How to Create Less Backlinks 234 Comments
How to Create Less Backlinks

In this post I’m going to explain how to create less backlinks but still rank very well in the search engines.

Most people don’t enjoy building backlinks, I on the otherhand have a mild addiction to it, and enjoy the strategy of backlinking and working out new and better ways to be effective in my backlinking plan for my affiliate marketing sites.

One of he most common mistakes I see people make when it comes to backlinking, is ignoring their indexing. When I say indexing, I mean whether or not Google (and other search engines) have found AND indexed the page that the links are on.

If they haven’t indexed the page, then they won’t be counting the link on that page as a link to your site to help improve your sites rankings.

Most people just get as many backlinks as they can and hope for the best. This is never the best approach, for a number of reasons, first that the number of backlinks is not really what matters, it’s more the quality and the rate at which you build them, but that’s for another post altogether.

The second reason is that if you take a step back and work out the percentage of the pages with your links on them, that have actually been indexed by Google, then you can start to plan to increase the number of pages indexed by Google, meaning you can build less backlinks.

Work Efficiently

By focusing on getting more of the pages with your links on them found and indexed, means you can spend less time having to create more links, because your backlinking will be more effecient.

Remember the best kind of backlinks are ones that are contextual, which means they are found in the middle of content, and creating this content to place you links in takes times and resource, so the less you have to create the better!!

Most online marketers get anywhere from 10%-30% of their links found, which is not high at all. If you don’t know the percentage of your links that are getting indexed, then you affiliate-marketingdefinitely need to start looking at this. My indexing rate is currently over 80%, which I’m very pleased with, however I now want to get it to over 90%, which I intend to very soon!

My SEO manager and I, have weekly meetings about indexing, amongst other things, and we’re constantly testing new ways to get more of our links found. One of the things that helped us increase the index rate to over 80%, was not giving up on URL’s until Google indexed them, sounds obvious, but let me explain.

We have a system in place of indexing techniques that we first put all our URL’s through (I can’t reveal my secret sauce completely here), and then we check all the URL’s again to see if Google indexed them, and the ones that were not indexed, are placed in another list of non indexed URL’s, where we continue to link to these pages, using automated social bookmarking and blog comment tools, hitting them with loads of links on auto-pilot.

We then check the list again to see what got indexed, and everytime we do this the percentage goes up and up. Most people don’t do this, and they either have no idea where their links are and how many Google has found, or they use one indexing tool and hope that works and leave it at that. However I highly encourage you to focus more on indexing as it makes a big difference.

Google often won’t index a page if there are no links coming into that page, so if your links are on new pages and these pages have no links coming into them, then Google will either never find the page, so they won’t find the links, or they will find it but won’t index it. This is why you need to use indexing methods to get pages indexed.

Where Are My Links?

It is not uncommon for SEO marketers to have no idea where their links are. Many people just build as many links as they can and hope it works. I don’t do this, as I like to work smart and build the least amount of links possible. Therefore I keep a record of the pages my links get placed on. Sometimes this can be more difficult, for example if you’re a member of a blog network, and they don’t give you the URL’s of the blogs in their network, to protect their network.

This makes it hard to know where your links are, however if your site is a wordpress blog, and another blog links back to you, ie. one from a blog network, then you get notified in your WordPress dashboard with a “PingBack”. Open the link in that pingback and you now have the URL of the page linking to you, then check if it has been indexed!!

You can save yourself a lot of time by increasing your indexing rate. For example, if you build 1000 links a week, and only 20% get indexed, that is 200 successful backlinks. However if you can even increase the index rate to 30%, then you just got 300 successful links, which is 100 more.

Getting these 100 more indexed links is much easier than having to create 100 new links. Now imagine if you can take that 20% right up to 80%, that’s 600 more links and you have just saved yourself a lot time and will be working much more efficiently, which is very important when it comes to SEO.

Some of you might have tried or are still using RSS feed submissions to get your links indexed, but I don’t use them anymore, simply because I do a lot of testing and they just don’t work very well. I never just listen to what everyone says, I like to test things and see what actually works for myself, and I encourage you to do that as much as you can.

