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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 June 17, 2010 Peter van der Graaf |
SEO & Link Building: The Domain Authority Factor Tips on how to gain authority, use it to your own benefit, and avoid Google penalties. |
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 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 11, 2011 Kristi Hines |
Is Link Relevance as Effective as Anchor Text? Obtaining links from high authority pages will increase your site's authority. Here's how to find pages with strong relevance to the keywords for which you want to rank. |
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 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 October 28, 2010 Garrett French |
How to Find Safe, Valuable, and Scalable Link Building Opportunities A guide for finding trustworthy links that drive the right traffic to your site. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 January 17, 2007 Eric Enge |
An Introduction to SEO Best Practices Best practices for search engine optimization are constantly evolving, and are starting to look more like conventional business plans. |
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 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 September 10, 2010 Nichola Stott |
PR Tools for Link Builders Many tools designed for public relations professionals also work well for link builders. Here are four ways you can build links using PR. |
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 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 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 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 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 August 24, 2010 Gareth Owen |
Don't be Afraid of URL Links Monitor and manage the spread of URL vs. keyword rich links across your client's profile. And don't worry if you get really high quality links that only use your client's URL. |
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 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 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 6, 2010 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
Why No One is Linking to You Giving a link is like giving a vote of confidence and trust. Here are the main reasons why your link building efforts may be failing, and how to turn it around. |
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. |
Technology Research News July 27, 2005 |
Internet Structure Search engines find content via spiders that go through the pages on a Web site by following the links among pages. Here is an overview of how search engines handle queries on the Internet. |
Search Engine Watch November 24, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Natural Link Building Practices Don't take chances buying links. Make these safe, proven link building tactics part of your search engine optimization strategy. |
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 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 April 19, 2011 Jennifer Van Iderstyne |
You Are the Ultimate Link Building Tool Killer SEO tools can definitely strengthen a link building campaign and help with data collection, organization, and presentation. Ultimately, though, these tools are nothing without the minds and hands controlling them. |
Search Engine Watch August 6, 2010 Richard Zwicky |
Is Author an Authority Signal for Google? Do bloggers have an authority score, and could it be that authors are a weighting factor to consider in the value of links? Let's consider, at a very high level, how it could work. |