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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: July 23, 2008 - 2:31 pm
Posted By: YoungMaster 1 day 6 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
A quick tip from DaveN about getting a link from your Twitter page. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 3:10 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 1 day 12 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 11:50 am
Posted By: agreen 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semvironment.com)
Category: Link Building
Great link building notification tool for Wordpress complete with instructional video. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 12:04 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 17, 2008 - 7:57 pm
Posted By: annie7 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 8:49 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 8:41 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.alistseo.com)
Category: Link Building
Quality traffic is your goal, but to get there you need to study "Do Follow Psychology." read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 14, 2008 - 7:56 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 11, 2008 - 9:32 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 11, 2008 - 5:36 am
Posted By: mercylivi 13 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 2:01 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 9:33 am
Posted By: KenJones 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 9, 2008 - 9:09 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Link Building
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 »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 6:40 am
Posted By: redpepper 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 9:57 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 10:04 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://thelinkspiel.blogspot.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 6:16 pm
Posted By: crashingflwrgrl 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
Rishil shares a practical guide to link building strategies that small businesses have access to but tend to over look. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 6:38 am
Posted By: theGypsy 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
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 »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 10:19 am
Posted By: Maing 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 6:31 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Link Building
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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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 12:46 pm
Posted By: Gab 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Link Building
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 »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 2:45 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Link Building
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 »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 2:37 pm
Posted By: belasco99 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hyperdogmedia.com)
Category: Link Building
Everett Sizemore the Tony Soprano of link building describes the concept of laundering your link juice read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2008 - 12:44 pm
Posted By: ciaran 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
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 »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 16, 2008 - 1:37 pm
Posted By: ericenge 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: Link Building
I got a chance to sit down and speak with Matt about White Hat link building tactics. Very illuminating. read more »
11 Comments     


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