Comments on: Organizing Your Link Lists for Effective Link Building

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:58:12 +0000

Thanks for your comments guys – especially Eric, Will Michael and Paz. I have been researching about link building because I heard it was beneficial, but I didn’t know why. I will now make sure I focus on great content and being able to convert traffic.

By: Paz

Paz — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:57:15 +0000

All link building should be done with the purpose of genuine leads as oppose to traffic of course.

Many people spending a hundred hrs a month or whatever chasing links for rankings that they dont even know anything about how that traffic will convert is wasted time.

By: Will Fleiss

Will Fleiss — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:04:59 +0000

haha… I see. That is a debate I often get into; the importance of obtaining links for improving rankings versus driving traffic. Could you give a rough estimate of how much of a link building campaign should be for the purpose of improving search versus driving traffic? Love to hear any thoughts you have on the matter…

By: Eric Ward

Eric Ward — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:01:45 +0000

Link building campaigns are definately worthwhile, or else I’ve just wasted 14 years of my life. What I mean is that link building performed with the sole goal of improving search rank is not the best approach.

By: Will Fleiss

Will Fleiss — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:39:19 +0000

@Eric Are you suggesting that link building campaigns are not worthwhile? Obviously an understanding of what links are important is crucial to these kind of efforts, but I’m not sure what exactly you are criticizing about this strategy. Could you clarify?

Thanks!

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:07:48 +0000

My web site has more than 20k of links… and it’s PR has not changed… but the incoming visits are increasing… we have lot’s os new links everyday, because people are adding some in-text references in their articles and blog posts…

By: Eric Ward

Eric Ward — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:21:03 +0000

Amen Michael. Rank driven link seeking can cause people to make really poor target site choices that give them a false sense of success.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:18:19 +0000

This is a very inefficient approach. While it’s good for people to have some guidelines to try out when asking for links, the time they invest in these procedures would be better spent elsewhere.

Also, people need to keep in mind that most (if not all) link research techniques and tools rely on Yahoo!’s Site Explorer — which is absolutely useless for analyzing backlinks on Google.

Yahoo! does not know which links Google indexes.

Yahoo! does not know which links Google counts.

Yahoo! does not even tell you which links it counts in its own index.

Too much emphasis on links is hurting most SEOs today.

By: David Lankard

David Lankard — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:24:15 +0000

This is so useful and the tutorial you recommended is great.