I’m glad that the word “link” is in the title of this post or else that could have taken this otherwise quite professional blog into the depths of the gutter…
So what exactly is Link Bait or Link Baiting?
The WikiPedia describes Link Bait as:
any content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place [...]
Archive for June, 2007
The SEOmoz website has an article on the most important Google Search Ranking Factors.
I’ll often be asked about Meta Tags, Page Rank and other SEO techneques that were important 5 years ago but not too many people outside the SEO community really know what the current top ranking factors are.
Without going into all the details, [...]
Google has a reputation for shaking-up the SERPs with its updates. There was Hilltop, Florida, Bourbon, Jagger, Big Daddy and the more recent changes in rankings that started around the start of June have been officially dubbed the “Buffy” update.
The naming of this particular update is out of respects for Vanessa Fox leaving Google [...]
The New York Times recently ran an article titled Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine. The article was not only incredibly well written from an SEO viewpoint (something rare for mainstream media) but it provides an excellent insight into the inner workings of Google.
Mr. Singhal is Google’s “ranking algorithm” master and heads-up their Search [...]
Having high quality links from other websites is so important and even though I mentioned that at the end of the previous post on Link building techniques, I wanted to reiterate how beneficial it can be.
Jim Boykin has a great article on his site about Why that site with 50 backlinks beats your site with [...]
As I mentioned in the last post - building-up a network of good quality inbound links is crucial to having a well ranked website in all the major search engines… but I know from experience that getting people to link to your website is not always as easy as it seems.
Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall [...]
There are a lot of different techniques that can be used to promote a website - some of these fall into the category of SEO, others are better described as Search Marketing and others are a combination of both. It should also be noted that the major search engines are constantly updating their algorithms [...]
Taking the first step - or in this case, making the first post is always the hardest part and it has never been more true for writing the first entry for a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) blog - an industry that has been around for years but changes daily.
If you are not sure what SEO [...]
