Eric Ward

Member since: 06-28-08

About Me

Eric Ward founded the Web's first services for announcing, linking, and building buzz for Web sites, back in 1994. Ward is best known as the person behind the linking campaigns for Amazon.com Books, Weather.com, The Link Exchange, Rodney Dangerfield (Rodney.com), the AMA, and PBS.org. His services won the 1995 Award for Internet Marketing Excellence, and he was selected as one of the Web's 100 most influential people by Websight magazine. In 2009 Eric was one of 25 people profiled in the book Online Marketing Heroes. In 2010 Eric teamed with AdGooroo to create Link Insight, a link quality control and linking intelligence tool. Eric has spoken at over 100 industry conferences and now publishes LinkMoses Private, a subscription based link opportunity and strategy service. Eric has written linking strategy and advice columns for SearchEngineLand, MarketingProfs, ClickZ, Search Marketing Standard, SearchEngineGuide, Web Marketing Today, and Ad Age magazine. Learn more about Eric and his content publicity and link building services at http://www.ericward.com

Website: http://www.ericward.com

Recent Comments

4 Reasons The Social Link Graph Will Have To Improve

Go to google and do this search Buy google plus The first result sells 500 Google +1's for $45. And there are already over 11million exact matc

What Is Your SEO Archiving Plan?

Shari - I remember the marketing team called me frantically wondering what happened to all their traffic. I looked at their site and could see right a

A Holiday & Seasonal Event-Driven Link Building Primer

Received a series of emails asking if I believed it was still possible, this close to Christmas, to rank a site in the Google top ten for the phrase C

Dear Bing & Yahoo: Pushing Deck Chairs Around Isn’t A Good Plan

So what you're saying is HotBot still has a shot...

Linking Oddities That Ripley Would Like

Thanks Gordon. Here's one more oddity. This search [ cialis site:.edu ] has 20.3 million results This search [ religion site:.edu ] has 17.5 mil

Local Search: Mostly A Small City & Southern Activity, Report Says

The appearance of Knoxville as #3 is skewed...by me. I do a few hundred local searches a day for Link Building and SEO Research, and I live there. :)

Google+ Vs. Twitter: A Personal View

Hi Danny, I'm late to the comment party but here's my thoughts. I need G+ to do just a couple things a little better, and I'd leave Twitter and FB. Th

Yahoo Shutting Down Site Explorer This Year

Loved YSE, will miss it, but the backlink data party from the engines has been on last call for a while. You could watch the data getting less and le

Key Problems With Current Social Link Graph Signals

@Michael I remember back when the buttons were called chiklets, and I called pages with too many of them chiklitter. I see history repeating itself. T

Key Problems With Current Social Link Graph Signals

Hi Arnie, hey thank you! I usually take issue with my own articles too:). On the one hand, I want to tell it like I think it is, on the other hand, I

Introducing: The Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors

Somewhere Bruce Clay is kicking himself :) The old Search Engine Relationship chart in printable PDF was the first SEO centric viral linkbait content

The Coming Tide Of SEO Tattletales

Sorry, hit send by accident. To complete that comment, when someone sends me a spreadsheet with thousands of urls with links for sale, I have mixed e

The Coming Tide Of SEO Tattletales

I'm a card carrying Link Narc, but only under a very specific scenario where I feel the offender has done something that impacts search quality and I

Likes Are Not Loves – How To Waste Time “Marketing” In Facebook

Carrie - really well said. The increasing variety of "impulse click" related signals are an SEO fad right now that will take some time to shake out. T

Look Out Blogs: Google News Gains Options To Drop Blogs & Press Releases

I understand the intent and have always wondered why press releases were considered news, but blogs open a can-o-worms. A major news outlet with multi

Contrarian Perspectives On Link Building

@Ian Howells - I can't argue with you about the raw volume theory :) Maybe we compromise. We use both approaches. That way, as the lesser quality l

Contrarian Perspectives On Link Building

Someone just tweeted me that they registered it. So it took 19 minutes.

Contrarian Perspectives On Link Building

OK, so how long til someone registers http://www.HoleInOneVideos.com ? :)

Contrarian Perspectives On Link Building

@SEO Lair - I do not advocate any automated contacting of prospective link targets. I never send email to a webmaster@ address because that address i

A Link Building Blueprint: The Foundation

Nice work Debra. I've been providing complete Link Building Blueprints for clients for 10/12 years now, and I agree with you. In fact, Google Link B

Microsoft Tags: A Compelling Alternative To QR Code Hyperlinks

Elliott - I'm liking the tags. A couple ideas. MTag design is (or can be) an artistic expression. Some are beautiful. Create a site dedicated to the

The Incredible Stupidity Of Investigating Google For Acting Like A Search Engine

This reminds me of those lawsuits where one web site tries to stop another site from linking to them. Hyperlinks are illegal!!

What Google’s Place Page Update Means To Local Link Building

Adrian, I will try harder to be insanely interesting.

How To Clean Up Your Link Profile

Alex --- what do you use? I use my own in house created tool, and I don't use any third party metric for scoring. I use my own head and Google. Yes,

New Place Search Shows Google’s Commitment To Local

Since this happened on Halloween weekend, I vote we name this the "BooGoo" update. The big winners here are the local business owners and web str

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