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Topics related to building links, which generate traffic directly for web sites and influence search rankings. For more background, see the Link Week column or link building news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2009 - 9:22 am
Posted By: chrisblackwell 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Small list of things you could do to grow your links written by the ever so smart Ann Smarty. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 2, 2009 - 7:48 am
Posted By: vermasaurav 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: Link Building
It’s a new year, which means one thing - everyone is out at the gym trying to lose weight…again. It seems like an endless cycle. They make New Years resolutions to eat healthy and exercise, yet by December they’re heavier and more out of shape than read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 1, 2009 - 12:51 pm
Posted By: debram 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
A great article by Julie Joyce on how you can use Twitter to attract links and build brand. Read it and tweet! read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 23, 2008 - 2:47 pm
Posted By: Avinio 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Link baiting with lists is a disputable topic. On the one hand, lists were written to death in each and every niche. At some stage I myself have grown sick and tired of seeing “XX ways/ tools / resources” headlines daily. But you know what? It still read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 19, 2008 - 11:22 am
Posted By: NatashaRobinson 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
File this post under "Funny & True": Debra Mastaler translates Marketing 101 to Link Marketing 101 read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 19, 2008 - 6:09 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.habitaquo.net)
Category: Link Building
Bought or sold links through Backlinks.com? This report shows how inventory along with userdata, including passwords, has been spidered by Google. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 18, 2008 - 7:12 pm
Posted By: thejimgaudet 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
With the engines incorporating more and more personalized and universal search into their results, it makes sense your ranking success or failure may be tied to these elements. You may not like hearing this over-used cliche but “content is king” now read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 18, 2008 - 11:53 am
Posted By: yetanotherben 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.linkrelationships.com)
Category: Link Building
Link-building needs to look natural for it to be effective. It would be better to plan link-building so that most pages are targeted by a few links with a few pages being targeted by considerably more. Certainly worth a read!

Professor Mike Th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 17, 2008 - 4:44 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Writing and promoting how-to articles is one of the most effective ways to get solid links. While like any other content, it takes time and effort, the outcome is well worth it. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 17, 2008 - 1:20 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: Link Building
Running out of ideas to build new links to your website? A couple days ago I released an article revealing the secret to making every link count for SEO. First and foremost, you need to focus on being natural without making it obvious to Google that read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 16, 2008 - 9:14 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Link Building
Jeff Quipp writes, "Below, I’ve compiled a list of techniques I personally know of being utilized in the industry. It is by no means comprehensive, but is one of the most complete lists I’m aware of. I’ve tried to keep each technique as mutually exc read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 15, 2008 - 12:44 pm
Posted By: gyutae 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: Link Building
Every webmaster needs to proceed with caution when attaining links. There’s always a right way to do it and a wrong way. The key is to stay under the radar and strive to appear “natural”. How can you do this? In this article I discuss the best ways read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 11, 2008 - 7:08 am
Posted By: JackLeblond 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Link Building
Wiep came out with 69 solid tactics to link building in 2009. In it he breaks down internal linking and external links. His entire post was high quality but I’m a little disappointed that we can’t comment to provide feedback, but that’s aside the po read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 9, 2008 - 5:14 pm
Posted By: EricLander 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Debra Mastaler writes an excellent post this morning for Search Engine Journal that covers some tips on how to break through the "writer's block" of link bait. Included are some resources for where Mastaler often finds inspiration and ideas. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 4, 2008 - 8:39 am
Posted By: debram 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Link Building
Obtaining links from authoritative sites is a must for any long-term Web site promotional plan. Eric Enge lists four steps to follow to increase your chances of finding high value authority links the next time you're hunting for links. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 3, 2008 - 7:54 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Global link building sounds very glamourous, like something you’d do wearing Chanel and drinking seriously good wine that I wouldn’t know anything about, not being the glamourous sort. However, it’s something that makes you roll up your French-cuffe read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2008 - 11:59 am
Posted By: BrianChappell 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
"Six and a half years ago (which is ages, in Internet years), Robin Nobles, Eric Ward, and John Alexander compiled a legendary list of 131 legitimate link building strategies. Four years later, Aaron Wall and Andy Hagans published 101 link building read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 7:37 am
Posted By: mrmunchies 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: Link Building
Recently, with mucho fanfare, TLA launched a new service called inlinks – designed specifically to restore freedom to the link buying industry – freedom from the prying eyes of the grand overlord Google, freedom from… well actually just from Google. read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 6:41 am
Posted By: saadkamal 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.saadkamal.com)
Category: Link Building
Find out how you can build Authority Links without having to pay for any of them. read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 18, 2008 - 11:04 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Debra Mastaler writes, "Building links through brand and reputation management takes time so it’s not considered a proactive link building tactic. If signature links are basically worthless and brand attraction takes a while, how else can you use a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2008 - 8:30 am
Posted By: dailymoolah 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Ann Smarty writes about using Blog Carnivals to build links and engage your community. Often forgotten as a link building tactic, especially for clients, carvnivals can build niche connections, links, and establish authority in one's industry. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2008 - 6:40 am
Posted By: Lisadit 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.baseonesearch.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
The second episode of SEO Wars by Base One. This episode is about the discovery of a new planet called "Link Space",from this planet you can see the link paths that both SEO jedis and the "evil" SEOiths have taken.

Rand LinkWalker and Princess Ja read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 14, 2008 - 7:57 am
Posted By: SEOAly 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.zetainteractive.com)
Category: Link Building
I tend to agree with Hugo about the risks involved with making sweeping generalizations that a search engine like Google intends to do away with something that has been a critical element of ranking for some time. I believe they will develop new an read more »
23 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2008 - 1:28 pm
Posted By: saadkamal 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.saadkamal.com)
Category: Link Building
Contains Everything that you Ever Need to know about Link Building ... read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2008 - 4:20 pm
Posted By: zigojacko 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Ann Smarty describes 3 FireFox extensions that can help with backlink research in Google Webmaster Tools. read more »
1 Comment     


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