Link Building http://www.linkbuildr.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:07:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en linkbuildrhttp://feedburner.google.com Link Growth Patterns On Whiteboard Friday http://www.linkbuildr.com/link-growth-patterns-on-whiteboard-friday/ http://www.linkbuildr.com/link-growth-patterns-on-whiteboard-friday/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:07:30 +0000 admin http://www.linkbuildr.com/?p=2892

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Link Growth Patterns On Whiteboard Friday

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday - Link Growth Patterns from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

This week, Rand looks at how some typical link growth patterns tend to be interpreted by the engines. Did you launch your site with a massive PR blitz and then stop all efforts? The resultant spike and sudden drop-off in link acquisition could cause you some serious problems in the SERPs. There’s got to be a better way, right? Indeed! Rand will also show you how to construct a staged link acquisition strategy that will provide a much more natural link-growth curve that the engines will trust and respect.



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Advanced Link Building Talk

I just finished watching this awesome speech from Chris Cemper who needs no introduction. This was taken from the past Budapest Affiliate Conference where he dropped some link building knowledge. This video is well worth watching through out and should easily get your link building juice flowing, and you get to take a peek at his tools….link building tools that is!

Christoph C Cemper has been building links since 2003 and is a well respected guru in the SEO industry, especially when it comes to getting real juicy links on trusted domains. Link Building techniques have evolved over the years and it gets hard to diagnose a good link at all. In this session Christoph gives you an overview of his tactics, techniques and (private) tools he uses. Learn how to find the best pages, diagnose its health and what co-citation is about.

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]]> http://www.linkbuildr.com/advanced-link-building-talk/feed/ Link Wheel Link Building Thoughts & Strategies http://www.linkbuildr.com/link-wheel-link-building-thoughts-strategies/ http://www.linkbuildr.com/link-wheel-link-building-thoughts-strategies/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:06:46 +0000 admin http://www.linkbuildr.com/?p=2809

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Link Wheel Link Building Thoughts & Strategies

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I’m sure by now most of you have either seen, heard or put in to action a “link wheel” of sorts into your SEO gameplan. Now some of you might be starting to worry about me and wonder why I’m bringing up this topic. Afterall, it is usually kept in black/greyhat arena’s but I don’t think it needs to be. As usual I’m hoping to get a ton of good feedback from you folks in the comments to dig into the topic, but I’ll try my best to bring up the pro’s and con’s.

The term link wheel has only been used for a year or two now but in reality any good blackhat affiliate marketer has been doing something similar since links have been king. Linkwheeling is just the nice term used to sell to the endless amounts of clueless noobs on Digital Point and any similar forum. There’s nothing too secret about the method and it can be extremely successful if implemented correctly. 99% of the webmasters I see on forums asking questions about it just think that paying $250 for a link wheel service will boost them into the top 10, or do something magical.

Before I get some nasty comments about that last comment, I will state that I’ve seen top 10 results from a simple link wheel, just not for any difficult search term. And no, I won’t out anyone’s link wheel on here and please don’t in the comments. If you’re constantly snooping your competitions link profile like I do, you’ll easily be able to spot one in action.

What Is A Link Wheel?

For those of you who have been hiding under a rock or just don’t frequent the tubes as much as most of us do then let me explain a little bit beyond the diagram. The idea here is to create mini sites across a whole host of free social media and blogging platforms. Specifically you want to minimize the linking amongst each other, obviously for the one way links, and in the end push all the link juice to the money making website.

We all know that one way links are the key here but 3/4’s of the people implementing the technique are so god damn lazy it isn’t working 100%. I say this because from what I mostly see myself are people paying for the service and then letting it just sit there. They might occasionally update the link wheel with new content, but for the most part this doesn’t happen. Despite all the the content put on the link wheel sites are usually spun or just straight up copied. We all know how Google’s “dupe content” filter is near worthless.

Con’s Of A Link Wheel:

I figure I’d start with the bad stuff because it is the most important afterall. A link wheel system is a link scheme and we all know what Google thinks about that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a link builder my profession so I don’t think I’m all high and mighty with my techniques. Although I do not waste my client’s time with endless directory/social bookmarking/blog commenting “packages”, I’m still building links to influence their ranking.

Like I mentioned earlier that for the most part people are lazy or don’t have the time to build a network like this up. Paying someone from a forum is usually the route I see taken and this is where it all goes wrong(with the exception of a handful of skilled people who do high quality content and link building - an example being Red_Virus). A lot of link wheelers don’t care about your site, and if you’re a company they won’t really care about your brand.

The big issue is you want links in content from sites that are related to your topic and have some weight. So while the free blog hosts may have some authority, your fresh subdomain blog does not. And 3 measly spun articles that are bookmarked isn’t going to do much for you. You’ll get indexed but your link wheel is going to passing link juice that’s not from concentrate :) If you’re trying to target difficult keywords you’re going to have to spend a lot of time making those wheel sites to have some authority.

So if the content quality is bad how long will those wheel sites stay indexed? Well that could really go either way but my money is on they’ll be filtered out eventually, thus ruining little juice you had coming to you. Another aspect you have to think about is how diverse is this going to make your link profile look? If you’re a big brand or somewhat established company, and not an affiliate flog, you’re going to want to be cautious in your link building efforts.

Google can potentially pick up on what’s going on here and with the amount it’s being done poorly I’d suspect it could be problematic in the future. But all in all, after all my yapping, the moral of the story is to keep the quality high.

