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Link building can be tough at the best of times, so if there are any ways to shorten this process and find some quick wins then I’m always happy to try them out. I thought I would share some methods that can be used to find relevant link targets for your website. This involves […]
Preface: This post is purely about search rankings — not traffic or conversions or anything — just how Google orders her results.
When I set up this blog, I decided I would try to make it rank for the term ‘link building blog’.
It wasn’t because it had a particularly high search volume […]
Even with your best disguise, it’s difficult to get away with being an imposter on a forum.
For some, link building with forums is setting up pseudo-profiles and starting conversation threads, perhaps dropping a subtle link to their website if and when the opportunity presents itself.
You might even to be to stick […]
One of the hardest things about link building is managing several spinning plates at the same time.
With so much going on, it’s easy to let opportunities slip off the radar. It might just be from not following opportunities up, not getting feedback or spreading yourself too thinly.
The fact is, getting links live […]
There is not yet a definitive book on link building. There is a nice ebook by Garrett French and Eric Ward is set to publish one in the near future, which you can bet will be good.
This does not mean there aren’t books out there, however, that will indirectly help […]
One widely accepted and unquestioned ‘truth’ in SEO seems to be that being passionate about the subject of link building makes you a good link builder.
Knowing a lot about link building doesn’t make you an effective link builder. It helps, but it only takes you so far.
In fact, I’d say that, […]
It’s starting to look like the more contrived your link building campaigns are (or are perceived) the less effective they’ll be.
Tim Grice recently speculated on the devaluation of exact anchor text, just prior to the furore around the possible ‘over-optimisation’ penalty.
This puts me/you/us in the precarious position […]
As much as I enjoy link prospecting, in my heart of hearts, I know it’s not where my time is best spent.
I work in an agency and my time is better served on the outreach and acquisition phase of link building than it is drumming up lists of prospects.
I know the less […]
Citation Labs’ new link prospecting tool has already generated a fair bit of noise online (see here, here and here).
We have been using it for a couple of weeks now and, thus far, have been really impressed.
Of course, it’s not […]
For a short, Sunday morning blog post to keep things ticking over, I thought I’d write a brief tribute to my favourite (and often overlooked) search operation, related sites.
I use this search operation all the time. All Google does is throw up sites it thinks are similar to whatever you’re using as your base.
It’s […]
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