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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 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 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 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 July 22, 2008 Carrie Hill |
Why Links are Like Shoes The man with no links cried until he met the man with no SEO. This week you'll find out why all SEOs should want to be the Zappos of link building. |
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 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 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 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 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. |
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 June 9, 2004 Jarboe & O'Donnell |
The Art and Science of an Effective Link Building Campaign A group of experts at the Search Engine Strategies 2004 Conference offers answers to ethical and strategic link-building and search technology questions. |
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 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 January 19, 2011 Gareth Owen |
Social Media Links and SEO -- Spam Ye Not! Social media links have been increasingly making their presence felt in the SERPs. It appears as though the engines (in particular Google) may be responding to an increase in manipulative social activity. |
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 July 7, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Top Signs Your Site Isn't Ready for Prime Time, Part 2 We've already looked at three of the common failings of Web sites for "newbies" who are trying to figure out SEO. Now let's look the title tag, domain age, and link building to see if your Web site is ready for prime time. |
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 April 20, 2009 Ron Jones |
SEO Tools 101, Part 1 Getting started in SEO can be overwhelming, but your job can be made easier with the right tools. Here's an introduction to some of the keyword tools, site-grading tools and linking tools that will give you an edge in your search engine optimization efforts. |
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 October 8, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Paid Links: Seller and Buyer Beware! Don't let your site drop out of search results. Here's how. |
Search Engine Watch March 21, 2011 Josh McCoy |
The Slippery Slope of SEO Recent algorithmic updates didn't just hurt the bad guys and clean up the SERPs. Many other sites felt the wrath of Google's tweaks. So, how do you adjust fire and move on from here? |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Amanda Kooser |
Think Links The road to link popularity. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 September 24, 2008 Eric Enge |
Use Care When Choosing an SEO Agency It's important to beware of instant SEO experts who know a few things about what's going on, but don't get the whole picture. Don't hire an SEO or begin SEO work on your own without validating that it's the right course of action. |
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 July 31, 2008 Sage Lewis |
Link Building: Understand Where You Are To Know Where You're Going In link building, if you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up someplace else. |
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 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 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 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 January 6, 2009 Mark Jackson |
There's No Shortcut to Good SEO...Or Is There? If search engines want all SEOs to operate in an ethical manner, they should show us that they're penalizing the Web sites that abuse their guidelines, and reward those who follow their guidelines. |
Search Engine Watch October 5, 2010 Eric Enge |
8 Flawed Link Building Strategies While there are a few relatively low effort/cost link building strategies, such as directories and reciprocal links, these have limited value. Here's how you can get in trouble when trying to acquire low quality links. |
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 February 7, 2011 Adam Audette |
Mea Culpa: How I Failed At Link Building It's quite easy to put your principles and SEO best practices aside in place of other, less important, motivations. Hopefully this tale will help you avoid losing clients and reinforce why you need to be efficient, smart, and careful in making business decisions. |
Entrepreneur September 2005 Catherine Seda |
The Missing Link? Want more people to visit your website? A link-building campaign could be just the thing to help you draw in shoppers. |
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? |