Archive | November, 2008

Link Building this Week (48.2008)

28 Nov

It’s the week of Thanksgiving, so I figure people had different things on their minds than links. How to prepare a turkey properly, for example. Nevertheless, there were still a few link building related posts worth mentioning. Barry Schwartz asks when link building companies suddenly became ‘black hat’ SEOs. While I do think there’s a […]

Link Building this Week (47.2008)

22 Nov

Google’s war on paid links seems to have effect. WeBuildPages’ shift away from buying links is a great example of this. The ‘report paid links’ form is scaring webmasters that buy (or have bought) links, because lots of paid links are easy to spot and competitors can -and often will- file a report. While there […]

Is Link Building an Indian Thing?

19 Nov

For some reason, lots of people from the search engine optimization industry have always associated link building with the country India. According to Google, all these people are right…

Link Building this Week (46.2008)

14 Nov

Eric Ward received an interesting request for proposal and devoted a post to his dilemma: is a performance-only based link building assignment on a very short term a no-win? Several people took time to chime in at Sphinn, and explained why they would (or wouldn’t) take the offer. My $0,02? If the site has no […]

The Day All Large Companies “Got It”

10 Nov

Everybody who works for an SEM agency, has worked for one in the past, or just visits Fortune 500 company websites from time to time, has probably had this thought at least once or twice; “If only they got it…”. Some websites have much potential, but almost seem to refuse it. Although topping the SERPs […]

Link Building this Week (45.2008)

8 Nov

It’s been a pretty crazy week, with the SMX and all, so this week’s edition of Link Building this Week is a bit late. There’s still lots of link building goodness worth mentioning, though… Eric Ward got interviewed by Wordtracker’s Rachelle Money. During this link building masterclass interview, he provided lots of useful tips and […]