Posts Tagged ‘link building’

Looking Natural: 9 Ways to Add Variety to Your Anchor Text

anchor textEveryone builds links—that is what makes the Internet go around. But when are your link building efforts too much? Who knows? But this article discusses ways to alter your anchor text to make sure your legitimate link building efforts don’t end-up as a false blip on a search engine’s spam-dar.

Natural vs. Unnatural Link Building Video

A short video discussing his experience with natural vs. unnatural link building efforts. It would seem the the search engines are getting much smarter at sniffing out links/websites that are over optimized and rewarding natural link building efforts.

As I have always said, you need to make your links appear natural by altering the anchor text, creating links and citations, linking from high and low PR websites, using a variety of methods/websites, varying your link velocity, etc. I discuss each method in another article, 11 Ways to Camouflage Your SEO and Link Building Efforts.

Create a more #viralEffect w/ …

Create a more #viralEffect w/ your tweets? Here’s a great article about enabling #retweets http://bit.ly/8ezi8T

Social Media Link Building with Matt Cutts of Google

A general discussion of the value of social media platforms with regard to link building:



11 Ways to Camouflage Your SEO and Link Building Efforts

What’s SEO camouflage? Learning how to hide your SEO and link building activities from search engines and why it is so important.

How to Avoid Duplicate Content Penalties While Link Building

Not a spammer? Doesn’t matter. You could be unintentionally penalizing yourself by creating duplicate content you are unaware of. Learn where to look and how to fix duplicate content problems while link building.

Offsite SEO Comes Into Focus

SEO is a mix of onsite and offsite techniques to ultimately increase your website’s visibility and targeted traffic. I think it is somewhat safe to say that for the most part, people–especially those new to SEO–focus on the onsite aspects of SEO in a disproportionate amount to offsite SEO.
But that is really changing, as the [...]

To YouTube or Not?

Just finished an interesting post over at Link Spiel about not using YouTube to build links and promote your website. One of the more interesting ideas the post suggests is that “YouTube results bump web pages down in the general search results…” The post offers three examples.
Does Top-Ranked Media Results Negatively Affect a Standard [...]