Link Building this Week (18.2008)

I’m pretty sure that I’ve never seen ‘David Hasselhoff’ and ‘how to get more links’ in the same blog post, but Debra managed to do this. While that (and the examples she lists) may may sound funny, Debra’s main point –“the hardest part of my job is telling someone you won’t be able to secure the authority links they so desperately want because their site is a boring, forgettable mess”– is sad, but true. You can try to be creative in order to get a link profile that’s as natural as possible, but having to explain to your customer that their baby is too ugly to get links is a whole different ballgame…

If you have a blog and hate the ‘great post’ or ‘thanks for info’ comments as much as I do, please do the same as I do: send an email to the commenter’s address with a link to both SearchMarketingSage’s post about Dofollow link building and to DoshDosh’ great article about Rethinking blog comments. That’ll teach ’em. (well, probably not, but it’s worth a try :) )

And also:

• Ian Lurie listed 6 link building practices that scare the crap out of him
• Scott Clark wrote a great post about Social media marketing through links
• The role of outbound links was the title of Eric Enge’s latest post at SEOmoz
• Bob Massa picked up the question What to do when you run out of link building ideas
• David Harry published his Link builders guide to historical ranking factors
• Eric Ward discussed The art of opportunistic linking at SearchEngineLand
• Still avoiding Wikipedia during a link building campaign? You really shouldn’t…
• Justilien Gaspard explains why there are no free links
• Arnie Kuenn introduced ‘dofollow tuesday’ and started with a bunch of link tips for the automotive industry