Site Review Blog - Contextual Text Links

How contextual blog links help my website in terms of SEO? It was a question I was asked some time ago. Unlike other text link advertisings on someone's web page, links within content are more valuable.

This is of course a theory supported by many SEO experts. Nowadays, a link at footer may not be so valuable especially a website has placed lots of irrelavant links to its domain theme. Furthermore, those links are simple anchor text with no other key terms or phrases.

A blog has lots of content as its main reason and purpose serve all the bloggers. People use blogs to write or express something they like. So, blogs are more content based sites. The idea of contextual blog links for SEO purposes is, therefore, pretty right on the target. You both get link and content.

So, the advantage of link within a content is obvious. Such links surely can look more natural and don't seem so artificial. This new trend has been one of the hottest topics in text link industry. I'm not sure how long this could last, but to live now, this should be something any SEO webmaster can not miss.

In order for me to review 1,000 sites, I would have to blog about more than 2 websites a day. That would be a big challenge since posting whatever is not too easy.

Review time for a site can take up to 3 min. This is actually a big task for me because I own several other blogs and 4 websites. Of course, I don't need to update each one of them, but maintaining so many websites itself wear me out often.

Blogging itself is much easier compared to offering an advertising service here. I don't need to think much for what I would need to post. All I do is let my fingers move even before my brain commands them what to do.

But the most important thing is the time management. That's why blogging on 2 websites or more each day is a huge task for me. All I can hope is get fun websites to review at least.

Some webmasters know that blog advertising is becoming very popular. In fact, when I noticed this new idea, I didn't think of creating a blog for this purpose. I didn't think of trying it either.

After seeing several other blogs doing the reviews, I have decided to join the club. Of course, the main reason is that this is still new and not too competitive yet.

A good benefit for advertisers is that their links will be within content. Such links look more natural in the eyes of SEs as you know. It seems that link exchange and other rather old SEO techniques are really not effective any more. That's why people started to purchase text links, hoping one way links would be more valuable and pass PR points better.

Article directories function the same as this blog ad basically, except listed links are often buried in deeper pages. Free service, most of them are, so it's not bad at all. But then that niche is also saturated these days.

So, let's see how this trend will go. Site review blogs will do well, I think. I am sure you would agree with me since you are reading this :)

I did not expect to start reviewing websites so soon. The blog is still in the process of advertising and marketing itself, but it seems the update by Google did good to my blog. It may not stay as it is, but all category pages are PR3 for some reason. This is very unexpected, but I hope it stays so. The funny thing is that the main page is still has no PR, very odd.

It will be ok anyways because this site review blog is for a longer term success. My plan is to get good traffic and PR as high as 5 or 6. And that would take some time for sure. However, it is good for me to have some fund in order to advertise this blog itself. For that, I need some sites to be reviewed.

I haven't disclosed my contact info yet as I was going to wait for several months. But whatever is happening, as long as category pages have PR, I think it's ok to open this blog for its advertising service.

It is said that Google would update for PageRank soon, sometime around 15th of this month. I bet many webmasters are expecting a good result. Although PR is not all about SEO, I am one of PageRank fans.

Those who are new to SEO usually can not wait to see how well they have promoted in the last 3 to 4 months. I am sure you used to check your pagerank everyday whenever the next update was within 10 days.

This review blog would have to wait for its PR till around April since it started in Dec. I hope it gets PR3 at least by the time. After all, without PR, I don't think I can continue this. It's about the time. Good luck with your site PR!

This year would be a good one for my websites, including this blog. Although Google's PR update is just around the corner, and I can't say too much what would happen, I think I can expect something good.

I am still preparing some stuff for this blog, but I really can not wait to start reviewing as many websites as possible. Come to think of it, after Dmoz being nearly dead, this blog could grow as big as it can be since it's pretty easy to maintain/maintained by Google. Everything is unlimited, too. The blog can have a structure like a directory as you can see those category links.

All I need is to spend time and review sites and blog about them. Maybe that would be my challenge this year. But the first goal is to review 1,000 sites in this blog!