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For anyone who owns a website and wants to improve its rankings, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a common area of interest. While proper optimization requires a complex and multi-faceted strategy, there are simpler ways to get started with it. Essentially, it’s a matter of learning the best ways to build back-links to your website.

One of the simplest and most practical habits you can get into as you get started with link building is commenting at other blogs you read with a link back to your website. While this technique is extremely simple and potentially quite advantageous, there are some precautions you should be mindful of to ensure you do not fail at it.

Common errors of blog commenting for links

1) Failing to read the article. It may sound like a strange course of action, but when people set out to build links via blog comments… sometimes they will get so caught up in their task, they will actually forget the single most important thing they need to do in such a situation: reading the article they’re commenting on. If you make this basic mistake, there’s a really good chance your comments won’t be approved and your efforts will be pointless.

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Link development is one of many important parts to increase blog visibility in internet world. Link development is term for our way to get real quality back link for site. The quality back link will boost our blog rank as well as get quality traffic in internet. In my opinion, the real quality back link is one way link that comes from high rank site in our blog related niche. High rank is term for high quality and traffic (popular) site. But, it is really difficult to have this real quality back link if our blog is still new with no so many quality contents yet. It is even almost impossible that there are some quality site wants to provide the real quality back-link for your new blog except if you are a very famous person or pay for it. Here i share how new blog can build their link:

Exchange Link

Okay, as new blogger we do not need to be afraid. We still can boost our new blog rank with many not so ideal ways. Our new blog still can get some rank boost by do link exchange with another blog in our blog related niche. Yes, the link exchange is not as ideal as one way back link but it is still worthy to increase our blog rank. I suggest that we do link exchange base on quality over then quantity. Base on quality mean that we focus do link exchange with good rank site in our blog niche.

I really do not suggest to link exchange with high rank unrelated niche site even if it still may help increase our blog rank. It is because too much unrelated niche outbound link will damage our blog rank in long term. So, in my opinion, it is worthy to focus do exchange link in our blog niche even the site not so high rank than try to do exchange link with high rank site which not in our blog niche. Please note that we must not do too many link exchanges in first time. It is to keep outbound link from our blog low. I suggest that we keep the outbound link as low as possible before our blog have many good quality contents. Read the rest of this entry »