I wondered if you used Content Now for backlinks but wasn’t sure. I received an email (supposedly from you) offering content for a link for your lingeriebrands site on one of my sites all about a dog breed club. I replied, saying not really as I didn’t consider that site suitable for lingerie , but that I had other more suitable sites I would be pleased to swap links with you or provide a link for content.

Never heard back

He did a miss a few things that Kirsty did right, so although she may have missed a few of the basic On Page elements she has loads of content and writing that as oppose to microscopically analysing keyword density has clearly done loads for the site!

http://www.lingeriebrands.co.uk/sitemap/
http://www.lingeriebrands.co.uk/sitemap.xml
http://www.lingeriebrands.co.uk/robots.txt

By the way how did you get all this did you run a report on WebCEO? Good work if you did

Would it be right if getting the metas, keyword density, page sculpting, title variety and all that SEO stuff spot on, had a big impact on a site’s success ? No, obviously not from most users point of view they don’t give a —- about those aspects.

However, visitor numbers, backlinks from relevant sites in variety is a reflection of usefulness to the public and that comes from the old fashioned stuff: a good useful site and good content and as Kirsty so rightly says, time.

Unless a site is spectacularly trend-setting or innovative, why should it succeed in a short time period ?

From my experience there are some high level factors to consider – the ones Kirsty mentions in this post – but beyond that I think people should not over analyse it. Unfortunately with so mny SEO experts out there touting things like ‘Secrets of SEO Success’ it can seem quite daunting to noobs.

Just get your head down, think about your end user and visualise every page on your site as its own topic – then get on with it!

@Steven Bradshaw – Majestic SEO picks up the backlinks at the approx the quoted amount: http://www.majesticseo.com/search.php?q=www.lingeriebrands.co.uk/

@Marchamont – I just try to keep it all looking natural and not repeat my key terms too often. It seems to work.

@Stephanie – I only use Content Now and the rest of my sites I build the links for myself.

@Steven – I must confess I don’t know where the 658 figure came from. I’d usually use Yahoo as it seems to give the most comprehensive indication of links.

What’s the best backlink tool to use to check links to sites? I have used google, yahoo and a couple of others to check your site and they all come up with different amounts and no where near 658.

Very good article. Aside ContentNow (which had the wrong link by the way), which other link building service do you recommend?

Thank you and keep up the great work!

Stephane

I think you’re right about keyword density and so on – people pay far too much attention to it.