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Comment on Why your link analysis methods suck by ericward

ericward — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:13:30 +0000

You wrote…

some people still feel strongly that if you find a site providing a link to one of your competitors you’d do well to also obtain a link from that site. That’s one of the most inefficient approaches to link building…

Getting links a competitor already has is the low hanging fruit of backlink analysis-driven link building. It’s why sites with no discernable differentiating content are fated/doomed to end up with similarly undiscernable undifferentiating inbound link profiles. They are like monkeys playing leapfrog inside an MC Escher painting, all equally exhausted and no closer to any reward.

Eric

Comment on Simple Wave Theory For The Web by BostonMediaDomain

BostonMediaDomain — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:14:08 +0000

this was a seriously super post and fabulous thought endeavor. keep up the great work!. I liken the web more to a quantum approach where Social Media is the Brownian motion to the continued usefulness of a site or the wave of return user traffic to that site

Comment on Why your link analysis methods suck by Sean Revell

Sean Revell — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:20:20 +0000

Excellent article, look forward to the follow up.

Comment on The Best SEO Theory Blog Posts of 2008 by Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:55:02 +0000

For what it’s worth, I think we’ve corrected the URL issue.

Comment on A Guide To One-way Link Building by Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:54:10 +0000

It’s extremely important to define the path we’ll follow as SEOs. In my opinion, it’s better to have a clear plan than to simply flounder about and try things willy-nilly.

You’ll find, however, that I’m no fan of “PR sculpting”. But that’s all I’ll say here.

Happy holidays.

Comment on A Guide To One-way Link Building by Donace

Donace — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:47:59 +0000

I have been silently reading through a number if posts and it has put my ‘SEO knowledge’.

As you put in an earlier/later post write an ebook every year on SEO and then update it the next.

If I did this 2008 would consist of 1) Build links via comments 2) build links via social media 3) build links via XYZ 4) PR sculpting via ‘rel=nofollow’.

The 2009 version will hopefully be a lot better and more fact then myth

Comment on The Best SEO Theory Blog Posts of 2008 by Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:06:16 +0000

We were going to fix that problem but then a little snow storm got in the way. I’ll discuss it with the team tomorrow.

Comment on The Best SEO Theory Blog Posts of 2008 by deInternetMarketeer

deInternetMarketeer — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:03:57 +0000

The people who bookmarked seo-theory also come in @ the hack article.