Link Building this Month (02.2010)

The long winter days seem to have kept quite a few folks inside, considering the large amount of great in-depth link building articles I came across last month. When even Bing starts writing about link spam, you know it must be pretty cold outside…

Although I don’t spend as much time on online marketing forums as I used to, I still try to read the most interesting threads on a few forums. WebmasterWorld is one of these forums, and threads like this link building case study thread are the reason why. And if you happen to like reading case studies just as much as I do, here’s two more.

Another great read is this NY Times article about a Penn study on virality. The researchers studied a list of well-e-mailed articles, checking it every 15 minutes for over 6 months, analyzing the content of thousands of articles and checking for factors like the placement in the paper or on the Web home page. Great stuff…

And also:

• A resource for information visualisation & infographics – Tom Critchlow
• Popularity matters, ignore at your own peril – Adam Singer
• How to write linkbait – Sam Tilston
• Pulling a Kesey (or tripping link filters) – Debra Mastaler
• Using bit.ly for spying, link building and happiness – Jim Gianoglio
• Quality link building starts with questions – Wil Reynolds
• Blogging etiquette – Tamar Weinberg
• Running giveaway competitions for links and SEO – Rob Ousbey
• An interview with Debra Mastaler – Zach Daniel
• Link building strategies video – Ian Lurie
• Things to consider when adding linkbaiting to your online marketing strategy – Lyndon Antcliff