Some SEO Internet Marketing questions...?

[Honeybee]

Hello All.

Hope some of you will be able to give me some straight answers for these questions. I've done my own little 'crash course' into SEO and Internet Marketing this week. I'm confident (ish) on most areas, but have stumbled on some questions which I need to clarify. (Sorry if some of these sound stupid) but here goes :

1.) Do Follow and No Follow Links. I know how to see if a website is 'Do follow' or 'No follow' but when gaining backlinks, do I always have to type in either the 'do follow' or 'no follow' code? I know I should do this for commenting and my own blog, and for other blog comments, but what about article directories, guest blogging, directories etc?

2.) I understand that in theory, posting on 'do follow' Auto approved blogs isn't good because it will probably be hit by scam. However, it I wrote some quality comments related to the niche and added a backlink to my own blog instead of my main page, would this be ok?


3.) How do I make my own personal blog, non- auto approved and no follow? Is it by installing the plugin Akismet?

4.) I'm currently having a website built, and I'm currently looking at Plugin's for my WordPress blog. . My web designer hasn't mentioned if he is going to install any Social Media plugin's.for my blog. However on the blog page, he has included most of the social media links at the top. Do I still need to install a social media plugin, or can it be done manually without a special plugin(I'm abit worried as my designer doesn't seem to know much about these plugin's but has added these links for me anyway??

I appreciate your thoughts and comments.
Thanks for your responses. Jake - I meant when you submit a comment on a blog, you tell Google which one is it, either do follow or no follow. I was wondering if you do this for every single backlink you make. Thanks

[Hamza]

Don't worry about do follow and no follow, what you want is traffic coming to your website so if the website you are commenting on looks like it could attract the right traffic then add a comment with your link, if your going to add a comment for the sake of gaining a link dont bother it's probably a spam associated blog that no-one reads and link building softwares will attack (auto approved blogs) thus you will not get any traffic from there and be linked with a bad neighbourhood.

Try not to look at it from a 'no follow or do follow' point of view instead think 'will this bring any traffic to my website' 'does this blog look like anyone actually read's it and if so what kind of comment could I leave to get those people to come onto my website'.

Hope I helped clear up points 1 and 2 and if anyone else can add to it or correct me please do.

[Jake]

A general SEO rule, the easier a link is to get, the less value it will tend to have, those auto approve blogs get over-run by spam bots, so tour comment ends up sharing link juice with perhaps 500 other links. Spam is probably as big an issue as the fact that the seo benifit is devided amoung the links, diluting it on pages with lots of coments.
Wordpress by default gives noFollow comment links, choosing the moderate setting makes comments on your site not auto approve, Akismet is one of the better spam filters that reduces the number of posts you must review.
I would use social media plugins for just a couple of sites, dozens of badges tends to get less bookmarks.

I don't understand where you would: "type in either the 'do follow' or 'no follow' code"
While noFollow provide limited ranking benifit, you need a fair percentage of them in order to avoid an unnatural link pattern, some say noFollow still helps the site authority a bit.

Here's a backlink searching tool that helps create search queries that get the most useful results.
http://dropmylink.com/

[Johan]

I highly recommend using LinkBucks. Cheap intermissions or pop-unders and good conversion.

See:http://goo.gl/AxqIz

[D]

It's important to have a mix of do-follow and no-follow links to your site. And just because a blog is auto-approve doesn't make the links worthless. I found this great tool called DoFellow, check it out. It searches the web and brings back relevant high pr blogs to add your link to. It also brings back very fresh blogs so that when you answer and leave a comment yours is at the top which is also important. For the WP plugins, there is a free one called JetPack that is very good. It gives you all the buttons for social media and it also connects to WordPress and twitter and Yahoo so when you post they are notified of your new additions. Good luck!

[Labony]

SEO is one of the most effective way to get your web site optimized in such a way that the search engines will reward you by basically sending traffic your way. The following tasks is good for SEO.

Social Bokmarking
Blog Comment
Forum Postings
Search Engine Submission
Directory Submission
Link Building
Video Promotions
Business Reviews
Article Submission
Press Release
Classifieds Submission

[Suraj]

1. if you found do follow and no follow links that you install search status bar in your browser. when it is installed than you show right side add sidebar in sky blue color click right and selected to no follow high-lite back link that where your found no follow link color made be change.


2.yes it is good but first your comment website than you have time than doing blog ..


3. i think this plugin fine.and Auto on your blog cammneting


4. you choose add plus it is easy to install any website, blog. jhoomla. WordPress site and all reputed social media add there.

[Andrei]

1. The best way to check out if the site you are on does do/no follow backlinks is by right clicking on a blank area of the page and click on "View Page Source" (may differ a bit from browser to browser - I am on Google Chrome). Press the "ctrl" key and then "f" to pull up the find box. after which type in "nofollow". If the links going out to others websites are no follow links it will show.

2.) This isn't something I would recommend. Have you considered doing guest blogging?


3.) Akismet is a plugin that allows you to filter spammy comments (much like the ones you're wanting to do in question #2). If your site is built on a WordPress platform, simply create a page and name it blog, then associate that page as your blog page in your admin options. You can find more directions on this by searching Google. (or you can message me and I might be able to help)

4.) It's hard to tell without seeing your website. Plugins are great and we have a series that we recommend. In terms of sharing your site socially, I really like the plugin ShareThis (all one word).

Good luck, SEO is fun just make sure it's done the right way. Black hat never lasts long. If you need anymore info, you can visit me at kayzoe.com!