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Increasing your link popularity is only part of the battle when it comes to increasing your search engine rankings. There are a lot of on-site things that can make a big difference when it comes to rankings. We all know about meta tags, alt tags, headings, sitemaps and other code related stuff, but one thing that many of us forget to do is create a robots.txt file.

With my personal blog I created a robots.txt file so I could remove any junk pages and duplicate content from the search engines. Due to this my traffic went up 11.3%. Here are some of the things I did with my blog:

1. Remove comment feeds from the search results so that I would not have duplicate comment text indexed.
2. Removed trackback URLs from being indexed because it was causing blank pages to be indexed.

All of these things seem simple, but they can be very effective. A few years ago the more pages you had indexed the better, but now removing junk pages can help increase your rankings. Granted there could have been other factors that caused my search traffic to increase, but I feel that the robots.txt file modifications played a role in the increase.

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Link valuation is a difficult subject to quantify. Most SEO’s will tell you that coming up with a value of a text link is a “gut feel”, which really doesn’t help much when you are deciding to drop hundreds or thousands per month on a text link ad that doesn’t often show a completely direct correlation with your web site rankings.

“How to Valuate a Link”
Questions to ask when purchasing about the quality and value of a link

1. What is the value of the theme?
(Is it a high competition/ highly monetized industry such as pharmaceuticals, gambling, or finance?)

2. What is the power of the link?
(Is it helping any other sites to rank high?)

3. What is the linking neighborhood theme of the site linking to you?
(The Topic of the links that link to that site. - and a comparison of how close of a “linking neighborhood” is to your site’s theme.)

4. How many outbound links are on the page giving the link, and who else do they link to?
(Lower the better and quality counts - skip the site with poker plastered all over it.)

5. What is the format of the link, how many characters for anchor text and description do you get, and do you have control to change it?
(Footer Link? Sidebar link? Run of site? Body text link? Pre-sell page?)

6. Where is the link deriving it’s power?
(Does it have any .edus or .govs linking to it? How many unique domains and C class IP addresses?)

7. What is the age of the site? (older the better)

8. Will the link pass any direct click through traffic?
(Alexa is a litmus test here)

9. How many pages will the link be placed on?
(Don’t go overboard with run of site links now)

10. Will the link go to a subsection of your site or your homepage?
(Help your deep link ratio)

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