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Get Authority Links For Your Internet Home Business


Do you think you can succeed in your Legitimate Home Internet Business without ever learning SEO specifically link building?

You probably know by now that one of the most effective ways to improve your site’s ranking is by building and increasing quality backlinks into your work at home business site. Many people still struggle with this process, especially if you are a new internet marketer. Even for the more experienced marketer new to SEO, it can be quite a daunting task learning the complexities of what sites you should be targeting and grappling with things like if too many outbound links can hurt you and your legitimate home internet business. They may also have not fully understood that both authority and relevance go hand in hand in good search engine optimization too.

Many SEO consultants firmly believed that backlinks account for about 80% of a page’s placement in the search engines, with the other 20% coming from your website format and other onsite optimization work. So clearly, if you want a particular page to get higher traffic when people type any of your internet home business keywords into Google and other search engines, you really need backlinks, lots of them.

Today we are faced with so many link opportunities it can be quite daunting, and it always raises the question: “Where do I begin?”. But what links matter, and what links don’t?. How does one find a “good” link from such a massive number of potential link sources to search from?. I figured it will be too much to discuss every aspect of these link sources in one post, so I will focus only on [tag-tec]Authority Sites[/tag-tec] in this post.

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What’s An Authority Site

Essentially, an authority site is one that has a large number of inbound links from other well-linked sites. These sites have been in business for some time and usually have high page ranks accorded to them. The quality of its inbound link structure determines its authority and upon linking to other sites, passes on its votes and popularity as well to them. Simply put, obtaining links from [tag-tec]authority sites[/tag-tec] is vitally important to you if you wish to improve your search engine ranking. Linking to an authority site also helps you maintain and improve your general online creditability.

Technorati

When looking for authority sites, Technorati comes up a top favorite for me. Due to its massive traffic and established reputation it has, Technorati offers you the most updated and most relevant results in its search functions. You can use its advanced option, type in your work at home business keywords in the ‘Blog Directory Search’ box and just put ‘high authority’ as sort option. This gives you quite an awesome list of blogs with very high authority and other information like the number of inbound links to each of the related tags. You can then select the relevant sites which have the most inbound links to include in your link building work.

Wikipedia

Since 2001 when it first existed, Wikipedia has been getting lots of attention and because of its high rankings, it may benefit your link building journey to search here for authority links. Check out the External Links list found at the bottom of most pages for the list of sites they recommend.

.edu and .gov Websites

With only a little effort required I’ve found an easy way to search these sites by using Google search which shows you the blogs you are looking for:

Search for .edu domains with a blog relative to your website’s keywords:

site:.edu inurl:blog “your keyword(s)”

Search for .gov domains with a blog relative to your website keywords:

site:.gov inurl:blog “your keyword(s)”

Enter your relative keywords where the phrase keyword “your keyword(s)” appears and you will get numerous blogs listed with those .edu extensions. Similarly, if you substitute .gov for the .edu and you will find the sites with .gov extensions.

Still Not Convinced About .edu and .gov Are Quality Links?

Read What Matt Cutts Has To Say Here

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The pyramid on this page shows one simple method you can visualize and think about link building as steps from easiest and lowest cost, to the most difficult and highest cost.

Start focusing on the authority sites first remembering the premise that getting 100 high quality links is far better than getting 1000 weaker links. As the pyramid shows, the bulk of links the average marketer gets come from link sources which are of less value but easier to obtain. Therefore by focusing on getting these high authority links will go a long way in building a strong link building foundation for your legitimate home internet business.

What do you think?

Do you still think that link building and getting authority links is not important. Were you able to see some benefits after getting a few of these high authority links for internet home business? Share your recent success with us. We really like to hear from you.


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62 Responses to “Get Authority Links For Your Internet Home Business”

  1. Alan Thomas Says:

    Hi Peter,

    Wow, there is some really good stuff in this post.

    Thanks.

    Alan
    Simple Work From Home Opportunity

    Reply

  2. admin Says:

    Hi Alan,

    Thanks for your comment. Glad you liked it. I got a few .edu links with very high PR. Some work involved to find the most relevant and high PR but really worth the effort.

    Peter
    Work At Home Ideas

    Reply

  3. How to Start an Internet Business Says:

    Peter,

    This post has a lot of great information, Thanks a lot and keep up the great work!

    Link building is by far the most important in my opinion!

    Thanks, Bill Shultz

    How to Start an Internet Business

    Reply

  4. Matt Helphrey Says:

    Hi Peter,

    Great information on authority links.

    I’ve been submitting to directories like crazy trying to get back links. The little extra effort it takes to find the high authority sites is well worth it.

    Best,
    Matt
    Home Based Business Opportunities

    Reply

  5. Malathy Badri Says:

    Hi,
    I liked what you wrote. I also thank you for visiting me blog through Blog catalog.
    I made a mention of your post.
    Read it here pl.
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    Cheers.

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  6. Internet Business Ideas Says:

    Peter,
    This a very good post, you wrote here, make you think a little on the quality of backlinks. Getting backlinks is so important and link to authority site is even more.

