Links on the Internet form a relationship between pages and sites that are hugely important to both search engines and marketers. Search engines, like Google, use links to crawl the web, discover new pages, calculate the popularity of those pages, and also determine the relevancy of results to a searcher's query.
If you are new to link building, we highly recommend starting out with our Beginner’s Guide to SEO with Growing Popularity and Links.
While link building can be hugely beneficial for SEO, it's important to stay up-to-date on the latest practices. Below you'll find the most recent posts from the Moz Blog. In addition, we've selected a few quality resources that deserve particular attention.
The Beginner's Guide to Link Building : Everything you need to get started with link building.
The Professional’s Guide to SEO : Professional’s guide to link building and link earning tactics written by SEO expert Paddy Moogan.
Link Building Tactics : There are lots of ways to get links. This guide shows you tactics applicable to almost all websites.
The Rules of Link Building : You need links, but building bad ones can mean trouble. You need to know the rules!
Link Building: The One Hour Guide to SEO : Learn the basics of link building for absolute beginners, all in 10 minutes!
SEO has much of its roots in the practice of targeted link building. And while it's no longer the only core component involved, it's still a hugely valuable factor when it comes to rank boosting. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand goes over why targeted link building is still relevant today and how to develop a process you can strategically follow to success.
Many small businesses see content marketing as something that you can only be successful with if you are a huge company with a big budget. After being in the same boat for a long time, Tom Mcloughlin shares his agency's experience with running a successful campaign from start to finish, with excellent results.
When it comes to the link building process, there’s a lot to keep track of — and that process today is pretty different from what it was a few short years ago. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand scores 20 different attributes that can influence a link's value based on whether or not they still matter in 2015/2016.
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When it comes to getting a manual penalty revoked, the process is as much art as it is science. Anna Korolekh of PSD2HTML shares their journey in removing a massive penalty, dealing with the Google Webspam Team, identifying what worked and what didn't, and offers some key takeaways from the process.
Outreach. It's the most important part of the link building process—and also the most grueling. Good personalized outreach is impossible to scale, and it's easy to fall into a rut. What can you do to maximize your success rate and to stand out from the crowd? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand offers up methods of bartering value to earn genuine links, catching your target's attention, and actionable advice on what to include in your outreach correspondence.
Are you aware of the finer details of links and linking pages? We've got a sneak peek into a chapter of Paddy Moogan's ebook, "The Linkbuilding Book," detailing all the aspects of a link that you should be considering when you're implementing a linkbuilding strategy.
For a while now I have seen a trend with organizations both large and small. My company performs website audits on a regular basis and this is high on our checklist. It has to do with redirects and the loss of authority that quality links pass on to their websites. When done properly, 301 redirects are a very valuable tool in maintaining backlink value and an everyday tool for the SEO professio...
A recent Buzzsumo study has us rethinking how flywheel marketing works. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains what we got wrong about social shares, and a better way to describe that piece of the flywheel.
Effective link building is as much about resilience in the face of strong objections as it is about the quality of the links you're proposing.
Looking to increase your chances of being successful with link building? Begin by removing any self-induced obstacles littering your path.
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A relationship-based approach to link building can be so powerful. By connecting with site owners on a personal level, you can start creating a positive association between you and the content you share. Start thinking of a link as something that's given online by a real live person who also exists outside the internet, and you can move from being a link builder to being a relationship builder. Plus, you might make a friend.
Introducing the Spam Score Histogram for Open Site Explorer. Visualize the distribution of potentially spammy links that show up in a site's link profile.