Posts Tagged ‘Link’

Types of Blog Spam

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

1. Basic comment spam. The spammer leaves a short uneventful message in a comment field in one of your entries. The spam comes from the URL placed in the comments URL field. These URLs link back to every conceivable scam.
2. Comment spam flooding. The spammer uses an automated computer bot to flood your blog with comment spam messages, up to hundreds in an hour. The spammer doesn’t necessarily leave a URL, but can leave garbage messages, almost like a graffiti artist. The comment spam can put a severe load on the server hosting your blog software to the point that it crashes.
3. Trackback Spam. Spammers have discovered how to take advantage of Trackback. TrackBack spam is very similar to comment spam. The spammer sends TrackBack pings to your site that direct viewers to a totally unrelated URL.
4. Referral spam. The spammer links to your site from their site, and then pings your site through their link, thus creating a reference and link to their site on the statistics referral log of your website. When you are reviewing your stats and see the reference to an odd site (ex. Paris Hilton), clicking on the link takes you to their site. Many people list “referrals” on their site publicly, so by spamming referral logs, not only does the spammer get a link on your referral log (which is picked up by Google) but may even get a link on your main page.

Getting link exchanges right

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

To engage in a successful link exchange request campaign, it’s really not rocket science - just an observation of common courtesy and a recognition of the WIIFM (What’s In It For Me) motivators in regards to the people you are approaching.

For tips and suggestions on how you should approach other webmasters with a reciprocal link offer, read our guide to Internet Marketing etiquette.

Link Exchange Tips

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

1. Exchange links with websites that will bring you targeted traffic. Targeted traffic means visitors and/or customers that will be interested in your products or services.

2. Keep your link title brief and free of long sentences.

3. Try to keep your link description brief (aim for 200 characters or less).

4. Do not capitalize all letters in your link title or description.

5. Do not give the webmaster a deadline on when they should reciprocate. Webmasters are very busy people and it may take from 1 to 60 days or more. Be patient and in the long run you will receive more quality link partners!

6. Never remove a link partner from your site once they have agreed to exchange links with you and placed your link on their site.

What is a Link Farm?

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

A linkfarm is any type of website in which there is no real content, service, or purpose, but rather just a load of non-related reciprical links to other places. Generally linkfarms are built to increase search engine rankings and turn a profit, which means they’re also generally littered with advertisements from affiliate programs the site owner has partnered with.

Linkfarms are not to be confused with Linkdumps, which are simply places people dump all kinds of links to content on various websites.

Open a Web Page Link in a New Window

Monday, July 14th, 2008

When linking to a web address that isn’t a part of your web site, open the web site in a new window. Your web site will remain open in the original window and prevent you from completely losing your visitors.

To open a web page in a new window, add the following code to your link.

<A HREF=”http://www.yourdomain.com/” TARGET=”_blank”>Your Link</a>

Creating a Web Page Download Link

Monday, July 14th, 2008

If you have a file you would like to enable your visitors to download, most web servers will allow you to link directly to a download file.

<A HREF=”http://yourdomain.com/file.exe”>File</A>

If you have access to ftp, you can create a download link like this:

<A HREF=”ftp.yourdomain.com/file.zip”>File</A>

If you don’t have access to ftp, you can create a download link like this:

<A HREF=”http://yourdomain.com/file.zip”>File</A>

Instruct your visitors to hold the “shift” key down while they click on the download link.

Changing an HTML Web Page Link Color

Monday, July 14th, 2008

You can change the color of an individual HTML web page link by adding a font tag in front of your linked text.

Example Code:

<A HREF=”http://www.blog.tryangled.com”><FONT COLOR=”#FF0000″>Your Link</FONT></A>

Removing an HTML Web Page Link Underline

Monday, July 14th, 2008

You can remove the underline of an individual HTML web page link, also known as a hyperlink, by adding the STYLE tag to your link HTML.

Example Code:

<A HREF=”http://www.yourdomain.com” STYLE=”TEXT-DECORATION: NONE”>Your Link</A>

seo:Link Campaigns

Monday, June 30th, 2008

A link campaign is another way to increase your site ranking. One of the things a that a search engine calculates is how many sites in their database are linked to the site that is being optimized. Keep in mind that even though the quantity of sites linked to the site being optimized is important, the quality is probably more important.

If the sites that are linked to the site being optimized are banned by search engines or have negative content, they can actually harm your ranking severely. A good rule of thumb is to avoid controvesial sites such as adult links, gambling, and prescription drugs (unless your site is related), and or sites that are notorious for spamming.

When deciding whether or not to trade links with a particular site, try to find sites that have information relevant to yours. Considerably less “weight” in relevance is given to inbound links from sites that are not related to your site. So, in short, links from quality sites are a must.

Finding quality sites is tedious and risky. Everything from finding high PR sites to getting spam complaints makes this an error-prone task. But, it is necessary, so we scavenged the Internet for the solution.

PHP:PHP referrer ( referer ) - Tracking/Loging/Checking link popularity

Monday, June 30th, 2008

<?php
$referrer = @$_SERVER["REFERER"];
// another try to catch the referrer
if ( empty( $referrer ) && !empty( $HTTP_REFERER ) )
{
$referrer = $HTTP_REFERER;
}
echo “The referrer is <b>$referrer</b>”;
?>