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Is Reciprocal Linking Still Effective?
March 24th, 2008 | 25 commentsA few years back reciprocal linking was a HUGE thing. Just about any site you saw had a “resources” or “partners” page that was full of links. The idea was that you get as many Webmasters as possible to put your link on their resources page and in return you would put their link [...]
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Link Building - Leveraging Pre-Existing Sites to Build Authority
January 11th, 2008 | 12 commentsObviously the best way to build links is by doing nothing at all (natural.) However, some sites just won’t gain natural links; they need a boost. For instance, I just started a fresh water fish blog. If I just start building content without building any links on my own what do you think the [...]
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Link Building Campaigns - Do you Need One?
December 19th, 2007 | 9 commentsA few months back I was part of a long, heated discussion at SitePoint with some guy who swore that article marketing was worthless because everyone should be focusing on “natural” links and traffic. He didn’t understand that there are different business models and some sites simply won’t grow naturally no matter how good the [...]
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7 Link Bait Ideas - You need some Link Bait
October 7th, 2007 | 5 commentsSomething I should have added in my part of the Blog Improvement Meme was the fact that I lack alot of good link bait.
Until I started blogging a few months ago, I didn’t even really think of it as “link baiting.” Of course the idea of creating content that people love to link to is [...]
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What’s That Link Really Worth?
September 23rd, 2007 | 5 commentsHow many times have you received an email, or seen an offer that claimed you could get a link on their high PageRank (PR) website for a few bucks, or for doing some random, small favor? I know I do alllllll the time. Years ago I fell for many of them, but now I know [...]
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Stop Exchanging Links and Get Creative
August 22nd, 2007 | 6 commentsGoogle clearly states in their “Link Schemes” page that excessive link exchanging can “negatively impact your site’s ranking in search results, yet everyday I see sites that do it. It’s no surprise that most of these sites are of low quality with very little, if any, rankings.
I don’t see anything wrong with the occasional link [...]
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