SEO, Links & Google?
I have a personal blog website, the address is http://minibus.wordpress.com
I have purchased a domain name – http://www.minibus-blog.co.uk which I have pointed to the blog site.
My first question is this: if I start building links to http://www.minibus-blog.co.uk will they count toward Google Page Rank and my position in the search engines (bearing in mind this is only a redirected domain name to the wordpress.com address)?
Or do I need to get all the links straight to the wordpress.com address?
My mission is to get this blog on page one for minibus related keyphrases, it is just a sad personal quest (don’t ask!) – can anyone give me some tips for doing this, I am familiar with a lot of SEO techniques, but all input is appreciated!
One Response
InKneeSocks
30 Sep 2009
You should not have your domain pointed to the WordPress domain. Search engines don’t like redirection, and directory admins don’t either. Since it is a personal quest, get a domain name from WordPress (15$ a year) and then the domain will not be pointed at your blog, it will be your blog domain. You can still keep your other domain pointed to your site, but don’t have a redirect like that.
Then get all your links to that domain, and this domain will be the one to have all the Google PR. Make sure you install the Google toolbar so that you can see the Google PR of the directory you will submit to. Only submit to directories that have Google PR, or if they don’t but are new directories. Since yours is a blog, you can submit to blog directories (do searches for blog directory / blog directories / submit blog and so on). There are many blog networking sites too. Have the word minibus in the title of your blog when you submit to these. Submit to directories for websites as well.
WordPress pretty much does the on-site meta tag stuff for you, just make sure you use the word minibus a lot.
I did a search for "minibus", there are lots of results. It will take some time. Oh and you are visiting forums too, good call!
Good luck!
ALSO:
Check out my site when you decide what domain you want to use, I can give some PR links to your site with anchor text minibus. Just post a comment on my blog with the domain and I’ll hook you up. I love personal quests.