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Search Engine Watch May 20, 2009 Eric Enge |
Before You Start Link Building Link building is not something you should launch into without doing some planning. You need to think through the overall plan, because doing so will help you obtain significantly better results.  |
Search Engine Watch February 23, 2010 Eric Enge |
Using Linkscape Metrics to Prioritize Link Building Campaigns How to get the most out different backlink reports and generate high value link targets.  |
Search Engine Watch August 13, 2010 Nichola Stott |
Internal Link Housekeeping To get the best from your internal link strategy, it's a good idea to perform regular housekeeping checks looking at these three areas.  |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2009 Carrie Hill |
SMB Link Building Without a Dime Link building doesn't have to be expensive. The first step in finding good links actually started a while ago, when you got to work writing great content that others will want to link to. Next comes scoping out your top-ranking competitors and copying what they're doing right.  |
Search Engine Watch February 17, 2011 Justilien Gaspard |
Making Link Building More Rewarding Some ways to make the work of link marketing more rewarding, and get some links at the same time.  |
Search Engine Watch July 13, 2010 Kristi Hines |
Win the Best High Volume Links Some tips for getting the best of your client's competitors' links for higher volume while still sticking to your principles of better link quality.  |
Search Engine Watch August 12, 2010 Peter van der Graaf |
Optimizing Your Existing Links Contacting your link partners can improve your link profile and rankings. Here are some helpful link building strategies, plus some pitfalls you'll want avoid.  |
Search Engine Watch March 8, 2011 Kristi Hines |
Google Panda Update: Say Goodbye to Low-Quality Link Building What does the recent news of Google penalties and recent algorithm updates mean for your link building strategies? Advice on how you can determine valuable backlink opportunities.  |
Search Engine Watch July 7, 2010 Jeremy Bencken |
Reports of the Death of Guest Blogging for Link Building are an Exaggeration Ask yourself these three questions to help maximize the effect of your next guest blogging campaign.  |
Search Engine Watch August 28, 2008 Sage Lewis |
Get Links Now: Make a Difference, Make Connections Want to solve the link building riddle? Stop thinking about money and start thinking about something bigger. Getting outside of your own little world can expand your horizons, as well as your link portfolio.  |
Search Engine Watch July 16, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Re-Thinking Link Building I've yet to meet anyone who loves to chase down links, and the time involved can become costly. Is passing the task off to interns or outsourcing this important task to India the answer?  |
Search Engine Watch March 22, 2011 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
What Makes a Link Target a Bullseye? Why authority, relevance, and accessibility are the trifecta of desirable qualities link builders should look for when determining potential links.  |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2011 Jeremy Bencken |
21-Day Link Builder Relationship Challenge As link builders, we must give in order to receive. Here are three general categories of relationship-building "gives" that will help you create a worthy relationship foundation and attract an unfair share of links.  |
Search Engine Watch July 1, 2010 Justilien Gaspard |
Developing a Custom Link Building Campaign A custom link marketing campaign will increase your quality links and increase your online exposure. Here's how.  |
Search Engine Watch May 15, 2008 Justilien Gaspard |
Keeping SEO Staff Motivated and Driven With the proper incentives, you can keep your link marketers productive and driven while reducing staff turnover. Talented link developers are hard to find -- you want to retain them as long as possible.  |
Search Engine Watch January 20, 2011 Justilien Gaspard |
Alternative Ways to Find Sites for Link Building When trying to build links, you don't have to rely only on organic search for your research. Here are some additional sources.  |
Search Engine Watch October 5, 2010 Eric Enge |
8 Flawed Link Building Strategies While there are a few relatively low effort/cost link building strategies, such as directories and reciprocal links, these have limited value. Here's how you can get in trouble when trying to acquire low quality links.  |
Search Engine Watch September 12, 2008 William Flaiz |
Would You Endorse this Web Site? Think of link building as running for president of your SERPs. The candidate is your Web site, and you need all the support you can muster to get there. The right connections can provide the bump you need, and the wrong connections can prove calamitous.  |
Search Engine Watch June 11, 2009 Justilien Gaspard |
Link Marketing for Drop Shipping Retailers It can be challenging to develop links for drop shipping sites, since many of these sites are selling the exact same products.  |
Search Engine Watch May 18, 2010 Eric Enge |
SEO Link Building is Just Like Business Development Today's link building has become a cross between old-fashioned public relations and business development. Let's examine some of the modern methods of building links.  |
Search Engine Watch April 28, 2011 Jeremy Bencken |
50+ Tools to Automate Your Link Building These backlink analysis and link prospecting tools can help link builders shift their workload to computers as much as humanly possible.  |
Search Engine Watch July 31, 2008 Sage Lewis |
Link Building: Understand Where You Are To Know Where You're Going In link building, if you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up someplace else.  |
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2003 Elizabeth Osmeloski |
The Art of Advanced Link Building Advanced link building strategies are critical for achieving high rankings in search engines, according to two noted experts and representatives from Google and Teoma.  |
Search Engine Watch June 15, 2010 Kristi Hines |
Competitor Research - Focusing on Companies, Keywords, and Broken Links Tips on researching keyword advertising competitors, how to convince webmasters to link to your client's site, and some useful tools you can use.  |