Pro’s Of A Link Wheel:

Since the opportunity presents itself to build super high quality content and get links it could potentially be a killer method. I use similar techniques for clients from time to time, especially if there is a lack of quality places to put content. If they’ve got the time and money to invest in a long term strategy then makin a link wheel that’s;

a) based on high quality content that isn’t spun or copied from any other web source

b) updated frequently with good content to keep the indexing and eventually bring some authority to those hub sites

From what I’ve seen by developing content for certain social media sites is that you open yourself up to more exposure, and hopefully clients. Some of the sites used by link wheel’s your content actually gets viewed, and if it’s good it could get passed around. I’ll even do “micro linkbait” articles to make sure the reader is enjoying his or herself.

I know this sounds like a lot of work, and it is so be prepared to get someone writing full time or make sure you have the funds to “get’er done”. From what I’ve seen it takes a couple months to get a 7-10 site link wheel going where it has enough content and authority to start pushing some weight.

So enough with my blabbing on and on….lets hear what you folks have to say about all this, and if anything at least get the flaming out of the way :)



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Link Building Management With Raven SEO

How many of you are link building on a team? I fall into that category and work with 2 other local business partners for my clients. We currently use Google Docs and a shared spreadsheet to manage out link building efforts, but this gets really messy. After 3-5 months of working on a client you can imagine how cluttered that spreadsheet is. As well, after that amount of time you’re bound to start running into the same places to build links. This to me is really important to be able to manage for a couple of reason’s.

1) If you’re doing some blog comments, emailing webmaster’s for links or anything that could be considered spam for submitting more than once, then you’d better watch out. Some clients require mass emailing campaigns for links and you don’t want to send a link request email twice to that client. The last thing I want is to sour my clients reputation a little. Imagine if you pissed off the webmaster enough to blog about your “marketing efforts”? That would be disasterous!

2) Link building is time wasting approved. The amount of hours that go into building links gets ridiculous and the last thing you want to do is back track. With more than a couple people working on the same link campaign I find that wading through a large spreadsheet just isn’t working well anymore.
So with that being said check out this video to see how Raven SEO manages keeping track of your link building efforts, and if you like it get on board! There is currently a price drop going on until December 31st, and if you’re still not sure sign up for a free trial.



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Track Your StumbleUpon Links with su.pr

This post won’t be a long one but that last post got me thinking about su.pr.  Su.pr is stumbleupon’s url shortening url and it also features a service through which you can track your links.

StumbleUpon is as big as it is because of developments like this. su.pr is a very helpful little tool if you rely on StumblUpon for traffic and advertising so check it out.

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Geoff is a webmaster and SEO ninja, visionary, dreamweaver, plus actor. He has been working on line for over a decade and has been mastering SEO for the past four years. He maintains many websites and likes to share and discuss SEO tactics.



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Track Your Link Stats With Ping.fm

Linbuilding and SEO are worlds where numbers help.  If we have more numbers, we can make better decisions based on new data. And come on,  who doesn’t want some free new data?  Recently, ping.fm gave us the ability to”track incoming statistics on the URLs you generate.”  Aww dude, exciting.

We track all sorts of cool information like link visits, unique visits, referrals and referral country origination. This is all presented to you in a fancy interface that let’s you see how well your posted links are tracking with your social network audiences. We think it’s pretty rad!

While we gather some feedback from you folks, we will be pondering other statistics you might want to see on your links and adding to the output every so often. You should totally give us a shout and put some bugs in our ears.

This is a user-opt in feature that you can turn on here.

If you’re curious for more, you can read all about how this works right over heeeeere!

They then finished with:

We have more stuff coming out soon, so keep on the lookout for forests full of unexplainable and ridiculous magic.

Adam & Sean
Ping.fm

Which is basically the reason I don’t really mind reading ping.fm news. But that’s another post altogether.

Anyways, you should start tracking your ping.fm link stats if you’re not already!

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Geoff is a webmaster and SEO ninja, visionary, dreamweaver, plus actor. He has been working on line for over a decade and has been mastering SEO for the past four years. He maintains many websites and likes to share and discuss SEO tactics.



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Raven SEO Link Building Management

There are a lot of great SEO tools out there but not many of them cover just about every aspect. Raven SEO Tools have been around for a few years, have been heavily tested and tuned which has resulted in a sexy set of tools. A lot of you have surely heard of them and might have even talked to Raven Jon on one of the social media sites out there. He’s taken the time to make a handful of great videos and I’m going to showcase them over the next few weeks. I am an affiliate with them which I like to tell my readers, but I only push products I use myself.



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How To Get Re-Tweeted (Whiteboard Friday)

Sorry but this is 2 months old already but I somehow missed it and it deserves to be watched for those who missed it as well. Rand talks about how to get re-tweeted and while we all know what that is, I think some of us need to give it some serious thought. Not only does it generate traffic and buzz but it increases your chances of getting a link.



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Hotel Link Building With Tom Critchlow

SEOmoz’s conference just ended and I really didn’t read too much on it but Tom Critchlow was speaking about hotel link building and I caught this video. It’s short but has a few *killer* tips for link building in there, so hotel marketer’s better listen up. The video is shot by O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing and I thank you for getting this out. I would have loved to see Tom speak at the conference but I tend to not get out much.



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Interview With Conductor Inc CEO Seth Besmertnik

Conductor Inc is a full on search marketing company who knows a thing or two about link building. CEO Seth Besmertnik talks with Business Insider on video and in the article titled ” It’s Time For Google To Take A Stand On Paid Links And Other SEO Practices“. Some fellow SEO’s had some great comments on the article, especially about certain things Seth talks about. I loved the interview and article and it’s a topic that I love discussing. What did you folks think?

PS. Sorry about the whitespace gap under the video..Business Insider has THE WORST looking and functional video player.



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