What surprised me was how technical the process is when farming link sources. However after a quick search I discovered many blogs with spam filters on their WordPress blogs.

I’ve saved this blog and will follow its instructions closely.

The update process was interrupted when my browser crashed and I was confronted with this message. Grrr I couldn’t access my blog at all so naturally I went into panic mode.

But a simple Google search for the error message, “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” brought me to this post.

Very simple solution, thank you. And thank you for saving me a few extra grey hairs too

- Wayne

I wanted to keep the theme, so I added the if statement in the post-content div, and just echoes a text directing to the login/register page instead of usng wp_die.

When building links you have to think about what Google wants to happen. Google doesn’t want people manipulating rankings. It wants people creating interesting and unique content and overall just contributing to making the web a better and more interesting place. The way Google’s algorithm actually works isn’t necessarily completely in line with those goals (especially not prior to 2012), but they’re always pushing in a direction to reward you for contributing valuable/unique/interesting information to the web as a whole.

Explaining how to build backlinks in general is far outside the scope of this article. But if you understand that backlinks are one of the things the SEs look at when determining your rank, and you understand the overall goal of these search engines – to push the most relevant and high quality results to the top of the SERPs – then you’ll be able to better evaluate the value of a particular link building strategy.