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For many years I have written link building articles, columns, and blog posts for several publications.  SearchEngineLand, ClickZ,  SearchEngineWatch, Ad Age, Web Marketing Today, MarketingProfs, and many others. I've found as many as I could for anyone who cares to check them out. Of all of these, LinkMoses Linking Commandments remains the single most read article I've ever written.

Eric Ward's Most Recent Link Building Columns, Videos, and Audio. Those located off the EricWard.com site will be indicated in parenthesis.

- Link for People, Not Search Engines (at SearchEngineWatch)
- Linking Strategies For Google Plus Your World (at SearchEngineLand)
- Eric Ward’s Link-Building Strategies for 2012 (at Pole Position Marketing)
- A Few Link Building Predictions For 2012 (at SearchEngineLand)
- Eric Ward Answers 10 Questions on BizDev Link Building (at SearchEngineWatch)
- Random Link Spikes & The Events That Create Them (at SearchEngineLand)
- Link Building Basics
- Social Media Link Building (Powerpoint - SES Chicago presentation) 
- Eric Ward Interviewed by Ogilvy Public Relations by Brian Camen (at Ogilvy PR)
- How Not To Link To Us (at SearchEngineLand)
- A Holiday & Seasonal Event-Driven Link Building Primer (at SearchEngineLand)
- Linking Strategies for a Post Google Panda Web (AUDIO at Webmaster Radio)
- Linking Oddities That Ripley Would Like (at SearchEngineLand)
- A Google Plus Primer On Links & Rank (at SearchEngineLand)
- How To Help Clients Understand Social Link Outcomes (at SearchEngineLand)
- Debunking the Myths of Link Spam Detection  (AUDIO at SearchMarketingNow)
- 3 Common Link Building Questions Answered By 4 Expert (at SearchEngineLand)
- Key Problems With Current Social Link Graph Signals (at SearchEngineLand)
- Contrarian Perspectives On Link Building (at SearchEngineLand)
- Can Likes, Pluses & Tweets Cleanse The Link Graph? (at SearchEngineLand)
- Fundamentals of Link Building - Part 1 (video - 9:35 at AdGooroo.com)
- The Farmer Panda Impact Nobody Is Talking About (at SearchEngineLand)
- Why The Web Needs Content Farms (at AdGooroo.com)
- The Art and Science of Link Spam Detection (at AdGooroo.com)
- Two Simple Productivity Tools Speed Link Building (at SearchEngineLand)
- Link Curation - Man vs Machine (at SearchEngineLand)
- Google’s Place Page Update and Local Link Building (at SearchEngineLand)
- How To Help Clients Through Link Building Confusion (at SearchEngineLand)
- How To Use Google Instant As A Powerful Link Building X-Ray
- Live Link Building Webcast
- Link Building Software
- 5 Things Google’s Latest Patent Tells Me About Links (at SearchEngineLand.com)
- How Do We Help Google Fight Webspam? (at AdGooroo.com)

Previously...from my Link Building Best Practices Blog (currently on hiatus)

- Migrating from Blogger to WordPress
- Bye Bye Blogger
- Link Building for Personalized Search
- The Curly Theory of Link Building
- A Peek At Google's Future
- Who Controls Link Building Success
- Why Reciprocal Links Will Always Be Viable
- When Cheaters Win
- What If Everything You Know About Link Building Is Wrong?
- Riding The Twitter Link Waves
- Helping Clients See The Bigger Linking Picture
- Why Reciprocal Links Will Always Be Viable
- Up Close Look at Eric Ward's Link Building Desktop
- Best Practices for Feeling Sorry for Yourself
- Revenge of the Librarians - Don't Hate me for Being Right
- How Twitter Can Impact Link Building
- Announcing Link Insight
- Paid Links from .edu's - Good, Bad or Ugly?
- Best Practices for Flickr Link Building
- Backlink Research Best Practices
- LinkWeek - Rules Of Linking Engagement As The Web Turns Twenty
- Joe The Plumber and Link Building Best Practices
- Outlinking Best Practices
- The Great Link Race Has Begun, But To Where?
- Why Link Building Must Go In-House
- Link Building Podcast and Transcript with Eric Ward
- Helping Clients See The Bigger Linking Picture
- After The Basics - Now What?
- Social Media Links - Spam 2.0?
- Where Trust Lives - An Example
- Why Reciprocal Links Will Always Be Viable
- Yahoo Directory Paid Link Best Practices
- What are the best practices for submitting to directories?
- Anchor Text Best Practices - Update 8-24-09
- What is the meaning of life, and link building?
- LBBP - The Weekly Delete
- LBBP - The Weekly Delete - Avis Edition
- How do I determine good link targets?
- Admitting You Have a Social Network Linking Addiction
- LinkMoses Resurrected - Thirty Link Building Rants and Commandments
- Picking The Right Shovel
- Interview with my Alma Mater about my Link Building Career
 

