Link Bait

5 Strategies for Maximizing Your Content’s Social Reach

May 28, 2011

The glove has been dropped at your feet, your battle, should you choose to accept it, is to create and distribute compelling content.
What once existed as a webpage now finds expression as an update on Facebook, a bit.ly link, a tweet, an email link or a reblog on Tumblr. Welcome to the age of “traveling [...]

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Link Diversity – Link Building for Success | Practical SEO

May 22, 2011

Link diversity, especially haveing links form a variety of different domains is essential

Link building is a valuable weapon in website ranking, so why do a half-assed job? Why do people concentrate only on social bookmarks, comments? Because it is easy right, but at the same time it gets us no results. With Google Panda [...]

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50+ Tools to Automate Your Link Building  – Search Engine Watch (#SEW)

May 22, 2011

Automate link building as long as you can keep your quality goals in perspective

Are you a human link builder? If so, ask yourself this: "if a robot link builder existed, what would I still be able to do that it could not?"
Analyze a complex backlink profile and distinguish quality links from spammy ones? Check. Write [...]

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Six Critical Secrets From Competitive Link Analysis

May 22, 2011

Here is a good outline of the main tactics needed to create an effective link building campaign.
Find potential link opportunitiesLook for sites that link to all or most of your competitors. This suggests either, a directory, a publication or an authority in your industry. These will be important sites to target.
Assess how difficult they will [...]

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How to Run a Successful Link Building Campaign – Where to Begin | MorePro’s Marketing Blog

May 22, 2011

Link building is one of the most important factors you need to consider when running a SEO campaign. Most SEO campaigns can fall short in this area and one of the main reasons is because of the time and effort that goes in to link building. Over the next few weeks I will be going [...]

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Matt Cutts on effective techniques for building links

April 4, 2010

Some interesting points on good link building in this video by Matt Cutts. A lot of things anybody can do.  I see most of these as being link bait. Link bait sounds like a cheap trick but it really means making or adding something that people want to link to and talk about and share.  [...]

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What do the Academy Awards have to do with SEO?

March 6, 2010

Any popular event is a link bait opportunity. Link baiting can help a site gain links and traffic. The creative challenge is how to connect the event to what you do. Say your website was about your portable toilet company maybe you could write how the Academy Awards are a load of crap. That would [...]

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