Define Your Objective Before You Build Links
Better rankings? More traffic? More conversions? Stability? What exactly do you hope to achieve by building links? Without a clear...
Small Fish In A Big Brand Pond
Recently my husband did something that scared the life out of me: he bought a major appliance from a minor...
My Three Favorite Mobile Discovery Tools
Mobile discovery is becoming something that I am beginning to rely on more and more in order to find good...
Online Sentiment and Link Building
Some of us have a negative (or at least not fully glowing) mention in the top 30 rankings for our...
Using Negative Thinking to Plan for the Worst in Online Marketing
Since I am a total pessimist with slight OCD, I always envision the worst in any situation. For example, if...
Good Metrics to Determine the Link Value: NOT Toolbar PageRank
If you asked me to name the biggest irritation that I encounter when dealing with links, I’d have to say...
Mine Your Own Business
A common tactic in link building is to try and maximize what you already have. Occasionally this takes the form...
Does Your Niche Dictate Your Risk?
Months ago I wrote about why understanding your niche was so crucial for quality link building. Most of this piece...
Zero In On Your Problem Areas
Building links is tedious work, whether you enjoy it or not. I’ve done almost every form of SEO at one...
Shake Up Your Link Building Efforts
Sometimes your link building efforts produce absolutely nothing at all of value. Sometimes you conduct the exact same research and...
Tangential Relevance and Link Building
Tangential relevance is the idea of something being related to a topic in an indirect manner. I feel like Tony...
Adding Infographic to Your Link Profile
Link builders have been telling you to add all sorts of links to your link profile, from straightforward text links...
4 Huge Mistakes to Avoid When You Build Links
When you’re buying links, you know that you’re risking a site, that you’re going against Google’s guidelines (and let’s face...
Link Campaigns for Foreign Sites
At my office of 20 people, two speak German and one speaks Spanish. Some of us know a bit of...
Easy Step by Step Way to Use Youtube for Link Building
Nylon Magazine (and yes I know that I’m a bit too old to be reading it) has started to put...
Once You Start, Can You Stop?
Warning: Link building is addictive. It’s like working out. Once you get going and you see results, you want to...
Add Image Links to Your Arsenal
In the pursuit of new inbound links, people don’t always seek out new image links. We’ve been so conditioned to...
10 Questions to Learn Your Niche
If you truly understand your niche, you can better find relevant linking partners. If you don’t, you’re going to waste...
Purple Prose and Link Building
Purple prose is a lovely name given to the style of writing that tends to be so extravagantly worded that...
Link Building: A Balancing Act
“You think you’ve got a hold of it all You haven’t got a hold at all When you reach the...