AdSense publishers (that’s us, folks!) can be a self-centered group…. let’s face it, we’re using AdSense because we want to make money. Maybe not a lot of money (as always, there’s usually a direct link between the amount of money you make doing something and the time and effort you put into the process) but money nonetheless. And that means focusing on the tiny part of the Internet that’s yours by publishing more content and getting more backlinks to that content.
Every once in a while, though, it’s good to step back and look at the wider picture. If you’ve done this for a while now, you’ve surely developed some expertise or understanding of how things work on the Web. Why not use this expertise to benefit someone else for a change, without them knowing about it?
There are all kinds of “random acts of SEO kindness” you can do that will benefit others. Here are a few suggestions:
- Bookmark someone else’s page. We all know that Social Bookmarking Is Today’s Big Thing and so we’re busy bookmarking our own sites… Well, go and bookmark your favorite charity’s site. Or your child’s school site. Or a site you just like. (Side benefit here: your bookmarking account won’t get flagged for just bookmarking your own sites…)
- Submit articles that link to other sites. Do you have access to an article submission service like Article Marketing Automation? Submit an article that benefits someone else.
- Link to other sites. It’s tempting to hoard PageRank by linking as little as you can to other sites… but PR ultimately depends on sites linking to other sites to work. Give a real link to a site you like from one of your own pages and spread the wealth.
That’s just scratching the surface, of course, I’m sure you can come up with your own ideas. How about setting up a Google custom search portal for your favorite local team or charity and making them a few bucks that way? Or teaching what you’ve learned about the Web to others?
Random acts of SEO kindness won’t make you any money, but they’ll make you feel better, and that’s a different kind of reward.
It’s good to balance out the SEO karma with worthy submissions
i link to other sites all the time.. so i guess im seo kind to those people
Great seo tips for you.
I always try to help out sites that I feel are good and worth while to other users, and I hope that others will do the same for me. There is no reason why we all cant help each other out from time to time.
interesting think you are talking about
If everyone did a random act of SEO kindness, then all SEOs would help one another in the long run and it would be a nice thing =)
all web sites will be linked, and every web will get good rankings
Always great to spread some link love!
to The Scribe of Notting Hill: I believe outbound links affect our site. Linking to bad sites and those site are banned, Google will catch our sites. I always add attribute rel=nofollow to links I don’t trust.
Links are so very important, and I don’t think that if you have a website, and you link to other good relevant sites with some degree of moderation and editorial review – that you will get dinged by google. As “The Scribe” says above, I think that you might even see a boost by linking to good sites.
As long as google doesn’t see you as a “link farm” you should be ok.
Great tips!
Thanks
Irene and Jim
Excellent advice.I often submit others content to social sites and they do the same for me.People often do the mistake of submitting only their own content to the social sites and get banned.
Never thought i’d see a post like this, SEO karma will be good for you. Article marketing is another good way of gettign linkbacks, but lately, its been marred by PLR or private label right articles, especially when google hates duplicate content
An eye opener article that will be helpful to all the bloggers who are out there making small monies every day, and who are filled with tension all the times, due to the crashing PRs every month or two. The tips given in this article will help in maintaining PRs for a longer time while helping other do so. it will be a win-win situation.
Awesome……….i get to help others and others get to help me……….if i consider this as a public help its fine or i can even do it a sense of tit for tat………….so either way i get benefited and so do others
Good info! I will start bookmarking some sites so that backlinks are created which in turn helps me and every one in the future. But will every guy in web agree to this? Every one come to web to make some money? Will new comers take this as a point to remember?
yea… well you have to keep in mind what sites your are connecting to your site. google has really database set up to track if your blog is a spam or not.. just a tip.
Hey when you give, it definitely come back to you. Maybe one day Google will give credit to those who share page rank for a good cause.
SEO is a give-and-take relationship! I do believe in karma that’s why all my kindness in doing some SEO methods would probably cause me something good in the near future.
It’s nice to be reminded that yes, we should be voting up the sites that we like instead of the sites that we’re trying to promote on a daily basis. You have my vote.
I totally agree with this. The interesting thing is that the goodwill that can arise from doing stuff like this can actually come back to benefit you. Not that you should do your good deeds just to be seen to be doing so though…
My first thought when reading your blog was the pay it forward movie. Then I read the comments and saw it mentioned.
Thanks for sharing these positive thoughts, and for encouraging others to share.
I thought this was a great post and take it to heart. I never thought about passing the SEO love in those ways. Great post and thanks for bringing it to everyone’s attention!
Those are some awesome tips, esp the one about bookmarking a charity site.
I myself have to agree that I am quite ‘selfish’ when it comes to SEOs. I mean I do this because there is a lot of money in store for you if you know how to strategize and think well. Having read your article’s title turned on my curiousity and sure enough, I was reading this post later on.
“Link to other sites. It’s tempting to hoard PageRank by linking as little as you can to other sites… but PR ultimately depends on sites linking to other sites to work. Give a real link to a site you like from one of your own pages and spread the wealth. ”
I really like this one since not only are you helping others, but you are helping yourself as well since internal or external link structures are factors that can really affect your SEO.