15 Off-Page Search Engine Optimization Methods you should know

Started by hynds, 12-11-2016, 09:44:57

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hyndsTopic starter

15 Off-Page Search Engine Optimization Methods you should know

1. Social Networking Sites
Social Networking is bigger than ever these days! Sometimes known as Online Reputation Management, getting involved with social media sites is the fundamental step with which you begin to advertise, market and build your online reputation within your niche.
You need to sign up to the most popular social networking sites, such as; Facebook, LinkedIn,Twitter, Google+, etc., and create yourself a profile of your own. This allows you to extend your online network of contacts, to connect and interact with your friends, to share things with each other, and most importantly promote your website/blog and help build your online reputation.

2. Blogging
Blogging is one of the best ways to promote your website online! By writing a blog for your website, you give a reason for visitors to keep returning to your site and keep up to date with your latest posts. It also helps search engines to crawl your site more frequently, as they have to update your latest blog post entries, which ultimately helps you rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs).
You need to produce and include lots of unique content for your blog, such as; Infographics, Top Lists, How Tos Tutorials, Viral Videos, etc. Try to remember to be clear and concise in what you are trying to convey to your readers within your blog posts, don't waffle.
To help you promote your blog, submit it to niche blog directories and blog search engines.
If you're not very good at writing content for your blog, then you could always hire a guest blogger for your blog and ask him/her to write precise and unique content so that your blog can gain more credit from a search engine point of view.

3. Blog Marketing
Post comments on other blogs within the same niche as yours, which allow you to add a link in the comments section. These links can then be crawled by search engines, helping to point them towards your site. These blogs are commonly referred to as "Do-Follow" Blogs (Just like ours, where you can comment below!).

4. Forum Marketing
Find forums online that are related to your sites niche and get involved within that community. Reply to threads, answer peoples questions, offer advice, etc. This all helps to build up your reputation as someone who is an expert within that niche. Try to use "Do-Follow" Forums so that you can include a link to your site within your signature, which helps search engines crawl your site.

5. Search Engine Submission
Search engines will eventually find your site online, but that can take a while. To speed everything up, you should submit your website to the most popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

6. Directory Submission
Many people may say that directory submission is dead! I believe that it isn't as you are increasing the likely hood of people seeing your website. It is purely based on how effectively we are selecting those directories and how efficiently we are choosing the category for submission. You could submit to general directories, but for maximum effect, you are better off submitting to niche directories. Of course, I agree that it gives quite delayed results, but it is worth doing it.

7. Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is another great way of promoting your website. Submit your latest blog posts and pages to the most popular bookmarking sites, like StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, etc. Search engines really like these types of sites because the content on these sites is updated very frequently.
You should be very careful while doing this and you must properly handle the tags which are very essential to broadcast your news on a wide area network. This may increase your website traffic based on how effectively you have participated.

8. Link Baiting
Link baiting is another popular way of promoting your site. If you produce a really popular unique post for your site, then other people may want to link to it. Perhaps you have copied/published another website's content on your site, don't forget to place their website link as a reference. Do it for others and, if your content is trustworthy, let others do it for you. This is another way to increase your link popularity.

9. Photo Sharing
If you have used any of your own photos or images on your site, then you can share then on many of the major photo sharing websites like Flickr, Picasa, Photo Bucket, etc. Other people will be able to see them and comment on them, hopefully following a link to your site.

10. Video Marketing
Just like photo sharing, if you have any videos that you have used on your site, then you can submit them to sites like; YouTube, Vimeo, etc. allowing people to find your content in other ways.

11. Business Reviews
Write reviews about others businesses or ask your friends/clients to write a review of your business in major business review sites like RateitAll, Shvoong, Kaboodle, Stylefeeder, etc.

12. Local Listings
Depending on your site's niche, you might find that listing in local directories may be useful. You may have a website promoting your local business, therefore instead of going global and facing huge competition, listing your website locally, so that search engines can easily view your website and fetch the content, will be much better. This will help you to reach a targeted audience. Submit your website to sites like; Google Local, Maps, Yahoo Local, Yellow Pages, etc.

13. Article Submission
If you write your articles yourself, then you can submit them to popular article directory sites like; Ezine, Go Articles, Now Public, etc. This can help drive traffic to your site, whilst you can also gain some links to your site from other people (though it's usually a slower process).

14. Social Shopping Network
If you run an e-commerce website, then a good strategy for advertising and branding your products for free is to submit then to online shopping networks. By submitting your products to sites like; Google Product Search, Yahoo Online Shopping, MSN Online Shopping, and other major social shopping network sites like Kaboodle, Style Feeder, etc. then you increase the likelihood of people finding the products that you are selling.

15. Answer Questions
You can actively participate in answering questions on sites like Yahoo Answers. By answering and asking relevant questions on your site niche, you help to build up your reputation as someone that is an expert in your chosen field. You can place a link to your website in the source section if necessary so that people can easily find your site. If you don't spam, this is another great way to increase your link popularity.

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Good luck to you,


hyndsTopic starter

These methods above still work well in this year 2017. Hope many guys here will find them useful :)


RH-Calvin

Thanks for the tips. Here are the most important link building techniques that help to rank websites higher in search engines:

Guest posting
Article submission
Press release
Classified ads
Infographics
Social bookmarks

hyndsTopic starter


hyndsTopic starter

Quote from: Fadia Sheetal on 01-23-2017, 00:50:10
Some Off-page techniques are as below:

1. Directory Submission
2. Forum Posting
3. Guest Posting
4. Article Submission
5. Social Bookmarking
6. Image Sharing
7. Profile Creation
8. Local listing
9. Blog Comment
10. Video Sharing
11. Infographic Submission
12. Document Sharing
13. PPT Sharing
14. Web2.0

Correct, these ways above still active and you can also do that. You're welcome :)


inventive007

Hi,

Above mentioned Off-Page activities are important but don't focus much on Search Engine Submission and Social Bookmarking activities. As usual focus on quality backlink rather than quantity.
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hyndsTopic starter

Quote from: inventive007 on 01-25-2017, 03:46:48
Hi,

Above mentioned Off-Page activities are important but don't focus much on Search Engine Submission and Social Bookmarking activities. As usual focus on quality backlink rather than quantity.

That's right, point 5 and point 7 are mentioning about it:

5. Search Engine Submission
Search engines will eventually find your site online, but that can take a while. To speed everything up, you should submit your website to the most popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

7. Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is another great way of promoting your website. Submit your latest blog posts and pages to the most popular bookmarking sites, like StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, etc. Search engines really like these types of sites because the content on these sites is updated very frequently.
You should be very careful while doing this and you must properly handle the tags which are very essential to broadcast your news on a wide area network. This may increase your website traffic based on how effectively you have participated.

hyndsTopic starter

I see that those methods above still active and has affected in March 2017.

Good luck to you,


steffidsouza46

Thank's @Hynds for sharing such a great knowledge.
Much Appreciated!


hyndsTopic starter

Quote from: steffidsouza46 on 05-23-2017, 10:59:16
Thank's @Hynds for sharing such a great knowledge.
Much Appreciated!

Thanks! You're welcome :)