Link Building

Posts with link building suggestions, analysis, and commentary.

How to Get High Quality Links in SEO

May 7, 2012
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There is nothing easier than obtaining high quality links that help you promote your Website. And yet, given how easy and simple it is to obtain these high quality links, people continue to struggle with the concept. Why is that? I submit that people are using the wrong metrics to judge the quality of...

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Why Are You So Hard on Link Builders?

April 12, 2012
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Every now and then someone asks me a variation on the question: “Why do you give link builders so much grief?” It’s my fault that the message is not more clear. I’m not giving crap to link builders. I’m giving crap to self-proclaimed SEOs who act like all you need are links. I have...

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How to Encourage the Link Proposals You Want to Receive

June 6, 2011
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There is no stopping link requests. If you put up a contact form or publicize your email address, you’ll get plenty of daily or weekly link requests from bumbling SEO firms around the world (including some in the United States) who have no clue about what they are doing. So it hardly makes sense...

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Why SEO Link Building Strategies Look More Pathetic Than Ever

May 31, 2011
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Some people just don’t get it. Search engine optimization is not, never has been, and most likely never will be about, primarily about, mostly about, or “just” about link building. Links are far more important to the unimaginative, inefficient, lazy search engine optimization specialists who don’t understand what it means to actually optimize for...

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Link Zinged by Jim Boykin, I think

September 29, 2009
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Disclaimer: This article reflects my personal experience and represents only my opinions. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer, co-workers, or associates. I am usually disgusted by the no-name SEO firms that use my contact form to ask me to sell links, buy links, or otherwise...

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Secrets of How to Escape the Link Building Trap Now

February 24, 2009
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It is now pretty well accepted that many SEO technicians consider link building to be the most important part of the service they provide. Link building is more important than keyword research, more important than measuring conversions and return on investment, more important than managing crawl and indexing, more important than increasing search visibility...

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A Guide To One-way Link Building

September 9, 2008
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Link-building should constitute no more than 10-15% of your search engine optimization practice. You want your linking to be efficient, effective, and long-lasting. Here are a few link building tips to help you improve your search engine optimization practice and your search results. Links start at home Most people now agree that internal navigation...

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Link Building Tips SEOs Don’t Share With You

August 26, 2008
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With all the link-building advice we find scattered across the SEO community, you’d think every possible idea has been tried, shared, and burned out. Truth be told, I see new link building opportunities every day that have not been exploited by the SEO community. Of course, search engine optimization and link building are two...

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Link Building Mistakes SEO Gurus Teach You To Make

August 25, 2008
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UPDATE: Apparently the alternative suggestions looked too much like the objections, so I’ve modified the article from its original format to break the alternative suggestions out into separate blocks. Every day much of the same bad linking advice is being given out across the SEO Web. Here are some of the popular ideas that...

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Why your link-building techniques suck

June 26, 2008
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Tamar Weinberg at SE Roundtable wrote a brief post today about risk-free link-building techniques. Recapping points posted in a forum discussion, Tamar summed up the basic link-building tips that are still making the rounds in SEO discussions: There are a number of tactics that can be employed to build natural links (and perhaps a...

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