Category: Link Development

The Evolution of Link Building There is no doubt about it: link building has evolved. In fact, things have changed so much over the years that link-building techniques that were effective even a few years ago are already completely out of date. Link building has always been evolving, but the recent Panda and Penguin updates […]

Link Building 101: What Should Be Evaluated With Each Link Opportunity While having dinner with a colleague the other day, we were discussing the particulars of effective link building campaigns. Not necessarily social media or blog strategies, but raw, traditional link building: finding prospects, evaluating websites and soliciting link requests. This post is about the factors […]

December 25, 2015 5 0 Link Development Blackhat backlink development buffer circle When developing backlinks for a long term project you are better off either sticking to whitehat techniques or creating a buffer circle in case you get slapped by one of the search engines. (“One of the search engines” sounds somewhat inappropriate. How many of […]

December 25, 2015 2 0 Link Development Sneaky link development with Flickr You probably know that Flickr can be an excellent resource for links as well as traffic. My previous method involved making a quick comment on flickr images that appear on the front page of Digg and generate up to 500 clicks. However just like on […]

December 25, 2015 6 0 Link Development Do nofollow links help? Just in case you don’t know what nofollow is you can find more information here. To cut the story short its an attribute rel=”nofollow” that was introduced in attempt to tackle the spam. Links containing this attribute do not have any effect on page rank. […]

December 25, 2015 6 0 Link Development Big List of Free Press Release Distribution Sites As promised, here is a big list of free press release distribution sites (something I’m very commonly asked for by clients in the webmaster / online business world). Disclaimer: I in no way advocate the mass-submitting of press releases using automatic […]