*The following tip was shared by Kaila Strong of Vertical Measures, a link services and social media marketing company based in Phoenix, AZ. *
The world of social media is an ever growing one. New sites are popping up every day, and so-called gurus or experts in social media marketing are aplenty, but we rarely hear about link building experts utilizing social media marketing to help in their efforts. There is a known connection between social and search, but how about link building?
The obvious let down with social media links are the fact that many are nofollow. On a rare occasion you might find a dofollow social media link, but it's highly unlikely. A Google search...
*The following (short but valid) tip is by Nick LeRoy*
Too many people focus on anchor text when they seek out linking opportunities. Yes a do follow keyword related anchor text is the best, however it's important to not overlook other linking opportunities.
Specifically I would like to address URL based links. These links typically don't rocket your site to #1 but they can sometimes be a...
*This is a guest post by Danny Cooper*
Link building is a very consuming task, in fact it's the most time-consuming part of SEO (aside from explaining SEO, of course). Because of the time consuming nature of link building you really can't afford to waste time by making mistakes or building worthless links. In this article I hope to show you five of the most common mistakes so you can avoid them!
Anchor Text
This is the most...
*The guest tip was provided by Pradeep Sahu*
My excel sheet, containing list of blogs, social bookmarking sites and forums that allowed me to get dofollow backlinks, used to be a great SEO asset. Not any more. With the release of tools like open site explorer, the competitive advantage that I enjoyed because of that list has become close to zero. Any competitor can now put my website...
*The guest post is by Gab Goldenberg*
This is an exercise in asking "why," learned from Joel Spolsky of Inc Magazine, which apparently got it from Toyota. The idea is to get to the bottom of a problem to avoid repeating it again in the future.
I was asking myself why a contract that was due to have X# of links hadn't yet been fully delivered on, despite my...
The guest post is by Ross Hudgens, a Senior SEO Analyst at Single Grain. You should follow him on twitter here.
Seth Godin coined the term Permission Marketing, which means that you obtain permission from the consumer before advancing to the next step in the purchasing process. The opposite of this is interruption marketing – interruption marketing frequently occurs when you watch television or surf the...
This article was by Christopher Holland who works for nbat Digital - a multimedia design agency based in Kent.
If you plan to start guest blogging, do join My Blog Guest: the forum that connects bloggers to guest posters.
As the Internet has grown so much in the last decade, it has become vital for small and large businesses to gain an online presence. This can be achieved by search engine optimisation, with the...
*The following guest tip was provided by Warner Carter who provides Search Engine Placement Marketing services.*
SEO ultimately means driving traffic and making sales. What I like to call "Search Engine Placement Marketing" I will be implementing this in a few weeks for a new client that has a retail vitamin store and a website. He also has his own brand and this should get him some quick results.
You can go right to any of...
*The guest tip is by Daniel McGonagle who writes about SEO and link building at LinkVanaReviews*
Yes, Virginia, you can get backlinks with Index Drivers sites!
Index driver sites are websites whose main goal is to increase the indexing power of your content. It can also be used to index other people's content, too.
Later on in this post you'll see why you might want to index other people's content in addition to your own.
How does...
*This blog post was written by a guest blogger that specializes in Boston SEO services.*
Imagine how much traffic you could get with a longstanding link to your site from Wikipedia. This would be incredibly valuable for your company profile and reputation. Only problem is, Wikipedia definitions can and are constantly edited and changed by anyone with a computer and internet access (brainpower is not a requirement, unfortunately.)
Luckily,...