Monthly Archives: October 2009

30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 8 - Technorati

Note: This post is now out-of-date. Technorati is now completely irrelevant for SEO as of 2010-01-07.Technorati is Dead, Long live TechnoratiOne of the sad things about the Internet and the Google ranking algorithm is that sites which by virtue of age (and a little traffic) are considered valuable. But those of us with elderly relatives [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 7 - WikiTravel

Wikitravel - Follow links and high PageRankWikitravel is a fantastic resource and for the engaged wiki editor a myriad of opportunities await. Many pages have high page rank and indeed links are "follow" (brought to you by Eva, the Identi.ca developer so the same thinking on links holds).Cowboy up your Wiki profile and start editingOf [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 6 - The Wikipedia User Page

Wikipedia and linksWikipedia is famously a rel="nofollow" site, but it doesn't really matter for several reasons.Linkwashing Wikipedia-StyleFirst, as with Twitter, there are other sites which use the open content-licensed Wikipedia database and don't include the nofollow link markup. That means nofollow links are washed by way of other sites into follow links.Traffic vs. PageRankWhat comes [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 5 - Identi.ca

[http://identi.ca/seochiangmai](SEO Chiangmai uses Identi.ca) for microblogging, in addition to Twitter. Why? The disadvantage is traffic. Based on several client accounts managed at SEO Chiangmai we estimate Twitter delivers approximately an order of magnitude (10x) of follows. However, the quality of accounts in terms of engagement can be much higher and for some kinds of organizations [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 4 - Twitter

The Banality of TwitterA Twitter account as a suggested link and one of the 30 days of a linkbuilding campaign may appear to be the height of banality. Why? There are several reasons.Twitter uses NofollowTwitter famously uses rel="nofollow" everywhere. However, there are other services which scrape Twitter and do not use nofollow. This is similar [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 3 - The YouTube Profile

YouTube is ranked 3rd by Alexa behind Yahoo and Google. YouTube videos can drive traffic, which should be obvious to most people these days. Still it is amazing that the free social media video sharing site is not exploited more by organizations and individuals.In addition to basic traffic, there is a follow link with potential [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 2 - The Google Profile

This is Day 2 of the 30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign. Today we discuss the Google profile, found at http://www.google.com/profiles.The Google ProfileThe Google profile can be created and made publicly available (if sufficient information is provided). There is an open question whether PageRank will accrue to these pages, as we have not yet [...]
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30 links in 30 days Link-building campaign

Good quality, one-way links are the juice that flows in the veins of high-ranking sites. By good we mean links that have actual PageRank (PR) juice. Evidence of linkjuice can be found using back-link tools which are great for examining competitors and how they rank higher than thou. (Actually, finding out how those who rank [...]
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Incubator 2.0: A Silicon Valley Success Story

Incubator 2.0: A Silicon Valley Success StoryView more presentations from Dave McClure.
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