Similar Articles |
|
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 March 18, 2011 Rob Chant |
How Small Businesses Can Get a Link from Wikipedia If you want a link from Wikipedia, it will be a hard process. Here's a four-step strategy that will potentially get you that link. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 September 17, 2009 Justilien Gaspard |
5 Essential Skills of In-House Link Marketers Link marketing requires a skill set that combines multiple disciplines. Not every link marketer will excel at all five of these skills, but the more proficient they are in each area, the more likely they will be to succeed. |
Search Engine Watch January 23, 2009 Chris Boggs |
A Linking Strategy Is About More Than Just Quality Content Some SEOs seem to think that all you need to do to get good links is to build quality content, but improving the quality and quantity of your inbound links doesn't rest on the shoulders of good content alone. |
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 July 23, 2009 Justilien Gaspard |
Link Marketing Opportunities in Your Backyard You may have spent a lot of time looking far and wide for links to your Web site. But are you overlooking opportunities in your home town? |
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 December 17, 2008 Eric Enge |
Buying Links is Hard Work Paid link building isn't as easy as it used to be because Google's paid link detection algorithms keep improving. |
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 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 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 December 10, 2009 Justilien Gaspard |
Rethinking your Link Marketing Strategies Tips for improving your rankings for budgets of all sizes. |
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 October 17, 2008 Frank Watson |
Google's New Tools for Site Link Strengthening Google recently turned its focus on helping webmasters to address 404 error pages, which don't pass link authority and negatively impact the user experience. These new tools will assist site owners and SEOs with a quick way to improve a site's overall impact on search results. |
Search Engine Watch June 6, 2008 Frank Watson |
What is Valid Link Bait? Hidden widget links. Social media traffic bait. Morality and marketing living together. |
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 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 January 12, 2010 Eric Enge |
Use the 80-20 Rule to do the Hard SEO Stuff Really Well When building links and generating site content, take on the hard tasks that your competition probably won't want to deal with. |
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 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 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 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 November 30, 2010 Kristi Hines |
4 Ways to Build Links Without Anchor Text Is there such a thing as too much anchor text? Absolutely. Here are some of the benefits of creating a more natural looking link profile. |
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 July 29, 2010 Justilien Gaspard |
Hiring an In-House Link Marketer? 2 Essential Skills for the Job When hiring a link marketer, ask these important questions during the hiring process to make sure they have the right stuff to help your company. |
Search Engine Watch July 16, 2010 Nichola Stott |
Are We Over-Engineering the Link Graph? Brand versus keyword-rich anchor text: a case study on ranking factors. |
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 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 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 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 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 October 19, 2010 Eric Enge |
5 Website Changes That Will Hurt Your SEO Significant modifications to your website can impact your short-term SEO efforts. Here's how to properly handle changes to the domain, URL structure, content, Whois record, and theme. |
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 July 21, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Brand Promotion Online -- Signals for Today's SEO Well, you may have heard it mentioned that Google wants to rank brand Web sites. It isn't so much that Google only wants to rank big brands. But they do like all of the signals that these big brands carry. |
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 March 18, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Bombs Aren't So Scary It sounds frightening. Google Bombs are now going off, where web sites are influencing Google's search results by controlling where they link to and what they say in their links... |
Search Engine Watch December 30, 2008 Mark Jackson |
The Paid Links Debate Rages On Should an ethical SEO recommend paid links to their clients? |
Search Engine Watch April 21, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Link Building? How About Link Optimization? Without a doubt, one of the toughest things to do is to build link popularity for your Web site. |
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 September 12, 2008 William Flaiz |
Would You Endorse this Web Site? Think of link building as running for president of your SERPs. The candidate is your Web site, and you need all the support you can muster to get there. The right connections can provide the bump you need, and the wrong connections can prove calamitous. |