Introduction of offpage SEO

We've gone over the onpage seo web design and optimization, so let's move on to the offpage search engine marketing and SEO which is what really makes a difference in your site's ranking. Off Page Optimization is done outside the website in order to increase its performance in search engines for the desired keywords.

•  Which websites link to you
•  The number of websites linking to you
•  The Google page rank of the website linking to you
•  The page title of the website linking to you
•  The anchor text used in the link linking to you
•  The number and type of links linking to the website that's linking to you.
•  The number of outbound links on the website that is linking to you
•  The total number of links on the website that is linking to you
• Whether or not the web sites pointing to you are deemed by Yahoo, MSN or Google as an authority web site.

The major offpage SEO techniques are as follows:

1. Link Campaign: One of the important parts of search engine optimization is building of links with the partners. Link building expands link popularity which in turn high the google pagerank of the special web page. Link exchange is one of the very important method of the OffPage Optimization.
2. Social networking: It refers to the several online social website where the visotor share the close hobby and activities. Examples of such websites are MySpace and Orkut.
3. Directory Listings: Submission of the website to the directories will definitely enhance the generation of the traffic and link popularity of the particular website. Directories include list of websites that are meticulously checked. The directories are differentiated into several relevant subject categories that provide information to the visitors. Web directories are human edited and are much smaller than the search engine database. 
4. Article Distribution: Article distribution is the modern trend of off-page optimization. An article with relative key word is written and the steady resource locator of the self-owned web site is located at the end of article. Thus when the article is submitted in the popular article websites the traffic is generated to the self-owned website. For short period, the webmaster will have potential visitor in the effective form.

While doing off page optimization one should research and come up with multiple Anchor Texts containing the recommended density of keywords/keyword phrases. If you are not familiar with the word “Anchor Text”, it is the hyper linked text that is put on the Webpage which links back to your webpage.

Improvement in SERP or Search Engine Ranking Positions: It is the list of the web pages which a search engine returns according to the keyword query. The results generally incorporate the web pages with link to the page, titles, a brief description showing where the keywords have similar content in the webpage.