21 Link Builders Share Advanced Link Building Queries
Nov 17, 2009 at 3:31pm ET by Garrett French
Advanced link building queries, for the link builders who use them extensively, remain a closely guarded secret. It's easy to understand why. For one, they want to protect a valued link source from getting flooded with link requests from the general link-seeking public. Secondly, there are some choice opportunities out there that would lose their value if the entire SEO community happened to learn about them.
Another complication with discussing and sharing link building queries is that they're often tailored towards the linkable and shareable assets of a particular organization. Further, t [...]
Filed in: How To: Links, Link Building, Link Building: General, Link Week
11 Effective, Efficient Ways To Use Limited Time To Build Links
Nov 10, 2009 at 9:37am ET by Debra Mastaler
I visit most of the SEO forums at least once a week to keep up with what's going on in the link building community. This past week was fairly quiet, but over on the HighRankings Forum, a thread on time management vs. link building efforts caught my eye. A webmaster wanted to know the best way to go about securing quality links if he only had a limited amount of time to do so. Since this is a good question and a situation many of us experience, I thought I'd add my two cents to the discussion.
How would you use your time to build links?
Here's the gist of what the webmaster asked:
I’ [...]
Filed in: Link Week
Rise Of The Web Librarian: An Elegant DMOZ Solution
Nov 3, 2009 at 8:41am ET by Eric Ward
Last week Debra Mastaler posted the most illuminating DMOZ article I have ever read. In DMOZ: A Solid Directory Or The Great Pumpkin Of Search?, she got through to the right people and asked some hard questions.
Many SEO folks consider DMOZ irrelevant. After years of angst and sleepless nights waiting for a link that never came, they gave up and got sites ranked using other methods, and by doing so, a secondary SEO truth emerged: a DMOZ link isn't needed to rank.
None of this can be argued. If the subject is links and rank, then DMOZ does not matter. But separate from DMOZ and SEO is a [...]
Filed in: Link Week
DMOZ: A Solid Directory Or The Great Pumpkin Of Search?
Oct 27, 2009 at 8:36am ET by Debra Mastaler
Love it or hate it, the Open Directory Project (ODP or "DMOZ") always seems to creep into the conversation when we're discussing links and/or SEO. Check any forum, social news or answer site and you'll see a wide variety of opinions on the 11 year old directory and how it's managed.
When talking about the DMOZ two camps typically emerge, those who support the directory and its mission (editors) and those who support getting into the directory (SEOs). While the two sides tend to clash, I've found the "directory trust" SEOs seek is the same trust DMOZ editors feel they need to protect. The de [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Link Week, Top News
Link Building With Content: How To Attract Links And Leads
Oct 20, 2009 at 12:11pm ET by Garrett French
A single highly-linkable article can attract tens – sometimes hundreds – of links from relevant and valuable sites. Make that article *sell* and you’ll drive a similar number of leads that come pre-qualified and ready to talk business.
Filed in: Link Week
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