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Link Building Columns and Posts from Eric Ward

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Various public posts from Eric Ward:

– .edu Link Fallacies Explained
– Who Controls Link Building Success?
– Dead Link Riches
– Link Building Software – What I’ve Learned
– Link Building for Personalized Search
– The Curly Theory of Link Building
– A Peek At Google’s Future
– Who Controls Link Building Success
– Why Reciprocal Links Will Always Be Viable
– When Cheaters Win
– What If Everything You Know About Link Building Is Wrong?
– Riding The Twitter Link Waves
– Helping Clients See The Bigger Linking Picture
– Why Reciprocal Links Will Always Be Viable
– Up Close Look at Eric Ward’s Link Building Desktop
– Best Practices for Feeling Sorry for Yourself
– Revenge of the Librarians – Don’t Hate me for Being Right
– How Twitter Can Impact Link Building
– Paid Links from .edu’s – Good, Bad or Ugly?
– Link Requests via Email – A Primer With Tips
– Best Practices for Flickr Link Building
– Backlink Research Best Practices
– Rules Of Linking Engagement As The Web Turns Twenty
– Joe The Plumber and Link Building Best Practices
– Outlinking Best Practices – Rule 1
– The Great Link Race Has Begun, But To Where?
– Why Link Building Must Go In-House
– Link Building Podcast and Transcript with Eric Ward
– Helping Clients See The Bigger Linking Picture
– After The Basics – Now What?
– Social Media Links – Spam 2.0?
– Where Trust Lives – An Example
– Why Reciprocal Links Will Always Be Viable
– Yahoo Directory Paid Link Best Practices
– What are the best practices for submitting to directories?
– Anchor Text Best Practices – Update 8-24-09
– What is the meaning of life, and link building?
– The Weekly Delete
– The Weekly Delete – Avis Edition
– How do I determine good link targets?
– Admitting You Have a Social Network Linking Addiction
– Link Building Rants and Commandments
– Picking The Right Link Building Shovel
– Interview with my Alma Mater about my Link Building Career
– LinkMoses Linking Commandments
– Over 125 Legitimate Link Building Strategies
– A Linking Campaign Primer
– Five Things You Don’t Know About Eric Ward
– Yahoo Daily Wire Says Goodbye – LinkMoses says Thank You
– LinkMoses On The New Google Link Analysis Tools
– What My 4-Year-Old And a Bike Has to do With Link Building
– Social Media Optimization – 3 Rules for What Not to Do
– Artificial Linking and Search Rankings
– Social Link Spam and Cigarette Butts
– Google’s New Custom Search Engine Service and Links
– The DMOZ Ship Has Sailed
– Link Penalty Anxiety?
– Where Is The Mother of All Links?
– Link Bait Kool-Aid?
– Is White Hat Link Building a Myth?
– Are You A Link Whore?
– Please stop the sending me link request emails like this
– How does Google collect and rank results?
– The Case for Topically Irrelevant High Pagerank Backlinks
– Linking’s Holy Grail: The Passively-Obtained Backlink
– Looking for Links In All The Wrong Places
– The Yahoo Link That Can Make You A Star
– Link Popularity and the Myth of the Guestbook Link
– What Makes a Web Site Link-Worthy?
– Build A Free Link Clipping Alert Service (Parts I ? 2)
– Linking Legalities. What You Need to Know
– A Technique For Selecting Sites For Link Requests
– Potpourri of Linking Facts and Fiction
– Linkability – Why Do Some Sites Have It While Others Don’t?
– Tracking Online Media Coverage Is Hit Or Miss, Mostly Miss
– Using Google to Identify High Quality Link Targets
– Automated Link Generators – Not Worth The Trouble
– Linking Mistakes To Avoid, Part 1 – Link Optimization and Short URLs
– Linking Mistakes To Avoid, Part 2 – Removing Orphaned URLs
– How to Make The Most Out Of Emailed Press Releases
– Taking The Plunge in the Pay-Per-Click Link Pool
– Now Is The Time For A Portal Link Audit
– A Linking Campaign Primer – by Eric Ward
– Spotting Unnatural Linking Patterns
– Five Things I Hate About Linking
– Aggressively Seeking Links: How Much Is Too Much?
– Link Building’s Cult Of Reciprocity
– LinkAnalysis Beyond Search Rank – by Eric Ward
– Portrait Of The Perfect Link Builder
– Social Link Manipulation
– LinkMoses Link Building Tip of the Week – Links by Association
– Teeny Weenie Bikini Linkbait
– Ten Things to Ask Before Hiring A Company to Promote Your Web Site

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Dear Readers,

As many of you know, Eric Ward passed away suddenly on October 16, 2017. Eric is now in the presence of the Lord, and his work here is finished.

It has been a great blessing to see the public response to his amazing work in this industry over the years.

Eric was a pioneer in the link building industry and it is our plan to keep this site live to honor him and in memory of his many contributions to the industry which gave him so much.

In this spirit, here is a link to the 2016 - 2017 LinkMoses Newsletter archives.

With grateful hearts,

– The Ward Family

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