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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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A quick tip from DaveN about getting a link from your Twitter page. read more »
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If you are an experienced link builder, you might be tempted to read something other than today's column, which on first glance may appear a bit to rudimentary for your skills. If you do stick around, and I hope you do, I'll share with you what I co read more »
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Great link building notification tool for Wordpress complete with instructional video. read more »
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Ann Smarty writes: "After my recent huge post on SEO tools was published, I promised to add the section for free online internal analytics services; but before that I decided to discuss different aspects of the topic starting with effective tracking read more »
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The link building challenge of big brands isn’t in obtaining new links, but in using the strength of these links optimally. Converting link juice isn’t very hard, but certainly worth the effort. read more »
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Paul at Search Engine People continues with the 2nd part of Link Building basics.... in this post he explains how to find .edu and .gov backlinks as well as dofollow blogs that you can comment on. read more »
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Quality traffic is your goal, but to get there you need to study "Do Follow Psychology." read more »
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Using your keyword research when crafting link profiles is extremely important for both internal and external tagging. Crafting link profiles is all about related diversity. What I mean by that is we want to have a diversified link text collection t read more »
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Eric Enge writes "I always like to see what types of link building things that people talk about and/or present. Based on some basic tips provided by Roger Montti in the "Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques" session at SMX Advanced, this post wi read more »
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Ann Smarty explains in SEJ to explore competitors back links through 2 alternative search engines other than yahoo site explorer. Neither of them is any better than Yahoo, but what’s important they are different providing you with other data you mig read more »
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The Link Spiel: That old saying "it's not what you say, it's how you say it" is spot on in this situation. If you send out the old "swap with me for PageRank" type letter you'll find lower results than if you offer an incentive to act and develop yo read more »
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Most bloggers recognise the importance of search engine rankings. Search engines deliver the highest quality/most qualified traffic on the web. And best of all… it’s free. Thus, establishing visibility within search engines for relevant keywords & p read more »
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It ALMOST seems like a standard in the industry…the mysterious link builder…hiding behind closed doors…where do they get all those quality links? How can I get some of those much sought after links for my client? The answer to this old-age question read more »
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Apparently, in stead of spamming, you should start an anti-webspam blog if you want to rank for viagra related keywords. read more »
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In link building, sometimes marketers lose their focus or get over aggressive, and spend too much time contacting every single site within their niche, hoping to get a link or a buzz generating blog post about their product or service. Sometimes it’ read more »
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Debra Mastaler writes, "While it's tough to control what people say, you can work to protect your reputation by registering your known brand/name with as many social media/forums/discussion sites as you can, especially the popular ones in your niche read more »
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Rishil shares a practical guide to link building strategies that small businesses have access to but tend to over look. read more »
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Wiep - The most important factors of a successful campaign, however, are planning and dedication. If you can manage to think one step ahead, you’ll manage to stay ahead of your competition as well. And sure, you might have success with something tha read more »
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Incoming links are considered to be a major factor that forms Google’s opinion about your site. Naturally, country specific links are also very important to make sure Google understands your geographic targeting efforts read more »
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A great post by Dave (theGypsy) exploring a new Microsoft search patent that aims to identify link spam using temporal tracking.

Very interesting! read more »
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Twitter has 3 million indexed user feeds.
Writing applications to automatically post to twitter is super-easy. They suggest doing it with their twitter api.
Twitter posting apps get dofollow links.

Sounds like Twitter Fox and Twurl are goi read more »
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Jennifer Laycock writes "When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your web site and products online, there's a skill that often gets overlooked. Relationship building gets a lot of lip service these days, but I sometimes wonder how read more »
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Everett Sizemore the Tony Soprano of link building describes the concept of laundering your link juice read more »
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Rand lets off about paid links:
"This perfectly explains why you have to discount perturbances like paid links. Make it about the business, and the business owners and operators in the room will respect you. Make it about the lack of morality among read more »
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I got a chance to sit down and speak with Matt about White Hat link building tactics. Very illuminating. read more »
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