Search Engine Watch December 16, 2010 Justilien Gaspard |
5 Tips on Link Bait Campaigns With a little planning and repetition, your link bait campaigns will become more successful. Here are some ideas on how to produce a brilliant campaign.  |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Amanda Kooser |
Think Links The road to link popularity.  |
Search Engine Watch July 24, 2008 Justilien Gaspard |
Link Building with Customers The most underutilized source of links for companies: customers. Here's how to encourage your customers to link to your site.  |
Search Engine Watch December 10, 2009 Justilien Gaspard |
Rethinking your Link Marketing Strategies Tips for improving your rankings for budgets of all sizes.  |
Search Engine Watch October 28, 2008 Mark Jackson |
The Ghosts of SEO Past and Future When banner ads first came out, there was hardly enough inventory to satisfy advertisers' needs. Paid search and search engine optimization changed all that. But SEO, too, has changed radically in the last decade.  |
Search Engine Watch April 22, 2010 John Lynch |
Analyzing the 9 Most Common Link Building Strategies A detailed breakdown of all link major link building tactics, an analysis of costs and benefits, and the risks of incurring a penalty from a search engine.  |
Search Engine Watch February 22, 2011 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Link Lovers From Hell Warning! These are some of the more undesirable link partners you'll come across on the web -- sites you definitely don't want to take home to mom.  |
Search Engine Watch May 29, 2008 Justilien Gaspard |
Five Traits of the Ideal Link Builder If you've decided to expand your team, or perhaps hire your first link marketer, there are some important qualities to look for in potential hires.  |
Search Engine Watch July 3, 2008 Sage Lewis |
Three Tips for Creating a Successful Blog Instead of focusing on where to find links, SEOs and site owners should think about setting up a site so people will want to link to it. People usually put the cart (the links), before the horse (the content). But the horse is the content that drives the cart -- the links.  |
PC Magazine September 28, 2005 John C. Dvorak |
Dvorak's Blogging Primer Despite the growing popularity of blogs, lots of people still don't get what they're about.  |
Search Engine Watch December 17, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Link Building Basics: 3 Great Tips Debra Mastaler's session as Search Engine Strategies Chicago was jam-packed with great tips, tools, and concepts. Here are some of the highlights.  |
Search Engine Watch August 10, 2010 Kristi Hines |
7 Things to Watch Out for When Link Building What you should lookout for or check in advance before trying to get a link on a particular page or website. These seven things will save you time, effort, and money.  |
Search Engine Watch March 29, 2005 Eric Ward |
Looking for Links In All The Wrong Places? In their frenzy to build links to curry favor with the major search engines, web site owners miss a far more important audience that's increasingly turning to topical search sites.  |
Search Engine Watch July 27, 2010 Eric Enge |
12 Ways Your SEO Mileage May Vary If you've spent time analyzing search results for a variety of queries, you've likely seen results you can't easily explain. Here's why this happens.  |
Search Engine Watch January 9, 2011 Eric Enge |
6 Ways to Sculpt Your Site's Link Equity Want to see a significant impact on rankings and traffic? Here are a few ways you can use link equity to help pages rank for particular search queries.  |
Search Engine Watch July 30, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Re-Thinking Link Building Commentary Readers respond to Sage's last column, where he urged them to change the way they think about link building.  |
Search Engine Watch February 20, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Be My Valentine: Please Link to Me? Here's a look at how the process of requesting links for your Web site can work, its continued importance, and the strategy behind picking the right sites to ask.  |
Search Engine Watch February 21, 2011 Josh McCoy |
Big Brands and Bad Linking: How to Avoid Google Penalties The recent hype involving JCPenney's linking scheme penalty may have many wondering if their SEO firm is playing by the rules. Learn how you can avoid punishment from Google.  |
Search Engine Watch July 14, 2009 Eric Enge |
Should You Still Use Nofollow? Recent changes in the processing of the nofollow attribute have caused consternation and concern among many publishers. How should you adapt your on-page SEO strategy?  |
Search Engine Watch January 27, 2011 Peter van der Graaf |
Local Search: Your Address is the New Link A look at some of the changes local search results are bringing to SEO -- especially link building.  |
Search Engine Watch October 8, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Paid Links: Seller and Buyer Beware! Don't let your site drop out of search results. Here's how.  |
Search Engine Watch September 1, 2010 Jeremy Bencken |
6 Metrics You Need to Manage Link Building You can't manage what you don't measure. When it comes to building a sustainable link building process, measurement is everything.  |
Search Engine Watch February 1, 2011 Garrett French |
The New School of Link Prospecting Keyword Research (+4 Tools & 2 Tips) Tools, tips, and resources for keyword research to build a deep, comprehensive list of link prospects.  |
Search Engine Watch January 25, 2011 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Finding Potential Link Partners Here are few ideas on finding sources to ask, beg, or barter for links.  |
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2010 John Lynch |
Deconstructing Link Value Factors Links are the primary driver of domain authority and the key to ranking quality content. An outline of the factors that affect the value of a link.  |
Search Engine Watch July 29, 2010 Justilien Gaspard |
Hiring an In-House Link Marketer? 2 Essential Skills for the Job When hiring a link marketer, ask these important questions during the hiring process to make sure they have the right stuff to help your company.  |