I hope this SEO tip helped. Very soon I’m launching my concise and very indepth SEO training product, where you can learn everything fine detail about how I do my SEO,Β  so you can replicate my systems, which includes the exact methods I use for getting this 80% indexing rate. The launch date is Oct 25th, stay tuned….

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63 Comments to How to Create Less Backlinks

  1. September 21, 2011 at 11:39 am | Permalink

    I will be watching for this tool Matt. I am a bit stuck on the backlinking stuff myself although I have been finding more and more ways to do it ( stuff I shoulda been doing a year ago already) but I guess it’s never too late to get smarter, eh? πŸ™‚

  2. September 21, 2011 at 11:40 am | Permalink

    Great information Matt. Shows that is useful to have a diverse backling strategy too!

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Thanks Mike

  3. chaz's Gravatar chaz
    September 21, 2011 at 11:42 am | Permalink

    You say: “I can’t reveal my secret sauce completely here”.

    So why say anything unless you tell us the whole truth? This attitude helps continue the 97% IM failure rate and bolsters your bottom line in the face of it.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Well that is quite a poor attitude really Chaz, I did tell you useful things here, like to take notice of what links are indexed, and also then to focus on getting these pages indexed, and the ones that are not to move them into a new list and auto social bookmark these and auto blog comment them. You can’t expect everything for free my friend, I work hard to look after my subscribers and protect them from all the scammers out there on the net, but I guess sometimes you just can’t please everyone….

    Matt Reply:

    Martin here…
    Been following you for sometime. Well from the day I opened the “allinanchor” e-mail. How long has that been Matt. A couple of years. I use your information in a different way as you know. You have when I asked a question sent me personal email. Like myself you try to help everyone and are very protective of those same people. My background in Social Media Management/ Consulting was in part due to a lot of the very things you post here. I think it could be being taken advantage to a degree in what others expect of you. If they step back and look, they’ll get it or they just won’t. In any case, it’s their choice to make and sad they don’t see the entire picture, think outside the box or at least try to, and take what you share( very important word “Share”) with us on here. Take the info squeeze it hard to get every drop that ‘s worth from it as it has never failed to open doors you never could of opened yourself. Just need to accept and get there arms all the way around that idea.To you Matt from all of us, just a thank you for helping…. Always a pleasure.

    To everyone else… Matt’s emails were the very first I ever saved because of how important this information was for those I help. (Matt thanks for your WP videos I’ve since made over the years my own personal ones for in house use only. But My start was with yours.) I’m not saying you hit the nail on the head every time. I’m saying it’s always valuable and that far more important to me.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Thanks for your kind words there Matt, pleasure to have you as a subscriber

    Regards

    Matt

    Sean Kaye Reply:

    I wouldn’t sweat it Matt, you’re one of the ethical people in this industry. The truth is, people like Chaz are never going to buy your course, so the quality of information you’ve given on your indexing strategy is good enough.

    I’ll be certainly buying your course on October 25th and if you pull punches in that, then I’d probably call “shenanigans”. However, as a Rapid Profit Formula customer, I’m certain you’ll deliver the goods.

    Very informative post, BTW!

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Sean

    Thanks man, you’re a top guy!

    Matt

    Coupon Codes Mall Reply:

    Chaz, at least say thank you. You don’t really know what is the importance of your indexing rate in your website right? Believe me follow what Matt said. Indexing rates are very important.

    Matt, thanks for those tips. I thought that I was the only blogger that have a high priority in checking the indexing rates. Almost all of my blogs and sites has an index rate of 90% on average. One of them is almost 100% I just have to post anything in that blog and it will be indexed and ranked as well! When you hit this stage you will not worry about building backlinks.

  4. September 21, 2011 at 11:42 am | Permalink

    Good tips. Never give up on those links. One way I’ve found that works well for me to get forum profiles indexed is by interlinking them. In some profiles I will put links to my other profiles. I’ve been testing it out with decent success rates. I hadn’t noticed the RSS feed submissions not working as well but, like you, I do a mix of things to get links indexed and have not tested RSS on its own. Time for a new test!

  5. Nick M's Gravatar Nick M
    September 21, 2011 at 11:42 am | Permalink

    Interesting read as ever Matt, also looking forward to the new product release.

