Link development and link baiting to help webmasters understand how to get more inbound links. Answers to why you want inlinks to your website.
Google recently rolled out a new algorithm update that has affected 3% (according to Google employee Matt Cutts) of common web keyword searches. The newly released update is called Google Penguin and its aim is to increase search relevancy by penalizing websites that use unethical SEO tactics to increase their site’s Page Rank. The main…
As online marketers we spend a lot of time coming up with awesome content to drum up publicity, social buzz and, ultimately, links for our websites. But how much time do we actually spend promoting that content? It’s entirely natural to concentrate all our energies on the creation side of things – after all, only…
With the latest Google algorithm update, codenamed panda, Negative SEO has now become an issue everyone must be concerned about. It is now possible for mailcious SEO’s and hackers to negatively affect search engine rankings simply by pointing some of the wrong links at your website. Building links from authoritative websites that have a real…
Best of the Web is one of the best online directories to use for link building, and they are offering a special promotional code. BOTW is one of the few directories that add ranking value and is a trusted backlink source for Google, Bing, Yahoo and other major search engines. I have seen new Botw.org…
As social media continues to factor more and more on the web, webmasters need to keep an eye on how new trends and/or developments such as URL shorteners affect SEO rankings. For these useful tools, at least, URL shorteners have been integrated into sites without any drawbacks – really without much difference at all in…
I have been trying to use Yahoo Site Explorer to search for backlinks all day, and it has not been working. We have known about the pending changes to Yahoo this summer as they are consumed and destroyed integrated with Microsoft’s Bing. This merger was announced nearly exactly 1 year ago as a strategic move…
Yet again Best of the Web is offering an amazing 30% off discount for their web directory to all new users this month only. Use the code this month FIREWERX The BOTW promo code provides powerful backlinks that will help you outrank your competitors in Google. So use the discount code FIREWERX to get 20%…
I just received a link request email for a great offer linking to Intel. I thought I misread the company name, but it is indeed the behemoth computer chip manufacturer. This is a really low budget way for Intel to go about getting more links, and I thought they could be a little creative and…
Some people seem to get all the luck. In an article about the new Tesla Model S Sedan electric car, the New York Times blog author links to Mahalo founder and controversial tech blogger Jason Calacanis twice as much as any other source. A link from NYtimes.com is very valuable and the only thing Calacanis…
About 5 years ago search engines realized that blogs, comments and user generated content were going to pollute the web with an endless stream of low quality, off topic, unmanaged links. As the search engine ranking algorithm is primarily link based, this had the potential of making search engine results unusable. How to Stop Links…