Additional Articles Available on EricWard.com

- LinkMoses Linking Commandments
- Over 125 Legitimate Link Building Strategies
- A Linking Campaign Primer
- Blog Tag and Five Things You Don’t Know About Eric Ward aka Link Moses
- Yahoo Daily Wire Says Goodbye - LinkMoses says Thank You
- LinkMoses On The New Google Link Analysis Tools
- What My Four-Year-Old And a Bicycle Has to do With Link Building
- Social Media Optimization - 3 Rules for What Not to Do
- Artificial Linking and Search Rankings
- Social Link Spam and Cigarette Butts
- Google's New Custom Search Engine Service and Links
- The DMOZ Ship Has Sailed
- .edu Link Fallacies Explained
- Link Penalty Anxiety?
- Where Is The Mother of All Links?
- Link Bait Kool-Aid?
- Is White Hat Link Building a Myth?
- Are You A Link Whore?
- For the love of God please stop the sending me link request emails like this one
- How does Google collect and rank results?
- The Case for Topically Irrelevant High Pagerank Backlinks
- Linking's Holy Grail: The Passively-Obtained Backlink
- Looking for Links In All The Wrong Places
- The Yahoo Link That Can Make You A Star
- Link Popularity and the Myth of the Guestbook Link
- What Makes a Web Site Link-Worthy?
- Build A Free Link Clipping Alert Service (Parts I ? 2)
- Linking Legalities. What You Need to Know
- A Technique For Selecting Sites For Link Requests
- Potpourri of Linking Facts and Fiction
- Linkability - Why Do Some Sites Have It While Others Don't?
- Under the Radar: Tracking Online Media Coverage Is Hit Or Miss, But Mostly Miss
- Using Google to Identify High Quality Link Targets
- Automated Link Generators - Not Worth The Trouble
- Linking Mistakes To Avoid, Part 1 - Link Optimization and Short URLs
- Linking Mistakes To Avoid, Part 2 - Removing Orphaned URLs
- How to Make The Most Out Of Emailed Press Releases
- Taking The Plunge in the Pay-Per-Click Link Pool
- Now Is The Time For A Portal Link Audit
- A Linking Campaign Primer - by Eric Ward
- Spotting Unnatural Linking Patterns
- Five Things I Hate About Linking
- Aggressively Seeking Links: How Much Is Too Much?
- Link Building's Cult Of Reciprocity
- LinkAnalysis Beyond Search Rank - by Eric Ward
- Portrait Of The Perfect Link Builder
- Social Link Manipulation
- LinkMoses Link Building Tip of the Week - Links by Association
- Teeny Weenie Bikini Linkbait
- Ten Things to Ask Before Hiring A Company to Promote Your Web Site

Articles by Eric Ward Written for other Publications

Written for or SearchEngineLand.com

Written for ClickZ.com

Written for SearchEngineWatch.com

Written for MarketingProfs.com

Written for WebMarketing Today

Written for Ad Age Magazine BtoB

Coming...

Link Insight helps you find, score and prioritize linking targets to help you build quality backlinks.

At 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.