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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 […]

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; […]

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 […]

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. […]

Well, that’s because both Jim Boykin and Debra Mastaler’s The Link Spiel won a Search Blog Award in the Link Building category. Congratulations to both! I can’t think of a better result than these two finishing in first place together, because I’ve been reading both blogs since the moment I started to read about SEO. […]

Sometimes even deleting SPAM can be just hilarious. After opening my inbox, I found these two magnificent emails waiting right next to each other. The first one is “Paypal” sending me ‘You’re Billing information‘. The second one wishes me a Marry Christmas. On January 6th. I’m not saying that my grammar is perfect, but checking […]