    Thanks for sharing

    Tanny
    Internet home business opportunities

    Reply

  7. admin Says:

    Hi Bill, Matt, Malathy, Tanny,

    Thanks for dropping by. I’m glad you liked it and hope that you were able to find some useful tips for your own link building campaigns.

    Peter Lee
    Internet Home Business

    Reply

  8. GT Bulmer Says:

    Hi, Peter:

    Great info! I am going to put some effort into researching authority sites to create valuable links, as you have recommended. Thanks for the tips and the inspiration!

    GT Bulmer
    http://www.StarrBizz.com

    Reply

  9. Lily Boynton Says:

    Great post, Peter, I’d never thought of edu. or gov sites when thinking about building links.
    Thanks for this great info!

    Lily

    Reply

  10. Graham Maddison Says:

    Hi Peter,

    This is just what the Doctor ordered! I am just about to embark on a link building exercise and reading your article has given me clear direction.

    Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    Graham

    Reply

  11. Kym Robinson Says:

    Well once again Peter – Great article.

    I have been popping in regularly over the last 2 weeks and learning as much as I can from your well written articles.

    Of course just reading them would not be helpful!

    I am writing to report that due to the knowledge that I have gained here at your blog, coupled with a new confidence to attack the strategies that I have found on your pages, My four week old website is ranked at…….wait for it……………..wait for it……………….# 75 out of 23,500,00 listings for my keywords!!!!!

    I am blown away! and I only see things getting better, the more action I take!

    Thankyou so much for your quality information – your site has become one of my top resources!
    # 75 out of 23 and a half million…………WOO-HOO!

    Best Wishes – Kym

    Reply

  12. admin Says:

    Kym,

    That’s wonderful. I congratulate you on this remarkable achievement. I’m so glad you were able to grasp what’s important enough to help your ranking so fast. Of course your newly SEO’d site by Suzanne helped too.Remember what you’ve learned. When it works you “wash, rinse and repeat” the process. You’re off to a flying start but remember to focus on what is the right thing to do for SEO. Do come back to visit this blog for more updates or simply to refresh what you’ve learned and update us on your SEO progress.

    Peter
    Work At Home Ideas

    Reply

  13. Mitch Says:

    I’m missing a piece, and if I’m missing it then someone else is probably missing it also but doesn’t want to ask. By getting authority links, are you saying to add links to these sites on your own site in some fashion, or to try to get these folks to link to you?

    Reply

  14. Peter Lee Says:

    Mitch,
    Inbound links i.e. links pointing to your site are more valuable. Even more so if they’re coming from an authority site like .edu, .gov although it’s pretty hard to find them. If I may compare to what some people refer to as controversial, link buying. People buy links from sites that are of high PR like PR6 onwards so these links pointing to you are supposedly excellent for your SEO.

    Peter

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  15. Mitch Says:

    Hi Peter. I do some SEO work myself, but the one thing I’ve not done all that well is link building. I pretty much knew you were going to answer my question that way, but the other side of the question is how you get those inbound links. For instance, are you writing these folks asking for those links, or looking for blogs and articles you can comment on so you can get those links, or something else? I guess that’s the true strategy question I’m asking; we all know those are important, but what are the best methods for getting them?

    Reply

  16. Peter Lee Says:

    Mitch,

    There are just too many ways I guess, but I focus more on blog commenting but you’ve nailed the right answer. You said “strategy”. I think it’s good to have a link building or blog commenting strategy. An example I can share with you is go to Google and look up the top 5-10 sites with your keyword you’re ranking. Check from Google who links to them, then visit these sites and do blog commenting only on the top quality ones e.g. high PR. That would be an example of a reasonable good strategy. What do you think?

    Peter
    Work At Home Ideas

    Reply

  17. Mitch Says:

    Great stuff, Peter; now that’s good information we all can use! So many times we hear and give information that sounds good, but we’re still left wondering “how”, and you just answered a major “how”. Thanks.

    Reply

  18. home based business Says:

    Thanks for the great article. Linking is key to top serps and the authority site links are powerful. thanks for the tips on edu and gov.

    home based businesss last blog post..Internet Based Business Ideas-Make Money Online via World Wide Web

    Reply

  19. Randy Says:

    Thanks for the really good, clear, how to tips. You really know how to cut to the chase.

    Randys last blog post..Front Page Banner

    Reply

  20. Medical Billing Trainer Says:

    Kym, congratulations and thank you for post your accomplishment here because it really inspires people like me to hear that all the stuff we are reading here does work IF You Work IT! I see that it’s been eight months since you wrote this post and was wondering where you are ranking now out of 23,500,000?

    Reply

  21. almir Says:

    nice explanation pete it was very helpful i'm glad that mitch asked that question because it shed some light on the topic

    Reply

  22. article drip robot Says:

    great advice peter that was truly helpful information as I will totally keep this to mind

    Reply

  23. article drip robot Says:

    I do agree with you randy but there's alot more to it it takes research and strtegy to achieve the results you wish

    Reply

  24. article drip robot Says:

    but keep in mind they have to me related to your niche in order to increase your serps

    Reply

  25. Sunny Gill Says:

    hi, i understand the importance of authority links, but can u tell me how can i search for authority sites from which i can get a link back to my site ??

