Category: Link Building
  • Ann Smarty

    • How to *Properly* Personalize Your Guest Blogging Pitch

    • January 26, 2012 - Posted by Ann Smarty to Link Building
    • Your guest blogging email pitch is crucial. Without your email reaching the actual recipient, no deal is possible. It all starts with the successfully received email. The first step in getting your email delivered is to avoid spam filters. While the spam algorithm is mostly tricky and hard to predict, there are some workable tips to making them easier to pass: Keep your email short; Keep formatting to a minimum (no bold, no or few links); Keep your email...
  • Ninja Bonnie

    • International Link Building Shortlist

    • December 21, 2011 - Posted by Ninja Bonnie to Link Building, Link Techniques
    • There are several unique factors that go into link development and link value when you’re working with sites outside of the U.S, U.K, and Australia. Here is my short list: Anchor Text Issues & Non-English Sites European languages get lots of variations in anchor text, from a variety of languages. This can be a problem because people will link to your site in their language, thus watering down your anchor text for targeted phrases. There are a...
  • Jim Boykin

    • Buying Links with Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk.

    • October 27, 2010 - Posted by Jim Boykin to Link Building
    • Buying Links with Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk In a couple of weeks I’ll be at the Webmaster World Pubcon in Vegas where I’ll be speaking on links a few times. I’ve been attending Pubcon each year since 2003…and this year one of the panels that I’m speaking on is called “Linkfluence: Buying Links With Maximum Juice and Minimum Risk“….I’ve been on this panel a few times before in the past….the...
  • Jim Boykin

    • London SES Feedback on Link Building Methods and Risks

    • February 23, 2010 - Posted by Jim Boykin to Link Building, SEM Events
    • Last week I spoke in London at the Search Engine Strategies (SES) Conference about “Link Building – Methods and Risks”. I was lucky in that I had a 1 hours time slot all to myself, rather than the usual 10-15 minutes that one normally gets when you’re on a panel with others. I’ve often felt that at conferences where a speaker only gets 10-15 minutes, that you tend to get an “introduction” to a topic…when often, what...
  • Chuck Price

    • Links for Sale – PR9 Links only $300 / Month!

    • June 19, 2009 - Posted by Chuck Price to Link Building
    • Links for Sale – PR9 Links only $300 / Month I was speaking with a client in a highly competitive industry yesterday. He’s a reformed link buyer – hasn’t bought a link in 7 months. The only problem is that all of his competitors are buying links and kicking his ass for some key phrases. He wanted to know what could be done about this injustice. I told him to root for Microsoft to acquire Yahoo, and...
  • Jim Boykin

    • Higher Than Deserved Rankings – Are you too High?

    • June 11, 2009 - Posted by Jim Boykin to Link Building
    • Yesterday I happened to be on wikipedia.com on the trustrank page, when I scrolled over the words “various techniques to achieve higher-than-deserved rankings” in the second paragraph, and the link title popped up “Search Engine Optimization” hum…so Search Engine Optimization is “various techniques to achieve higher-than-deserved rankings“…but hey…I do believe I’ve heard those exact words used before by some search engine engineers, and I think I’ve read those exact words before in some patents. I wish there...
  • Jim Boykin

    • Pagerank is Dead. Sculpting is Dead. Trust is Alive….in my eyes.

    • June 9, 2009 - Posted by Jim Boykin to Link Building
    • There’s been a few debates that I’ve wanted to weigh in on… one that comes to mind is the big hub bub over pagerank sculpting via use of the nofollow tags…. Pagerank sculpting is based on the formula from the original Pagerank patent from 1998, (PDF) that says the value of a backlinks is found via dividing the number of links on page by the value of a page (with a slight dampening factor). The public news...
  • Jim Boykin

    • Content Stealers – Link or be Gone.

    • June 8, 2009 - Posted by Jim Boykin to Link Building, Web Content
    • We were speaking on the phone today to a client who has such good content, that she’s found that several other websites copied her content, even though there’s a copyright notice on every page of the clients site.  One of the biggest problems has been people using this content in Yahoo Answers, and these yahoo pages showing up above the client in google search results. If you run a manual check for duplicate content (taking...
  • Jim Boykin

    • Link Buying for Cheap and What is Your Risk Tolerance?

    • June 4, 2009 - Posted by Jim Boykin to Link Building
    • Last week a client ordered  a competitive analysis report that I was just reviewing…. They gave us 3 phrases that they wanted us to analyze the top 10 sites for. The goal being so that their and our teams would know why these sites where ranked on the first page and to see what we can learn from these competitors so that we can rank on the first page too. Wouldn’t ya know it… the phrases they...
  • Jim Boykin

    • CEO Post: Types of Link Building w/pros and cons

    • June 2, 2009 - Posted by Jim Boykin to Google, Link Building
    • ok…I know… kinda cheap for me to make post #2 a CEO post with a pitch at the end of it….but it’s what my writing ended up with.. (when I started writing I didn’t know where it would end up…that’s how I write… for those who aren’t familiar with my writing, I tend to write as a stream of consciousness…with lots of 3 dots while I’m thinking… I’ll tell ya what, since you’re here, I’ll start...