    I have a question for you; wouldn’t it be much more efficient if people just backlink their backlinks? This usually helps with indexing rates as a bi-product of doing so – also I’m curious if YOU backlink your backlinks as a priority and if so, what services do you use?

    Thanks for the read and information Matt.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Nick

    Yeah in a way indexing is backlinking your backlinks, it’s just how you go about that, whcih makes all the difference

    Reagrds

    Matt

  6. September 21, 2011 at 11:43 am | Permalink

    Thanks for this article, Matt. I had never thought about checking if my backlink sources were indexed or not. What you say makes a lot of sense so I will be looking at things differently as I go forward.

    Looking forward to hearing more from you on the subject of indexing.

    Jenny

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Thanks Jenny

  7. Ian's Gravatar Ian
    September 21, 2011 at 11:44 am | Permalink

    This may be a simple question to be asking, but what method or methods do you use to index sites? Also how do you quickly determine if your backlinks are indexed already? If you have specialized tools or methods I’d like to know more specifically what you do to speed up this process.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Ian

    I can’t reveal all my secrets for free, however I do teach everything i do in my course coming out next month. For now though, scrapebox is a good place to start.

    Matt

  8. September 21, 2011 at 11:45 am | Permalink

    I use backlinksindexer. Best reviews on Warriorforum and good value packages.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Neville

    Yup that works well.

    Matt

    richard Reply:

    I think this is ok if you knew your backlinks urls. But how about if you don’t know, is there a way to find out or collect those backlinks urls?

    Thanks

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Richard

    Yes you should know where most of your links are, if you do forums links, or blogs, however some you will not be able to find, but that is where you want to look for pingbacks if you are using wordpress

    Regards

    Matt

  9. jay's Gravatar jay
    September 21, 2011 at 11:47 am | Permalink

    Hi Matt,

    Thanks for sharing the post! Very interesting indeed.

    One of the methods I have been using lately, is linking backlink to backlink, getting the 2nd tier link running such as forum profile and pointing to the main links..in that way..your layer one link did get index at a much higher rate.

    Jay

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Glad to hear that is working for you Jay!!

    All the best

    Matt

  10. September 21, 2011 at 11:47 am | Permalink

    Hi Matt,

    Searching for the created links to index is indeed tedious. I would certainly be very interested in how you managed to index 80% of your links. Looking forward to Oct25th. Thanks.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    It is only tedious when you do it manually….I can’t give away all my secrets for free, but I reveal more in my new course on SEO

    Thanks Karen

    Matt

  11. September 21, 2011 at 11:47 am | Permalink

    Thanks again Matt, great info. I use indexing service myself it does quite well. Also I learned a lot from your Rapid Profit course. It did not take me long to figure out that quality back links with indexing is the key plane and simple.

  12. September 21, 2011 at 11:49 am | Permalink

    Thanks Matt for this great SEO tip. I was just wondering why all my backlinks were not identified by the bots (only 10 to 15%) and I thought it was due to accounts banned (IP issues). Now I understand and I have then to build backlinks to my backlinks…
    ps : can’t wait your SEO training product πŸ˜‰

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi John

    Nice to hear from you and glad you found the post helpful

    Matt

  13. September 21, 2011 at 11:50 am | Permalink

    Interesting post.

    I read somewhere the other day that the best solution was to create
    a “sitemap” page on each website and give the URL for that page in
    comments you make on other webmasters’ blogs.

  14. September 21, 2011 at 11:54 am | Permalink

    i am trying to learn how to build a website with dan brock deadbeat super affilate system. just watch a short video on backlinks still don’t understand how they work hope your video’s help and thank you for the video’s i am sure they will help me to understand
    Thanks again
    PAT O

  15. September 21, 2011 at 11:59 am | Permalink

    Matt,
    This makes a lot of sense. Most of us are satisfied with creating the links without every checking, if they are indexed.

    Are there any automated indexing or bookmarking tools that allow you to submit a whole list of URLs, or do you have to go one at a time?

    Is pinging the webpages with links sufficient?