    Reply

  26. peterlee Says:

    @Sunny Gill: I have yet to see a ready made list of authority sites. As you know .edu and .gov are not as hot as before as Google has said so too that no special treatment will be accorded to these sites. For a more simplistic way of finding your quality sites is to look for very high PR sites like PR5. You can look for my Do Follow blogs on my navigation bar I have a full list of blogs by PR rank. Also look at this post:

    How Blog Commenting Got Me 1200 Backlinks in 5 Days

    There is a link that let you search for dofollow blogs in any niche.

    Hope it helps

    Reply

  27. peterlee Says:

    @Sunny Gill: I have yet to see a ready made list of authority sites. As you know .edu and .gov are not as hot as before as Google has said so too that no special treatment will be accorded to these sites. For a more simplistic way of finding your quality sites is to look for very high PR sites like PR5. You can look for my Do Follow blogs on my navigation bar I have a full list of blogs by PR rank. Also look at this post:

    How Blog Commenting Got Me 1200 Backlinks in 5 Days

    There is a link that let you search for dofollow blogs in any niche.

    Hope it helps

    Reply

  28. Sunny Gill Says:

    Thanks Peter, i ll surely go through your blog and thanks again for the idea.

    Reply

  29. Camera Says:

    Great comment Kym! Keep it up.

    Reply

  30. SEO Consultant Says:

    The link to Matt Cutt does not exist or is broken?

    Reply

  31. petraweiss Says:

    Hi Peter, thanks for another post packed with great information. I don't know how you do all this, with working a full time job, too! I envy your knowledge and expertise. Linkbuilding is probably the most important step in gaining an online reputation and giving your site more exposure. Thanks for giving us such valuable tips on it.

    Reply

  32. peterlee Says:

    @petraweiss: Thanks Petra for your kind words. Yes I am practicing what I'm preaching. Nowadays my focus is on high PR sites when I do back linking. You already know that I joined Angela's backlink program and so did you.

    Reply

  33. peterlee Says:

    @ SEO Consultant: Thanks for telling me. I'll try to find that again.

    Reply

  34. Make money online Says:

    This post contains some really potent SEO stuff. I mainly liked the process to search .edu or .gov links on Google. This post really added one more link building weapon in my arsenal. You really write unique stuff to help us. I definitely owe some of the success I have received to you.

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  35. Link building services Says:

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  36. JuhaniTontti Says:

    Yes, the authority sites are the only worth linking. At WarriorForum there has been lots of talking about, whether the linking page should be related or not. Some people say, there is no difference, the only thing that matters is the PR of the linking site. This may be true concerning the search engine ranking, but this does not bring any related traffic to the site.

    Juhani
    Financial Freedom Reverse Mortgage

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  37. bioskincare Says:

    I think i need a link buliding service, because it is time consuming. Any recommendation?

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  38. work at home Says:

    Sir, I have listed some edu blogs on my blog. But it is not so easy to get link from .edu and .gov blogs I think. Is it any techniques for get link from those blogs?

    Reply

  39. JuhaniTontti Says:

    Yes, one tactics is to write comments
    to the blog posts and to put your url with a keyword as
    an anchor text.

    Juhani

    Reply

  40. work at home Says:

    That really one good idea, but most of such blog do not provide dofollow link.

    Reply

  41. peterlee Says:

    Chandan, these are all very established blogs so try to put very good quality comments or give your best views and arguments on the topic of discussion. There are no special techniques to get their links just make sure they are dofollow..

    Reply

  42. Wordpress packages Says:

    Very good article! Thanks for the type to search for edu/gov links!
    Agree that linkbuilding is very important for SEO, especially dofollow links.

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  44. mariajones Says:

    This put a very good, he wrote here, I do think a little about the quality of backlinks. Getting backlinks is so important and link to the site is even more authority.
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  45. Karla Campos Lopez Says:

    If some of these authority sites accept guest posts, you can try submitting a quality article which includes a backlink to your site to their editorial team. If it is approved you will not only have a backlink but you will also gain readership from the authority site's many visitors.

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  46. fix my credit Says:

    Hi Peter
    great tips. I tried the search string for edu blogs and it came up with quite a few. I'm gathering I have to make a comment on these blogs to get the edu backlink. Even though I will make a relevent comment so it lessens the chance of it getting deleted, would you say it is better to just use my name as the anchor text for my url or would it be ok to use my website name, so I get the backlink for the keyword? What do you think?

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  47. peterlee Says:

    @fix my credit: Yes you have to put your comment. it depends on the blog owner whether he accepts just the person's name or he allows a keyword text. If you're not sure just look at how others have been commenting on that post.

    BTW, you can get 10 free .edu links just above this comment. Look for “FREE .edu links…..”

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