blacklists" do not exist. Please see the graphic below. I am not an attorney, however I think that we need new laws and regulations to prevent Google from creating these evil blacklists. Google needs to be regulated and punished for creating blacklists.
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Also if you ask people, most will explain that they skip the paid Internet ads and look at the top organic listing. This if true for both Google and Bing searches. On average, 82 percent of people searching skip the paid ads and look at the #1 natural listing. So why do businesses spend a much higher dollar amount on paid search and not on organic SEO efforts?
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