Category Archives: SEO Link Building

How to Be A Thorn in Your Competitors’ Sides

by Tabitha Jean Naylor May 29, 2016 Follow @TabithaNaylorMay 29, 2016 One of the most important facets of SEO is learning how to build your portfolio of back links. These are links that reference your site and help to establish it as a trusted domain inside the crazy world of Google’s search algorithm. With a … Continue reading How to Be A Thorn in Your Competitors’ Sides →

5 essential skills that great link builders know

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Think that building links is all a good link builder needs to do? Contributor Julie Joyce lists the five critical tasks that separate the great link builders from the mediocre ones. Julie Joyce on May 25, 2016 Awhile back, I wrote an article about how link builders need to do more than just … Continue reading 5 essential skills that great link builders know →

What’s the Bottom Line About Link Building, Traffic and Sales?

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by Don Purdum May 21, 2016 Follow @donpurdumMay 21, 2016 What’s the bottom line about link building; is it still a profitable strategy to pursue to earn traffic to your website and increase sales? If so, how long does link building take to help you rank higher on a search engine? Let’s find out in … Continue reading What’s the Bottom Line About Link Building, Traffic and Sales? →

How Paid Link Shortening Services Work [Infographic]

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by Zac Johnson May 20, 2016 Follow @zacjohnsonMay 20, 2016 Link shortening is the process of taking a long website URL or address and directing it through a much shorter and prettier looking “short link”. There are many reasons why someone might want to use a link shortening service, such as using their links within … Continue reading How Paid Link Shortening Services Work [Infographic] →

3 Important Ways Link Building Outreach Has Changed

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By Melanie Nathan May 19th, 2016 Almost 7 years ago, I wrote my first post about the reciprocity method to link building. In it, I described a specific link building technique where success was (and always will be) highly dependent on a creative outreach process. Since then, the technique has been formally adopted by the … Continue reading 3 Important Ways Link Building Outreach Has Changed →

Bridging the Content Marketing / Link Building Divide

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by Joe Cox May 19, 2016 Follow @Rocketship2015May 19, 2016 The online world is changing and is changing fast. A key skillset for digital marketers these days is the ability to adapt. One of the key drivers of change in this ever shifting digital environment is the capricious Google algorithm. Despite the dominance of social … Continue reading Bridging the Content Marketing / Link Building Divide →

Is it Time to Bring Back the Webring?

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by Michael Sheehan May 17, 2016 Follow @HighTechDadMay 17, 2016 Companies are always struggling to find new audiences, new customers, new distribution points for their messages and new ways of doing digital marketing. Right now, it’s all about digital content, whether it is long- or short-form, videos, images, webinars, white papers, or just the content … Continue reading Is it Time to Bring Back the Webring? →

Why Does Link Building Matter for SEO?

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by Margarita Hakobyan May 14, 2016 Follow @margahakobyanMay 14, 2016 Change is the only constant in the wonderful world of search engine optimization (SEO). While link building has always been an important factor in ranking at the top of the search engines, the process has changed many times over the years. Link building strategies that … Continue reading Why Does Link Building Matter for SEO? →

Link Building: A Vital Cog Of Your SEO Strategy

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by Govind Agarwal April 11, 2016 Follow @submitedgeApril 11, 2016 There is no single or pre-decided formula for a successful SEO strategy. What works for you might not work for your rivals. It is essential to put every known mechanism to better use in this era of high competitiveness, where the margin of error surmounts … Continue reading Link Building: A Vital Cog Of Your SEO Strategy →

Manual link building’s 7 worst outreach offenses

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Are you making mistakes with your link-building outreach? Columnist Julie Joyce lists what she considers to be the 7 worst outreach violations. Julie Joyce on March 30, 2016 I get incredibly annoyed when I receive an email offering SEO services, especially when the sender notes that he or she has looked at my site, … Continue reading Manual link building’s 7 worst outreach offenses →