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Google’s Maihle Ohye surprised the staying-at-home-from-SMX-East-’ers earlier this week (in a good way) by announcing a series on links on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog. She started with discussing internal link architecture, followed by outbound links and last but not least a post about inbound links. It’s good to see a few detailed posts [...]

After 2 weeks of vacation and spending some time on starting up a few fun projects, I found several overloaded email accounts and a feedreader that went berserk waiting for me. I’ve selected the best link building related posts from the bulk and listed them below, but I probably missed a few interesting ones. Feel [...]

While the title of this weekly recap is Link Building this Week, there’s more to this subject than just posts with ‘link building’ in the title. For example, Lisa Barone’s examples of good content (and Micheal Martinez’ content related post and Rand Fishkin’s content tips as well) contains lots of useful info that you can [...]

Although there are lots of different link building strategies that are way more effective, lots of people still use good old link requests to get new backlinks. This varies from sending out an occasional email to spamming the hell out of nearly anything online with some kind of link building software. The problem with link [...]

In this week’s link week column over at Search Engine Land, Eric Ward explains why you shouldn’t just look at link building as an SEO tool. According to Eric, ‘Link building is one part marketing, two parts public relations, and three parts common sense’. While I don’t agree 100% with how he divided the parts, [...]

Unlike with the previous Link Building Strategies posts, I’d like to start with a short disclaimer-like opening. Like the title says, this is the blackhat edition. Well, not technically blackhat, but it sure as hell isn’t a strategy that I’d use for clients. So you’re probably better off not to use this tactic for your [...]