Tag: You’re It - Free Link From My Site To Yours

I received a comment today tagging me for one of the “cyber tag” games going around. The rules appear to be link back to the blog who tagged you and pick three more blogs to tag.

The comment claims that by linking to others’ websites, it improve everyone’s “PR rankings.” Honestly, that’s probably not the case (and PR doesn’t mean all that much in search engine optimization) unless:

1. you pick high traffic websites
2. that are relevant to your topic of interest
3. and get them to link back to you
4. using keywords you’d like to be found under for search engines

So, for example, a prominent real estate site would link to mine like real estate marketing tips. Or, I could link to Pittsburgh Real Estate Blog with a deep link (meaning to one of the internal pages, not the home page) would be 750 real estate blogs, since they were nice enough to include a link to this blog.

(For an incredibly detailed report of what factors on your website matter when it comes to search engine optimization, check out SEOMoz’s Search Engine Ranking Factors or their less advanced Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization.)

Anyway, since I generally don’t participate in these internet linking games (because they remind me too much of those annoying email forwards of the late 90s that claim if you forward on the email Microsoft will pay you $200 or money will be donated to some poor child’s cancer fund - which were all hoaxes, of course), I’m going to ask for volunteers.

If you’d like to be tagged and would like a link from my site to yours, comment below with your site URL and the 3-5 keywords you’d like in your link. I’ll take the first three commenters (though I reserve the right to pass over you if your link looks like spam - ie a page/keywords on viagra, ringtones, porn, and the like.) You can then continue the game, or not. It’s your call.

Tag: Real Estate Remix: Real estate branding