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After receiving a large amount of requests to review textlinks.com, I decided to dive in, create an account and build some links. textlinks.com makes a bold claim, their motto is a “revolutionary new way to create quality, relevant backlinks to your website”.  I have to admit that with such a claim, I was initially skeptical, however after spending a good two hours building links through their site, I found the service incredibly useful for building high quality backlinks.

The most appealing feature of textlinks.com is the ability to evaluate their service with no restrictions for 21 days. On top of that, they don’t even require you to submit any type of payment information before you begin. Now how’s that for a trial?

Getting started

The sign-up process could not be easier. Simply provide your first and last name e-mail address phone number desired username and password and you are ready to begin.

1. Click Here to Sign Up
2. Enter your information
3. Login

Add a Target Page

Once you are logged in, it is very simple to begin building links to your site. First you will add a target page. This target page, use the page to which you will be building links.

1. Once you are logged in, click “sidebar links”
2. Click the “add target page” button
3. Under target anchor text, enter your targeted keyword or key phrase
4. Under target page, enter the URL of the site you are building links to
5. Click Add Target page

Now that you have added a target page, you have the ability to build links to that page through the various link building options.

Select the Type of Link You’d Like to Build

When building links through text links.com, you are presented with various link building options.

Sidebar Links

Sidebar links are some of the most popular, and most clicked. This means they are beneficial for both SEO, and traffic. Although it is most common to see sidebar links on blogs, you will often see sidebar links on websites of all walks of life. These links are highly visible, and most of the time they are  ’site wide’, meaning, they will be displayed on every page of the website.

Footer Links

Footer links are also popular in the world of link building. These links contain just as much juice as a sidebar link. The main difference between a footer link in the sidebar link is, visibility.  Obviously a footer link is not as visible as a sidebar link since it is at the bottom of the page. Footer links will very rarely get you traffic, however they hold their value in SEO.

Contextual Links

This is where text links.com begins to rise above their competitors. So, what is a contextual link? A contextual link is a link within a blog post which is related to the keyword that you specify. So if I wanted links from blog posts related to SEO, I simply type SEO in the search box and click search. textlinks.com Will locate blog posts related to SEO. The ability to build contextual links, is one of the great features of this system. One of the most important factors when building links is to keep the link within context. For example, if you own a website that sells computers, you want your back links to be from computer or technology related websites. This tells the search engines that your website is relevant to that topic. Throw in some quality keyword research and you have a recipe for SEO success.

Article posts

This feature allows you to write your own article or blog posts, which can be posted to one or more of the 8000 blogs in the text links.com database. In this post were allowed to include up to three different text links. Each post must contain a minimum of 100 words.

Build Those Links!

Once you have selected the appropriate link type, a list of your target pages will be displayed.

To start building links simply click the “select links” button.

From the select links page, you have the option to either search a keyword or browse sites by category. I have yet to find a category that is not listed in this directory.

Once you have narrowed down your search, you are shown potential pages where you can place your link, pricing is based on the pages Google page rank. You can even see eight page preview and the exact URL of each site. when you are ready to add a link, click the checkbox next to the link, then click the “add link to selected pages” button. It’s as easy as that. Now if you go to that site, you will immediately see your link. These links are never marked as no follow, so rest assured, these links will carry juice for increasing link popularity.

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easyComment

easyComment is a lightweight FireFox plugin that makes blog commenting fast, and easy to maintain. Simply install the plugin, restart firefox, and right click on “easyComment” in the bottom right hand corner of your browser window, then click Manage Profiles. Create as many profiles for as many sites as you want. After you’ve setup a profile, follow our blog commenting tutorial and you’re on your way to building quality back links.

SEOquake

SEOquake is a firefox plugin that every webmaster should be using. I won’t get into all of the details of this extension since it is so powerful, but I will explain how to properly use it in order to maximize your blog commenting campaign.

1. Install the SEOquake Firefox Plugin
2. Restart Firefox
3. Go to Google.com
4. Type yourkeyphrase “remember my information” “notify me of follow up comments”
5. Click “Advanced Search”
6. Click “Results Per Page” and change it to 100
7. Click the “Advanced Search” button
8. Click “Request Parameters”



9. Sort Page Rank by descending order (see screenshot below)



10. Now you have a list of relevant blogs that allow comments, sorted from the highest page rank (top) to the lowest page rank (bottom)
11. You can even export this list for future use by clicking the “Save to File” button, (next to request parameters)

More Uses for SEOquake…

So there is one, fantastic use for SEO quake. But, I’m not done yet! There’s yet another great feature that will help your blog commenting for link building campaign. What you ask? Do you see that little, tiny, square icon in the bottom right corner of your browser? It should say “SQ”. Right click that icon, and click “line through no-follow and no-index”. Now, on every page you visit, there will be a line through any link that is marked as no-follow. Extremely useful if you’re blog commenting only to increase your page rank.

