Getting Links From Authority Websites

Everyone knows that links are extremely important for your web presence and the success of your business. However, there are links and there are links. Some links are not good quality and won’t help you. Others will help a lot.

The importance of the quality of the link

There are a large number of links on the Internet that are not of the highest quality. You can buy cheap links, if you desire to do so. There are several different people and places that have links for sale. Of course, if you buy links from a questionable source, there is certainly no guarantee that your links will do what you want them to do. If they don’t, you are putting your success on the line.

What is an authority link?

If you are buying cheap links, they are not authority links. You may be asking where you can get authority links and what they are. First of all, you need to go to an authority site. Authority sites are not difficult to find. However, you can’t always count on their being the top sites in the search engines. In fact, sometimes, you won’t even find them on the first page of the search results. It depends on the niche. One of the issues is that, after a search, many people automatically choose whatever appears at the top of the page and that is not always the best choice. It is very important to consider the source before you choose the first item at the top of the page. The same concept applies to authority sites. They are sites that can be trusted as credible and true. However, placement in the search engines is not good enough in the credibility department. Authority sites generally get a lot of attention once people have caught on to them because of their credibility. You can trust the information that you obtain from those sites.

How to identify an authority site

In the past, you could safely rely on the top listings in the search engines being authority sites. However, that is less often the case now. Nowadays, it is much harder to identify authority sites easily. Because the data are read differently now, it often causes the search engines to push inferior websites to the top of the list and thus pushes higher-quality (authority) websites to appear further down in the rankings. If you are a person who relies heavily on analytics software to tell you about the quality of your results, those results may be skewed.

It is important for you to understand that you have to work harder to determine quality websites than you ever did before. A lot of the trust has gone out the window with the tidal wave of information that is available. When it comes to the number of people on social media channels and the number of connections that those people have, you know that it is often not about quality. It is about quantity instead. That completely dilutes the quality. If you were to ask any of those people with absurdly large numbers of connections, it is a safe bet that those people don’t know a large percentage of those connections or even have much in common with them (professionally).

Different kinds of authority sites

Formal societies

There are several different types of authority sites. In most cases, the searches that people use are not simple. They often consist of many facets and levels of searching. Consequently, the results that are obtained are often sophisticated and extremely valuable. Searching through social media channels is a great way to go because you obtain results quickly and easily in most cases.

If you are used to producing and syndicating a large volume of content, you are probably well aware of who your influencers are. Some authority sites for connecting with your influencers are chambers of commerce, large organizations with a large number of members, large, prestigious societies, etc. If you feel comfortable with it, it is probably worth the time and financial investment to connect with these people. The benefits far outweigh the risks in general.

News websites

Well-known, high-integrity websites are generally considered authority sites. You can trust those. Sites like BBC, CNN, Huffington Post and other newspapers are excellent choices. The next step is getting the people in charge of those sites to accept you and to submit content to them for publication. Of course, it goes without saying that your content must be top notch.

Conclusion

Now that you understand what an authority site is, the question is how you obtain those links. The first thing that you can do is to ask. In a lot of cases, if you ask, you will get. You can make requests of this type through Emails.

Of course, that is not the only way to obtain those links. Another way is by creating really exciting content and then promoting it. Finally, you can take links from websites that your influencers use. This is a backdoor approach but it is often effective in any case. As important as links are to the success of your business, it is critical that you are discriminating about which ones you choose. After all, it is your business’s reputation on the line. If you get involved with authority websites, you will be developing good quality relationships with influencers and your relationships will be mutually beneficial.

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Michael Cohn is the founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of CompuKol Communications. He has over 25 years of experience in IT and web technologies. Mr. Cohn spent a significant amount of time at a major telecommunications company, where his main focus was on initiating and leading synergy efforts across all business units by dramatically improving efficiency, online collaboration, and the company’s Intranet capabilities, which accelerated gains in business productivity. He also reduced company travel and travel costs by introducing and implementing various collaboration technologies.

His expertise includes business analysis; project management; management of global cross-matrix teams; systems engineering and analysis, architecture, prototyping and integration; technology evaluation and assessment; systems development; performance evaluation; and management of off-shore development.

Should You Buy Links to Your Website?

There is nothing inherently wrong with buying links to your website so long as you’re doing for the “right” reasons. Depending on which side of the fence you’re sitting on, the meaning of the word “right” can vary. In order to know what you should do, here’s a quick examination of the various reasons you might want to buy links to your website and whether doing so may get you in trouble with the search engines.

The definition of “paid” is also quite loose and can be anything from swapping a link on your site for a link on the other person’s site, giving the other site some content or actually paying a fee.

Buying links for direct traffic

If the links are bought for the clicks they immediately generate, this can be a good strategy.

Buying links in this way can be a good way to increase your traffic and can include text links (the kind we’re used to navigating around the web with), banners that direct people to your site, links on your videos or any other method that people can use to reach your website.

The price for a link can vary enormously. For instance, Yahoo’s directory charges $299 per year for a link (more if you run an adult site) whereas the Open Directory is free apart from your time to request the link.

