In this case, the search algorithm is indexing so much information that correctly cataloging all of it is all but impossible. Therefore, it would be a good idea to tell the search engines where your links are, literally. As far as anchor text goes, do not use anchor text. Just use a period at the end of a sentence in your signature file to make the link to your link listing blog or page.

This method will get your links indexed more quickly than any other method. To learn more effective SEO and marketing techniques, check out the author's resource box below.

What is a Backlink?

What's all this hoopla over backlinks? Every SEO forum and blog you stop by is constantly touting the power and necessity of backlinks they must be a pretty big deal! A full answer to this question might take some hundreds of pages, so we're going to take a broad view of some backlinking strategies to get a good idea of how to get quality backlinks.

Sadly, backlinking isn't as simple or straight forward as our health expert example above. You're not so likely to be granted a link from some powerful authority such as CNN or Apple just for creating great content. Our techniques are going to have to be a little more guerilla-esque. Google and other SEs look at the text closest to a link to decide what it's about, and in essence, your anchor text is technically the closest text to the link (it IS the link!). You won't always have the option to use anchor text, but don't give up an opportunity when one presents itself.

Relevance

Relevance is another factor that decides how effective a backlink is. There are two easy (and FREE) ways to go about getting your links indexed.

1) Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking sites get crawled constantly by the search engines. When you post a bookmark on one, you're link will likely be crawled in a matter of hours. Testimonials

This is the most important factor for gauging the honesty and effectiveness of an SEO service. Is it working for other people? If there are a lot of other individuals or businesses having great success with the service then you can probably assume the same results for yourself. Any SEO professional worth his two cents is going to have some sort of indexing process built into his/her service. If you are looking at a service that doesn't even mention indexing the backlinks then it is likely that you are not looking at a service offered by a professional. Make sure that there are plenty of testimonials and proof of success. The main factor is certainly the IP/domain diversity you will have in your backlink portfolio.

Recently, many experts and wannabe-experts are debating about Google devaluing inbound links from profile signatures and profiles. While the supporters claim that Google is not in the position to do it, as first you would also cut legitimate links and secondly, SEOs could blast their competitors in order to get them de-indexed, the objectors tend to say that they observed negative SERP movements in the recent past for websites which ranked basically using profile backlinks.

Whether this is true or not, I cannot comment.