    Thanks,
    Kurt

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Kurt

    Pinging doesn’t work, don’t bother with that, but yeah try scrapebox

    All the best

    Matt

  16. September 21, 2011 at 12:03 pm | Permalink

    Hey Matt,

    Thanks for that info. Interesting to hear your thoughts on RSS feed submissions not working now, I didn’t know this. When you say you’ve tested which kinds of backlinking work and which ones don’t, how do you do that exactly? Do you start up a site and only throw one kind of back links towards it (such as just rss feed submissions) and wait to see if it moves up? I’d be interested to learn that part!

    Thanks so much,
    Brent Wehmeyer

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Brent

    Yes that is pretty much how I test.

    Matt

  17. Edmund's Gravatar Edmund
    September 21, 2011 at 12:04 pm | Permalink

    Hey Matt,

    I was a member of your Rapid Profit Formula system and I must say that I have learnt a great deal from you. πŸ™‚ I have achieved reasonable success with your system. May I know what is the difference between Rapid Profit Formula and the new SEO course that you are talking about? Is it an add-on to the course?

    Thanks.
    Edmund

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Ed

    My new course is incredibly indepth on SEO, so it cover alot more than I could fit into RPF, believe me you will be a pro SEO marketer with it

    Glad you like my course!

    Matt

  18. September 21, 2011 at 12:07 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Matt,

    Yet again, more great content. I look forward to 25th.

    Rob

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Cheers Rob

  19. September 21, 2011 at 12:13 pm | Permalink

    Great post Matt

    Backlinks… Backlinks…. Backlinks…
    These are important, but people make mistakes by spamming google with links that end the end have more bad results than good.

    Quality over quantity is what I am saying…

    Also it would be better to have a kind of site in which the niche you are in is your favorite or at the least at your liking. This way you are aware of the niche and you have lots of things to write.

  20. September 21, 2011 at 12:17 pm | Permalink

    Wow what a fantastic piece of info, this is come just as I’m trying to work out my own backlinking strategies. I submit to so many directories, social bookmarking sites etc but when I use webmaster tools to see how many backlinks I have to my site, it doesn’t show sny of them so I really don’t have a clue about how many I have and where they come from!

  21. September 21, 2011 at 12:18 pm | Permalink

    Will be waiting for this new one Matt. I’m doing SEO for people from the US and it will be great to have more knowledge in this field as these is a constantly changing world. Your SEO strategies now might not be a good one in the next few months or year.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Randy

    Yes the SEO game does move fast and you need to keep learning to stay ahead, which my course will help you do for sure

    All the best

    Matt

  22. September 21, 2011 at 12:22 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt,

    It has been long time since I wrote anything here. I think your new product will be good. I don`t know what`s happened, but when I first time built my small website and added software reviews it went quite nice and even with really little traffic it converted for me well. Now, it`s ZERO traffic, which means Zero sales. No idea what`s happened and I have no idea what to do. I don`t work a lo on that website either but it doesn`t mean it would traffic go to nothing. I used service like Fiverr to get backlinks. Beware of people there, even with 99% positive feedback and promise. I received a report from “seller” showed that I have 200 backlinks. After I checked I found that instead of promised high rank websites, they were on some shady forums and even porn sites. Who knows, maybe this killed my traffic. I do not believe in any “auto-backlink” software. It spread scams with the same messages and fake URLS and emails. I think it is better to take some time and do manually.

  23. September 21, 2011 at 12:22 pm | Permalink

    Wow Matt,
    You nailed it with this idea. Making sure that your backlinks get indexed seems like such an easy thing to do but I am sure that way too many people overlook it in their quest to build links. It just makes a lot of sense when you think about it. As you like to say, work smarter not harder. Thanks for this excellent tip.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Dave

    Yeah it is amazing at how many pay little to no attention to indexing, but it helps so much

    Regards

    Matt

  24. September 21, 2011 at 12:22 pm | Permalink

    Great and useful content, as usual. Than you Matt. I am looking forward to your SEO training.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Lina

    You are very welcome and thanks for you kind words

    Matt

    Linda Reply:

    I didn’t realize to do this. There is a lot of steps in getting a site optimized for search engines. A daily step-by-step action guide would really help that you could use for each site you create. Thanks for all the quality, free info, Matt!

  25. September 21, 2011 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

    So, is it fair to say that outsourcing SEO link-building to folks in the Philippines is no longer a good strategy unless you also have a system in place to verify which links are being indexed? I thought that getting all those links for $2 or $3 an hour was a great way to go, on the auto-pilot plan. .

