Tag Archives: Links

30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 17 - Wikimapia

Today we turn to a new topic which is an aspect of local search, namely geographic or map search. There are several map tools out there (besides Google Maps and Google Earth). Some are overlays or information provided within a mapping interface (think of an object on a map as a result entry on a [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 16 - HotFrog Directory

Link Directories - Meh Link directories, meh, whatcha gonna do. There is the wonderful abyss that is DMOZ. My current theory is that it is run by a blackhat software utility whose author is now dead. How else can you account for the 5 second time-on-site for the page checking of a submitted entry? However [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 14 - Docstoc

Following up on yesterday's post and culminating in the post tomorrow on SlideShare, we continue to review the link-building opportunities in file sharing social media. A Review: Filesharing and Linkbuilding In Day 13 of the 30 Days of Linkbuilding we discussed the simple sharing of files (which granted, can become quite complex) represents a significant [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 13 - Scribd

Filesharing and Linkbuilding The simple sharing of files (which granted, can become quite complex) represents a significant opportunity and challenge. The complexities are as follows and raise the question of the value of links and link-building: A link as a reputation verification opportunity (aka PageRank) A link as a traffic generating opportunity (aka visitors) A [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 12 - The Facebook Page

Facebook, The Monster Social Network Even if Facebook didn't have all the advertising inside of the platform, the amazing demographic data, etc. one thing it does have for the SEO in all of us is PageRank. Freaking PageRank 9. That's like Superman on steroids. Only Yahoo, Google (day 2) and Google (day 11)and YouTube (day [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 11 - Google Local Listing

Ah, the Google Local Listing. A thing of beauty and portent. Discussed in such edifying tomes as the Google Webmasters Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. Where to begin? Google Local is the new Yellow Pages Actually Google is the new Yellow Pages, but Google Local is essentially an overlay of additional information and listings when [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 9 - Wikidweb

Wikidweb is one of a few actual web directories that we suggest our clients use in their linkbuilding campaigns. Why? Several reasons. Why use Wikidweb? First, it is a basic wiki using WikiMedia, the wiki software that runs Wikipedia--namely it is easy to use. Second, you do the editing, not some anonymous (or non-existent) bot [...]
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign - Day 10 - Blip.TV

Blip is Big Blip.TV is one of those online video sharing sites that could be termed one of the dwarfs, aka Snow White and the (how many?) Dwarfs--Snow White being YouTube, of course. Along with many other sites that could be mentioned (but why bother), Blip.TV has a special place for a few reasons. Google [...]
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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 Technorati One 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 [...]
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