Before I get started, I should point-out that purchasing links purely to improve your search rankings is not a good idea. Google has recently been penalizing sites that have done this and eventually such links will stop passing rank completely.
The techniques discussed in this article aren’t designed to manipulate the search engines - they [...]
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Local Tax Deductible Linking Opportunities
Published by December 17th, 2007 in Link Building. 1 CommentA few months ago a humorous online prank evolved known as Rick Rolling. The basic premise behind the prank is to trick people into clicking a link of a Rick Astley video by using deceptive anchor text.
For example, here’s the best link bait article you’ll see all year!
By nature I’m a prankster and like [...]
How to have creative linkbait ideas
Published by November 3rd, 2007 in Link Building and Marketing. 1 CommentRecently I was reading an e-newsletter that mentioned Edward De Bono’s book “How to Have Creative Ideas” and the article was so good I thought I’d get myself a copy.
One of the many things that stood-out to me from the book was this excerpt on creativity:
too many people believe creativity is a talent with which [...]
Back in June Google introduced a new addition to Webmaster Central - it was a paid link report tool that allowed webmasters to inform Google about sites that were buying or selling links.
Since then this has been one of the most discussed topics in SEO. I’ve been meaning to do a post about this [...]
We’re often asked - are reciprocal links good or bad? This topic is like an SEO yo-yo - support for reciprocal linking goes up-and-down so frequently that I thought it was time someone put an end to all the myths.
Prior to 2006 one of the best methods of gaining links was to offer a [...]
Link building - What they don’t tell you
Published by August 7th, 2007 in Link Building and Social Media. 0 CommentsWhen you read about link building one of the most important things that is constantly enforced is to write good content. When you write something that people find interesting, informative, humorous, controversial, educational or something that addresses a particular need, people are far more likely to link to you than if you have old, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
