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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
June 8, 2010
Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Build Links Without a Computer If you have a quality website with link-worthy content, here are four ways you can gain links offline. |
Search Engine Watch
May 12, 2010
Peter van der Graaf |
Viral Link Building: Build Links Quickly If your website needs a huge boost in links on a specific topic, viral link building might be the solution you're looking for. |
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
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 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
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
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. |
Entrepreneur
September 2006
Amanda Kooser |
Think Links The road to link popularity. |
Search Engine Watch
August 4, 2010
Jeremy Bencken |
New Strategies for Getting Links from Newspapers The recent difficulty of obtaining links in news coverage requires some strategic adjustments for link builders. Here are some tips to help your public relations efforts yield links. |
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
December 10, 2009
Justilien Gaspard |
Rethinking your Link Marketing Strategies Tips for improving your rankings for budgets of all sizes. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2011
Jeremy Bencken |
Fixing the Web's Lost Content: An 8 Step Guide for Link Builders This strategy takes an extreme approach to designing an entire campaign around creating content curators want to link to -- it's a safe bet they want to fix their dead links. Here's how to do it. |
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 2, 2010
Kristi Hines |
Link Building: 3 Strategies for Link Requests Here's what you need to be aware of when contacting webmasters as a representative of the client or as a brand advocate when requesting links. |
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 26, 2010
Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Incorporating Geo-Targeting into Your Link Building Searchers are getting better all the time at incorporating specific locations into their queries. Ignoring that fact is just fatal. Here are a few simple things you can do to amp up the geo-targeting as you build links. |
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
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
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
July 22, 2008
Carrie Hill |
Why Links are Like Shoes The man with no links cried until he met the man with no SEO. This week you'll find out why all SEOs should want to be the Zappos of link building. |
Search Engine Watch
October 26, 2010
Jeremy Bencken |
How to Value Links? Perhaps the hardest question to answer in search engine optimization is how much to budget for link building. Here's how you can establish a fair ROI for link building. |
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 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
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
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 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
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
March 11, 2010
Justilien Gaspard |
Build Links in 30 Minutes a Day You can successfully build links to any type of Web site in just 30 minutes a day. Here's how. |
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
January 10, 2011
Adam Audette |
Quit Obsessing On Anchor Text Already Instead of creating links with exact-match anchor text, work hard to build great, unique content and resources that are real contributions on the web. Provide value that builds links over time based on its own merit. |
Search Engine Watch
September 22, 2010
Gareth Owen |
Improve Your Rankings by Removing Links SEOs and agencies need to consider not just how to build quality links for clients, but how to actively manage the link profile and ensure that the right links are being built. |
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 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 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
November 30, 2010
Eric Enge |
Search Engine Optimization in an Increasingly Social World SEO is changing rapidly, in part due to the increasingly social nature of the web. A look at what's driving these changes and some of the implications of how they impact our behavior. |
Search Engine Watch
August 31, 2010
Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Re-Thinking Relevance in Link Building What is relevant isn't always instantly apparent. Sometimes we need to expand our definition of what relevance means. Here's how you can stretch it, and even is some cases, create link building relevance. |
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
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 26, 2011
Judith Lewis |
Top 9 Ways of Being a Link Magnet Some are obvious, and some may surprise you... |
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
June 10, 2010
Garrett French |
4 'Preciprocity' Templates for Content-Based Link Builders How to warm up your relationship with influential bloggers, experts, analysts, reporters, and other link prospects in your media space. |
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
November 5, 2008
Eric Enge |
Social Media Link Building: From Fantasy to Reality Sometimes, a company's marketing efforts can have an unintentional impact from a link building perspective. Such is the case with this fantasy sports community site focused on building communities in Facebook and other social media environments. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
September 2005
Catherine Seda |
The Missing Link? Want more people to visit your website? A link-building campaign could be just the thing to help you draw in shoppers. |
Search Engine Watch
January 11, 2011
Kevin Gibbons |
10 Tips for Top Business Blogging Is your business blog ready to work in 2011? Read on for some top tips for blogging success. |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2008
Eric Enge |
High-Value Link Building is Hard Work Looking at cost-per-acquired-link is a mistake, because it results in low-value links. How do you obtain quality links from authoritative sites? Start with these four steps. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2010
Justilien Gaspard |
Build Links with a Killer Sales Promotion Traditional retailers use sales to bring people into stores. We can use the same strategy to build links and exposure. |
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. |
