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Speaking at A4U Expo

20 Apr

Just a quick note that I’ll be speaking at the A4U Expo in Amsterdam next week. This two day conference, which takes place at Amsterdam RAI, is a must for everybody in Europe who has something to do with affiliate marketing, whether it’s as a merchant or as a publisher. If you don’t have tickets […]

Link Marketing this Month (03.2009)

4 Apr

A bit later than usual (I’ve been away on vacation for about a week), but here’s Link Marketing this Month with the best link marketing related posts from March. One of my favorite posts of the year so far is Lisa Barone’s killer tips for getting links and content from Flickr, where she explains how […]

The Perfect Link Request Email Template

27 Mar

Over time, people must have asked me over a hundred times what kind of link request email template I use when I contact other websites owners to get a link, or what kind of email format I consider to be the “perfect” link request format. In my opinion, the perfect link request email template looks […]

New Link Building Tool: BuzzStream

13 Mar

There are lots and lots of link building tools, but good and useful link building tools are very rare. LinkDiagnosis and Majestic SEO are both awesome for analyzing purposes and both SEObook and Internet Marketing Ninjas offer a few great other (paid) tools for link building. But that’s about it. Earlier this week, however, I […]

A Good Alt is Better Than a Bad Anchor

11 Mar

A short while ago, I set up a small test in order to determine the value of an alt attribute, in comparison with a title tag and anchor text. Although quite a few link building text books advize you to avoid using image links, and the results for this subject in the Link Value Factors […]

Link Marketing this Month (02.2009)

2 Mar

Welcome to the second edition of link marketing this month, which highlights some of the most remarkable, interesting and/ or funny link marketing related articles of last month. One of these articles was Rob Bothan’s Link building is not just for SEO. Also, Dave Harry’s view on How search engines detect paid links, Mike Thelwall’s […]