How The Link Building Best Practices Q&A Works
First Post - April 2, 2008, by Eric Ward
To ask a question, use the POST A COMMENT link at the very bottom of this or any post. Post as anonymous, and ask me anything you want about link building or content publicity. I moderate these questions so you wont have to read 8 million questions about how to rank first at Google for viagra.
I'll take your questions and turn them into posts where I provide my opinion on what the best practice should be for that particular topic. I don't pretend for one moment to believe that my best practices should be your best practices. I'm just using this avenue as a way to provide very specific advice and opinion developed over the course of building links for 1,000+ new and old sites from 1994 til today.
Empirical data is used infrequently to support my answers and opinions, and double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled studies were not conducted. I base my answers and best practice advice on what I see has worked (or not) for me.
I'm not doing this in place of my paid consulting and training, so if your question is about a specific web site or a sensitive subject that requires significant time and research for me to thoroughly answer, you might be better off trying my fee based service here.
To ask a question, use the POST A COMMENT link at the very bottom of this or any post. Post as anonymous, and ask me anything you want about link building or content publicity. I moderate these questions so you wont have to read 8 million questions about how to rank first at Google for viagra.
I'll take your questions and turn them into posts where I provide my opinion on what the best practice should be for that particular topic. I don't pretend for one moment to believe that my best practices should be your best practices. I'm just using this avenue as a way to provide very specific advice and opinion developed over the course of building links for 1,000+ new and old sites from 1994 til today.
Empirical data is used infrequently to support my answers and opinions, and double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled studies were not conducted. I base my answers and best practice advice on what I see has worked (or not) for me.
I'm not doing this in place of my paid consulting and training, so if your question is about a specific web site or a sensitive subject that requires significant time and research for me to thoroughly answer, you might be better off trying my fee based service here.
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About The Link Building Best Practices Q&A from Eric Ward
This Link Building Best Practices Q&A augments my more in-depth paid consulting and training. If your question is about a specific web site or a sensitive subject that requires significant time and research for me to thoroughly answer, you might wish to use my fee based service here.
12 Comments:
What are some of your best practices for submitting to directories? Since they have been devalued by Google, do you still use them?
Is the $300 yahoo link is worth it? If not, why not?
What can we as business owners do to best leverage link building as a means of improving our search visibility?
How can we sucessfully obtain links without soliciting for them?
What can we do right now to improve our link building efforts in terms of improving search visibility?
What signs do you look for to determine what a good link is?
Would you suggest obtaining links to improve your position int he search results?
what is the most accurate method of analyzing back links from competitors? Should I even bother?
Thank-you,
Steven
Hi Eric
Some of my sites are to "left" as you would say and would probably benefit from inclusion in directories. But which ones are worth it?
Getting in dmoz is so hit and miss of course. Yahoo is no doubt sound (though expensive) but what others are worth it ...botw, joeant ?
Could you suggest others?
What are the best practices for using sponsored themes to gain links?
Great new concept. I enjoy your work. My questions are:
Do Digg and Stumbles help? Is good ole fashioned link trade emails back in vogue?
Thanks for your time.
Do you ever recommend the use of NOFOLLOW on links within your own site, to de-emphasize certain pages. I read about this on SEOMoz, and it seems counter-intuitive to me.
Hi I was doing link building distributing clients articles, we prepare on purpose, with no more 5 links in the document including resource box, but actually before 3 months I see google take them to the top but before a week google return them to the same position when we started, is a credible tactic distributing articles or I must have to return to directory and link interchange links tactics thanks
jorge jalvarado@posicionarte.net
Hey Eric,
Awesome stuff. I can't seem to stop reading up on your opinions and practices for link building.
What is your general time line for a follow up to secure a link an another site? What about if the site had the link, but went to a broken landing page, when should you follow up after initial contact to get that fixed?
I'd love to see another post, so that's why I'll drop a comment here?
How about a Best Practices for contacting potential targets? I know it's been done several times, but I'm sure you're able to share some great insights ;)
Simple question - as somebody who has an e-commerce site wanted higher rankings, what should I hire somebody to do on a daily basis to get more links?
Hi eric,
Good stuff. But can you let us know what are some best practices of link building and some new ways of link building.
Thanks
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