How to Ask for a Link to Stay within Google Webmaster Guidelines? Jim & Ann Show
Today we are discussing links, not building links but requesting links.. Last week Portuguese Google Webmaster blog published an article where it was said that you could not ask for links. Our community picked it up and started actively discussing it… A few days later Google re-phrased that saying that you could not ask for […]
For $20 I’ll Delete Your Link & Make a Lot of $.
Today I was speaking to a new client on the phone and I was reviewing his backlinks, and I found several un-natural backlinks from directories….and many of these directories had pages the linked to the client that looked something like this: (this is not the client site below, just a random listing I grabbed) According […]
Building Links Through Relationships – My #PubCon Presentation
Over the years, the process of link building has become increasingly controversial. The conventional methods of link building are now extinct. Paid links are now so risky that it isn’t worth trying them. Directory links now have no application. Press releases are nofollow… These are no longer viable options for those who would have once […]
A Look into Google Plus Link Graph and Flow
After all the talks about the correlation between rankings and plus ones (followed by Matt Cutt’s rebuttal), more and more people are talking about “Google Plus SEO” If you take a look at how Google implements nofollow within Google Plus, you can get a much better understanding of what it thinks about links in general. […]
3 Free Tools to Get Link Building Search Query Inspired
Have you been a little lax on your link building lately? Uninspired over search queries, or maybe feeling discouraged thanks to a lack of results from the ones you have previously employed? It can be easy to feel this way, or just let your link building fall to the wayside in favor of other marketing […]
3 Link Builder’s Tools To Enhance Gmail
Modern link building includes so many tasks. It can be blogger outreach, media relationship building, guest blogging research, etc. All these tasks are very hard to scale; therefore today’s tools are most likely to turn handy! 1. FollowUp Price: $10 / month (Free: 20 reminders a month) One of the biggest challenges for link builders […]
What our Ninjas say about Internet Marketing Ninjas.
Nearly 14 years ago this company started as a one man show…and since, we’ve grown to around 100 people today….I never asked for that…it somehow just happened…but during those years I feel like we’ve grown a special family here…a family that makes me feel so lucky, and so rich. This year we won the Best […]
4 Tools Breaking Your Backlinks into Categories
Backlink research has long gone beyond anchor text analysis. Nowadays any backlink research should contain thematic, placement, neighborhood, etc insight. Today we are looking into one type of backlink profile analysis: backlink categorization. You’ll see some rating for each tool: please bear in mind that those ratings are very personal (that’s my subjective opinion) and […]
Local News Site Linkbait Ideas (Weekly Q&A)
We all love linkbait and there’s never too much brainstorming there. Therefore I enjoy discovering forum threads discussing linkbait ideas. This thread is from SEOchat forums discussing link bait ideas for a local newspaper site: 1. Create news instead of re-printing it: Don’t re-use news: create it! You need to piss someone off to get […]
Can Removing Backlinks Help You to Penguin-Recover? (Weekly Q&A)
There’s an interesting thread over at SEOchat forums discussing the possible ways to recover from the ranking drop caused by Penguin update. One of the most interesting points being discussed: “Does backlink removal make sense?” Let’s first see what Penguin is actually is. Algorithm Update vs Penalty Your website rankings may drop because of either […]