Link Glossary: FFA Link Farm
FFA Link Farm:
- A link farm ffa or (Free For All) are farms where anyone can add a link. Many of these ffa/link farms have been banned.
From what I’ve been noticing they seem to have been replaced by directory listings. These are nearly free for all’s, but they do involve some moderation from the webmasters to filter out blatant spam or inappropriate content.
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Glossary Definition From The Definitive Guide to Link Buying by Patrick Gavin
Link Glossary: On-Page Factors
On Page Factors:
- Ranking criteria that can be found on a web page. These factors include: text on the page, meta-tags, keyword density, keyword proximity, etc.
A brief word about some factors. Some people don’t seem to understand the importance of meta-tags, but they’re vital for SEO and SEM. Meta-tags increase the attractiveness of your website to search engines. Keyword density is also a must; if you are looking to improve your organic search results for a particular keyword, you must include that word in the text on your page at least 4 times as a rule of thumb.
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Glossary Definition From The Definitive Guide to Link Buying by Patrick Gavin
Link Glossary: Link Popularity
Link Popularity:
- The measure the quantity and/or quality of sites that link back to your web page.
Popular links are important links. Like in High School.
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Glossary Definition From The Definitive Guide to Link Buying by Patrick Gavin
Link Glossary: PageRank
Page Rank:
- A method developed and patented by Stanford University and Larry Page (co-founder of Google) to rank search engine results. PageRank gives a unique ranking to every page on the internet. The ranking is based on the number and quality of inbound links pointing to a page.
Part of my goal here is to share what I’m learning while stumbling through my career with others, hence a new glossary series on link related terms. This is a brief explanation of PageRank, but Google offers more thorough information here.
PageRank tip… usually a website has to have a PageRank of at least 4 to be relevant to SEO results.
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Glossary Definition From The Definitive Guide to Link Buying by Patrick Gavin
