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Search Engine Watch June 3, 2009 Kevin Newcomb |
Google Changes Course on Nofollow Google used to advise SEOs that using the nofollow attribute on internal links could help save PageRank for more important pages. Now Matt Cutts has said that's no longer the case. |
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 June 17, 2009 Kevin Newcomb |
Following the Nofollow Kerfuffle Matt Cutts says Google changed its handling of nofollow last year, but no one noticed. Can that really be what happened? |
Search Engine Watch May 8, 2008 Sage Lewis |
Giving Links Away There are a few ways of controlling what pages of your site share their link love. PageRank "sculpting" and siloing are two methods that use the "nofollow" attribute to control which links are counted in search engine ranking algorithms. |
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 January 8, 2009 Justilien Gaspard |
Don't Overlook These Link Building Opportunities With each passing year, link development becomes increasingly difficult. Yet we sometimes tend to overlook good link opportunities that are right under our noses. |
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 26, 2009 Sage Lewis |
My Thoughts on Promo Outcomes Asking people to give feedback about your product or service is great on many levels. It builds relationships and provides incredibly valuable information. |
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 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 March 18, 2011 Rob Chant |
How Small Businesses Can Get a Link from Wikipedia If you want a link from Wikipedia, it will be a hard process. Here's a four-step strategy that will potentially get you that link. |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Amanda Kooser |
Think Links The road to link popularity. |
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 February 2, 2009 Ron Jones |
Link Building 101, Part 1 The concept of getting backlinks to a page internally is sometimes overshadowed by trying to acquire backlinks from external pages. Why not use the same concept and apply it to your internal linking structure and reap the rewards? |
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 July 30, 2008 Eric Enge |
Google vs. Yahoo on Paid Links Google created a firestorm in the industry with its Paid Links directive. So where does Yahoo stand in the Paid Links debate? |
Search Engine Watch December 17, 2008 Eric Enge |
Buying Links is Hard Work Paid link building isn't as easy as it used to be because Google's paid link detection algorithms keep improving. |
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 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 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 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 January 6, 2011 Guillaume Bouchard |
Using Social Media to Boost Search Rankings Social media can be used for more than branding, customer service, PR, and retention. It can also be used to support your rankings in the SERPs. |
Search Engine Watch August 3, 2009 Ron Jones |
Link Building Tactics 101, Part 2 Concentrate on offering something of value to the online community/industry to demonstrate why they should visit your site. Focus on the idea of reaching out to others and building quality connections that make sense. |
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 September 13, 2010 Josh McCoy |
Don't Let Small Disconnects Lead to SEO Disaster When SEOs and webmasters aren't on the same page, it can lead to listings dropping off search engine result pages. Here's how to avoid three common SEO blunders. |
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 October 17, 2008 Frank Watson |
Google's New Tools for Site Link Strengthening Google recently turned its focus on helping webmasters to address 404 error pages, which don't pass link authority and negatively impact the user experience. These new tools will assist site owners and SEOs with a quick way to improve a site's overall impact on search results. |
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 December 30, 2008 Mark Jackson |
The Paid Links Debate Rages On Should an ethical SEO recommend paid links to their clients? |
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 December 10, 2009 Justilien Gaspard |
Rethinking your Link Marketing Strategies Tips for improving your rankings for budgets of all sizes. |
Search Engine Watch March 27, 2011 Peter van der Graaf |
Old Black Hat SEO Tricks Still Work This article is all about unethical SEO. Hopefully you don't have any practical use for it. Search Engine Watch assumes no responsibility when you end up being banned from Google! |
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 December 1, 2009 Eric Enge |
Four New Signals in Search Search engines are trying to improve search quality by looking at signals such as load time, click data, Web references, and social media. |
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 April 15, 2011 Rob Chant |
Introduction to Google PageRank: Myths & Facts Clearing up the confusion about what Google's PageRank algorithm is, how it works, how important it is, and how we can use data based on it. |
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 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 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 February 27, 2011 Mark Jackson |
The Difference Between Black Hat SEO and Bad SEO The safest way to build up trust/links for your website is to create good, unique, resourceful/helpful content, promote via social channels, and try to win links the "white hat" way. |
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 2, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Link Building, Circa 2008 SEO isn't as easy as it was in years past. At one time, optimization meant dropping some keywords in your meta keywords tag, using your most important key phrases a dozen or so times on a page, and exchanging links with anyone who had a Web site. |
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 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. |
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Sebastian Rupley |
Beyond Wordplay What if every word in a Web page became a link, and each link could point to more than one place? That's the idea behind Liquid Information. |
Search Engine Watch November 23, 2010 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
The Redeeming Qualities of Links with a Bad Reputation Backlink rejects, such as nofollows, blog comments, and reciprocal links, have earned their bad reputations by being mostly garbage. But that doesn't make them entirely beyond salvation. |
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 September 24, 2008 Eric Enge |
Use Care When Choosing an SEO Agency It's important to beware of instant SEO experts who know a few things about what's going on, but don't get the whole picture. Don't hire an SEO or begin SEO work on your own without validating that it's the right course of action. |
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2009 Eric Enge |
Getting Started with a New SEO Project Beginning search engine optimization efforts during the initial stages of a Web site project can save you time, effort, and money. |
Search Engine Watch November 17, 2010 Gareth Owen |
5 Important Tips For Choosing Your SEO Agency The five key factors in choosing an SEO agency and why are they important. |