Link Building this Month (10.2009)

Considering the large amount of good link building related posts I came across last month, I’m officially declaring October the official month of link marketing; Linktober :)

Let’s start with one of the best posts I’ve read in a while – Gab’s 101 link buying tips. Whether you buy links or not, there are lots of useful tips in there for everyone!

If you rather not buy your way to the top, you’ll have to learn the art of web promoting. And this art starts by fully understanding why people share stuff with each other, and/ or how you can persuade them into doing so. From there on, you can move on to creating the right content and thinking about the right promotion strategy. The actual contacting of webmasters, either by phone or email, is the last (but also very important) part of the process.

And also:

• SMX East: Ask the linkbuilders – Lisa Barone
• Link building using Delicious – Wil Reynolds
• DMOZ: A solid directory or the great pumpkin of search? – Debra Mastaler
• The anchor text sparsity problem – Bill Slawski
• What is the perfect link? – Michael Martinez
• A marketing role in product development – creating buzz… & links! – Todd Heim
• Recovering from link building mistakes – Eric Ward
• Offer testimonials, get links – Rand Fishkin
• Advanced link building: clone your most successful link profiles – Ken Lyons
• Link building: not just off-page anymore – Julie Joyce
• The best linking expert you can know – Micheal Martinez
• Mining 31,500,000 free links for the take – Ruud Hein
• Google trust rank patent granted – Bill Slawski

PS – Lots of people I talk to about link building are always on the lookout for shortcuts. There. Aren’t. Any. Nifty tools like this come close, but it will always be lots of work.

PPS – Shaun Anderson is giving away free link building ebooks this week. Yes, that’s even more link building tips to digest.