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    Google Penguin Changes are Coming: Will Your Site be Affected?

    The SEO rumor mills are at it again…  At this year’s SMX West conference, Matt Cutts – head of Google’s Web Spam team – announced that webmasters can expect to see the latest version of the Penguin algorithm rolled out sometime during 2013. Of course,…

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    The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Guest Posting

    Considering the changes that have been made to link building best practices as a result of Google’s Panda and Penguin algorithm updates, guest posting has become widely valued as a legitimate way to secure the editorial backlinks that are now considered vital to a website’s…

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    Link Building 101: How to Capture Broken Links

    These days, finding good quality links for SEO purposes is as challenging as it’s ever been.  Not only should your links appear within the editorial content of a page, they should be naturally acquired and placed on pages that are relevant to your own website’s…

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    20 Qualities of a Good Link Builder

    In many ways, link building is both an art and a science.  While it might seem fairly straightforward and technical, there’s a surprising amount of creative skill that goes into identifying and soliciting potential link building opportunities as part of an overall digital marketing strategy….

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    30 Advanced Link Building Techniques

    No matter how advanced you are in your link building career, there’s always room to take things to the next level.  So if you feel like you’re stuck in a blog commenting rut or you’ve hit an article submission wall, try out any of the…

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    25 Search Queries to Help You Find Link Building Prospects

    Link building isn’t an inherently easy process – at least, it isn’t an easy process when you focus on building high quality links over paying for low value spam backlinks!  However, this doesn’t mean that it can’t be done.  With a little elbow grease and…

  • Follow the Rules

    11 Unwritten Rules of Link Building

    With the quantity and quantity of inbound links pointing at a website accounting for an estimated 50-80% of its overall search engine results page rankings, there’s no arguing with the fact that link building represents a major pursuit for most website owners. Unfortunately, following the…

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    16 Chrome Extensions for Link Builders

    Whether or not you’re a Chrome user, be aware that this browser offers several extensions that make life a lot easier for link builders. Since I use Chrome for all of my link building, I decided to share a few productivity boosters that have saved…

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    Linkception – Building Backlinks to Backlinks

    Link building is arguably the biggest part of SEO. With search algorithms always changing, SEO experts and companies are constantly looking for newer, more effective link building techniques. One such method that’s getting a lot of attention lately is the process of building multiple levels…

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    Backlinking Trends in the Invoicing Software Vertical

    You all know how important generating high quality backlinks are in order to build traffic back to your site and improve your rankings within the search engines.  But too often, discussions about backlinking and linking best practices tend towards the theoretical, which leaves webmasters knowing…

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    Link Wheels: Are They In or Out?

    Website marketers are constantly trying to uncover tricks to get their sites ranked higher in the search engines, just as Google engineers are always on the lookout for these schemes. One of the latest such techniques to gain prominence in the SEO community is the…

  • Link Wheels: Are They In or Out?

    Website marketers are constantly trying to uncover tricks to get their sites ranked higher in the search engines, just as Google engineers are always on the lookout for these schemes. One of the latest such techniques to gain prominence in the SEO community is the…