Posts tagged ‘Link Building’
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August 22nd
20SEO Link Analysis 1.0.4
Excerpt: Yahoo released the new SiteExplorer, which forced me to fix the SEO Link Analysis extension, which now works again with Yahoo's new interface (it won't work on the old one anymore). Microsoft has also updated their webmaster portal, I'm currently figuring out how to include that again, but have for…
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August 15th
29B2B SEO: Link Building
Excerpt: To get you through the weekend with a healthy dose of B2B SEO, here's another guest post by my colleague Erik-Jan Bulthuis, the third in this series, after B2B SEO: Marketing strategy for specific niches and B2B Content SEO. In this third article of the series about B2B SEO we'll be talking about…
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March 12th
11PageRank sculpting: my view
Excerpt: Dave did a good post about nofollow sculpting, and he got a very good quote from Matt Cutts: Nofollowing your internals can affect your ranking in Google, but it's a 2nd order effect. My analogy is: suppose you've got $100. Would you rather work on getting $300, or would you spend your time plan…
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March 6th
46A Dutch discussion on paid links
Excerpt: Here in the Netherlands we have this long history of having so called startpagina's. They're basically collections of links to websites around a subject, with each subject having it's own subdomain. They're named after startpagina.nl, the first, biggest and probably best of it's kind, and there are …
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January 14th
32Link request mistakes...
Excerpt: Sometimes you get email from people asking you for a link, and their requests just demand that you out them... I've decided that from now on, everyone who emails me with a stupid link request e-mail, which shows that they did not look at my site for longer than 1 minute, will get a blogpost, without…
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January 11th
20Linking out? Make sure people notice!
Excerpt: It happens to me more then a few times a day at the moment, which is quite a luxurious position I guess, that I see new unique referrers in my statistics. These are new sites linking to me. But sometimes they're not... Sometimes, it's a post that has been there for 3-4 weeks, or even more, on a low …
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January 10th
126Make the scrapers work for you!
Excerpt: Some of you had already noticed that I've added a link back to my blog in the footer of articles in my RSS feed, like this: I didn't do that because I thought you guys couldn't find my blog. It was actually a plugin requested by Shoemoney, who wanted to make the scrapers work for him too, by …
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December 11th
119SEO Link Analysis Firefox Extension
Excerpt: Remember that Greasemonkey script that I recently updated? Well, maybe you should just forget about that... I'd been working on a version of that script which works on Yahoo Site Explorer and MS Webmaster portal too, and now I've gone even one step further: I've bundled the three of them, and turned…
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December 10th
7Link Value Factors
Excerpt: Wiep has done some great SEOmoz style link value survey: Link Value Factors. Among those surveyed: Aaron Wall, Eric Ward, Debra Mastaler, Jim Boykin and my Dutch friends Peter van der Graaf, Martijn Anschutz, Andre Scholten, and ow yeah, me, of course ;)…
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November 24th
8Live Search's link command work again and they're awesome!
Excerpt: It's been 12 days since Barry reported at SERoundtable that Live Search's link commands were back online, the only thing you have to do is add a + in front of them. Since they're still working I decided to play around with them a bit. Quite a few nice things came up, so keep reading! There are a …
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November 22nd
5Matt, Adam, Please let me report linkspammers!
Excerpt: Hey Matt Cutts and Adam Lasnik, I've got an idea on how you could help me report people who want to do foul link exchanges to you. What about creating an email address, to which I can forward all those automated emails with subjects like "Quality PR5 linkswap", so you can just ban all of them...…
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November 7th
25We need a Google court!
Excerpt: Imagine this (and no this is not based at all on any of my clients, just for the sake of this argument): you have a client who has a pitch black history in search engine optimization, his tactics ranging from "simple" cloaking to using negative links to push his competitors sites down. At one point,…
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September 30th
5Are search engines using link-data over time?
