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Eric Ward
Member since: 06-28-08
Website: http://www.ericward.com
Recent Posts
Rise Of The Web Librarian: An Elegant DMOZ SolutionRecovering From Link Building Mistakes
Elephants In The Link Building Living Room
My Favorite Link Building Lie
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle Bonanza
When Your Link Portfolio Is Devalued
Are You Link Building Or Just Keeping Up With The Joneses?
Understanding Federated Link Building: A Primer With Examples
How A Twitter Reputation Algorithm Needs To Work
Are Shortened URL Links Worth The Trouble?
Twitter: Incredibly Valuable Or Utterly Useless As A Link Building Tool?
Rules Of Linking Engagement As The Web Turns Twenty
Why Link Building Must Go In-House
Sustainable Link Equity
Who Owns Link Building?
When Link Rehabilitation Is A Viable Option
Link Week Loose Ends
Now Is The Winter of Linking's Discontent
Is This Link Building RFP A No-Win?
Beyond Link Building Tools
The Great Link Race Has Begun, But To Where?
Linked, Tagged, Tweeted, and Feeded - Three Real Time Link Trackers
Link Building for Big Old Sites
Moving Away from SEO Link Building
What If It Isn't Linkworthy?
Recent Comments
DMOZ: A Solid Directory Or The Great Pumpkin Of Search?Debra - this was an excellent column. I was a DMOZ editor for 8 years. I've submitted a few hundred sites over the years, all the way back to when i
Link Building Outreach: 5 Steps To Maximize The Value Of Every OpportunityMany of the more impactful contacts are using protective methods to minimize email inflow. This can be as simple as an online contact form which dump
Why You Can’t Dismiss All Directory Links@Brent...Great point about the prior article. Yes, I agree with Debra that some directories have value for some sites. But now let's be brutally hon
Why You Can’t Dismiss All Directory LinksDebra, from your article: "To suggest all link builders sell useless submission services or the directories are white elephants is inaccurate and insu
Links Vs. Web References As Relevance SignalsSorry about that, my a href tag broke the post...Trying again below.
I remember making an off-hand remark during an SMX session in NY in 08 or 07 tha
Links Vs. Web References As Relevance SignalsI remember making an off-hand remark during an SMX session in NY in 08 or 07 that links don't have to be links. That URLs without an Adam is hardly a "rookie". He's been working online for longer than most SEL readers. I bet he SEO'd his first site before he'd graduated from high sc
How To Choose Content Management Systems For SEOIncredibly useful stuff here Stephan. I'll include this in my consults and thank you for your generosity.
SEO “Best Practices” Are BunkAs the editor of a Link Building Best Practices blog, oddly, I agree with Adam. What I deem to be a best practice may be totally useless to an online
Elephants In The Link Building Living RoomSearchCap is the ONLY pub I read the instant it arrives. Barry is the unsung hero of vertical curated content. Shame on me for not menttioning it in
Elephants In The Link Building Living RoomOr doesn't this just add to the problem. Like these three comments in a row ;)
Elephants In The Link Building Living RoomPerhaps this is the end game for LinkMoses. My own MUST READ list each week, specific to content publicity/link building, with my added comments as t
Elephants In The Link Building Living RoomAndrew...Seidman’s Online Insider was groovy. How about "Web Diamonds" from Tom Vassos. That's circa 1995. Dana Blankenhorn's "A Clue" was also out
A Case Study: Using Contests To Build LinksThis is a great confirmation that it isn't about quantity. And there are additional business benefits to this approach that go far beyond the links g
Link Economics 101: A Prerequisite For Advanced SEOReally good stuff Stephan. More than anything else, I wish the "sellers of the ueseless" would just go away, but sadly, the frenzy for link building
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle BonanzaRob - perfect timing. See LinkMoses Resurrected #3 - Peewater for Links - http://bit.ly/3eXBMS
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle BonanzaHere's one final comment from me on this as to what I should have written. It was my mistake that I didn't do so in the first place.
When someone
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle Bonanza@andy88 netpost.com is certainly identical to ericward.com
However what you didn't check was the site history, and more importantly intent. netpost.
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle Bonanza@andy88 - take two xanax and email me in the morning via my site :) Tell me the site you are seeking links for and I'll gladly show you where to get l
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle Bonanza@JasonKirk - can it be my own site? I know, not fair. it's is an extreme case. It's ancient, has thousands of links that can't be replicated/copied,
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle BonanzaMan, you are right. That means the whole boondoggle meme has itself become a boondoggle. But some words are just so funny you have to use them evenif
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle Bonanzajasonjm - Totally agree. The key is you have to know when something has value and when it doesn't, and why. I cherry picked the Yahoo example on pur
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle BonanzaAnd please don't tell me it's click traffick.
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle BonanzaThe larger point that I should have made more clearly is that if a site can rank #1 without links from the most credible directories of all, then what
Betting On The Link Building Boondoggle Bonanzadazzlindonna - based on the phone calls I have with clients, consultants, SEO firms, and public relations agencies, there are many people, smart peopl
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