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10 unusual places to drop your URL

9 Sep

Link Marketing isn’t only about getting clickable links, it’s about getting your URL spread. These 10 links won’t pass any link juice, but they certainly can help getting your website out there. 1. Your Bluetooth profile name Considering the fact that you’re into SEO and computers and geeky gadget stuff, you’ll probably have a phone […]

Link Building this week

7 Sep

It looks like the last few weeks were all about Link Builders. Justilien wrote about How to Train Link Developers to become Marketing Gurus as a follow up on his post with 7 Link Builder Training Tips. Debra Mastaler’s contribution to the Link Week section of SEL was Link Builder related as well, she talked […]

Link bombing still works. Even unintentionally.

29 Aug

Although Google stated that Googlebombing would become very difficult in the future, SERPs show still examples of pretty good results. Most of them are intentional, some are by accident. The example below (thanks for the tip, Hamoedie ;) ) is a great example of an accidental, but very effective, link bomb. The web design market […]

A spammer with a conscience

28 Aug

When I wanted to clear the comment spam Akismet blocked during this week, I spotted something very funny: a spammer with a conscience. I guess he’s having second thoughts about spamming the hell out of bloggers with his used car spam sites :)

How to Attract Links: 4 Not So Ordinary Tactics

27 Aug

You have probably already read the articles with 5, 50, 66, 101 or even 131 strategies to attract links (if not: go read!). Some strategies (the most effective ones) are being mentioned in each of these articles. The following 4 activities are not very ordinary ways to build links, but can be at least as […]

Why you should optimize your LinkedIn profile links

24 Aug

There is enough info available about how and why to use LinkedIn and how you can add links to your profile. But why would you neglect optimizing your profile links, by leaving out the anchor text? Recently, I came across two profiles with links that didn’t have one of the standard LinkedIn anchor texts, but […]