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Craig

    I outsource all my links, but I do have my own workers and I ask them to record where the links are. So should do the same for any outsourcer you use, ask them for a link report

    Matt

  26. Ray's Gravatar Ray
    September 21, 2011 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt,

    This has intrigued me. I normally throw all my links at ping.fm and RSS submission sites through a software program and leave it at that. I confess however I don’t usually track their indexing because I try and go for sites with PR so they would be listed.

    I’d be interested in doing some testing with this for comparison. I certainly am interested in being organized in this area If you want any testers or testimonies I’d be interested.

    Ray

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Ray

    Yeah it would be a good idea to track your indexing, and again scrapebox makes that easy

    Regards
    Matt

  27. September 21, 2011 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt
    I check my backlinks now 7 then with Yahoo Site Explorer (still working) and I’m finding a lot of “greyed out” links. Is this what you mean when you say they’re not indexed? (Please excuse the dumb question)

    Cheers
    Wendy

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Wendy

    No that is not a dumb question at all. So by indexed I mean if you search for that exact URL in Google does Google have a listing for it. So take a URL that has your link on it and paste the URL in the search box and see if Google has a result, if they do, and it is that exact URL, then it has been indexed, and your link has been found by Google also. Also you can use a tool like scrapebox to do this on a bulk scale!

    Regards

    Matt

  28. September 21, 2011 at 12:56 pm | Permalink

    I think this was an exceptional post.

    The one question I have lingering, and wondering if it’s a stupid one since no one else asked, is the “no follow” question. I’ve been told that you need a balance of “do follow” and “no follow” or it looks unnatural and suspicious. Can you share if you only track “do follow”? Would a “no follow” ever show up in a link search with Google or Yahoo! and be track able?

    Look forward to your training!

    Thanks.

    Mark.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Mark

    I wouldn’t get too worried about the balance of no follow and do follow, I used to try and get 10% no follow, but now I just build links and it happens naturally, but even if it doesn’t it doesn’t haven’t a negative effect from sites I’ve tested.

    Regards

    Matt

  29. September 21, 2011 at 12:57 pm | Permalink

    Thx Matt, I will be looking forward to that info in October

  30. richard's Gravatar richard
    September 21, 2011 at 1:07 pm | Permalink

    Is there any effective tool that can collect all those backlinks pointing to my site?

    Let say, I did google my site like this “http://mysite.com” – lots of result came out. Are those result are sites or webpages with links pointing to my site?

    Is there a way to collect all those links?

    Thanks.

    Richard

    Matt Carter Reply:

    hi Richard

    SEO spyglass is the best I know of, but even that is not 100% accurate.

    Regards

    Matt

  31. September 21, 2011 at 1:11 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Matt, amazing information again. I have learnt a lot from your RPF, and am now looking forward to your new product. Sounds like just what I needed to improve my sites. Can’t wait for the release.

  32. Stephanie's Gravatar Stephanie
    September 21, 2011 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

    You want to know what’s on my wishlist? I’d love to easy way to manage and track the links. I’m sure it can all be done in an Excel spreadsheet, but setting it up the best way just seems to overwhelm me! Great post Matt – thanks for the great info!

  33. September 21, 2011 at 1:49 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Matt… yet another VERY useful post!

    Really looking forward to your SEO product!

  34. September 21, 2011 at 1:51 pm | Permalink

    Matt,

    Thanks, great tip as always. πŸ™‚

    I love to read your posts, as I gleaned a great deal of IM info from them. I’ve purchased several of your other products and love them.

    Will this new product or an update on what you’ve already done?
    Looking forward to more great training and inspiring content.

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Jessie

    The new course will blow you away I am sure, it is extremely detailed and teaches advanced SEO

    Regards

    Matt

  35. September 21, 2011 at 1:54 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the writing. I was RPF member and learnt a lot about backlinking but when I do it very tedious. I am looking for a smart way to work, with less time yet more effective. Looking for the SEO course….

  36. September 21, 2011 at 1:55 pm | Permalink

    Hey Matt,

    I agree! We need to get our backlinks indexed. Do you recommend any indexing services that can get backlinks indexed faster??

    Thanks!

