Kristi Hines has identified 15 sites that will either automatically link back to you using information in your Twitter profile or will allow you to sign in with Twitter and add links. This continues to be true in 2013.
Examining the Twitter profile from an SEO perspective, Kristi Hines, expert social media blogger of Kikolani, shares this advice for getting the basics right in the social media profile: Twitter loves me, Twitter loves me not.
When you hear something that's too good to be true, it probably is. This is especially true with some link building or SEO companies that will promise you the world, and leave you with a possible penalty.
A while back, I wrote about how to get the best high volume links. Fast forward eight months and Google has made two major changes to its algorithm -- first to target spammy/scraper sites, followed by the larger Panda update that targeted "low...
Many have tried, and failed, to write a good post about how to SEO a Facebook fan page. For example, optimizing the filename of your profile picture is one popular piece of advice that doesn’t really matter, considering Facebook just renames the...
One thing I've been particularly obsessed with recently is the SEO elements of social profiles. It began with checking out the SEO for Facebook fan pages and then onto social content. Now, it's time to take a look at the differences between the...
Everyone's primary goal in search optimization is to get their own site's content to rank first (or as close as possible to first) for specific keywords. If, however, you are having a bit of trouble doing that, it doesn't hurt to help content you...
Picture this: You walk up to a local business, walk through the door, up to the first person you see and say "Hi, I'd like you to put this sticker on your window because I sell products that people who come to your establishment might like too.
Paid links are taboo in the SEO world, and many, many link building companies will swear up and down, left and right, that they don't pay for links. And companies that perform DIY link building probably wouldn't admit that they're doing it either...
If you send emails, use Twitter or other social media networks, and have a website of your own, then you can easily implement the following three strategies that (surprisingly) a lot of people do not do to get links back to your website.
Before you get all bent out of shape about how blog commenting is a horrible link building strategy, I want you to take a moment and approach this strategy with an open mind. What I'm talking about here is using blog commenting to build...
Kristi Hines discussed the need to say goodbye to low-quality link building. Panda's aftermath, not surprisingly, was the hot topic among SES New York attendees last week. Hopefully you haven't been sitting on your hands, worrying about the hit...
Google Panda Update: Say Goodbye to Low-Quality Link Building by Kristi Hines Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of March 6 to 12, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the...
Just as Google's Panda Update is filtering out low-quality sites, Kristi Hines says its time to say goodbye to low-quality link building. With Google's Panda Update, low-quality content can impact an entire domain, but removing these pages -- or...
For example, search for [kristi hines twitter] (who authored the popular column "Google Panda Update: Say Goodbye to Low-Quality Link Building" yesterday), you get this: The latest tweets from some Twitter users are now showing up as snippets in...
As Kristi Hines pointed out, its genius is that by "checking for broken links .webmasters” have a reason to go modify it. Interested in a link building strategy that's effective, scalable, and even provides a sort of public service?
Recently, I've been writing a lot about getting away from repeatedly using the same keyword-based anchor text (which may lead to a hop into the Google penalty box) and steering toward a larger variety of keywords and brand building with company...
Ways to Build Links Without Anchor Text by Kristi Hines Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Nov.to Dec.as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
When optimizing a website for a particular keyword, some sites can go overboard with the anchor text, to the point of getting that keyword phrase penalized by Google. As Google works on more algorithms and ways to detect unnatural linking profiles...
Check out some of the best mainstream media curators such as The Drudge Report and The Daily Beast or SEO curators such as Kristi Hines' Fetching Friday, Wiep Knol's Link Building this Month, and Tamar Weinberg's annual Best Internet Marketing...
