There’s a New Tool in Town

29 Jan

This is the living proof that you really should consider guest posting from time to time. A guest post from Janusz on Blogstorm.co.uk pointed me to his link analysis tool; Link Diagnosis. This is a great FireFox plugin, that analyzes link profiles very thoroughly. Check out the post at Blogstorm for some screen shots or […]

Link Building this Week (04.2008)

25 Jan

Jim Boykin has been digging up some Google and/ or Matt Cutts quotes to outline what Google’s stance is in the paid link discussion. Not only does his post show that Reviewed and Not Guaranteed is the red line here, but he also unleashed a discussion at his own blog and at Sphinn. Gab Goldenberg […]

Link Building this Week (03.2008)

18 Jan

There was a lot of discussion about the good old paid link topic last week. Patrick Altoft opened with some examples showing that paid links still work (which was later backed up by Brian Combs), before unleashing a discussion about whether to report paid links or not. Turned out that 83% (including me) don’t report […]

The 4 Different Types of Authority Links (and 11 Ways to Get Them)

17 Jan

If you read, hear, or talk a lot about links and how to build them on a daily basis (like I do), you’ll get slapped around the ears with the term authority links quite often. The answer to the question how to obtain such authority links depends, because there are different types of authority links; […]

How to build links for crappy websites

11 Jan

Warning notice: while this post is easy to digest, it also contains a lot of crap. I’m sure almost every search marketer has been in the situation of thinking “so how am I going to tell this friend/ prospect/ client that his website is crap in a polite way?” in at least more than one […]

Link Building this Week (02.2008)

11 Jan

During the past week, I came across two outstanding posts. The first one is XMCP’s Guide to effective link building, which contains a lot of useful tips to consider while working on your link marketing strategy. Another great post was Justilien‘s column at SearchEngineWatch, named The top 5 SEO and Link Building Challenges for 2008. […]