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Link Building Tips and Resources

Link building for small and medium size businesses is vital to help the local business rank in the local city, state, or region they are targeting. This category will cover link building tips, research and strategies to help online businesses such as local ecommerce websites and local business who offer a remarkable service, build links that add value to their rankings.

We also would like to extend a welcome to any experts in the field of link building who would like to submit a guest post.

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Link Trades: Tips for Making Reciprocal Links Work For Your SEO

Written By: Bill Ross

I recently received a link trade (reciprocal link) request email from another site causing me to ask myself, how can I make the tons of link trade requests that I get, work in my favor. Most of these sites are low quality or riddled with spam, but some of ...

Link Building Companies & Services: Best White Hat Link Builders & Agencies

Written By: Bill Ross

Link building is one of the keys to increase rankings, trust, and value for your website in the search engines. It's important that website owners understand the value and limitations of a link, the different types of links, and the link acquisition tactics that can help and hurt their website. A ...

Huge List of Link Building Resources: I Got 99 Problems But a Link Ain’t One

Written By: Bill Ross

Every week there is at least 1 article on SEOmoz, Ontolo, Search Engine Round Table, Search Engine Land, Distilled, or other blogs, that outline some great tips and techniques for getting quality links with different sets of content. They dive into in-depth analysis about how to ...

Free Link Building Tools for Finding And Interacting With Link Prospects

Written By: Kathryn Armson

As the web gets wiser to the practices of SEOs the nature of link building has evolved from simple outreach to an art form, which relies upon more strategic, PR-like tactics. Link builders can no longer mass automate link requests, but must work at building relationships with online influencers if ...

External Links and Inbound Marketing Campaigns Value and Benefits

Written By: Bill Ross

History of The Hyperlink 1965: The term "hyperlink" was coined by Ted Nelson and his assistant Calvin Curtin at the start of Project Xanadu. Nelson had been inspired by "As We May Think", a popular essay by Vannevar Bush. In this essay, Bush described a microfilm-based machine in which one could ...

Base 8 Logarithmic Scale of Google’s Real PageRank and Toolbar PageRank

Written By: Bill Ross

The Google PageRank algorithm is logarithmic and not linear and most SEO's believe the base is between 8 and 9. The following takes into account a base of 8 in the Google PageRank Algorithm. There are two types of pagerank. Toolbar pagerank with is the little green bar that can be found ...

You know your a good link if…

Written By: Bill Ross

Ok so I was watching Jeff Foxworthy (don’t ask, its a long story) and he started doing his drop dead funny bit bit about rednecks (sarcasm) so I thought I would do a ” you know your a good link if” post, so here it goes. You know your a good ...

Using Google+ and FindPeopleOnPlus for Link Building and Blogger Outreach

Written By: Bill Ross

What is Google+? Google plus is Google's recent attempt at breaking into the social space and building a network to complete with Facebook. The benefits they have include a built in Gmail and Google profile base, and currently (as of July 2011) have hit the 10 million user mark.

SEO Friendly Directories: Directory Submission and SEO, Does It Help?

Written By: Bill Ross

What is directory submission? Back in the day when SEO was easier, and Google was not as sophisticated when it came to detecting low quality links from directories, SEO's and webmasters would submit sites to many different directories. They would do mass directory submissions trying and gain traffic from people using ...

Link Building Tools: Use The SEOmoz Toolset To Find Link Opportunities

Written By: Bill Ross

Competitive Link Research Tool Simply put it helps a SEO or link builder find powerful sites your competitors are getting links from but you"re missing out on. How to use the Competitive Link Research Tool Enter your site (the target for optimization) Enter at ...

Local Link Building: How to Build Links To Your Small Business Website

Written By: Bill Ross

Link building for small businesses can be challenging but is a must have for local businesses doing SEO. If you plan to rank in your local area or a specific keyword, one of the keys is to gain links from the same community, city, or town you wan ...

Increase Links To Your Website: Rules For Building Great Content

Written By: Bill Ross

Links are the key to ranking well and driving user metrics for SEO, but to get links the content that is produced needs to follow some basic guidelines to maximize user engagement and links. What are these guidelines? How to increase links to your content? A recent content ...

Market Your Small Business By Joining The Conversation

Written By: Bill Ross

Participating in the conversation by commenting is a powerful marketing practice that can help build your brand as a writer and driving traffic to your articles. The problem that arises is since Google focuses heavily on back links in their algorithm, comments get filled with low quality conversation spam and ...

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