Log into my Google Analytics account and my server to review my stats, daily. I look at several things to help me focus my attention on getting high quality traffic. To determine, I look at how many visitors the sources send me, the percentage of new visitors, the page views and the bounce rate.

The bounce rate is the percentage of visitors that visit your site then immediately leave.

Anything with a bounce rate of 50% or higher should be a source you should not waste time on. Focus your effort on Google and other sources that have a low bounce rate and a high percentage of new visitors that stay on your site.

Here are a list of sites that send me alot of traffic, but have very high bounce rates.
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Next important thing after you know how many backlinks you really need to get certain pagerank is:
“How we find backlinks for our site?”

There’re many ways on how to get backlinks, such as:
- link exchange,
- commenting in dofollow blogs
- put signature in forum, etc.

What I ‘m gonna write here is: the 2nd point, “Placing Comment in DoFollow Blogs“.

Placing Comment in DoFollow Blogs

Is it true, placing comment in another blog can be a backlink for our site?

Precise Answer: Absolutely. As long as you leave the your URL in the wensite field ofcourse.
It sure will be a backlink for your site.

I need to remind you that the way to get backlink is “placing comment in dofollow blogs“, not just “placing comment in some blogs“.

Why DoFollow Blogs?
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Some friends told me they got headache when they got stuck to these backlinks subject. What is backlinks? How to get backlinks for our site? Are we really in need of these oh so called backlinks? How many backlinks do we really need to get certain PageRank?
To get things clear we really should discuss them with a real in-depth discussion. And let’s start with the last one. How many backlinks do we really need to get certain PageRank?

To get some directions and the right pointers, as always, i did some digging and I found this useful writing about the exact subject we’re about to discuss, about how many backlinks do we really need to get certain PageRank.
So, let’s skip all the prologues, and get the party started.

How many is it Really?

You may take a look at the table below closely.
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Automated the SEO process completely? Nah, that for sure is impossible. Some says it’s evil using the tools, and it’s recently became a heated discussion over here if SEOs need to use tools at all. Here’re the points:

• tools lower the quality of SEO performed (as manual labor is always better than any automation).
• tools might be against search engine TOS as they send automatic queries.

Heads up : I personally disagree with the 1st point, and let search engines taking care of the second one.

So, here’re the 5 complete reason, Why I use SEO tools and plugins:
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Heard about the DoFollow movement yet? The one which was a quiet movement and nowadays became a full-blown revolution. Yes, that one. Joined yet? You should.
Just got invited by a friend who’ve joined earlier to this DoFollow Revolution.

NoFollow Situation

It’s all begin as an action answering the nofollow situation. Wordpress, other blogging software and most of blog provider adds the “rel=nofollow” attribute to all links in comments. That’s by default. The intentions are good - to prevent nasty spammers from leaving spammy comments.

However, it doesn’t stop comment spam in any sense really, and besides, with good moderation and effective use of plugins like Askimet, spam can be controlled reasonably well anyway.

Loren Baker have write a great article about 13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck, which give us a clear point of view about how this nofollow attribute did.

And guess what, even Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg says NoFollow was a failure;

“In theory this should work perfectly, but in practice although all major blogging tools did this two years ago and comment and trackback spam is still 100 times worse now. In hindsight, I don’t think nofollow had much of an effect, though I’m still glad we tried it.”

Be a DoFollower, Join the Movement
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I ‘m pretty sure, we’ve all red about seo here and there. Guess what, this one is definitely the coolest, as it cames from Matt Cutts himself. From an interview Matt Cutss with Performancing.

Below are the 7 ways to get ranked well in google:

• Google’s webmaster guidelines. Take the time to read Google’s webmaster guidelines
• Don’t bother with year/month/day in blog urls; Just use the first few words from the title of the post in the url
• Don’t try to rank for a huge phrase at first - pick a smaller niche and get to be known as an expert there, and then build your way out and up
• Controversial posts are sure to build links, but too many controversial posts may undermine your credibility.
  I think you attract more links with a conversational style, humor, and doing your own research to produce new insights or tidbits of info
• Commenting on other blogs isn’t that useful. There are a lot of ways to build a reputation, from having a great blog to producing a unique service to speaking at conferences.
• A single creative idea that catches fire in the blogosphere or digg.com is probably more useful than just chasing/buying/trading links.
• Original information or research is great bait to attract links

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Just browse around, and read some articles, and I find my self got reminded of 2 things which are definitely essential in blogging and Search Engine Optimization.
It explained that two of the reasons why blogs fared so well in search engines was because of Interlinking and Timestamps.

1. Interlinking

- Search engines tend to rank more highly pages that are linked to by similar pages. So even though by interlinking your pages you are essentially linking to yourself, some search engines see this as a sign of relevancy as at least you are writing about the same topic.

- Problogger points out that Search Engines index blogs by sending robot crawlers to sites to track what you ‘ve written and to follow the links.

Interlinking your blog will make this easier for search engines as they can crawl your site more quickly and effectively. Most SEO experts recommend that you provide some sort of Site Map that means every page on your blog is just a link or two away from every other one. One way to do this for bloggers is to make sure that your category pages are in your sidebars.
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Breaking up with Google PageRank after years of relationship? Not for long. That’s for sure, if you follow these 9 search engine flirtations. You ‘ll have google back on your tail soon! I repeat, real soon.

1. Go bold

Just as women love bold suitors, so do search engines. Start highlighting keywords on each page with the tag to increase search relevance. Search engines are attracted to words contained in the H1 and B tags. Just don’t go wild- two bold words per page is enough.

2. Go Deeper

Having other sites drill deep into your web at various locations tells google that ‘hey, this guy has varied useful content’. It’s poor SEO strategy to acquire links just to link to the homepage. The search engines may ultimately discount those links
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