Link Building this Month (03.2011)

A little bit later than usual, but here are the link building articles I enjoyed reading last month:

• Linkbuilding in competitive niches using communities & content – Pete Wailes
• Creating exceptional content for boring topics – Michael Gray
• 21-Day Link Builder Relationship Challenge – Jeremy Bencken
• Its not about link placement as much as link discovery – Paul Madden
• The link builder’s guide to tracking, documentation and productivity – David Wolf
• How to unnaturally naturally vary your anchor text – Ross Hudgens
• Link building in 2011 – Maria Walters
• Creating encyclopedic content – Michael Gray
• Why some sites link, and others don’t – Mark Johnstone
• 25 Ways to quality great links – Adam Melson
• Can competitors hurt your rankings with bad links? – David Sottimano
• 5 Ways to track link building success in the social world – Kieran Flanagan
• A model for link building: beyond “great content” – Ross Hudgens
• Journalism, ‘churnalism’ & the sticky subject of anchor text links – Nichola Stott

And a few conference recaps:

• Distilled link building seminar (New Orleans)
• SMX West (San Jose)
• Think Visibility (Leeds)

Please leave a comment if you think there’s anything missing in this list.