By Eric Ward August 13, 2007 The full text including hyperlinks for this Link Week column can be read at SearchEngineLand.com here A big part of my professional life is spent teaching and training corporate clients how to become self sufficient at in-house link building and content publicity. Those readers here who have heard me […]
Link Experts Tell All
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How does Google collect and rank results?
http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2005_12/article1.html At the above URL is a quick primer on how Google crawls and indexes the web, and then ranks search results, from quality engineer Matt Cutts. Although designed for librarians, it’s worth a read by anyone who wants a good general overview. Until next time, I remain, Eric Ward, The Link Mensch Back to […]
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Social Link Manipulation
By Eric Ward for SearchEngineLand’s LinkWeek June 11, 2007 The term “Social Media” is used ad nauseum to describe an ever growing collection of tools and services by which people share content, links, opinions, experience and perspectives with each other. Keeping up with the latest Social Media services and sites can make you dizzy. Wikipedia […]
Under the Radar: Tracking Online Media Coverage Is Hit Or Miss, But Mostly Miss
The Internet is filled with nooks, crannies, and pockets that make tracking online media coverage of your Web site or event a nightmare. Here’s why… Updated February 2002 by Eric Ward, aka The Link Mensch It’s one of the first questions you ask after the launch of your Web site or Web event: “Did we […]
Interview with my Alma Mater about my Link Building Career
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Link Diversity Defined and Explained (LinkMoses Resurrected 10)
Ahhh, Link Diversity… Linkmoses loves it when a seemingly technical and complex concept can be broken down and simplified, and Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz is one of the best at doing this. Give him a whiteboard and I do believe he could solve global warming. I’ve embedded a video of his that beautifully explains link […]
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 […]
What The Three Stooges Can Teach Us About Links – The Curly Theory of Link Building
What The Three Stooges Can Teach Us About Links, aka The Curly Theory of Link Building I read today about how all three major search engines have removed the Geocities.com domain from their search indices. A site:geocities.com search on Google, Yahoo, or Bing shows that, as Matt McGhee illustrates here, geocities.com is “dead and buried”. […]