Comments on: How To Really Execute White Hat SEO

By: billy

billy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:26:47 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:14:00 +0000

Court,

I’m curious. Do you think article marketing through a service like article marketer is a good tactic to gain backlinks? Or is this gray hat?

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:51:53 +0000

Thanks Court,
It is really great to have someone in the know to ask these questions of.
Why do Bloggers care whether the comments on their blogs are no follow or not? Does it take some of the blog’s juice away to allow the comment links to be followed?
As you can see I don’t know much about SEO but I am learning all I can. It’s a life time endeavor I think
Again, thanks for any info you can offer.

By: Court

Court — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:13:38 +0000

Andy to tell if a blog has nofollow on their comment links (as mine does), you can install the SEO for Firefox extension for Firefox. If you have it installed, nofollowed links show up bright red!

I personally Andy would probably build all of the sites up at the same time.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:59:36 +0000

Thanks for the clarification court. I too was wondering about the links from social sites. It doesn’t seem like Google would let that go on for long. It seems like the only answer, which would be way gray, would be to post under and alias about your own sites.
If someone has a couple of sites, would it be a good idea to focus on getting one up to a PR4 or 5 for the link value back to your other sites or would you just try to build all of them at the same time?
I just found your blog the other day and already I have learned a lot. Thank you for all the information.
Also, how do you tell if a blog is no follow and if it isn’t no follow do you have to put your anchor text in the post or will Google get it out of the URL box like above?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:25:05 +0000

Hey Detox when you say that some of your sites have been dinged for social bookmarks what exactly are you meaning by dinged?

By: Court

Court — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:19:03 +0000

Social bookmarking should be a tool to get legit links from other sites. If you’re using them to get links from the bookmarking sites themselves, it’s definitely a gray tactic. A true white hat wouldn’t be submitting to social sites at all – other people would be doing it for him.

By: DetoxCleansing.org

DetoxCleansing.org — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:39:02 +0000

I think Google is starting to look at social bookmarks as more gray than white. I has a number of sites that have been dinged and 50% of the reason is social bookmarks which are similar to the content that is on my site.

By: Court

Court — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:51:37 +0000

Hey Matt! That’s a great question. While they have less PR than you, they can still help you quite a bit. The key here is to get links from more of these sites than everyone else.

You shouldn’t trade links if you can get them without a trade, but if you have to trade I would go ahead and do it. I’m usually pretty stingy with my blogroll links but I’m pretty liberal with single links from within posts.

You’re right that you’ll give them a boost but if you have the better site you will win in the long run and their link will help you to get there.

By: matt2257

matt2257 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:22:35 +0000

Hi Court,

Quick question, if you have a site that you are working to build, and it has a pr3, and alot of the C-listers in that niche have lower pr sites, do you still exchange links?

You give them a boost, but will the link building from all the different related sites end up boosting you in the long run?

Is that part of the cost of working your way up?

Thanks

Matt