(updated May 23, 2017) One of the never-ending link building myths is the impact that inbound links originating from .edu domains can have on your search rankings. Lost in the discussion is that the quality of IBL’s from within the .edu domain varies significantly. [Note: If you like this post make sure to also check out […]
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LinkMoses Private is Now Available
The Link Building Best Practices blog is now LinkMoses Private. Why? Because I’ve been giving my content away for free since 1994. The true experts in the fields of link building, content linking strategies, and SEO are few and far between. Many are providing their expertise privately, behind paywalls I have launched LinkMoses Private at a […]
Link Building Strategies Q/A Live Video with Eric Ward aka LinkMoses (recorded live)
Link Building Strategies Q/A Live Video with Eric Ward aka LinkMoses (recorded live) Over 1,000 views thus far – this newly edited Live Video Linking Strategies Q/A was recorded on Friday, October 9th from 9 am – 11:00 ET. The share buttons were just added, so please use them! For 101 minutes I answered linking […]
A Linking Campaign Primer
A Linking Campaign Primer Original: March 2001. Updated: 2005, 2007, 2009, 2015 Share on The attitude surrounding link building has changed remarkably since Google rolled out the Penguin and Panda updates. Linkophobia is rampant. Google went so far as to clarify statements about link seeking, telling marketers that yes, it is OK to pursue links. […]
Looking For Links In All The Wrong Places
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) […]
The Yahoo Link That Can Make You A Star
January 17, 2005 by Eric Ward, aka The Link Mensch Your site is probably already listed in the Yahoo directory. And Yahoo is probably one of your larger sources of traffic. You’d probably rather eat bugs than lose your Yahoo link. But aside from the Yahoo directory, did you know there is another link that […]
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 […]
Linkability – Why Do Some Sites Have It While Others Don’t?
by Eric Ward Originally published February 2002 Linking from one website to another and from one web page to another is the fundamental essence of why the Web was invented. In a nutshell, researchers needed a way to link between similar documents, and before any dot com even existed, the Web was helping academics and […]
Using Google to Identify High Quality Link Targets
By Eric Ward with Stephan Spencer January 2002 Building links to your site improves rankings in certain search engines. Not all of the search engines put as much weight on inbound links, but one that does is Google. Google has become the 800 pound gorilla in the search engine wars, seemingly overnight. Did you know […]
Link Building for Personalized Search (LinkMoses Resurrected 9)
In the wake of the recent news Danny Sullivan covered excellently at SearchEngineLand in Google Now Personalizes Everyone’s Search Results, some of you may be having a link building PANIC ATTACK. Don’t. For the most part, high merit content owners should have no fear, because personalized search doesn’t somehow turn your high-merit content into no-merit […]