Organic SEO may increase your site's ranking surprisingly high. Yes - article writing and blogging, these two Organic SEO yields the better result than an average skilled SEO analyst can do. Frankly speaking many of article directories has higher pagerank, even 7/8/9. Why not submitting some unique articles and to submit them there? Again the benefit is that webmasters from your niche - if they find the articles to be really useful, they might add them to their site for better content by putting a link back to you. And who doesn't know that more relevant and quality link back - more page rank!
Forum posting might be another good way. Post in forums and use your domain name as signature. Thus you get some traffic. Again more traffic and more Alexa Rank. Here I should mention a thing which I learnt from my parents in my childhood days that "Be humble. Be humble and sobre throughout your life - in all fields. These world is not a place to manifest your knowledge. So don't be haughty. Rather learn from other people." I remember their words. I have seen many guys who post articles or try blogging and show their excellence. This is insulting others. Your writing will automatically be counted if you have the knowledge. If people think that your article is good enough then they will start to expect that there must be more good articles found in your site. They will go to your site. Otherwise you will be ignored.
Take care of the fact that your mata-tags are not heavily keyword loaded. Writing 30 - 40 keywords in meta-tags and gaining attention of search engines - is no more. If your content doesn't reflect the relevance, you might be penalized. So be careful. If we keep it in our mind that our content is basically keywords or keyphrases, we will be benefitted. We have write things in detail, emphasising what we want to focus.
Though there are many link building methods, but I personally think that artcile writing, blogging and forum posting are top of all. Now it is known by everybody that we should not submit our site to any link exchange system. There is always a big chance of being penalized.
Again it not good to get 400 links in a month and 25 links in the second month. Though there is no definite guidelines for SEO analysts defined by Google, Yahoo or MSN - but such output may seem to be making them fool. You can't be a monarch making them fool. And who doesn't know that slow and steady wins the race?
Rather start to surf sites, try to search good sites having better pagerank and those sites should be from your niche or closely related. Link back from a garments related site to webmaster resource site can't be proved as useful. Never put any outbound link to a bad neighborhood site. If any site tries to boost up their search engine ranking by any illegal methods, making engines fool, using cloaking, having duplicated content instead of no original content, having hidden text and links and doorway pages, Search Engines may penalize such sites and stop to index them.
Again be aware. If the owner or webmaster of any site written in foregin language sends you a mail requesting that he/she wants to swap link with you, don't get agree. First you should check whats are the contents of. Ask directly what is the language. After you get a reply from his/her, you start converting the content of his site into your language. You can use Bablefish Translation System which you can get visiting the homepage of Atlavista and if the content is similar from your niche then next check whether the site is being indexed of Search Engines or not. You can check whether it is being indexed by Google or not - just simply typing site:www.thesite.com into the query box of search engines. If no result comes out, then be sure the site is black listed. It seems to be a bad neighborhood. Don't respond to him. Don't link back to him.
Here I should highlight an important thing which I faced few months back. One of my clients came to me in a sunny morning and said that someone who's site was blacklisted has linked my client's site so that his site also get black listed. I assured him that there is no chance. I told him that it is not his responsibility who is linking back to him. If he doesn't put a link back to any black listed site - there is no chance of penalty.
Actually there is no way for you to be known of all black listed sites. Just use the above method described i.e. typing site:www.thesite.com into the query box of search engines. If you have outbound links to many different sites, such checks might take a lot of time. Visit
http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/ - it provides a tool that reports links to and from suspicious sites and sites that are missing in Google's index. Just keep it in mind that the sites which are involved in promoting hates, communalism or involved in link exchange system, spam, spread viruses, contains pornography get black listed. So beware of such sites.
In the first part of this article : Definite Guide To Search Engine Optimization - Part I, I mentioned that you yield better better pagerank when your domain is considered to be adult enough i.e. old. It is a fact that the maturity of a domain is really important. Again if it is financially possible then register your domain for 4-5 years. It will be obvious that you have not entered the world with the aim of a vagabond. You have come to do something. Search Engines will take you in consideration.
I end this article saying "It is good SEOing your site - but over SEOing may kill you."
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