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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: September 5, 2008 - 11:13 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Eric Ward examines the client who views link building as a purely SEO function, that is, they are interested in adding or creating content just to appeal to search engines. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 1:32 pm
Posted By: jasongreen 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Link Building
Linkbait is widely regarded by many SEOs as the premier weapon in their quiver of marketing and promotional tools, and justifiably so. When linkbait is successful it can be incredibly powerful, driving an initial spike in (arguably entirely useless) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 1:27 pm
Posted By: Wiep 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Are you good at photography, “photoshopping” or graphic design? Then why don’t you use these skills to build backlinks? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 9:09 am
Posted By: Wiep 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Link Building
An interesting question is what someone should look for in a potential link developer and how to go about finding them. Rae lists (and pretty much answers) several must-ask questions for link development job interviews. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 2:48 pm
Posted By: Maing 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Yahoo link: operator (and URL analysis in Yahoo! SiteExplorer) is the best method currently at our disposal to conduct backlink analysis and to evaluate either your own or your competitors’ link building tactics. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 1:38 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Deb Mastaler questions the value of "fast, easy" links, and offers a playbook for article marketers: "Perhaps a better approach would be to add new, low-cost angles to old ways of linking. Find a method you've used in the past and expand on the tech read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 3:21 am
Posted By: SiteMost 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
Ask ten SEOs what you have to do to get more links, and 9 will tell you to ‘build great content’. In stead of taking this answer for granted, it’s even better to ask yourself why this is true.

Wiep gives us 6 reasons... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 1:37 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Link Building
Bill Hartzer writes, "I've put together a list of six things you can do right now to get nearly "instant links" to your web site. In many cases these six "techniques" of getting links are nearly automated, so your link will show up almost as fast as read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 9:03 am
Posted By: mercylivi 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Link Building Basics by Loren Baker SEJ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 18, 2008 - 7:16 am
Posted By: Wiep 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yoast.com)
Category: Link Building
Erik-Jan discusses B2B link building and concludes that different goals are required than in B2C link building. He also explains why B2B link building is easier AND more difficult than B2C link building. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 8:36 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Link Building
Six quality deep links in six days. All thanks to having a piece of unique content, and promoting that content. This is a mini case study that shows how pushing content can allow it to spread a lot further than expected. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 11, 2008 - 7:34 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
Tom Critchlow gives us another clever and ethical linkbuilding technique. The basic principle is to find link leads by searching for pages or sites which used to offer a service and no longer do. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 8, 2008 - 3:27 am
Posted By: onreact 29 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Link Building
Poor Matt Cutts, SEOs adapt once again. A recent Search Engine Roundtable survey reveals: SEOs want to buy links even if they're nofollowed: 50% of respondents said they would. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 4:57 am
Posted By: yourseomentor 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Link Building
So is Link Building really dead take a look at what Lee Odden has to say! "However, there’s a big difference between link building to content & content promotion that attracts links. Long term, promotion of content that attracts relevant links from read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 1:00 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
Rand Fishkin provides arguments against linking out to other sites as well as arguments for linking out to other sites. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 3:13 am
Posted By: philbutler 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
If you run an eCommerce site, submitting it to coupon code directories is a wise promotional method you might want to consider. Building links in this fashion cannot help but build a successful campaign. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 30, 2008 - 9:39 am
Posted By: willscott 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.localseoguide.com)
Category: Link Building
It took me a whole presentation to get to the good stuff. Andrew extracts the best for the rest of you guys. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 29, 2008 - 10:39 am
Posted By: dsnyder 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com)
Category: Link Building
Widgetbait gone bad sparked intense controversy about the utilization of anchor text within widgets. I decided to ask some of the leading experts in the industry their thoughts on the following situation, in an attempt to unearth what is kosher and read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 28, 2008 - 10:15 am
Posted By: TheNanny612 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.shimonsandler.com)
Category: Link Building
Shimon Sandler asks, "Is it possible not to touch the code of a site and still optimize it?" The answer is yes and he explains why. read more »
29 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 2:31 pm
Posted By: YoungMaster 45 days 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 »
22 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 3:10 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 45 days 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 46 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 46 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 50 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 52 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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