If you run a small website for your business then the chances are you have a million things to think about. Having just come across the rabbit hole that is SEO, link building probably seems like a challenge on par with running a marathon backwards. The problem is, link building is time consuming and not always that straight forward. In fact, it can be incredibly difficult. Here I have put together some realistic methods and tips that you can use to improve your link building skills, and how to get backlinks. These ideas are just a starting point, don’t feel bound by these! Use your connections. Just because you are building links online, doesn’t mean you have to do everything online. If you have a website then...
Link Research Tools, one of the must-have link research tools for any link builder and marketer (and also one I will be giving a detailed review next week - stay tuned!), has introduced a major update this week. The updated toolkit spots a new awesome look, an enhanced usability and a few cool new features, including: New Site Type and Theme values - see which theme and site type (blog,forum,etc) EACH LINK has New Missing Links Tool...
*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...
Per my experience, RELATED: is one of those Google advanced operators that are understood by only few people and thus are rarely used. However it is very useful and I for one use it no less than a couple of times a week. Therefore I decided to share how to use this Google search operator: Red Flag Use it to find (bad) link neighbors: RELATED: operator shows any page co-citation: i.e. what other resources are linked to from...