Excerpt: Every once in a while, you encounter pages in search results that haven't changed for quite a while. When reading Aaron's post about major ranking changes in Yahoo! I started doing one of my favorite queries: the one for CSS3 (screenshot). I noticed two strange things: first of all, result #1 and #3…
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September 17th
16Click here to read all about a natural link profile
Excerpt: Sint Smeding IM'd me tonight, pointing me to this post on his blog, which basically is the Dutch version of what Brian Clark is talking about: whether or not to use "Click here" as anchor text for links. The first thing I had to think of was a post by Jennifer Slegg about choosing the anchor text fo…
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August 28th
260The DMOZ mob strikes again...
Excerpt: This weekend I was reading about Shoemoney being extorted by a DMOZ editor. I thought: heck, I'm a DMOZ editor, I don't want to be associated with stuff like that, let's see if I can do anything to help. So I posted something like that in the commentthread to the above post, and I added a note to Sh…
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August 7th
2The trouble with 301 redirects and backlinks
Excerpt: On the SERoundtable the question is raised whether you can check if a site 301 redirects to your website, referring to a thread on the SEW forums and an article by Aaron Wall. That seems quite simple to me, as most of the times you'll see clicks coming in from sites on which your own site doesn't ha…
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July 3rd
0Bidvertiser.net - Text-Link-Advertising
Excerpt: This is a sponsored review. I got a request to do a sponsored review for Bidvertiser for Advertisers. Requests like this are always fun, and this one started off even better, since the people at Bidvertiser really get how this market works. They encouraged me to sign up for their referral program…
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June 28th
16Blogspam works, but only in large quantities
Excerpt: Dave Davies did some research on whether nofollow links still pass some linkjuice, and as it turns out (which we knew of course) it does, a bit... So, for your blogspam to be useful, you have to do it in very very large quantities :)…
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June 28th
3What's more frustrating than having a link from dev.live.com?
Excerpt: My domain-info script has a link from the dev.live.com mashups list, which of course is nice, I mean: who doesn't want a link from a live.com subdomain? But then I checked the dev.live.com robots.txt file... Now that sucks :) I wonder why they blocked it... I've sent in that question through the …
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June 11th
5Yahoo SiteExplorer web vs. API: answers from Yahoo!
Excerpt: In response to my post about the Yahoo API giving the "wrong" results, I got an email from a Yahoo! rep, and we've been emailing back and forth a few times since. When I showed him the difference in the numbers given through the API and the Web interface for css3.info (I've updated my domain-info t…
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April 11th
1Selling links? Don't advertise it openly!
Excerpt: As you might have noticed, I'm a huge fan of 103bees, as I truly think it's one of the nicest tools out there for bloggers and other people interested in what people were searching for when they reached your site. Today, however, I logged in to my account, and I saw that 103bees is selling links. …
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January 29th
5DMOZ and Wikipedia: how it should work
Excerpt: Contrary to the popular saying "DMOZ is dead", I think it's not. That combined with the recent Wikipedia nofollow debate made me think. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. DMOZ, or the Open Directory Project is "the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web". An encyclopedia sho…
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January 27th
11PageRank update, some PR6's added
Excerpt: I got notified by a post on SEO Roundtable that another (or still the same) PR update was going on. So far it seems that css3 . info has become PR6, as well as it's blog, which rocks of course! Seems like all pages younger than 1.5 years or so are having their update now and the older ones had their…
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January 19th
4Contextual links for sale
Excerpt: No, I'm not saying you can buy links on this blog, I'm talking about an exciting new project my friend Jeff Behrendt over at Aviva directory has launched together with V7N's John Scott. They have launched what Jeff calls a Google killer, a cheap and easy way to buy contextual links. For a one tim…
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January 13th
18You can add your URL's to DMOZ again!
