Using Spam in Your Advantage

8 Aug

Most people see spam as nothing but annoying. However, like I’ve mentioned before, there are lots of things you can use spam for. You’ll receive spam no matter what you do, so why not use it in your advantage? You’ve probably received the CNN Daily Top 10 email just as often as I did. Lots […]

Link Building is…

7 Aug

…yes, so what is link building actually? Lee Odden wrote an interesting post about link building vs. content promotion. In this post, he explains why he thinks that ‘unsolicited link acquisition based on content’, perhaps with a little bit of “traditional” link building, will lead to search engine traffic. He is absolutely right, but it […]

Link Building this Week (31.2008)

1 Aug

Everybody who’s ever been building links knows how difficult and time consuming it can be. Even the most experienced link builder can have a ‘hmm-I-think-I’m-stuck’ moment. During those moments, it’s good to have articles such as Rand Fishkin’s recap of his own “Give It Up” presentation. Excellent tips to get you going again. And also: […]

Link Building this Week (30.2008)

25 Jul

Are you struggling with your link requests, PR campaign or linkbait launch? The communication part is very important, and that’s why reading a post like Dee Barizo’s email template for contacting bloggers and Bob Massa’s fontstravaganza list of link request tips are certainly worth reading. Make sure to read Eric Ward’s excellent post about the […]

Link Building this Week (29.2008)

18 Jul

Dave Eaves published the results of an excellent piece of research; he tried to determine how good the mainstream media are at linking out. It would be quite interesting to track conduct this research on a regular basis in order to see patterns. For example, I noticed a drop in outbound links from specific news […]

Link Building Strategies: Big Brand Link Building

16 Jul

Tamar Weinberg pointed to an interesting topic over at the HighRankings forums about link building for big brands. Although the thread was opened over a year ago, the discussion lit up again and the subject remains interesting. A good reason to dedicate this episode of Link Building Strategies to link building for big brands. So […]