A link on a regular page of a site may cost a fixed fee, a monthly or annual fee, or you may be able to gain it in return for supplying the site with content – maybe a guest post, maybe a video they can embed in their site, maybe a comment on their blog.

All those methods can work nicely for direct traffic but generally Google likes to see this kind of link flagged as “nofollow” so that its search algorithm knows that it shouldn’t pass any importance to the link and shouldn’t boost your site’s PageRank as a result of the links.

Providing your paid links are marked as “nofollow” they follow all the current guidelines issued by the search engines.

Buying links to increase PageRank

Google hate this idea with a vengeance.

They have been known to penalise both the site selling you the link as well as you for receiving it – Forbes experienced this first hand in 2011, so it doesn’t just apply to smaller websites.

There are various networks that are available that offer to connect you to sites that are prepared to either sell or rent links to you. They claim to have systems in place to protect you from penalties but you have no way of knowing how good those systems are – it would certainly be easy enough for Google to register a dummy company and find out who is selling links. Or they could simply set up their software to detect the unnatural patterns these sites leave (often called footprints).

Sites like Fiverr and eBay also offer services that sell links and again it’s a case of “buyer beware”.

Overall, if you care about your site then I would strongly suggest that you only buy links for the direct traffic they generate and that are marked “dofollow”.

Find Out How Successful People Think So You May Be Successful Too

Do you think successful people are just plain lucky?

Successful people did not become successful because they were lucky.

They did not achieve success by accident. Being at the right place at the right time, meeting relevant people, reading the appropriate book, did not come about accidentally or by luck.

Luck is brought about by Labour Under Correct Knowledge.

Successful people prepared themselves. Instead of giving up on anything they started and wanted to achieve they got stronger by learning more.

Success is a methodical, orderly and deliberate process of deciding what you want to do with your life, what are the steps that you need to undertake to get you there, and lastly what you will do once you get there.

One of the most important aspects, if not the most important aspect to success, is the ability to visualise your successful outcome and stay focused on it until you achieve it.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge is limited.” – Albert Einstein

Successful people understood the potential power behind knowledge, yet they also understood that, for them to close the gap between where they are and where they wanted to be, they would have to piece together the enigma that is most often referred to as “life”.

They had to build a picture, a vision, of success in their mind, and then go about taking action on creating that envisioned life.

In much the same way, you have to be serious about your present and future, you need to have the knowledge that is required so you, too, may close the gap: you need to be and remain determined to devote yourself to taking massive action to build your business of succeeding in life.

You, too, will need to see the end, your dream and destiny that you desire in your mind’s eye. It is up to you to take the necessary and relevant action to make it all happen. It’s just like going to the doctor with a particular health problem.

The doctor may prescribe a medication for you to take four times a day, yet he cannot be there with you to ensure that you are taking the medication.

It comes back to deciding to be responsible for your life.

Have you noticed how it all stems from that one attitude? Being responsible for your own life.

Your success, your being responsible 100% for you to live your dream life starts here.

When you accept 100% responsibility for yourself and your current life situation, you will have the power to move towards those things you truly desire in life: which is success in all areas of your life.

This life-changing article is about possibilities and opportunities, knowledge and tools. It will help expose your unique course in life.

It will inspire, support and motivate you to excel, to do what successful people do, to have all that successful people have, and to become a shining example of a successful person.

Here, you’re not being told what you couldn’t do, instead you are being told to shoot for the stars. And above all, you are being shown how to shoot for those stars.

“A person is what he thinks about all day long.” – Emerson

Interesting thought, wouldn’t you think? So much so, it’s worth repeating: “A person is what he thinks about all day long.”

Success and happiness cannot happen if you possess the same old thoughts and beliefs.

If you do not change your mind, if you do not get rid of the unsupportive thoughts and beliefs, you will inevitably remain stuck in your old ways. Not much, if anything, will change.

Let’s give you a quick overview on how change comes about:

Your BEHAVIOUR, how you act (or perhaps do not act), controls your success or failure. Your ability to attain high levels of success is dependent upon your actions and behaviours. Your results are the outcome of your behaviour. Now let’s consider where your behaviours come from and what controls them?

Your FEELINGS command your behaviour. Every action that you take is first filtered through your feelings that reside in your subconscious mind. How you feel about something determines what you do and how well you do it. So where do your feelings come from?

Your ATTITUDES create and influence your feelings. Your attitude is your perspective from which you view life. Whatever attitude you have about anything will affect how you feel, which, in turn, affects how you act. Where do your attitudes come from?

Your BELIEFS create, control and influence your attitudes. What you believe about anything will determine your attitude about it, which will create your feelings, and then which will direct your behaviour and action. Belief patterns are so powerful that two people who are in the same situation could perceive things completely differently. It only requires us to believe what we see and how we see it. We all have thousands of beliefs – big and small. And where do your beliefs come from?

Your THOUGHTS create, control and influence your beliefs. Your thoughts are real and are immensely powerful. Everything you accept from the outside world and everything you feed yourself from within is a product of your thoughts. Everything starts as a thought.

