Many websites have the potential to profit from high-quality, one-way inbound links, such as those to “dot edu” websites, but are held back from success by factors not easily apparent to the site’s operators. A thorough evaluation of your website,…
No Comments »Archive for the ‘Link Building’ Category
Using Press Releases for Linkbaiting
Andrey Milyan
March 7th, 2007
Tags : Blog, Link BuildingLee Odden has an excellent post on the use of press releases as marketing tools. If right about now you’re thinking that press releases are not for your company, YOU ARE WRONG. Not only can you get more…
3 Comments »Is it Still Link Bait if You’re Link Begging?
Garrett French
February 28th, 2007
Tags : Blog, Link BuildingOF COURSE IT IS!
Don’t assume that if you write it, they will link.
Your days of going from inbox to inbox begging for links are far from over now that you’ve written your link bait, especially if there’s no…
No Comments »Deep Linking – How and When to Do It and Is It Illegal?
Joe Whyte
February 26th, 2007
Tags : Blog, Link BuildingSitting in on a class about “debunking SEO myths” at Affiliate Summit West was not as exciting as I had hoped. Over all, it was a decent attempt to educate us about some misconceptions regarding SEO but it seemed more…
2 Comments »Five Things to Do if Your Link Bait Ain’t Gettin’ Linked
Garrett French
February 22nd, 2007
Tags : Blog, Link Building1) Be patient.
Two days isn’t long enough to know if it’s successful or not. It takes time for those emails you sent out to influential bloggers to get read and responded to or for the seven people who Dugg…
5 Tips to Maximize the Distribution and Value of Your Link Bait
Garrett French
February 21st, 2007
Tags : Blog, Link BuildingCheck this quote from Lee Odden, in which he succinctly describes social media marketing:
“Useful, unique and provocative content plus a robust distribution channel are the building blocks for a long term social media and viral link building strategy.”
I…
4 Comments »Linking Tips from the Trenches
Andrey Milyan
February 9th, 2007
Tags : Articles, Link BuildingI’ve spent over a decade building links and publicity for websites. Back when I started in 1993, search engines cared nothing about links besides following them in the hunt for new pages to crawl. Times change, though; now, links rule.…
No Comments »Linkbait as Practice that Shifts SEM into Social Media Marketing?
Garrett French
January 18th, 2007
Tags : Blog, Link BuildingI was half joking yesterday when I said this was shaping up to be a link-centric week for SMSblog… But when I saw that Nick Wilson, former owner/editor of Threadwatch lays down a linking manifesto I realized that this…
4 Comments »Building Links: the Research Phase
Garrett French
December 5th, 2006
Tags : Blog, Link BuildingFor every SEO there’s a different link-building process. All of the good ones have a research phase.
In my work, the research phase typically comes AFTER the agonizing and brain busting strategy phase in which me + client determine who…
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