I just thought I'd pass on a few words to everyone on what we spoke about and that is, don't put all your eggs in one basket. As in, all your backlinks coming from one source, as in one forum. You have to be everywhere on the web. If you put all your eggs in one basket and that place folds or your links get removed, your screwed. It's just like investing, It's better to have a mutual fund and be diversified then dumping all your money into one single stock.
I just thought I'd pass on a few words to everyone on what we spoke about and that is, don't put all your eggs in one basket. As in, all your backlinks coming from one source, as in one forum. You have to be everywhere on the web. If you put all your eggs in one basket and that place folds or your links get removed, your screwed. It's just like investing, It's better to have a mutual fund and be diversified then dumping all your money into one single stock.
I agree, and that is why I have always advised people to post on The Grime Scene, Cleaning Talk, PT State, UAMCC, PWI, and Smallbusinessbriefs Forum, and some others.
You will see me, from time to time, at other places, but I do spend most of my time here at RCIA.
Here is why. This is a page rank 3 forum, and also Google's highest ranked site for roof cleaning.
The NEW RCIA Forum is also page rank 3, thanks to all the work of the Uglies, who used my URL, then gave it back to us for the new forum.
I am always looking for links for my many websites. I always look for high page rank for my links, as well as relevance!
I learned from the master. This is why I've got about 8-10 different forms of advertising going on online always. Last week my main web site went down for about 4-5 days. Couldn't even find it on searches. Got it fixed now and its already back on 1 st pages of searches. Long story short, all my other forms of marketing took over and at least I still had web presence while my main one was being taken care of... Oh, which master am I referring too???? Chris Tucker!!!
I learned from the master. This is why I've got about 8-10 different forms of advertising going on online always. Last week my main web site went down for about 4-5 days. Couldn't even find it on searches. Got it fixed now and its already back on 1 st pages of searches. Long story short, all my other forms of marketing took over and at least I still had web presence while my main one was being taken care of... Oh, which master am I referring too???? Chris Tucker!!!
LOL Larry, it remends me of an old 1967 Buick Electra 225 I used to own! It had the big Buick 455 V8 in it. It was running on only 6 cylinders for nearly a year, and I never even knew, until I replaced all the plugs and wires!
It had so much power, I never missed a lick! Same with websites. My main website went down nearly 3 weeks last year. It took some RCIA Brothers to tell me! I have so much repeat business, and so many other web sites/blogs, that I barely noticed.
You have learned well my good friend! I liked you the minute I met you, and knew we were going to be very close friends one day
I realized that if I did not "step in" back when I did, and lend a helping hand, I might have lost a cleaning buddy ?
I am proud of you Larry, and what you have been able to accomplish!
Thanks buddy! Its true. You have taught me a lot over the years. As far as finding out my web site was down? Same thing happened. A fellow PWer called to tell me. I didn't even know! Haha! She's back up and running now and actually a little juiced. Only to of 2 days to get it back on the first page.
Forum backlinks are fine but again, don't focus on just forum links (eggs in one basket). You need to be everywhere like:
Blog links ... Article marketing ... Web directories ... Social bookmarking and networking sites ...
And don't forget to have a few quality "outbound" links.
Absolutely! One reason, IMHO, roof cleaning websites should link to other highly ranked roof cleaning websites.
If you want to be seen as an authority site, then do what an authority site does. Become an information source for your readers, in the eyes of Google.
You can best do this by outbound linking to IMPORTANT (page rank 3 and above) roof cleaning related pages.