An alternative headline would be, How to get people to do what you want by taking your thumb out of your ass! But I thought that may be too fruity at this time in the morning. Another day another slew of "link builders", "pr people" and rapscallions contacting me on email requesting to use up some of my brain cycles on them (dude, they are finite) and I need to keep them for … [Read more...] about How to contact Bloggers
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The Myth of Organic Links
There are no natural links There are no organic links But wait, all the seo industry keep banging on about you must have natural this and organic that. What I say to that is, "we are not discussing peaches". And I love a good peach Quite simply, and I hate to say this as I have a lot of friends (and I even do it myself) doing the natural/organic, shuffle. The … [Read more...] about The Myth of Organic Links
Create Great Content Ask for a Link Be Nice
Yesterday I wrote a post that got carried on Searchengineland.com, which was very nice of them. Thanks. It was titled. Have you Tried Asking for a Link and I talked about that fact that sometimes you simply has to ask. However, to be clear and I have had a few emails about this. The post said that you could "Just nicely ask for a link, using your own words in a real way and … [Read more...] about Create Great Content Ask for a Link Be Nice
Have you tried asking for a link
Just nicely ask for a link, using your own words in a real way and ask for a link to something good. It's a controversial statement I know judging from my email inbox and what doesn't get talked about on Twitter. I think I have a pathological aversion to cut and paste emails and cookie cutter content. I get emails stating, "we are quaility link builders", good because I … [Read more...] about Have you tried asking for a link
Huge List of very interesting articles on Linkbuilding
I've been collecting the best of link building articles for a few years now, usually I just share them as the battery fades on my Toshiba hdr5010kb remote control, but I thought I would share a few of them here. Putting Guest Post Outreach Theories to the Test [With Some Real World Data] | SEOmoz http://moz.com/blog/putting-guest-po...eal-world-data Blogger Outreach: 9 … [Read more...] about Huge List of very interesting articles on Linkbuilding
Why you should build content that lasts 7 years
Pic source Just a quick one, as I have a ton of work to do today. Recently someone contacted me, noticed one of my old posts, Beginners guide to SEO links would benefit from having a link pointed to content that had just created. I had created it seven years ago and it still gets traffic, although most of the information was applicable to that time, which makes a link … [Read more...] about Why you should build content that lasts 7 years