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Backlink energizer

  37. Mike's Gravatar Mike
    September 21, 2011 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

    Great post. Does Linklicious get your links indexed?

    Matt Carter Reply:

    On its own no, but its not too bad in the overall mix

    Matt

  38. Dan's Gravatar Dan
    September 21, 2011 at 2:00 pm | Permalink

    I am very new at at this, my site is three months old now and progressing evey day. Google,Yahoo & Bing have commented on some of my articles. And I only have three backlinks. I would like more, I am just tring to get the right ones. I have no page rank and right now I have over two hundred hits in one month. Looking forward to my sixth month mark. Thanks for your Help

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hi Dan

    Great to see you getting into this. Keep going and your sites will get PR and more importantly traffic!

    Regards

    Matt

  39. September 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the info Matt.

    Anything to reduce the amount of back linking work required, the better.

  40. September 21, 2011 at 2:41 pm | Permalink

    I definitely need to track my back-links from now on, thanks

    Really appreciate your tips Matt, can’t wait for your SEO training product on Oct 25th. Keep us update.

    Regards,
    Dev

  41. September 21, 2011 at 2:44 pm | Permalink

    Matt,

    Great information. You shocked me a bit when you mentioned the bit about RSS feeds as I am still paying to have feeds created for my backlinks and then pinging them. It sounds like this is no longer working eh?

    As far as your new course, can’t wait to get my hands on that. I don’t really do any of my own SEO at this point but I’m always thrilled to learn a new method I can pass on to my team!

    Thanks again!

    James

    P.s Any chance you are opening up that high end coaching of yours any time soon? I’m always ready to pick the brains of marketers more successful than myself!

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Great to hear from you James!!

    Matt

  42. September 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt,

    Looking forward to seeing more information on your method. Thanks for sharing a timely strategy.

  43. September 21, 2011 at 2:54 pm | Permalink

    Very good point Matt, I being part of your backlink blueprint followers and purchasers, which is really sweet by the way, have noticed that my sites aren’t showing the kind of growth I had expected.

    This confirms my suspicions, I always have more work to do after each of your posts.
    Thank you as always,
    Chaz

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Good stuff Chaz

  44. Leon's Gravatar Leon
    September 21, 2011 at 3:06 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt,

    I love your SEO Tips, I can’t wait for your new course. Is this new course different with your Rapid Profit Formula course? Is this similar course ?

    Leon

    Matt Carter Reply:

    HI Leon

    Great to hear from you. Yes my new SEO course is extremely detaied and go into how to dominate for big keywords, like how this blog ranks in 3 for “affiliate marketing” in Google USA

    Matt

  45. jp's Gravatar jp
    September 21, 2011 at 3:08 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt,

    I have RPF, and RRW from you. RPF has taught me a lot in a short amount of time as a newbie. I have scrapebox, and use it to filter spy links from competitors, and filter indexed links only by page rank. Does this mean that those links I get are likely to be indexed? Is pinging through pingomatic or RSS bot as mentioned in rpf out and old school?

    -JP

    Matt Carter Reply:

    Hey JP

    If you are getting links on high PR pages, the yes these will be indexed by Google and you don’t haev to worry about getting these indexed.

    I guess its not so much that pinging and RSS don’t work as they do to a degree, but I have just moved onto more sophisticated methods whcih allow me to get higher indexing, now over 80%.

    The key is to first know what your indexing % is, and scrapebox is a fast way to do bult checks

    Regards

    Matt

  46. September 21, 2011 at 3:08 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for this. I hadn’t even worried about this. I guess I better get to work on links.

  47. September 21, 2011 at 3:38 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt,

    Greetings from sunny South Africa, so much to learn- so little time,
    I finally saw some visitors but no sales yet so assuming that all is not 100% set-up correctly. Back linking is still in the “baby shoes” stage but I will get there.

    Thanks for the information you provide and even the feedback from the members, I pick-up a lot off information from your blog and always look forward to your next post.
    Today will be my back-linking check day!!

