By Sam Langdon on May 31, 2011
I thought this was a particularly pertinent post from Randfish at SEOmoz about the right way to get links to your website: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/dont-ask-sites-for-links-find-people-and-connect The crux of it is: don’t write to anonymous website contact email addresses asking for links; instead join the community (participating with relevant comments on blogs/social media sites that don’t just publicise [...]
Posted in Link Building, Social Media | Tagged Begging for Links, Link Building
By Sam Langdon on May 2, 2010
This week I visited London’s Internet World show, mostly in the name of keeping tabs on the latest commercial web related offerings and to sit in on a couple of interesting keynote seminars from Google and Unilever. Whilst I was there, I caught a seminar from Patrick Altoft of Internet Marketing specialists Branded3 (also proprietor [...]
Posted in Link Building | Tagged Link Building, seomoz open site explorer
By Sam Langdon on March 7, 2010
Matt Cutts recently posted a Google Webmaster video containing some useful link building tips. Whilst there’s nothing particularly revolutionary, it nicely articulates a number of useful basics in a sub 8-minute video. Of course these are ‘Google approved’ and it’s good to hear it from the proverbial horse’s mouth. Here’s a summary of the key [...]
Posted in Link Building | Tagged Link Building, matt cutts
By Sam Langdon on February 21, 2010
Note – I originally attempted to publish this article on SEOmoz, but there was a ‘conflict of interest’ as they weren’t willing to out other SEO websites’ possibly unethical practices. I found the recent release of SEOmoz’s Open Site Explorer extremely useful. It’s particularly good at comparing sites quickly and listing inbound links in descending [...]
Posted in Link Building, Tools | Tagged black hat, Link Building, seomoz open site explorer
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