Danny Sullivan ranted a bit at a session at SMX Advanced in Seattle this week. It is a fantastically beautiful rant of truth. If you offer link building as a service or if you think you are great at link building you need to listen to this and then listen again. Danny also published Link …
Category Archives: Link Building
The outlook on linkbuilding is ever changing along with do’s and don’ts. SEJ keeps you up to speed on the latest practices on blogger outreach, content marketing and how to deal with Penguin updates.
With all of the recent news of companies being called out for paid links, Google sending warnings about unnatural links, over optimization penalties, and blog networks getting shut down, it seems link building is becoming more and more difficult. The real challenge is when you are working with a new client or website. Typically the …
“Link Research Tools”, probably the most advanced SEO and link building tool, built by CEMPER.COM scored again! With the new metrics CEMPER Trust™ and CEMPER Power ™ they obsolete a lot of other link metrics you may know and still use. The new “Power*Trust keyword cloud” is again a whole new way to visualize backlinks and the …
Finding links can be one of the most tedious parts of SEO. You have to try out various operators, test out different keyword sets, prune your link prospects, and spend time adding them into an excel sheet for reporting. Thankfully, there is an abundance of smart people in the SEO industry and Garret French is …
Where do I even begin with this one? I mean, I was on the fence about even writing this post for months. On the one hand, I myself have become known for calling out asshattery that pollutes the search marketing industry in epic ways, and I’ve been doing it for a few years. On the …
Trying to keep track of backlinks is one of the most miserable elements of being a guest blogger. Relying on the blog owner not to remove, edit or cancel backlinks in posts and bylines, you often have recourse if something goes wrong. This is not due to any malicious intentions by the blog owner, but …
Well-known SEO toolkit grows up to 15 tools. It’s only been three months since our last review of the Link Research Tools back in early December 2011 when Yahoo Site Explorer was switched off and they presented a more than convenient replacement for Yahoo Site Explorer. The enormous growth of Christoph C. Cemper’s LinkResearchTools since then made me take another …
The shutdown of Yahoo Site Explorer brought us QBL, the 10-second-car for Backlink Analysis It’s been a while since our last review of the Link Research Tools back in March and I want to thank you guys again for the massive feedback. Since then, a lot has happened in SEO, most recently the shutdown of …
I’ve seen more SEO interest in Pinterest in the last month than the rest of the image bookmarking site’s life. One day, I saw multiple veteran SEOs ask for an invite and I’m pretty sure they’re not going for cute animal pictures and interior decorating ideas. Most of the SEO talk about Pinterest concern a …
Taking advantage of trending topics is a tremendous opportunity to net more links and more traffic for your site while using a relatively small amount of resources. The beauty of promoting trending content is that you can ride the wave to additional free links beyond your initial promotional push. Who can argue with letting the …