Category Archives: Link Building

Hub and Authority

The graph below represents 8 sites that were linked to the most in the daily SearchCap between 8/2 and 8/22 at SearchEngineLand.com. Download the PDF for the top 54 sites.
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If you look at SearchEngineLand as a niche human edited deep linking directory, and you were Google, you would give the pages it links to […]

What You Can Learn From Your Own Free Directory

There are a lot of shallow, spammy, ugly websites out there… that’s what I learned. These sites aren’t created for people, they’re created to rank for a couple of keywords, just enough to get a little traffic, and then hope for someone to quickly click an ad on their navigationless single page site. I […]

New Wordpress Link Building Plugin

This is a basic wordpress plugin that makes it easier for visitors to link to your posts. It adds a small button that, when clicked, grabs a small snippet of your post, including the title, and a bit of the first paragraph like a bookmarklet for your social bookmark. One of those “why didn’t I […]

How to Get Website Traffic Without Ranking in Google

I’ll give you a hint - it involves links. Traffic for the sake of traffic doesn’t make much sense though. People get dugg (digged) all the time without a benefit. So, why do you want traffic? Most likely you’re looking to sell a product or advertising and to do that you definitely need traffic. At […]

Using Surveys to Find Linking Opportunities

Debra Mastaler from The Link Spiel has a nice writeup at Search Engine Land which explains how using surveys as a tool to discover the online habits of your website’s readers can pay off in links. Find the authority sites, which sometimes are hard to find if you aren’t a part of the community, and […]