So here are my top 5 places to find an SEO job:

1. SEOmoz

The SEOmoz team has put together an amazing resource for SEO professionals. They’ve also went the extra mile and created an SEO services board where you can find very credible SEO jobs. Some of these jobs are very specific (ie: link building, social media manager) and others are very broad (ie: SEO consultant).

http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/jobs

2. SEMPO

The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization is a non-profit site which feeds useful data to the hungry minds of SEO/M professionals. They’ve taken it a step further and added a regularly updated job board for SEO and SEM jobs alike.

http://www.sempo.org/jobs/

3. Indeed:SEO

If you haven’t heard of, or used indeed yet you are missing out. This glorious search engine searches nearly every job site on the internet to find exactly the job you’re looking for. It’s not always 100% accurate as far as search results go, but it’s definitely very useful, not to mention a huge time saver.

http://www.indeed.com/q-Seo-jobs.html

4. SEO Jobs Finder

This site is growing on me as I see more and more quality SEO and SEM jobs posted every day. Sort jobs by freelance, part time or full time, and everything is properly labeled. This site has a great user interface which makes it easy (and quick) to search for the SEO job of your dreams.

http://www.seojobsfinder.com/

5. Craigslist

Of course, you can’t leave out good ol’ Craigslist. Yes, there tends to be a lot of spam, especially when searching for telecommute or SEO jobs. However, you can often find a diamond in the rough since Craigslist is one of the first places tech-savvy employers post to. To date I have been hired from 3 out of 3 jobs I found on Craigslist.

http://www.craigslist.org/

Whether you’re a webmaster, SEO, or a blogger, you should be using the following method regularly. Adapt it to your niche and watch your rankings soar.

Step One – Compile a List of Blogs

1. Go to Google.com
2. Type in: yourniche “Remember my personal information” “Notify me of follow-up comments”
3. Replace yourniche with a keyword related to your niche
4. Click Search
5. CTRL-Click ont he first ten results
6. Go back to steps 3-6  and type in a different keyword, repeat as needed.
7. Copy and paste the URLs you’ve gathered into a list for future reference

Step Two – Find High Page Rank Posts

1. Use an internal page rank checker  like This One
2. CTRL-Click 1-3 posts with the highest page rank for each URL you gathered

Step Three – Prepare your Comment

1. Put on some music and get ready to be witty, inquisitive, and argumentative.
2. Skim through each post and try to find an interesting fact

Step Four – Make it SEO Friendly

1. Go down to the comment section
2. Fill out the comment form like so:

• Name: YourKeyword (Don’t use anything that looks like spam)
• Email: You@YourEmail.com (Use a junk email address, but make it real, some blogs require email confirmation to activate your comment)
• Website: Enter your site’s URL (The one you’re building links to)

Step Five – Write the  Comment

It is very important that your comment doesn’t look automated, if it’s unrelated or too short it probably won’t get approved. Many bloggers are also webmasters who know of techniques such as these. It is your job as a blog commenter to convince them you are a reader who wants to express his opinion. Comments like “I agree with this post. Great blog, keep up the good work!” almost never get approved. Bloggers are smart, and many are SEO savvy enough to know what you’re trying to do. I’m a blogger, and I know of these techniques. However, I embrace blog commenting, as long as it doesn’t look automated.

Comment Approval Tips

• Keep it clean, don’t use profanity
• Check your spelling and grammar
• Comment in the same language as the post, don’t waste your time translating a foreign language, just move on to the next blog
• Ask a question
• Make an argument
• 4 Sentences, minimum
• Only 1 comment per post
• Maximum of 2 words per keyphrase (for the Name: field)

Digital Point Forums

This monster of a forum can be a very valuable resource to webmasters, if (that’s a big if) used properly. Check out the Buy/Sell/Trade section and click on Advertisements. There are hundreds of new posts every day in the ad sales section. As you can probably guess, this free-for-all attracts a large amount of junk, but don’t be discouraged by the scams and junk posts because there are very often hidden gems to be found here. On multiple occasions I have managed to locate high traffic/authority sites with cheap ads for sale, so be patient when using Digital Point Forums. Also, make sure to check the iTrader feedback of every solicited ad, (think eBay feedback), and always read the replies to each thread. Just use common sense and you’re much less likely to get ripped off (which is a very common occurrence on DP). Start off with small purchases until you are well acquainted with the DP marketplace.

