If you are a seeker of link building services, and are evaluating companies or persons to help with your link building strategies and tactics, it’s logical and reasonable to have some questions you want answers for. One of the most telling questions of all is this one: “How many links can you get for us […]
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LinkMoses Resurrected #3 – When Cheaters Win, aka Peewater for Links
(Editor’s note: See Peewater, as defined by Urban Dictionary) You’ll hear the following question/argument asked at just every online marketing conference, discussion/forum, and I’m asked it at least a few times a month. “Why should we play by the rules when it’s still possible to cheat and rank?” I understand your frustration, and I can’t […]
Paid Links from .edu’s – Good, Bad or Ugly?
Paid Links from .edu’s – Good, Bad or Ugly? A reader recently asked… “What about paid links from the school newspapers. Can those hurt your rankings?” [Quick backgrounder – printed college newspapers sell advertising just like most newspapers do. The online version of those college newspapers also sell advertising, and since the online version of […]
Hello Link Building Q&A
Regular readers know I’ve been building links since the launch of TheTitanicJustSank.com, or close to it. This wasn’t by design. I just had the bad/good luck to lose my advertising job at the right time; Early nineties. I needed something new to do, I went to grad school, and the Internet fell into my lap. […]
Anchor Text Best Practices
Anchor Text Best Practices I’ve contributed to several Link Value Factors type articles, including SEOmoz’s and Wiep’s, and was glad to be included by Rae Hoffman in her awesome Link Development Experts Group Interview. I always have a tough time providing the kinds of answers that would be useful without being so long as to […]
What are the best practices for submitting to directories?
It will depend on whether you mean directories like Yahoo or directories like the hundreds listed around the web that nobody ever heard of and nobody ever uses? Seriously, when was the last time someone looking for a new bicycle started their search at link-a-pa-looza.biz? How about never? The best practices for directory link building […]