So, it goes without saying you need to learn to control your thoughts. And when you do, you will automatically control your beliefs, your attitudes, your feelings and, consequently, your behaviour and actions.

The big secret to success:

Learn to control your thoughts and you will influence your behaviours and actions. It’s all a mind-set. That’s what we’ve been saying all along.

Success is predictable and is not achieved by accident.

Have the mind-set of the successful people and you will achieve success. Believe and it is yours!

“There is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.” – Joel Osteen

Science of success experts have concluded that the brain is a goal-setting organism.

That is fantastic news for us: for whatever goal we give to our subconscious mind, it will work for us day and night, 24/7, to achieve it for us; to make it a reality.

The principal breakthrough that scientists made was that we do not need to waste our precious time and effort trying to change old thoughts and behaviours: we just simply create new ones.

And the other discovery they made was that we can continue to create new thoughts, new memories, new behaviours, new skills, and learn new things for as long as we are alive on this earth.

Now, with the new discoveries in recent years, it has been scientifically proven that our capacity to achieve and succeed literally has no limits.

Our brain has the capacity to continually learn during our entire lifetime.

Our brain can form new thoughts, can have new memories, and can learn new things by the millions, no matter what your age is. By the millions.

That’s how many new things we can learn, that’s how many new skills we can learn, that’s how many new thoughts we can have, that’s how many new behaviours we can adopt.

This is encouraging because there is no limit on your capacity to achieve new things.

No limits whatsoever for the human brain to learn, memorise, develop, achieve and perform at higher levels than ever imagined. It makes no difference what your age is: you are capable of learning anything new that you want to learn.

That adds to what we spoke of earlier: no more excuses.

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

Your brain has the capacity to achieve way beyond what was ever thought possible. So now is the time to break out of your limited thinking and start dreaming big and imagining unlimited possibilities.

Becoming successful is not impossible.

It is a choice you make through a decision. Every day, step-by-step, you may climb the mountain of success if you’ve decided to do so, if you’re committed to accomplish what the others think impossible.

Design your future now.

Prepare to receive what you desire.

Thanks to the phenomenal advances made in cognitive science and the development of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), personal change, personal transformation, has come a very long way.

In fact, personal growth is no longer a mystery.

NLP has brought to light that change, transformation and growth can be fast, reliable, and even fun. It has shown us that we do not need to spend thousands of hours slaving away to increase our creative-thinking abilities.

By practicing a few simple exercises and applications, you can start your creative juices flowing, and you may even amaze yourself at the quality and quantity of good ideas that you can come up with to expedite your success.

It can allow you to achieve something you seek within days and months as opposed to years and decades. That’s the power of the progress science has made on how the brain works, and also how you can have your mind to be your best ally in achieving anything you want.

Learn to live as you like by no longer living as you dislike.

Are you ready to get on the road to success and fulfilment?

Bear in mind, much like everything else in life, success requires practice and massive, consistent action.

“Success doesn’t mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.” – Edwin C Bliss

Hani Al-Qasem has been a self-improvement educator for more than 18 years.

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Live Your Life To Please God

Open your Bible to 1 Thessalonians 4:1 it says… Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. Go ahead and highlight that scripture.

Will you trust God to teach you in the way you should go? You need wisdom to live for His righteousness, His love and devotion to Christ Jesus. You see, you have to develop the habit of listening to God. He may give you direction you have never had before. Like what? God wants you under the influence of His Word. God wants you to live by godly principles in His Word.

God wants you to give Jesus first place! This is vital for your Christian walk! Jesus is your connection to the throne of God. You see, in this world, it is very easy to become distracted from God. Many people follow some other path apart from God’s will. But the foundation of all spiritual truth is obedience to God through the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible tells you to praise the Lord! He is truly worthy of worship. Love no one not even yourself – more than you love God. Every morning you should be asking God to fill you with His presence. You want to be filled by the Spirit so that you’re led by Him. You love the Word, study the Word and learn the Word. Why? To live your life to please God. His Word is true wisdom for you to walk in His instructions.

If you want to live your life to please God give His Word a place of first priority! Scriptures will come alive on the inside of you. You’re knowing God for yourself and the importance of being led by the Spirit of God. Many people won’t like the new you, but you’re not living to please people, you’re living to please God.

You don’t need people approval when you have God’s approval! You want the praise of God more than the praise of people. Quit worrying about what everyone thinks and do what God has put in your heart.

God will put a new testimony in your mouth! You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you. God is continually shaping and molding into the person He wants you to be. Stop focusing on what you can’t do, and start focusing on what God can do.

Serve God and worship Him and continue to seek His will. How? You have to establish a passionate relationship with God’s Word. Believe His Word, trust His Word, study His Word, thank Him for His Word. But always remember the devil will do everything he possibly can to lure you away from God. The devil does not want you to grow in the knowledge of King Jesus.

Many people never seriously read the Bible! But you need to be a student of God’s Word and doer of God’s ways. Be a Christian that reads scripture and prays. The Holy Spirit won’t adjust to you, you must adjust to Him! Use your voice to worship Him and lift up the name of Jesus! Now, raise your hands and say, “I live to please God, more and more!”

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