    Cheers

    Hennie

  48. September 21, 2011 at 3:39 pm | Permalink

    another great post, i love commenting in blogs about “blogging and seo” because i get traffic from users with alexa toolbar installed . πŸ˜›

  49. September 21, 2011 at 4:09 pm | Permalink

    Matt is the best, I never go wrong with what he says or sells. I’m a life long full time follower! Keep it up Matt you’re putting all the others to shame. Good, honest, free information is always what I’ve grown to like so much about this blog. Thumbs Up

  50. September 21, 2011 at 4:10 pm | Permalink

    Matt,

    Thanks for another brilliant article and you are right about the quality is better than the quantity, just one link from a high PR page has more value than 100 or 1000 links from PR 0 or even non-indexed pages.

    The other important point here is that just because a page is indexed by Google does not mean that it can be found in a search – has Google cross referenced and catalogued the page so it is searchable?

    Cheers

  51. September 21, 2011 at 4:17 pm | Permalink

    Thanks again Matt. You’ve just confirmed something I’ve been thinking for a while and need to action on. Some say Just build links and let Google find the links the natural way…..but I agree with you on this one.

    Thanks for the post
    Richard

  52. September 21, 2011 at 5:06 pm | Permalink

    Hey Matt.

    As usual quality content that can be used. Most people would have taken info like this, created a pdf and a couple of videos and sold it as a wso on WF for $7. Here we get it for free. (just making a point)
    Backlinking is the bane of my IMing, although I don’t build sites like I used to, I use a service now. Bit like mowing the lawns. I pay a guy to do the job.

    Mike.

  53. September 21, 2011 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt,
    I’m in desperate need of your help in getting my website on top of googles first page under various search phrases.

    Do you offer a service where you could do the SEO and backlinks for me, and what costs are involved.

    Warm regards,

    Joe

  54. September 21, 2011 at 5:15 pm | Permalink

    Hi again Matt,

    In regards to my previous message, I also have another website which I need to get on top of google’s first page.

    It’s http://www.parisbynight.com.au

    Warm regards,

    Joe

  55. September 21, 2011 at 5:16 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt,

    I’m in desperate need of your help in getting my website on top of googles first page under various search phrases.

    Do you offer a service where you could do the SEO and backlinks for me, and what costs are involved for my website http://www.weddingbands-melbourne.com.au

    Warm regards,

    Joe

  56. September 21, 2011 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

    Backlinking is one of my pet hates and SEO is difficult for most newbies to get their head’s around so I too will be looking forward to the release of your new product next month.

  57. David Pearse's Gravatar David Pearse
    September 21, 2011 at 5:26 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt,

    I will be ready for your new Seo Product on October 25th. As far as I am concerned, your recommendations are all I look at these days.

    I have deleted all the other “Seo Experts” emails I was receiving because you are the only one that makes sense to me.

    Also because I ‘actually make money with your advice”.

    Thanks Heaps!

    David from Adelaide

  58. September 21, 2011 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt,
    Ok now I’m reallllly confused!

    If I use an article submission tool for example and say it returns 10 urls where my article has been accepted, if I go to that url (copy & paste in the address bar) does that mean it has been indexed as it is within the search engine or am I missing something?

    Thanks.

    ps how do I create a profile picture???

  59. September 21, 2011 at 5:50 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt!

    Thanks for letting us know about your new product. You and Terry are the guyes who earned trust from the SEO community.

    Going to send you sales of the course as well )

  60. September 21, 2011 at 5:51 pm | Permalink

    Hello Matt,

    I wanna thank you for this valuable article. Looking forward to the launch date of Oct 25 th.

    Ellis

  61. Barry's Gravatar Barry
    September 21, 2011 at 5:54 pm | Permalink

    Hi Matt
    Thanks for the info, I think the value you deliver is great, all the extra free stuff you have sent me as a subscriber is amazing
    This is a business and information cost money but you can easily re coup your investment.
    I will be buying your new SEO couse when it comes out becuse you always over deliveir and under charge

    Regards

    Barry

  62. September 21, 2011 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

    Thanks, yet again, for your very interesting and useful post Matt. I do appreciate that you cannot reveal everything for free, after all you are running a business. But I can say that I’ve learned a lot more from your Blog than any other blogs I know of on the internet.

    I’ve purchased a number of your products including RPF which have helped me an awful lot. I can’t wait to get my hands on your SEO course.

    Keep up the good work, Matt.

    Thanks again,

    Gerard

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