Includes Competitive Citation and Linking Analytics for your site and up to twenty competitor or industry sites, delivery of two custom link strategy reports created for your site, and two hours by phone with live screen sharing with me to personally go over my findings and suggestions

$1000.00 US

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Sessions include
- Two private phone discussions / training (120 minutes total)
- I provide a unique linking strategy designed only for your site
- Custom Linking Analytics and Reports: 
..1). Proprietary Citation Analysis and Competitive Link Audit for your site
..2). Highest Value Target Site Database for your site

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More about the Private Linking Strategy Session
First, let's get this out of the way. Link building is not only about search rank.  If it was, the first six years of my link building career would have been pointless, because Google didn't exist yet.  On the other hand, there's a reason I rank 1 or 2 at every major engine for the phrase Link Building Expert.

For me, link building, linking analytics, link analysis, and content publicity is not a fad. It's a way of life, and an art. Since I've been building links since before Google existed, I have a different perspective.  I've been creating long term linking strategies, building links and teaching others about generating publicity for web content for years, for some of the most well known web sites in the world, as well as for small topical sites known only where they need to be known to succeed.

The obligatory search result confidence builder...
Although I don't put much emphasis on search rankings alone, I know many of you reading this do.  So let's have a look. 

Organic (natural) rankings for EricWard.com for the Search term: 

link building expert

Google search result for link building expert
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bing (Windows Live search) result for link building expert
Yahoo search result for link building expert

Hopefully my site is somewhere on page one for all the above engines.  At times I've ranked 1st on all of them at the exact same time. More often it fluctuates.  For me the larger question is how can a one-man business like mine outrank thousands of much larger companies who also want to rank high for that term?  The answer is pretty obvious; I know what works and why. For those of you who like your search results a little more granular, click any term below to see if and where I can be found at Google. 

Google search results for the term...
link building expert | linking strategy development | linking facts and fiction
linking strategy session | link bait strategies | link building articles | linking strategies
link building training | link building for web content | link building services
custom linking strategies | publicity and links for web content | publicity for web sites
link building webcast

Some of these rankings are great, some are good, all vary day to day.  I honestly don't fret over it. That said, my rankings give me a unique insight into the engines, and allow me use what I know for my client's sites. I have a pretty strong feel for what your citation footprint or link profile needs to look like, because I have it.

Ironically, I don't and have never thought of myself as a Search Engine Optimization expert or consultant.  My business card says Content Publicist, Link Building Realist.

Chasing butterflies
Most people are after links for the wrong reasons and from the wrong sites.  There are many companies selling linking services that are 100% worthless. Terms like Link Popularity, Pagerank, hubs, authorities, sandbox, anchor text, etc. are used as if they are the all that matter. Marketers obsess over concepts like link leakage, bleeding PR, no-follow tags, triangular links, link architecture, link equity, redirects, and IP Blocks.  Most of these terms do nothing more than give you a false sense of security, or more to the point, insecurity.  As if by giving something a name will make it easier to understand, and by extension easier to sell to you. 

I know what works, what matters, what doesn't, and why, and I'll put my knowledge about content linking and online publicity up against anyone in the world. 

A practitioner's approach
I work with sites of any size, as long as the content is meritorious. I've worked with sites as large as PBS.org and Discovery.com and as nichefied as Become.com, and PanedExpressions.com. I do this all day every day. I'm hands on. I do not farm my work out, I do it myself. I identify the best targets. I request the links. I send the site announcements. I know what it takes to get coverage and links in the right places from the right people.  That's why people hire me.  I know what the hell I'm doing and guarantee it.

I also train agencies, PR firms, site developers and individuals in the art of link building and online publicity.  I speak at the best search marketing conferences, and my articles about linking and online publicity appear all over the world.  My linking services are mentioned in college courses about web marketing, and back in 1998 Websight magazine named me one of the world's 100 most influential people on the web.

I mention all this to give you confidence, but I'm not foolish enough to believe my own press clippings.  I do know that if someone as respected as Danny Sullivan wants to call me the "World's authority on linking", I must have a clue or two.

Let me help you... 
I'll use my own proprietary analysis/tools to examine the inbound links to your site and competitor sites. I'll create and deliver to you a linking strategy developed for your site. I'll spend 2 hours on the phone with you, discussing the findings and teaching you how to implement them. 

That's 120 minutes by phone plus a linking strategy you can take action on immediately.

