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There was a lot of link building discussion this past couple weeks.  From some very authoritative sources.

The first is actually a forum discussion from the well known Webmaster World forums.  It begins by asking the question: Does natural link building actually take place?

It’s been a very quiet few weeks in terms of link building.  But that’s to be expected in the online marketing industry.

It seems as if a topic is “hot” for a while and then the focus of industry bloggers moves.  But that doesn’t mean that people should change their focus from link building.

Link building is still key to a website’s performance online.  And as the following articles suggest, there are many different ways to get those links.

It was a quiet couple weeks in the link building world.  but there were a few posts of interest which provide a lot of useful information.

First was a good article on how to earn link love on the Marketing Pilgrim site.  It included such time honored traditions as “link out” and “comment on other blogs.” Now before you start saying “yes but this is oriented at blogs” consider that the tips provided work well for all sites, not just blogs.  Granted some items are blog related (like using trackbacks) but most other tips can be easily implemented into most modern CMS sites nowadays.  Even a hand coded site can use these with a little work.

The other MVP (Most Valuable Post) came from Todd, aka Stuntdubl.  It is one I’m sure you will bookmark and come back to again and again.

It was an interesting couple of weeks as far as link building news goes.  Still lots of debate over link baiting, as well as articles on why links matter, 66 strategies for getting links and more. So let’s get to it.

I’ve always been a fan of Search Engine Guide.  And this week has been no exception.  Jennifer Laycock has put together a great series on why links matter. Starting with part one and continuing through part two and part three, Laycock gives us a brief summary of what links are and how search engines use them.

It was a quiet week as far as link building articles and rants go, but we managed to pull together the ones that offer the most useful information.

From methods for passionate link building to search engines updating link counts we have it covered.

It was a big couple of weeks for Google.  First they tackled their long standing “Google Bombing” practice then they gave us a way to see more of the sites
linking to our domains.

But Google wasn’t the only one making news.  Robert Scoble declared the “best linkbaiter" and there were a couple articles on grabbing links via linkbaiting as well as the potential pitfalls of a good text link.

When it comes to link building there is no topic hotter right now than link baiting.  In fact it’s so hot it is almost boring.

That is because it is all the SEO and link building industry is talking about – What is link baiting? What constitutes “good” link bait?  How do I link bait? 

But we find that we aren’t the only ones getting a little tired of hearing about link bait.  Don’t misunderstand – we are big fans of the tactic, however as you are about to read, there are others who wish there was less link bait about link baiting.

Hello All,

We just released the first version of our “Beginners Guide to Buying Links for SEO”.  We’ve included lots of useful tips on how to successfully buy links to increase your search engine rankings.  We plan on adding new sections frequently.  If you have any questions or sections you would like to see added, please email me directly at jarrod (a)(t) textlinkbrokers.com.  Please use the subject “Link Buying Guide”.

http://www.textlinkbrokers.com/link-buying-guide.html

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It was another great couple of weeks with lots of articles focused on link building, from building link popularity in 7 days to Digg etiquette, to Secrets of a Professional Link Builder and much more.

In this issue of our bi-monthly newsletter, we will look at some of these articles and present links to the ones we thought were the best.

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of discussion about link baiting.  From forum posts on link baiting (such as “what is it and how do I do it?") to articles explaining why some things shouldn’t be link bait.

Welcome to the first edition of the Textlinkbrokers regular newsletter.  In this and forthcoming newsletters you will find summaries and links of some of the best articles and forum discussions on links and link building in the industry, plus tips and tricks for link building.

Imagine that :)

Rand, over at SEOMoz.org writes a great article about how “smart interlinking” between content pages on a site will lead to increased pageviews.  Although this may sound rudimentary, its one of those arts that few people ever master.

But, dont discount the SEO value of those links either. Smart interlinking, using keywords, between your pages will help the search engines figure your site out.  And thats always a good thing.

SEOmoz Blog | Link Density - A Method for Increasing Page Views

Have your keyword ranking’s fallen since the last Google Update?

Has BigDaddy been a BIG pain in your butt?


There are three things that I have seen sites do wrong that have led to lost rankings in the latest Google Update.

Hey Everyone,

Well its finally here.  We are officially launching our new link building wiki, which can be located on our site at http://www.textlinkbrokers.com/wiki or directly through the URL http://www.linkbuildingwiki.com

Check it out now http://www.linkbuildingwiki.com

There is a ton of link building info already, and we are adding to it everyday!

Rand Fishkin over at SeoMoz.org posted an article on his blog yesterday that got me thinking about an article I was wanting to write a while back.....

He was having a little fun talking about some of the ways that Google could detect link networks in order to combat paid links. A topic that I’m sure most of the people reading our blog have thought about many times. The same subject that I, as a link builder, must consider on a daily basis.

While these sorts of hypotheticals are good to ponder at times and definitly worth considering when trying to stay ahead of the curve, I think most webmasters would also benefit from seeing things from another perspective.

Contemplating what Google is doing to COMBAT links is important but I think less time should be spent thinking about that and more time spent understanding that it really doesnt matter.  Its all relative....

Google will continue to raise the bar on linking standards, but how that bar affects your particular industry will always be relative to what your competition is doing.

You Dont Need Perfect Links, You Only Need Better Links Then Your Competitors

While Google will continually give lower quality links less weight and in some rare casis, no weight at all, it will not matter as long as you have better links then the other people in your industry.

In some industries something as simple as reciprocal links could be all you need to build in order to outdo your competittion.  While reciprocal links carry very little weight anymore in Google, they still carry some weight, and there are still some very non-competitive terms out there where a site could rank well with reciprocals alone especially if there are very little other websites targetting those industry terms.

In the case where you are in a competitive industry where companies are spending tens of thousands of dollars to build natural looking links through “More Advanced” linking methods reciprocals are obviously going to do very little for you.

Now I realize that some webmasters/companies want to do everything they possibly can to obtain the absolute best links possible, and in some cases they are justified.  If you have the resources and/or just want to be super prepared for any future algorithmic changes, then obtaining the absolute best links might be the right thing for you. 

So what sorts of links are better then others?  Well, that topic has been discussed a million times in other places, so I’ll leave that for another article.  For now, if you are not sure, I suggest you find a link building expert who can show you results from past clients.  Anyone can hypothisize about what they think Google is doing, but the real experts can show you examples of what has worked for their other clients.  Theories dont matter, results do.

I hope noone reading this post is under the impression that this article is at all attacking Rand.  His article was a great read, and he is an excellent link builder.  He is one of the few link builders out there that I give credit too, he definitly knows his stuff.  I have seen first hand the successful results of some of his link building efforts.