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During conference season, you always see lots of (link building related) interviews pop up left and right, and apparently, it’s that time of the year already. Eric Enge interviewed Matt Cutts (and Brent D. Payne ‘translated’ the interview), Jason Billingsley captured Stephan Spencer on video and Patrick Altoft asked Lyndon Antcliff some interesting questions about [...]

It looks like whole fakebait discussion is finally coming to an end. In stead of dozens of new topics, I only found two posts (and one -great!- video) touching the subject last week. Frank Watson tried to determine what valid linkbait is and Eric Ward explained why he thinks that relevance and authority depends on [...]

For link building and SEO testing purposes, I try to find the edges. For own projects, I use the strategies that work best, regardless of what’s ‘allowed’ and what isn’t. When clients are involved, however, it’s completely different, especially when you’re dealing with big brands. Most clients, and especially clients in very competing online markets, [...]

While the value of a .edu tld still raises discussions, you can’t deny that a link on a .edu domain is usually pretty valuable. How to obtain .edu’s was part of Roger Montti’s link building presentation at the SMX Advanced (also covered by Virginia Nussey) and Dave Snyder also discussed the same topic. Another interesting [...]

I find that posts and articles, that look at link marketing at a slightly different way than usual, always are extra interesting to read. Looking at things from a different angle tends to open doors to new perspectives. David Mihm’s post about Why citation is the new link is such an article. He analyzed local [...]

A bit later than usual, but better late than no Link Building this Week at all… A great post I came across last week is Garrett French’s Guide to getting maximum link value from your content. This bookmark worthy article details key strategies, tools and resources for maximizing the link value of your content. It [...]