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Tamar Weinberg pointed to an interesting topic over at the HighRankings forums about link building for big brands. Although the thread was opened over a year ago, the discussion lit up again and the subject remains interesting. A good reason to dedicate this episode of Link Building Strategies to link building for big brands. So [...]

The question ‘does only the first anchor count or not’ discussion is still pretty hot. While Johannes Beus stated that only the first anchor counts (credits), Michael Martinez tried to show that at least some of the tests are bit biased. Debra Mastaler did something that apparently nobody thought about; she just asked Matt Cutts [...]

When I was playing around with my (referer) statistics a bit, I noticed that something strange was going on. After a little bit of digging, I noticed some new sort of penalty or filter. It’s not a minus 950 penalty or something like that, but more like a Till-Here-And-No-Further penalty. Earlier this year, Wiep.net received [...]

It seems like Google’s testing out some stuff with the setup of their cached pages. Below are two screen shots of the cached page of Wiep.net. The first one is the “original” one, which was reached by clicking on the “cached” link of the top result at Google.com. When trying to see the cached version [...]

Ok, this will be the last post that contains the word viagra for at least a month. I promise. But after reading and answering Marty’s comment earlier today, I noticed something funny. About a year ago, I tried to see if it’s possible to get Matt Cutts’ blog ranked for a viagra related keyword. Within [...]

Carolyn Shelby not only interviewed ProspectMX’ Dave Conklin for WebmasterRadio, but she also pointed to the awesome Link Building 101 sheet (pdf) that was created by the company Dave works for. If you have a large format printer, use it. Michael Martinez noticed several keyword referrals for “What kind of web links work best for [...]