Category Archives: Link Building

17 More Unconventional Link Building Strategies

There’s nothing I hate more than rehashed, regurgitated content – and unfortunately, the SEO world is full of advice that’s been repeated so often that the only thing it’s good for is wasting your time. In my last article – 13 Unconventional … Continue reading

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Yahoo Site Explorer Alternative – Link Research Tools Introduces QBL

The shutdown of Yahoo Site Explorer brought us QBL, the 10-second-car for Backlink Analysis It’s been a while since our last review of the Link Research Tools back in March and I want to thank you guys again for the massive feedback. Since t… Continue reading

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Pinterest: Link Building & SEO Strategies

I’ve seen more SEO interest in Pinterest in the last month than the rest of the image bookmarking site’s life. One day, I saw multiple veteran SEOs ask for an invite and I’m pretty sure they’re not going for cute animal pictures… Continue reading

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Real Guide to Getting Links and Traffic from Trending Topics

Taking advantage of trending topics is a tremendous opportunity to net more links and more traffic for your site while using a relatively small amount of resources. The beauty of promoting trending content is that you can ride the wave to additional fr… Continue reading

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How to Build Links [Infographic]

Hua Marketing released an infographic called “How to Build Links” today that has a lot of great information on methods, characteristics, factors and management of link building. Take a look below or visit the Hua Marketing blog for more information. Click for a larger view. Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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How to Help New Link Builders Evaluate a Link Prospect

For anyone new to SEO who will be working on link building and content marketing projects, one of the trickiest and most important things to learn as you get started is how to evaluate a link prospect. Understanding the value of a link is a foundational element of not only link building, but also content […]

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Best of the Web : BOTW Constantly Evolving the Web Directory

For years on SEJ we’ve been a proponent of listing sites web directories as a form of traditional organic link building. And over these years many web directories have come and gone. As linking gets less oriented on brute force anchor text overload and moreso is taking a natural approach, sometimes it can be very […]

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Infographic Link Building with StumbleUpon Paid Discovery

As a social marketing tool, StumbleUpon Paid Discovery (a.k.a. StumbleUpon ads) is underrated. Paid Discovery helps people who are likely to be interested in your infographic – or your clever article or how-to guide, etc. – find your infographic at a fraction of the cost of traditional promotional methods. When we promote an infographic we […]

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Effective Link Building Using Event Blogging

Photo Credit You can attend a conference or local event, blog about it, and people will link to it. Having blogged recaps to many different events with mixed backlink results, I’d like to address more effective ways of blogging about events, if SEO and link building is one of your primary goals. Pre-Event A few […]

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SEO Shortcuts Take You Nowhere Fast

In our modern world, every second counts. How long does it take to get around the Starbucks drive-through? How fast can you text? How quickly does a webpage load? Google flat out tells you it took 0.25 seconds for them to pull 50,700,000 results that match your search query. Was that fast enough for you […]

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