Linkbuilding

  • 10 Quick Linkbuilding Ideas

    10 Quick Linkbuilding Ideas

    Search engines know that they can’t make judgements about quality of websites as well as humans can on some levels. Bing doesn’t know how beautiful your pictures are, Google can’t gauge the lyricism of your writing or the accuracy of your information. Because of this, the major search engines use links as part of their…

  • 5 Linkbuilding Pitfalls to Avoid

    5 Linkbuilding Pitfalls to Avoid

    I’m consulting this morning with a client who needs ongoing linkbuilding, but wants to have it done in house by employees who have some free time. We get this. If you have people on the payroll already who have some down time during the day, it certainly makes sense to have them devote that time…

  • Who’s Worth Getting Links From?

    Who’s Worth Getting Links From?

    Links from other sites to your site are essential for optimum performance in search. Gaining links takes work. Quality is more important than quantity (though quantity is a good thing, too).

  • Outsmarting Google?

    Outsmarting Google?

    I’ve been reading Outsmarting Google: SEO Secrets to Winning New Business by Evan Bailyn, a new book detailing the brash self-promoter’s secrets of online success. It begins with a bold premise: PageRank, everything Matt Cutts says, and indeed all Google’s official positions regarding SEO are part of a “Google Circus” designed to distract us from…

  • Paid Links?

    Paid Links?

    Never pay for links that look like unpaid links. There are no exceptions to this rule. Having said that, there are plenty of times when paying for a link in the form of a display ad, paid directory listing, or sponsorship is a great plan.

  • BE the Directory

    BE the Directory

    Gathering backlinks or inlinks, links to your site from other sites, is an important part of search engine optimization.