Rankings definitely matter but considering the amount of places that can send you traffic (like social media sites, sites that link to you, sites where you guest post, etc.it's silly to rely on rankings in one engine.
First Wave: Business listings, local links, resource links, social media profile links, guest post links, and begged-for links. Guest Post Links You can find some older sites that still have a links page (and amazingly, some that are still quite...
My personal position is that if you are not actively participating in a community as a real person then you do not deserve the ability to post a link or have a link on your profile. In the example below you can see that the post author is nameless...
Pay someone to write a blog post or article that goes viral and earns loads of links? However, some webmasters engage in link exchange schemes and build partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking, disregarding the quality of the links...
Essentially if someone is keyword stuffing around given terms, they will be in a more unnatural usage than user queries and known good pages.some snippets taken from my post "Web Spam; the Definitive Guide")
In this post, we'll look at tools that can help link builders shift their workload to computers as much as humanly possible. AnalyzeBacklinks: Simple and free tool that analyzes backlinks to a page and appends anchor text, total number of links...
Suddenly the post on Site B started ranking. Last year I worked with two sites that had the same post on both sites. Site B had the copy and linked back to the original post on Site A, which meant that the search engines could see that Site A was...
My last post, "What's Next for Search, SEO? You can then export a list of the best sites to target for links -- it can even tell you which ones are using Google text ads on their site, thereby giving you a foot in the door to discuss advertising...
Same as above -- choose only the most relevant blog posts to comment on, regardless of whether a competitor is writing "great post" on poetry sites while backlinking to their pet supplies website. Go above and beyond your competitors and leave an...
Social Media Channels: A quality post doesn't mean much if no one reads it or links to it. And, if a number of people that happen to be linking to you also happen to be within your industry, or are writing a blog post titled "Search Engine...
While the post is from the Microsoft Office team, I wonder if there is something of a clue into Live Search here about how much content it would like to see on important pages. Not too long ago, I used to receive a dozen requests a day for...
Since it's visual, a wordy blog post just isn't going to do this news justice. Building Links to Help SEO and SalesPosted by GAVINI've heard that having reciprocal linking can work wonders when attracting new customers.
For a different take on Google's stance, check out this blog post from aussiewebmaster. Buying Links -- Because reciprocal linking is dead, brokers will help connect people to Web sites willing to sell one-way links to your site.
According to some interpretations of the Google Blog post from last week, reciprocal linking is now an "official no-no" when it comes to Google's ranking algorithm. Added: I just noticed Rand's excellent post on this subject, which also led to...
The focus on this post seems to be on the subject of reciprocal links, however. The Google Blog post provides essentially the same rhetoric that has been being fed through Matt Cutts' blog and the Google blog, as well as at conferences, to SEOs and...
Search Macros: LinkfromDomain post on the Live Search blog today, completely with color-coded chart. That shows you all the links saying the word "miserable" and linking to the whitehouse.gov domain.
The [failure] GoogleBomb had become well-known enough to have seen Marrissa Mayer post a response on the Google company blog last September. Daily SearchCast, June 2, 2006: NoFollow Changes Linking, Reputation Management, DOJ Wants Records...
The [failure] GoogleBomb had become well-known enough to have seen Marrissa Mayer post a response on the Google company blog last September. Below are links to items discussed: Today's search podcast covers how the "psychology of linking" has...
Click here to read the rest of this post. Click here to read the rest of this post. Om Malik has compliled and written an excellent post that discusses what might be some big issues for AdSense and other programs in 2006.
Indeed, so says Google's Matt Cutts in his "Jagger winding down" post. A Bad Reciprocal Link -- And Reciprocal Link Request - We've been having quite a discussion about reciprocal links over at the Search Engine Watch Forums in our Reciprocal...
