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One Page Summary of All EricWard.com Link Building Services

Most Requested Services and Instruction:
.Private Linking Strategy Sessions & Competitive Linking Analytics
.Content Marketing Plans aka Custom Linking Blueprints
.Link Building Boot Camp..Link Building Training..Link Bait Strategies/Feasibility

Overview of Services: . Competitive Linking Strategy Session plus Linking Analytics ($2,500) Full details Maximize your site's inbound links for today's Web. 100% white hat as always. Includes my proprietary Linking Analytics and Competitive Link Audit, a private Strategy Report, and a High Trust Target Analysis created for your site, plus 2 hours by phone. Put my experience to work helping your site succeed. .

30 Day Private Link Building Boot Camp with Eric Ward A month long combined link building and training service, where I teach and train you on the same techniques used for my clients. I'll create and give you link building and tracking tools you can use after we finish. I cut through all the linking rumors and inaccurate "expert" advice and maximize your investment in your site. And then I give you a private IM address to use to reach me, so I can answer questions and clarify anything that needs to be. Learn more .

URLwire Site Announcement Network - Established in 1994 URLwire was established in 1994 as a private and discreet news service to announce meritorious Web content to the exact resource seekers and trusted influencers who care about it. URLwire subscribers represent some of the most trusted sources in the world, who can have tremendous impact on your organic rankings.  If you don't know what this means read this .

Link Bait Strategy Development I help coach you through the process of creating a Linkbait strategy that makes sense for your site. Learn more

Custom Link Marketing & Link Building Blueprint aka Strategic Link Building Plan Have me do the leg —and brain— work to identify the proper topically relevant link targtets, trusted link targets, and high value editorial link targets for your content, including key influencers and social media.  Then have me teach you the process of obtaining these high quality links. Or, hire me to do it for you. Learn more.

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Current Blog - Link Building Best Practices Q&A.
Old Blog - LinkMoses Link Building Articles and Advice

Oldies but goodies...
Link Moses Linking Commandments
Link Experts Tell All

Eric Ward's Link Building Presentations, Seminars and Conferences
From 1998: Link Building for Non Profits - Washington D.C. conference 

Link building podcast: The written and audio transcript of the podcast between myself and Eric Enge. 

Eric Ward's Link Building Webcast for Search Marketing Now

I addition to my own Link Building Best Practices Q&A, I write for several online marketing industry trade publications. 

You can read my regular LinkWeek columns at SearchEngineLand.com

I've also contributed to
WebMarketingToday
SearchMarketingStandard
ClickZ
Ad Age B2B magazine (print)

My services have been written about in books, magazines, newsletters, on T.V. and Radio, and in college courses on Internet marketing. 

“Those who value time and want the job done right by the best in the business flock to Eric Ward and count themselves lucky that the maestro isn't booked into the next millennium.

—Jim Sterne, Inc. Magazine

I am now working as Chief Link Evangelist at search intelligence firm AdGooroo, where for the past six months I have been helping develop Link Insight. Link Insight helps you find, score and prioritize linking targets to help you build quality backlinks.

At the recent Search Marketing Expo (SMX East), WebProNews' Mike McDonald and I discuss how link building has changed in the past ten years or so, and the implications for today's link builders.

Eric Ward In Online Marketing Heroes I'm one of the 25 people profiled in the book Online Marketing Heroes, (Wiley & Sons, by Michael Miller). OMH focuses on today's most successful online marketers, with information and advice.

“Eric offered incredibly effective advice and services that were instrumental in making ArtNexus.com the leading Latin American art magazine. He is the most effective link-builder on the planet. I'd recommend him strongly to anyone who has an important story to tell online”
—Mike Freedman, ArtNexus.com

More Eric Ward testimonials.

"Eric follows the right link building approach. He's interested in links that are given based on merit, and those are the links that stand the test of time"
—Matt Cutts, Google

Private Linking Strategy Session - $2,500
Let me show you the key online venues where your site is missing linking opportunities.  I'll identify weakness in your linking strategy, mine and analyze competitor and industry site links to help your own site's link development.  This session Includes written reports and two hours of personal private phone consultation.

Training and Consulting for Content Publicity & Link Building
I offer several types of link building and link development training services, from one-to-one to group sessions, in-person and web based.

Link Building Services, aka NetPOST (Now in my 15th year)
Custom link development & link building, content publicity and site announcements for your site, using a holistic linking approach based on your site's subject, features, and content. 100% white hat link building services and training.  I also provide strategy sessions to help you maximize your content's ability to attract the right links the right way. 

URLwire News Network
Your new web site announced to the right online editors and site reviewers, via Email, Web, RSS feed, Blog, Groups and other methods.  URLwire is matched by topic, and sent only to those who write about and link to quality web sites.

On-site reading
Besides my current Link Building Best Practices Q and A, I also provide many previous articles and ebooks. LinkMoses Link Building Articles and Advice was a very popular feature, and Ten Things to Ask Before Hiring A Company to Promote Your Web Site is an old column that still resonates today. Several years ago I partnered with Robin Nobles and John Alexander to create an ebook titled, 131 (Legitimate) Link Building Strategies. 

I contributed to the ebook (PDF) "The Most Effective Articles Of 71 of The World's Top Marketers", in which seventy one of the World's "top marketers" shared the most effective articles they ever wrote.  573 pages of ideas, tips and techniques.

Time warp...
The year: 1994. The web is catching on. But there aren't any web promotion companies yet.  So I start the first one, and ask Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang to create a new Yahoo! directory category, since none exists.   Read the original 1994 email exchange between Jerry and I. 

"Ward has been the Svengali behind the scenes of some of the Web's best known launches, from Amazon.com to Rodney.com" — THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OnLine.
 

"Eric Ward may well be the foremost expert on promoting Web site launches and Web events" — Interactive PR News
 

"The payoff of the NetPOST technique is greater" — Internet WORLD Magazine
 

"The impact of Eric Ward's approach is optimal"
— NetGuide Magazine
 
 
 

In April of 1997 I was named by Websight Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the Internet. I was honored to be listed among people like Jerry Yang and Mark Andreesen.  And oh yes, Thomas Dolby. No other person in the Web publicity and Link Building industry was on that list. I consider it validation of my approach and confirmation that one doesn't have to live in New York, Seattle  or San Francisco to have a significant industry impact. Of course, the magazine then proceeded to go out of business just after I bought 50 copies of the issue with me in it.

An Etiologic content linking strategy focuses on cause and effect as it relates to content driven link building. Etiologic linking recognizes the citation potential for meritorious content compared to all other content, and most importantly, an etiologic content linking strategy seeks to speed the process of attracting the most germane and trustworthy citations, aka links. Etiologic content linking is not about manufactured tactics like article creation, directory submission, link trading or buying, or any other link building approach that anyone can impliment for any site. Etiologic linking is about content integrity, merit, worth, cause, and effect.