How to Organize a Link in WordPress

How to Organize a Link in WordPress

Hi guys, welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. In this tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to create a link category. This is also a way to organize your links and just like you organize posts by creating categories and subcategories; Here we’re going to learn how to organize links by creating link categories. So,  first thing that you do is you come to your navigation menu and where you see
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How to Edit Existing Links in WordPress

How to Edit Existing Links in WordPress

Hi everyone, and welcome to BuildMySiteForFree.com. This is going to be a very quick and simple tutorial on how to edit existing links on your blog roll.  So when you’re on your Dashboard the first thing you want to do is come to your navigation menu and you’re going to open up the link’s submenu. Then what you want to do is scroll down to the very first option and click
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SEO Tip #97: Is It Okay To Sell Links As Long As We Use The No-Follow Attribute?

SEO Tip #97: Is It Okay To Sell Links As Long As We Use The No-Follow Attribute?

Matt Cutts: The answer is yes. The fact is what Google cares about is whether a link that you sell flows PageRank. And if it doesn’t flow PageRank, if it doesn’t affect search engines, it’s none of our business at that point. Now if you are in Europe you might have some various laws that apply to you. If you’re in the United States, the Federal Trade Commission wants you to
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SEO Tip #94: How Does Google Find Pages That Don’t Have Any Links To Them?

SEO Tip #94: How Does Google Find Pages That Don’t Have Any Links To Them?

Matt Cutts: You almost threw me for a loop with this question because I read all the way through and was ready to give my answer but then the last sentence completely changed my answer so I want to answer it both ways. Starting with the beginning of your question on how Google can index things even if there aren’t any links pointing to the particular page people can always submit
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SEO Tip #49: Is There Such a Thing as Building too Many Links?

SEO Tip #49: Is There Such a Thing as Building too Many Links?

Matt Cutts: I wouldn’t worry about that really. There is no such thing as building too many links as long as you’re doing it in a great organic way. Let me give you a couple of examples. Think about sites like Twitter, FaceBook, Digg, and sites that people go to every day, all day long and spend lots of time there. People link to those sites because they find cool things
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SEO Tip #23: Which is more important: content or links?

SEO Tip #23: Which is more important: content or links?

Matt Cutts: Google always has to trade off the balance between authority and topicality, for lack of a better word. If somebody types in “Viagra”, which is one of the most spammed terms in the world, you want something that is about Viagra. You do not just want something that has a lot of authority, like Newsweek or Times, that is talking right in the article and they have one mention
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SEO Tip #15: What’s the preferred way to check for links to my site?

SEO Tip #15: What’s the preferred way to check for links to my site?

Matt Cutts: The “link:” operator is accurate. It only shows you a sub-sample of your links. My preferred way would be to log-in to Google Webmaster’s Tools and we will show you a very exhaustive list of all your backlinks, pretty much all the backlinks that we know of in Google’s Webmaster console. The nice thing is other people can’t spy on that, so your competitor can’t look at your backlinks.
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WordPress Training: Displaying a list of links in your sidebar

Some themes will be able to display a list of your links by default but if you aren’t seeing them and you have a widget enabled theme this is easily remedied. How do you know if you have a widget enabled theme? Head to the appearance menu and select widgets. If your theme doesn’t support widget till I tell you in which case you are at lack of otherwise you’ll see
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WordPress Training: Arranging links into categories

If you find that creating a bunch of links that fall into different categories, you might want to categorize them to make them easier to navigate. Let’s say you have links that you want separated from work related, blogs I love, and my photos and videos categories. Head to links > link categories. To add a category give your descriptive name. finally, you can add an optional description of the category
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