Excerpt: DMOZ has now fully recovered from the enormous crash, as you can now suggest your own sites for the directory again! So feel free to go in there and add your URL's :). Update: not completely recovered, you still can't apply to become an editor.…
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January 8th
6Review of Text-Link-Ads.com
Excerpt: The following is a paid review. I was asked to review Text Link Ads (aff) on ReviewMe. I've been using Text-Link-Ads as a publisher for quite a while now, so I have quite a few things to say about it, both positive and negative. Interface wise, TLA rocks. It has a very intuitive interface,…
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December 22nd
936 high quality links for 1 dollar
Excerpt: If you have a high quality design on your site, getting a few good links just got easier. Spencer Akers built a tool called CSS Submit, which automatically submits your site to dozens of CSS galleries. If your design is decent, it WILL get in, and you will get some high quality links from it. I sub…
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November 17th
10Wikipedia Link Nazi's
Excerpt: Jaimie of SEO Egghead has a wonderful post on Wikipedia editor being link nazi's, with a wonderful picture to illustrate just what he means with the term "nazi" as well. His experiences with the editorial team of Wikipedia: he wrote the article on link-bait and quoted Rand Fishkin, Matt Cutts, Aaron…
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October 12th
2Wikipedia and Link-Spam: the story continues
Excerpt: As I told you before, some people on the WikiProject Spam page were talking about ways of sharing the links they remove with search engines, and especially Google. This dicussion has been going on, and now Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia, commented on it. He said the following: I recently had di…
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October 11th
20The risks of link-spamming Wikipedia
Excerpt: Whether you think it's spamming or not, adding your own site to Wikipedia is considered spamming. I found out "the hard way" in a discussion I was having with Wikipedia editors on their WikiProject Spam page, regarding my previous post. Up till now, the only risk of placing your link in Wikipedia yo…
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October 8th
1Developing link-bait 2: using Wikipedia
Excerpt: My previous post about developing link-bait told you about what to do with those beautiful pieces of content you have in your site which really deserve their own domain. It discussed how to get them started up by getting them Dugg, and how to make sure people would deeplink as well as link to your h…
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October 3rd
0Digg abuse
Excerpt: While I talked to you guys about how I made a site rank for some top keywords fast using Digg and some quality link-bait, I do not think that spamming is the answer. My colleague Roy Huiskes talked about some Digg abuse on his blog, and why this wouldn't work. He quotes an article on seomoz, about h…
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October 2nd
0W3C paid links no longer indexed
Excerpt: The W3C supporters program had been (ab-)used for a while now by, amongst others, SEO companies. They paid $1,000 to the W3C, and got a link on the supporters page in return, a PageRank 9 page. This way they increased their PageRank. Look among the links on that page, and spot the pages with "SEO" i…
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October 2nd
2Which links hurt and which don't?
Excerpt: Links are very important for your site, even when you're not looking at a site like an SEO would. One of the hot topics among SEO's is whether links can hurt you as well. I've collected some recent threads at forums and some answers from the guys who are "in the know", like Adam Lasnik from Google. …
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September 29th
9Developing link-bait: an example
Excerpt: One of the hardest things to do in SEO these days, is getting the links you want, at the price you want: for free. Most of those directory links you can get for free won't help you a lot, since what you want is links from trusted websites, with approximately the same topic as your website. Directori…
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September 26th
4That's some smart link building
Excerpt: Jim Westergren, the man behind SEO Fusion and some great articles about link building, has launched a new service: Smart Link Building. What he does is the following: you give him a site that you want links for and a list of keywords. Then he writes 20 mini-articles, with 10 links in each article, a…
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September 25th
1Domain info script
Excerpt: I've spent a lot of time the last weeks on building a domain info script, combining as much data i can gather about a domain as possible. It checks incoming links in Google, Yahoo, MSN and Technorati, and next to that wikipedia links, .edu and .gov links, PageRank, DMOZ and Yahoo directory listing e…
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August 11th
0The strongest online directories
Excerpt: It's a question coming up every now and then: which directories should i submit my site to? The guys over at Aviva directory have a nice and comprehensive article about the strongest directories. They consider what factors play a part in a directory being a good online directory, and quote good sour…
