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| Five Deadly Sins Guaranteed To Kill Your
Link Requests
By Eric Ward July 30, 2007 The
full text including hyperlinks for this Link Week column
Here in the Link Week column, we mostly discuss intermediate to advanced linking related subjects, but I'm compelled to cover a very basic topic this week. Link requests. The link builders are out in force this summer. The proof is in my inbox. Over the two weeks since my last LinkWeek column, I've counted the number of link requests I've received. The total? Forty-two. This is both funny and tragic. It's funny because I do not give out links, I do not swap links, I've never had a links page, and the only place I've ever provided outbound links is within my LinkMoses blogscroll, and even that is limited to about twenty-five other sites, all of whom are run by people I know and have great respect for. So any link builder seeking a link from me has either not visited my site, does not know me, or does not care who he/she spams. Funny! It's tragic because you would think that with all the attention link building has received over the past few years, people would better understand...read the full column at SearchEngineLand Link well my friend, Eric Ward
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| About the Author |
 Eric
Ward founded the Web's first services for announcing, linking, and
building buzz for Web sites, called NetPOST,
in 1994, and in 1995 he launched the URLwire
Site Announcement Network, which today has millions of readers
and remains the only service devoted 100% to announcing useful web content.
Eric is best known as the person behind the first linking campaigns for
Amazon.com,
Rodney.com,
and PBS.org. His services won the 1995
Award For Internet Marketing Excellence, and he was selected as one
of the Web's 100 most influential people by Websight Magazine in
1997. Eric is a 4-star speaker at Jupiter's Search Engine Strategies conferences,
and he publishes a monthly how-to newsletter called THE
WARD REPORT: Link Building and Content Publicity Tactics.
Eric writes several online marketing columns including LinkWeek
for SearchEngineLand.com,
and previously wrote for ClickZ.com
and Ad Age magazine. Eric, wife
Melissa and boys Noah and Abe live in Knoxville, Tennessee. |
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