Themed Groups of Similar Slave Pages For Backlinks

Getting backlinks by creating your own social networking pages, blogs, videos and the like is powerful. Connecting those resources through a theme, metaphor or metonym is even more powerful. Having a bunch of unrelated Squidoo lenses’ RSS feeds on your support blog won’t work as well as a tight group of Squidoo lenses that are connected by a common idea.

The same goes for just about any other social networking medium. Most of these resources are set up so that you can group your videos,
Web pages, blogs, etc. into interest groups or themes. If you’ve never considered doing this before (for example, all your blog posts are Uncategorized), realize that this can be yet another way to give more authority and relevance to whatever you intend to do to support your main website.

Even better, when you choose to use RSS feeds from your most powerful “Slave” pages and blogs, the content will have more authority if it is all linked together via a theme. You can do this thematic connection within many of the social networking sites themselves. For blogs, resources like Technorati and MyBlogLog allow you to create and maintain your own unique collections of related blogs, which can share common keywords and tags.

These themed groups can appear in the search engine results as their own links. Since themes and groups from these resources have “people authority”, they often rank highly in the search engines and can help drive off any competition you may have in the SERP’s. This is especially important in highly competitive niches where pushing your competition off the first page of the search results is just as important as being at the top yourself.

Since this is not as easy to do as simply putting your keywords into the title of a blog post or Hub Page, do some research. Take a look at what other successful social-networking marketers are doing with these themed groups of pages, blogs, bookmarks and the like. This will be fundamental market research for you. Once you get the idea of how others are capitalizing on this organized method of tying together groups of related content, experiment with doing it yourself.

Once you grasp how this method gives greater weight and authority to the content you create for your backlink pages, it will be easy for you to assign RSS feeds, text links and the like to your weaker Slave pages to support your Master page. Even better, once these themed groups of support pages are indexed by tags and keywords, more of your search engine results will be showing up at or near the top of the SERP’s.

This kind of organization is vital if you are working in a fairly competitive niche. Your competition may be just as good as you at basic and intermediate SEO, but you’ll have the advantage of additional links that rank highly for the keywords you are competing for. This may be just enough to put you at the top of the list and push them all off the first page of the results.