Try this for starters: http://www.seomoz.org/pages/search_results?q=link+building
Posts made by Chris.Menke
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RE: Link Campaign
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RE: .edu campaign
I'm saying you may call them stupid if they got you in trouble down the road.
Anyway, penalties aside, there's no guarantee that this will help your site rank better for the keywords you would want your site to rank better for--and in the end, that's what all this is about, right. The content you are "hosting to obtain the links" may rank well for terms related to it and other pages may even get a PR boost from it but that's not going to necessarily translate into rankings on your other pages for their keywords.
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RE: .edu campaign
Even if the links are "natural" (in all the many meanings of that word) if it's over-done--and it sounds like that's your plan-- you'll risk losing what ever benefit they're providing your site at some future algorithm update. If that were to happen, you might look at yourself in the mirror at that time and wonder why, as a smart business person, you bothered to spend the money to hire someone to get all those stupid links for you. That is, of course, if the site you're doing this for is a legitimate business site with long-term goals. If it's a spamin' & jamin' type of site and all about the short-term, then what the heck--go for it. Just wondering--have you ever experienced waking up in the morning to find 90% of your organic traffic has disappeared?
If it's a legit business site, a wiser option may be to settle for getting just of few of the best links possible with this plan of yours and then move on to some other plan. Alternatively, you could create a site that was directly relevant to the types of links this plot will acquire and you'd possibly have a lot less to worry about upon waking up each morning.
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RE: Why won't my sub-domain blog rank for my brand name in Google?
Funny.
While you're twittling your thumbs waiting for some actual traffic, keep what I said in mind.
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RE: What happens to a page if I take it down then later put it back up?
I'm wondering how long you expect it to be up the first time and how long you think it will be down before it goes back up again (at the same url, of course). If there are links to the page before it comes down and the links still exist when it goes back up, that would be very helpful. If there are no external links going to it when you take it down and it was only up for a few months, you probably won't be losing anything when you take it down (and you won't be starting with much when it goes back up).
You could also 302 it to another, more appropriate page during the time it would be down and then remove the redirect when you want it make it available again.
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RE: Google penalty
My last thing was:
4.) In this case four days is not enough time to make a sound judgement about whether there's a problem or not. That doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't be looking closely at what may be happening.
40K links from 300 sites though.... That may be a precarious balance. I'd say stay focused on generating social engagement while you work to build out the number of linking domains, not just the number of links.
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RE: Google penalty
Hey Will,
A couple of things:
1. Size doesn't matter when it comes to penalties--except that it might take a little longer to get caught, with an emphasis on "might".
2. Are you doing anything that you might get caught for? A three-fold increase in referrals is nice--whatcha been doin' to make that happen?
3. Have you investigated the sites referring you to see if anything has changed there? What site(s) that was referring you traffic is now referring less? If it was typical website, are the links still in place? Maybe it was penalized or dropped in rankings for some terms and they're no longer getting traffic that they can refer to you. If you mean search engine referrals, was it a specific keyword that stopped sending you traffic or was it an across the board drop and have your keyword rankings dropped? Have you lost any strong links in the recent past.
These are some of the things you want to look into as you work on figuring this out.
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RE: Backlinks! Right or wrong way?
In addition to RN1978's comment, which I would agree with 100%, always have your mozbar ready to go and run an open site explorer report on every thematically relevant site you come across. Investigate the top links in each report to see it's also a link you can obtain.
Building authority is an endless process and you'll get better at it the longer you're at it. The more business-like your approach to it the better off you'll be. That means be knowledgeable, be persistent, and be creative.
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RE: How to avoid too many "On Page Links"?
You're not going to get penalized for too many links from your pages to other internal pages that have decent-customer oriented content. CSS rollover menus count as links, as long as you can see the link in the html--even links in JS rollovers may be counted these days--so hoping to hide them isn't the answer for the typical webmaster. Rather, strongly consider usability first and link accordingly.
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RE: How do you decide which keywords to optimize first?
Go to your google analytics and see if any of the organic search keywords align with keywords on your list.
Run ranking reports on the ones that do. Note pages that are getting search traffic for terms on your list but that are not at the top of the search results.
Review the pages that are receiving the search traffic for those terms to see how well they're optimized.
Start first with the pages that are least optimized, getting traffic, and are on page three, two or bottom of page one of the results. Optimize those pages for most closely aligned keywords
It's called low-hanging fruit.
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RE: Would you consider this keyword spam?
I'd be asking myself this: Are these pages I would expect someone to link to or share with someone else? If your answer is no, I wouldn't waste my time worrying about whether they rank or not. Personally, I think I've seen a gazillion of these types of pages. The links at the bottom wouldn't mean a thing to google, one way or another, if there was content on the page that people wanted to share and did share.
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RE: Why won't my sub-domain blog rank for my brand name in Google?
I see "instabill" used 58 times on the default page and a whole bunch of blog posts about Instabill. Google's seen this before and as I recall, they came up with a couple algorithm tweaks in order to push website owners to make real websites with information that real people might possibly want to read. Try doing what everybody else has to do--tone down the heavy handed SEO and invest in copy that's focused on a specific audience, not on you.
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Does anyone see any merchantcircle backlinks showing up in OSE reports for themselves or their clients?
Just got around to looking for a client's link on merchantcircle and didn't see it, so I looked for some other client's links from there and they don't show up either. Am I the last one to notice this?