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!
Google's been pretty clear - buy or sell links, particularly those that come from broker-type services, and we'll take steps to penalize your site. At one time, this meant simply de-valuing the links that come from paid sources, essentially erasing them from the link graph so as to "take the money out of the rankings." Now, however, a considerable amount of new evidence has emerg...
My first triathlon was this past Saturday (it was a sprint), and it didn't go so well. I figured there would be some way to use the experience as a lesson learned about SEO, so I thought about it for a bit and concluded that there is a lesson indeed, and it is about paid links. Obviously, it's a loose tie-in, but whatever, I'm good at...
<p>One of the reasons people focus on buying links is that they want to be able to select the anchor text that they need to drive their rankings. It makes for a pretty simple relationship. You offer the publisher of another site money for a link, and in return you get to specify the link. If they don't want to give you the anchor text you want, you move onto another site.<...
We work in an industry where no one lacks the ability to link. It's very tough to find one SEO, or one person who's interested in SEO, who doesn't have a website of some sort. Many of us have more than one: a work-related domain and a personal or hobby site. None of us lack the ability to link. Thus, it seems we sometimes forget that not all industries are like ours. ...
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<p>Outbound links play a critical role in your overall linking strategy. This runs counter to the philosophy that used be popular in the industry, that of hoarding PageRank. You do read less about the notion of hoarding PageRank these days than you used to, but I still think that many publishers do not fully understand why outbound links are important.</p><h3>Understa...
I wanted to try an experiment tonight and leverage a bit of the terrific community vibe and willingness to share we've got here at SEOmoz. In the comments below, share your top 3 most bizarre, unique, unconventional or simply unexpected link building tactics. They can be specific, broad or even a little coy. The rest of us will go through and reward with thumbs up depending on how ...
High quality directory link building may seem dreary and time-consuming, but it's still one of the best methods to build credibility with the search engines (remember the importance of trust distance?). Today, while adding resources to our list of valuable directories, I stumbled across two webpages with valuable insight into the process of link building. Both are from universities, providing ...
Bait and Switch is a well known Link building strategy, which in my opinion works well with a viral campaign. In most cases its used for sites that don’t have very appealing content...Because I am inherently lazy, and do not want to particularly bore most of you with what this tactic is, I will just link to Jane’s prese...
<p>Directories can provide a rapid way to get new links to a site. Opinions on how to approach this range from submitting to every directory in site, to being highly selective. This post will discuss what's happening under the covers to provide some perspective on how you might choose to approach it.</p><h3>The basics - Yahoo</h3><p>The key things that...
Exchanging links has been a common practice for some time now between webmasters that want to increase their search engine rankings. Lots of these webmasters trust their rankings solely to their link exchanges, the big problem with this is that this kind of links are known to be deprecated by search engines and even Google is telling us not to do link exchanges in the webmaster guidelines. I remem...
So I was eating at Del Taco and... I LOVE Del Taco's $0.99 Chicken Soft Tacos. In fact. I like them SO MUCH that I refer my friends to it. Now the other day I happened to eat 3 of these that did not meet my expectations. Now of course, this is 100% the fault of the franchise (which inspires some other interesting analogies as well.), but It certainly put my mind...
Today at Pubcon, I'm speaking on the Link Buying Panel, but here on the blog, you're getting a sneak peak at one of my topics for the presentation....
Having battled the SEO war on all fronts (for myself, for clients, for a firm and most recently, in-house), I’ve learned a lot over the years when it comes to link campaigning. Although I am completely FOR generating content that will get linked to naturally, often time this is easier said than done. If you’re not a link baiting aficionado or if you’re limited by what you&rs...
Rand regularly finds directories and shoots them my way so I can add them to our Premium Members' Link Directory. I don't know where or how Rand finds these gems, but I've added directories that focus on topics as diverse as corn, Nepal tourism, and taekwondo. I typically only add sites that offer direct links to their listings for maximum link build...