Tips To Attract More Links With Your Content

The adage “Content is king” holds true in the webmaster/Internet marketing industry. Regardless of your niche, it’s crucial that you constantly publish high-quality content on a regular basis. Doing so will improve your brand visibility, generate more visitors, and it will attract more backlinks. Publishing content alone can yield a significant number of relevant backlinks […]

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Blog Commenting For Backlinks: Does It Still Work?

With all of the recent Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird updates Google’s made to its search ranking algorithm, webmasters have become increasingly hesitant to build backlinks. If a particular link-building technique is viewed as spammy or unnatural, it could have a negative effect on the linked website by lowering its search ranking. So, is blog commenting […]

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Authority: The New Standard of Quality

Before you begin trying to boost your visibility by using backlinks, you need to stop and ask yourself why your website deserves to rank highly in a Google search. Does your site offer something of value that no one else is offering? If the answer to that is “no,” then no amount of backlinking will […]

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Black Hat, White Hat

If you spend any time at all learning about SEO practices, you’ll encounter the terms “black hat” and “white hat.” These are the names for two distinct schools of thought in regards to website design. White hat practices are those that conform to Google’s recommendations and best practices. Essentially, white hat SEO follows the rules […]

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Recent Developments in SEO

For a long time, search engines found and indexed pages based upon the prevalence of certain keywords. Those keywords would appear within the page’s content itself as well as on other sites, with the keyword phrase linking back to the original site. This was the earliest function of backlinking, and it worked very well for […]

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What is a Backlink, Anyway?

A backlink is, simply, a link placed on one page that leads back to a specific website. These links help to draw new visitors to the site in two ways. First, any visitor who finds a link and clicks it will be taken to the site. This directly boosts the site’s traffic. Second, backlinks act […]

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Grow Traffic with Natural Link Building

The task of search engine optimization, or boosting your webpage’s rank in search engine results, is vital to the success of your website. No matter how valuable your site’s content, you won’t get traffic if it doesn’t appear high on the list of search results for its niche. SEO has changed dramatically over the years, […]

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Are Link Building Queries Important?

I often get this question.  Are link building queries important.  The simple answer is … Yes!!!  Link building queries are the most important thing you need to know as a link builder. As a link builder it is your responsibility to learn every advanced search parameter and know how to combine them together to extract […]

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Is guest blogging a waste of time?

Guest blogging is not a waste of time, however, the caliber and credibility of the site hosting your guest blog is key to the value.  Run a backlink profile of the site that you wish to submit a guest blog.  If they have spammy backlinks, do you really want to work with them?  Look at […]

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Introduction

The age of search engine optimization is moving from the wild, wild, west where the one with the most keywords stuffed into meta tags won to an era where human readable content that adds value overall is the winner. That being said, assigning authority to this human-readable content is Googles mission.  Google attempts to return […]

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