Link Building this Week (14.2008)

Earlier this week, Eric Ward wrote a column on SearchEngineLand about link building best practices. This post got submitted to Sphinn and, for some reason, resulted in quite a few comments. While I do think that there are better posts out there than this week’s column, I also think that there’s waaaay more mediocre stuff out there that gets a lot more positive attention, so the post certainly didn’t deserve those negative comments. On the other hand, these negative comments resulted in Eric Ward starting a new link building Q&A blog…

Rand Fishkin got the idea (don’t worry Stoney, you’ll get some credits as well ;) ) to ask people to share their favorite link building techniques. This resulted in a post with quite a few interesting comments with link building tips. Funny to see that one day later, David Naylor used the same approach :)

And also:

• SEOmoz was on a link building roll with both the whiteboard friday video and the post about how good directories evaluate their links
• Hamlet Batista wrote about how to obtain the right mix of chasing links and getting them to chase you
• Michael Martinez explains that shooting out 200 link exchange requests really isn’t a good idea
• Justilien’s bi-weekly column at SEL was about the benefits of linking out
• Not 100% link building, but still very important: Chris Winfield’s post about how to make your content submit worthy