Making the case for link exchanges – sometimes good old fashioned hard work pays off. Link exchanges are still one effective method to use for link building. In addition to linkbaiting (creating a controversial or compelling article and submitting to digg.com, reddit.com, stumbleupon.com etc) and social media marketing, and link buying, link trading continues to…
The mainstream media is chasing social media hard and embracing linkbaiting with gusto! A major newspaper is bending over backwards to get their content featured on the drudgereport.com This is the title of the article that appeared on the LA Times FRONT PAGE on August 4, 2007: Hot links served up daily So the MSM…
Links are the nerve center of the pulsating web. Links create the internet and add value to your site. Links to you improve your natural search engine placement, and links you create to others enhances your value as an authority on your subject. When linking to external websites it is best to use meaningful keywords…
In a ruling sure to please ignorant site owners and lazy webmasters everywhere, a Texas judge has allowed a ruling forbidding deeplinking to content. Instead of using a simple referrer redirect, the site owners spent thousands of dollars suing the website for linking directly to content. Now, these site owners will have much fewer inbound…
Ok, so you can’t exactly delete Microsoft Excel from your harddrive, but Instacalc will give the Myspace generation a lot of educational experience while having fun. Instead of having to read boring math textbooks and memorize endless conversion tables, this nifty program will do all your calculations for you. Need to find out the number…
The next time you have a to figure out a way to spice up boring statistics report, see what goodmagazine.com did. By writing the numbers on a super attractive woman they have link baited a video with 550 thousand views and counting. By taking 1 day to film this amateur video and getting a female…
Free and paid directory listings have historically helped boost credibility and PageRank. If you want to know which directories to submit your website to keep reading. Google does use directory listings as part of their quality score algorithm, and the higher quality directories are given more weight. Paying for a directory link is not an…