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Overview of Services: . Linking Strategy Call and Site Review Full details You know link building is important, but you don't know what (or who) to believe or where to spend your time and money.  Let me help.  As a widely acknowledged link building expert, I'll save you money and heartache. I've been doing this longer than any other person on the web, and I've seen just about every linking related tactic there is, good, bad, and ugly. .

In Depth Competitive Link Audit and Industry Link Analysis Full details Includes my proprietary Linking Analytics and Competitive Link Audit, and a strategy report with rRecommendations created by me specifically for your site, plus 2.5 hours by phone. Put my link building expertise and experience to work helping your site succeed.

Link Building Boot Camp with Eric Ward Full details A 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. Not interested in the Boot Camp? I offer several other link building training services.

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Link Bait Strategy Development Full details I help coach you through the process of creating a Linkbait strategy and tactics that make sense for your site.

Custom Link Marketing - Link Building Blueprints and Strategic Link Building Plans Full details Have me do the leg —and brain— work to identify the proper topically relevant link targets and high value editorial link targets for your content, including key influencers and social media.  Then I'll teach you the process of obtaining these high quality links.

URLwire Site Announcement Network - Established in 1994 Full details at urlwire.com 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.

One Page Summary of all Eric Ward's Link Building Services

Eric Ward Biography
Link Building Expert Training and Link Building Seminars
Does my approach to link building work?
How I Work: An Up Close Look
Link Building Fundamentals
Note for PR firms/agencies
Link Building Philosophy
Link Building Interviews
Acknowledgements
Testimonials

Current Blog: Link Building Best Practices (On Hiatus)
Recent Post: Link Building Software - What to Look for and What to Avoid
Article Library: Link Building Articles and Advice

Oldies but goodies...
Link Requests via Email - A Primer With Tips
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 Articles, I write for several online marketing industry trade publications. 

You can read my regular LinkWeek columns at SearchEngineLand.com

I've also contributed columns to

ClickZ
WebMarketingToday
SearchMarketingStandard
Ad Age B2B magazine (print)

More about my services and experience below

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. 

.Follow Eric on Twitter or Q.Quora

More News and Notes

Eric Ward Interviewed by Ogilvy Public
Relations - 360 Digital Influence
November 2011 Interview with Brian Camen about Social Media Linking and Promotion
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About Eric.
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Eric Ward Biography.
Link Building Best Practices (~200 articles)
Media Coverage Past and Present
Link Building Expert Interviews
Acknowledgements
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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  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.

...I'm currently answering your link building questions at AdGooroo's Linkedin group. 

Links to 
Eric Ward's SES Chicago sessions

Updated Post: 
Link Penalty Anxiety?

...Looking for my SMX presentation session? It's now Link Building Fundamentals

...I've got a new section on my site now devoted to Link Building Webcasts & Webinars

...If you missed my webcast on Links, Link-Building and Public Relations with Chris Sherman, the archived version is available now

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I'm the Chief Link Evangelist at search intelligence firm AdGooroo, where  I have been assisting in the development of Link Insight. Link Insight is a link building quality control tool that helps you identify and build quality backlinks

 
.Link Building Videos

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
 

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

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"Eric is one of the most plugged in professionals we know, having been online approximately forever. So if you want to get your news around, call the guy. In addition to being non-annoying, he's extremely effective in telling Heavy Duty Influentials what it is you're doing. This is especially valuable in cases where you yourself have forgotten" 
— Chris Locke, The Cluetrain Manifesto and Entropy Gradient Reversals
 

"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
 
 

"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"

"After devoting the last five years creating websites that directly help and impact people you get to know who the real internet professionals are. Eric Ward is that person and he's the real deal. He sincerely wants to help you be successfull and will tell you the best way on how to go about doing it. Spending 15 minutes on the phone with Eric is better then 5 years of internet experience"
--K. Sabol, www.disabilityscholarships.us