Is Your Web Host Piggybacking on Your Site?

Is Your Web host Piggybacking on Your Site?

Lenn had a great post about domain names today and in it she mentioned that some website hosting and design companies create back links at the bottom of your website linking back to their company site. While this is type of practice is the norm some go a little above and beyond reasonable practices. As I found yesterday one site even converted their clients pages back to their own personal domain although all the pages appeared as if they were his own.

Unfortunately SEO companies and online marketers prey on people's lack of education and ignorance. But couldn't we all do that to some degree? It's like going to get your oil changed and the repairman saying you have x, x and x wrong too.... Do I know any better? Perhaps not but your judgment still needs to take over to some degree. We can't know everything about everything and must rely on experts to a point.

But when someone is talking so far over our head about online garble and SEO tactics how can we all know what will actually help or harm our sites? I think at this point it must come down to results. What actually works and what doesn't. This company said that their client gets most of the Google Juice while they get just a little. Um, excuse me? Shouldn't he be getting ALL the Google Juice? Having a small link at the bottom of the website in the footer is fine especially if visitors want more information on a well done site or hosting. But that should be about it. Anymore "free" advertising for the website company is going a little beyond appropriate.

Here are some simple tips to keep in mind when designing or creating a website:

• Use inbound links whenever possible. Don't link stuff but if you talk about buyers on the sellers page, link to the buyers page. Community pages throughout the site to the appropriate pages. Search phrases to the search page and so on. This creates a web effect on your site and keeps the search engines crawling around on your site as well as giving visitors places to go. Source
  
• Consider opening external links in a new tab or window. I say "consider" because some people don't like to be forced into a new window and on the other hand they may want to go back to the original site.  But generally speaking you don't want visitors leaving your site so anytime you link off of your site, have that link open in a new window so your site stays open. Inbound links can open in the same window if you want.
  
• Make sure every page and every link is your domain. Some IDX providers frame in searches, some convert to the search page and this may be unavoidable with your host. Other than this, every page should be your domain and a sub-page there of. Even your website provider's link at the bottom should open in a new window if possible.

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