Link Building Blog, News and Articles - Textlinkbrokers.com/blog

Its always nice to get some news coverage.  Textlinkbrokers.com was mentioned in an article by Leslie Walker of The Washington Post.  The article was titled “How to Juice Up a Site’s Rank” and talks about the benefits of linking for SEO.

Unfortunatly you need to login (free account) to read the article.  Heres the link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/26/AR2006042602441.html?sub=new

Heres some Excerps

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One such firm is TextLinkBrokers.com, which started in Phoenix three years ago by brokering paid links between sites with high Google ranks to those with low Google ranks. But Google’s changing formulas have made it harder to boost a site’s ranking just through paid links, said Jarrod Hunt, chief executive of the 60-person firm.

“Editorial links are more valuable now than the paid ones,” he added.

Hunt said his firm still brokers text links for sale from thousands of independent Web sites, but it also develops original editorial content to help get links Google might consider to be of higher quality. Often the articles are given away or sold to sites in a program he calls “hosted marketing pages,” basically online advertorials with embedded links.

BTW, Quoting someone in your articles is a great way to encourage them to link to you, especially if they own an active blog.  People are always happy to link to articles that mention them.  Can anyone say LINK BAIT :)