SitePoint Marketplace

Sitepoint is one of my favorite sites to frequent, there is a wealth of information to be found on their forums, and the marketplace is “pay per post” so this weeds out most of the scam artists. Over time I have purchased hundreds of banner ads through Sitepoint, and, if you’re smart about it you can make money doing ad sales arbitrage or brokering with Sitepoint. Out of the ads that I’ve purchased, 9 out of 10 of these were sold well below their market value. How do you know the market value of an ad? I will save that for a future post. As with DP forums, always check the feedback of the user you are buying from. Sitepoint takes this a step further with their phone verification system, but since the dawn of pay as you go phones, this still doesn’t completely guarantee a legitimate seller.

BuySellAds.com

This site has taken the webmaster world by storm, and they did it fast. Go to a popular design or webmaster related site and you can almost always bet they are using this service to sell their ads. Why? Well the question is more like, Why Not!? BuySellAds.com offers a simple way for webmasters to sell ad space on their websites, no more writing long, convincing posts on Digital Point. Gone are the days of successful webmasters paying $10 to post a single ad for sale on Sitepoint. What does this mean for the buyer? Affordable, highly targeted ad space that is readily available. You are only limited by the size of your bank account. The downside? Currently BuySellAds only serves websites that are related to webmastering, design, development, or SEO. So if your niche is outside of this realm you are better off finding ads on Digitalpoint or Sitepoint. If you’re looking to sell ads, don’t get too excited; they have a 100k impressions/month minimum to become a seller.

Services: Buy & Sell Text Links

The Rundown

Backlinks.com exceeded my expectations within 15 minutes of registering as a new user (advertiser). The advertiser’s user interface is very straight forward. You can add your sites very quickly without having to worry about writing long descriptions and lists of keywords. Simply enter in your site URL, your desired anchor text, and select from the large (but manageable) list of website categories. Click next and you’ve just added your first site.

Once your site has been added to their system, click select links to begin finding relevant backlinks to your website. You will be brought to a page which lists all categories, or you can simply search for the type of site you’re looking for. One click later you are presented with a list of websites related to your selection. I was impressed on the speed of the backlinks.com system, there is almost no wait for returning search results and I must say they’ve built up quite a large and impressive clientele.

Anyway, back to the process. You are now shown a list of sites,  each site is labeled by their brief description, followed by Google Page Rank, whether or not the link will be on a homepage or subpage, and the cost of the link. But the best feature, which sets backlinks.com apart from the rest of the link marketplace; click the description of any website and you are shown the URL of that site, but don’t worry it is in the form of a “CAPTCHA” type of image. This ensures that nobody is penalized by search engines for intentionally purchasing or selling links.

Pros

• Rapid sign-up process
• Great user support
• Quality, categorized web sites
• Shows URL’s but in a secure way
• Pay, and get paid fast via PayPal

Cons

• Limited sorting capabilities
• Confusing User Interface

Overall I have become a fan of backlinks.com and will continue to use them for backlink building. I have already purchased 3 high quality links for $15. As far as results go, well I have already seen a 3 position jump on one of the keywords I used as anchor text through backlinks.com not to mention several clicks (some unexpected traffic). I would highly recommend these guys to any SEO or backlink building professional.

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If you haven’t noticed, there are SEO and SEM companies, websites, and jobs popping up left and right. Being an SEO, I am always looking for new sites on the forefront of this evolving industry. It seems that each new year is bringing new, innovative SEO companies.

So, I did some research and the results are pretty amazing. Below is a graph of the SEO Job growth from July 2005 to Today.

seo Job Trends

What is it? SEO Link Building Tool

The Rundown

Find High Authority, Juicy Links for next to nothing
This is the tool that “roped” me into buying a pro account with seomoz, and boy am I glad I jumped on the bandwagon with this one. The juicy link finder has helped me take client sites to the top of Google rankings for highly competitive keywords within a matter of weeks.

How It Works

The genius of this tool is in the simplicity of the user experience, the front end is incredibly simple. Input your keyword/keyphrase, select the number of results: 50,100, 150 or 200, and let seomoz work their magic. A few brief minutes later you are presented with the results in order of importance. The “juiciest” link being at the top of the list, and the least juiciest link resides at the bottom.

The beauty of this tool is that you will very often find unlikely hidden gems with high authority. I once found a very old site related to one of my niches hosted on an old geocities account. However, this site had HUGE authority within my niche and the webmaster didn’t even know it. I contacted him immediately to negotiate a link on his site and he was more than happy to give me a permenant link for an incredibly low price. 2 weeks later our site was ranked #3 in Google for that keyword (which was highly competitive).

Features:

• Simple Interface
• Extremely Useful
• Export to CSV

The Conclusion

If you do SEO, you need this tool

If you are an SEO or webmaster you will find this tool will pay for itself rapidly.

I use this tool religiously with all of my personal sites, and client sites. I have managed to find so many hidden gems with high authority, and this is one of my SEO secrets. Couple this tool with a good targeted keyword and you are well on your way to high rankings in the big search engines.

Goto SEOmoz Here