by Eric Ward Updated November 2011 – original 2005 | More posts from Eric Ward In their frenzy to build links to curry favor with the engines, some link builders miss a far more important target: People. Most will tell you that links from Yahoo! and DMOZ are really important, and to a certain (minimal) […]
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Wherefore Art Thou Hummingbird?
posted by Eric Ward on November 8, 2013, at 10.09 am EST The two queries below are identical. The first query is what is yahoo’s current stock price? (live result http://goo.gl/2dU4fJ) As you can see, Google answered it for me directly, stating the sources as Google Finance – Yahoo Finance – MSN Money The second […]
Google’s New Custom Search Engine Service and Links
Have you ever done this? Slut!
Link Building Software – What To Look for and What to Avoid
August 27, 2010 Over the years I have probably tested and used over 100 different programs that in one way or another assisted with some aspect of the link building process. Many are long gone. Some are wonderful and incredibly powerful, others overpriced and should be taken off the market. I’ve had phone conversations with […]
Link Analysis Beyond Search Rank – by Eric Ward
For SearchEngineLand’s LinkWeek July 9, 2007 I’m an extreme believer in linking analysis and competitive linking intelligence. I have tools that analyze millions of links every week. I have scripts that compare, contrast, group, separate, divide and categorize links to a degree that would make your eyes cross. As I type this one of my […]
Link Popularity and the Myth of the Guestbook Link – by Eric Ward
Have you ever done this? Slut!
Linking Mistakes To Avoid (Part 2): Removing Orphaned URLs
by Eric Ward, Link Mensch Right now, as you read this, you probably have some orphaned URLs you don’t know about, collecting dust in the forgotten pile at the bottom of the search engine indexes. It happens to the best of us. Even me, the self proclaimed Link Mensch, was humbled recently to discover several […]
Potpourri of Linking Facts and Fiction
by Eric Ward, aka The Link Mensch Here’s a collection of linking related tid bits you should be aware of. Paying for a link at Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com) that is not in the top five in the search results is, in most cases, a waste. Results of six and lower are not made available to […]
A Technique For Selecting Sites For Link Requests
Updated February 2004 by Eric Ward You know you should have more links pointing to your site, but you’re not sure what the best approach is to pursue them. One of my favorite approaches is to use the search results for terms that are important for my site. I do a search at Google for […]
Where Is The Mother of All Links?
Where is the Mother of all Links..? By Eric Ward In the never-ending quest to obtain links for your content, do you ignore the most useful sites of all? My younger flashier peers in the link building trade like to call me Link Building Moses, because I’ve been around so long and am a huge […]
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