[Digit]

Hi folks,

I am fixing and re-designing my website and I am putting the SEO into place. I think I have done the On Page SEO procedures correctly but now I am going through my site and finding keywords to use as external links. My question is for example, say if I use the words "internet marketing" can I legally link that to wiki or elsewhere without getting permission?
I'm not really to sure about the laws regarding this I did a bit of a search but could not find much on the subject so thought this would be a good place to ask.

Cheers,

Glenn

[Jason Dexter]

You mean linking to or from a wiki?

Linking to a wiki won't have any benefit and will be a pointless.

Linking from a wikipedia page, it won't last long on there.

I think what you're getting at is backlinking and is a bit of a grey area sometimes. Spamming the **** out of blogs with wank comments like "bookmarked your page blah blah" won't get you anywhere.

Best suggestion is comment on blogs, but be part of the discussion, make it useful and interesting.

Look into linkbaiting as well

[roothost]

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My question is for example, say if I use the words "internet marketing" can I legally link that to wiki or elsewhere without getting permission?

Not entirely sure why you would want to do that? Would have absolutely no value to your site whatsoever. In fact, quite the opposite as you are linking people away from your own website. I'm not saying don't ever include external links, just make sure they are relevant, required and of use to the reader.

If you are trying to boost your sites rankings then getting other sites to link to your site is what you need to be aiming for. Not just any old site, sites that are in the same market area, same niche as yours is. Most blogs and forums are nofollow links these days so no point in spamming hundreds and hundres as that won't have any benefit.

Get people to link naturally. Write your own blogs, join communities in your niche, tweet as much as possible - without spamming.

[Digit]

Thanks for the feedback much appreciated. I definitely don't want to or mean smamming I read on some blogs about SEO that having out-going links helps with Google rankings the the same way that keywords within your title tags work. The crawlers like <title> <h1><h2> and keywords within links, images, text and meta description. Not sure perhaps I misinterpreted what I read but why do so many sites bother having external links page? Sounds like I should not bother doing that then but instead concentrate on the incoming links.
Cheers

[Gaelen]

outgoing links wont help you much with google

however... they do have a great SEO guide
http://www.google.co...py?answer=35291

[roothost]

Digit, on 12 October 2011 - 11:05 PM, said:

Thanks for the feedback much appreciated. I definitely don't want to or mean smamming I read on some blogs about SEO that having out-going links helps with Google rankings the the same way that keywords within your title tags work. The crawlers like <title> <h1><h2> and keywords within links, images, text and meta description. Not sure perhaps I misinterpreted what I read but why do so many sites bother having external links page? Sounds like I should not bother doing that then but instead concentrate on the incoming links.
Cheers

Example?

[rallport]

Digit, on 12 October 2011 - 11:05 PM, said:

Thanks for the feedback much appreciated. I definitely don't want to or mean smamming I read on some blogs about SEO that having out-going links helps with Google rankings the the same way that keywords within your title tags work. The crawlers like <title> <h1><h2> and keywords within links, images, text and meta description. Not sure perhaps I misinterpreted what I read but why do so many sites bother having external links page? Sounds like I should not bother doing that then but instead concentrate on the incoming links.
Cheers

Granted an outgoing link won't help directly with SEO in Google (it does in Bing though). However, outgoing links do help make your link profile look much more natural than a site with only incoming links.

You're also helping your users.

Additionally, whichever way you look at things, Google will ALWAYS want to provide the best content to it's users. If they aren't providing the best content then they have failed. Sites that share links to other sites are useful to users - extreme example - wikipedia - tons of externals links at the bottom of every page.

I'd honestly be worrying more about making your site useful as a whole to users. If an external link is required, add one. It's more natural and helps users.

[Digit]

Thanks again for the feedback...