Comments on: Higher Rankings in Google: The Basics http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/higher-rankings-in-google-the-basics/ Intelligent Internet Marketing Wed, 22 May 2013 23:08:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Julie Hodges http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/higher-rankings-in-google-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-2422 Julie Hodges Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:39:01 +0000 http://www.verticalmeasures.com/?p=3477#comment-2422 For those who are new to SEO heres what Google have to say, backlinks, backlinks, backlinks thats the way to go.

]]> By: Julie Hodges http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/higher-rankings-in-google-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-7015 Julie Hodges Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:39:00 +0000 http://www.verticalmeasures.com/?p=3477#comment-7015 For those who are new to SEO heres what Google have to say, backlinks, backlinks, backlinks thats the way to go.

]]> By: gino http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/higher-rankings-in-google-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-2406 gino Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:09:42 +0000 http://www.verticalmeasures.com/?p=3477#comment-2406 link building for me is the best SEO job.. but sooo boring

]]> By: gino http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/higher-rankings-in-google-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-7014 gino Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:09:00 +0000 http://www.verticalmeasures.com/?p=3477#comment-7014 link building for me is the best SEO job.. but sooo boring

]]> By: John http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/higher-rankings-in-google-the-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-2393 John Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:26:53 +0000 http://www.verticalmeasures.com/?p=3477#comment-2393 Links, links, links…. I know Matt doesn’t like to emphasize it because it leads some people to spammy behavior, but the fact is that Google still rewards sites with an overwhelming number of links.

I recently fell off the front page for a profitable keyword phrase, and the sites that replaced me are using a ridiculous number of paid links, article directories, and other ‘self-generated’ links.

A year ago I would have said that good content + social bookmarking was the best way to get natural links, but these sites are increasingly rigged and discounting all but the most popular submissions.

So really, I don’t know. New content seems to help, so I keep adding it on the domain and off-domain as well.

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