Proprietary Linking Analytics and Cocitation Link Analysis

Competitive Link Opportunity Audit - I'll fully research all sites (competitors and others) and create a custom database of linking target sites where you can pursue links that make sense just for YOUR site

High Value Target Site Identification - I'll explain how you can identify the highest quality link targets that are trusted and editorially credible, so you don't waste time seeking links from sites with little if any value

I'll create and deliver to you a written linking strategy report developed specifically for your site.  In it I Identify weakness and opportunity in your current linking strategy, including tips for link seeking from traditional link target venues as well as from social media, blogs, niche venues and other vertical venues.  Advice is also provided on strategic topics such as anchor text fallacies, holistic linking, online publicity, buying links, and maximizing on-site and off-site link architecture.

Perhaps most importantly, linking tactics to avoid

Any linking topics you don't see above that you'd like me to cover

Why I'm different... 
I believe in my expertise, methodology and approach strongly enough that if after we are through you don't think it was worth it, I'll send the $1000 back. 

If you'd like some contact with me before deciding, that's fine. Please use my contact page to reach me. 

If you're ready to begin, click either button below to pay via your choice of Google Checkout or PayPal. When I receive your request I'll email you to set a time for our first call.

If you prefer a regular invoice, use this Regular Invoice link or the one below.  Note that the session will not be scheduled until I receive the payment, which is why PayPal and Google Checkout are the fastest option.

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Client Comment...
“ Your in-depth report, was in itself, more than worth the price of admission. We thought we knew a lot about linking, but your insights proved that we did not and I now know why Danny Sullivan recommended you to us above anyone else. And thank you for spending extra time with us. That was very much appreciated”
—Choice Hotels International

Media Comment...
“Those who want the job done right by the best in the business flock to Eric Ward and count themselves lucky that the maestro isn't booked into the next millennium”
— Jim Sterne, Inc. magazine

“ Eric - Thank for our call last week. Your analysis and thought process on link building exceeded my expectations, and it was by far the best money I have spent on the Internet in 11 years.
D.Wilson, soccerticketsonline.com

“ Eric, you earned your $1,000 fee during our initial 30 minute phone conversation.  Your insight and guidance on how and why to obtain the specific target IBLs you do is extraordinary.  Thanks for getting me on the right track

“ Eric Ward offered incredibly effective advice and services that were instrumental in making our site the leader in our niche. He is the most effective link-builder on the planet. I'd recommend him strongly to anyone who has an important story to tell online

“ We followed the strategy you created for our site and we were skeptical,  but the bottom line for me is we now rank first at all the engines for our most important search terms, and the ranking has not decreased over the course of several engine updates.  Your link building strategy and services are the only things we have done, so it's pretty obvious you know what the hell you are doing.  My one complaint? Answer your phone more often

“ I cannot put a price on the information and advice Eric provides.  He made me realize that all the information that we need to perform a successful linking campaign that would generate great rankings.  It's all about looking in the right places and recognizing  how to spot high value links.  Thanks again Eric you have really opened my eyes.

“ Having all this information at once,  presented personally by one of the leading experts in the world, with the ability for me to ask questions and get immediate answers, was very gratifying, and a great value. I highly recommend Eric Wards service

“ Thanks for your honesty. Without the session I would have wasted months of time on linking strategies that  wouldn't  have worked

“ Eric's linking strategy session is BY FAR the best money we've invested in our website

“ Eric, you should be charging more than you are. I have benefited tremendously from our sessions, particularly in terms of long term linking strategies and the ideas you have given us

“ Eric is the busiest link consultant in the industry and for good reason.  Once you hook up with him, he is well worth the wait!

“ Thank you for your honest advice and thoughtful recommendations.  I will not hesitate to recommend your Linking Strategy Session to others

“ An extremely informative and helpful session 

“ I have many years of online marketing experience and wasn't sure if I would benefit from your strategy session. I did. The session was extremely helpful, the Link Audit was a real eye-opener and I recommend this session for anyone, beginner to expert

“ You've helped me SO much w/raising the standard of my link building process

Media/Industry Comments

Ward has been the Svengali behind the scenes of some of the Web's best known launches, from Amazon.com to Rodney.com
—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Online

Eric Ward is THE authority on links
—Danny Sullivan, SearchEngineLand.com
 

Eric is the world's authority on linking strategies
—Dr. Ralph Wilson, Web Marketing Today
 

Eric Ward may well be the foremost expert on promoting Web site launches and Web events
— Interactive PR News

The impact of Eric Ward's approach is optimal
— NetGuide Magazine