Howdy folks!

Soon be getting into summer time over here in cloudy ole England!

I've heard SEO-GUY talk about authority pages and authority sites.

Can someone explain in easy terms! what they mean and how I would set one up?

Many thanks

SuperMac

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SuperMac

An Authority site is one that recieves links from what the hilltop algorithm defines as "expert sites" These are a subset of the pages on the WWW identified as directories of links to non-affiliated sources on specific topics http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~georgem/hilltop/ Such expert sites would be directories like DMOZ etc and you cant really build them efficiently yourself, its better to try to get listed on directories pertaining to your topic with your kw's in the text and you thus become an authority site on the matter

Thanks Morgan - that is very helpful.

2 questions for ya! ;-)

-> What other directories are the best to get listed in apart from DMOZ?
-> I think I read you talking about authority pages when talking to Ed about his "beans" and "bean" pages - what did u mean by this?

Thanks Morgan - look forward to your reply

SuperMac

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SuperMac

Ahh no that is showing that you're an authority on something which is totally different. What that means is first you create a site about "widgets" so you are now relevant. But then you go and create a bunch of support pages about "green widgets" "small widgets" etc and link your "widgets" page to all these pages. This not only makes your "widgets" page about "widgets" it makes it an authority by virtue of the fact it links to other "widgets" relevant content. And of course you would place "big widgets" small widgets" or whatever as the outbound anchor text.

As far as directories I think sunny posted a complete list somewhere I will try to find it, but really you want to seek out the niche directories that are relevant to just your specific category.