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(Entry was posted by Paul Edmondson Magicia on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/21/2014).

What is the best way to get these site links without it being spammy?

I currently am on page 4 of google for wedding magician. I want to be on page 1. Backlinks I have been told are key those in top have loads and high page authority. Is the page authority deemed by the site links?

What is the best way to get these site links without it being spammy?
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  • Paul Edmondson Magician: I currently am on page 4 of google for wedding magician. I want to be on page 1. Backlinks I have been told are key those in top have loads and high page authority. Is the page authority deemed by the site links?

    What is the best way to get these site links without it being spammy?
  • Joshua Boles: You need to acquire high quality back-links from trusted authority sources. This can be done in a number of different ways, all having varying results with respect to time and performance. I suggest, if you are using this for lead generation and branding, that you hire a professional SEO company.
  • Paul Edmondson Magician: Finding the right one is tough. A lot of seo companies will merely collate information via seo moz and submit articles. This is hardly seo. I do this myself so I don't want to pay for someone else to do this. 
  • Mach Page Speed: How is your site for page speed? I find that all the sites I do for page speed get a natural boost in serps. I have no back links outside of google. Last site went from page 10 to 1 in 6 weeks and added no new content and it was for commercial real estate in Chicago area.
  • Paul Edmondson Magician: my page speed isn't too bad. +Mach Page Speed how on earth did you do that? From 10-1 needs to have some work? I can't optimise the page speed and then sit there and let it rise. It wouldn't work? Any tips welcome
  • Mach Page Speed: The website was on for several yrs before the person reach out to me. When I took over hosting...the site wasn't even in the top 25 pages. rebuilt it using rich snippets and focused on page speed. Site pages render average 1.2 seconds.
  • Mach Page Speed: I am assuming your website is the one linked to your profile.  ;I looked at it...pretty clean code. He is what I suggest.

    1) Get a favicon - page speed tests return a 404 error without one.

    2) Defer loading your youtube video, facebook, and google analytics. Even though you are async defer your facebook js...it is still hitting your page speed score.

    3) combine the 2 css files into 1...literally.

    4) losslessly compress the 4 images and defer loading the bottom 2 images.

    5) You have probably 5 .htaccess issues you need to resolve.

    6) You need to run your site through http://validator.w3.org/  ;you have 4 errors in your markup. ;

    mach page speed
  • Paul Edmondson Magician: +Mach Page Speed when you day defer loading my YouTube video how do you mean? I need have it on as it's a testimonial.

    and what do you mean defer Facebook. js ? And analytics? I need them on. 
  • Mach Page Speed: +Paul Edmondson Magician
    Defer does not mean "do not use". To use a phase from your line of work deferring is a web pages "sleight of hand" trick.

    It means delay loading just until the page is shown.

    Go to my g+ page. I just did a post on deferring YouTube videos. 
  • Paul Edmondson Magician: Great +Mach Page Speed I'll check that out later. What about deferring Facebook and analytics? Is this explained in the video?
  • Tim Capper: I ll take a look later, but change the word LInks in nav to anything other then that... suppliers, resources, anything. 
  • Jim Munro: +Mach Page Speed ;Normally we remove comments which are self-promotional but in this case I think this was useful information.

    Thank you but please take care in the future to let people seek you out because they want to, not because there is a request in one of our comment threads.

    Definitely do not make performance claims here again as we have no means or resources to fairly verify them.
  • Tim Capper: Hi +Paul Edmondson Magician ;

    There is no "magic"  ;( not intended ) to ranking. You need to create signals for search engines.

    As i mentioned earlier - drop the word Links

    Talking of links - you dont have any natural links - whats with all the .gov and .edu links - they stand out like a sore thumb, not to mention forum links.

    I would also look at your contact page - would you consider adding your address. Google looks at contact details as a sign of trust.

    If you decide to, then i would set up a Google+ My business page, linking this to site with rel=publisher.

    Also look at  ;alt image tags - an image on your banner, just reads "coins"

    Blog - all your posts are from sept this year, this does take time - reach out to people connect, be social

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/21/2014).