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!
Harvesting backlinks is probably the toughest task in SEO. But first, we need to know what kind of backlinks can help us, or in other words - what kind of backlinks google likes. The answer is right in front of you. It's in the SERP!Finding your competitors backlinks is good, but you probably have many competitors. It's a time consuming ta...
Beware. This article is not a get rich quick scheme or a way to cut corners, rather a process of building links which is inspired by my roots in graphic design and a desire to give back to the SEOmoz community. Arguable the hardest task any SEO encounters is link building, suggested by several SEOmoz.org ...
There are many ways to "go viral" these days, with new and creative methods surfacing regularly. In my experience as an internet marketer, I've seen many impressive and ingenious techniques for generating traffic, buzz, and links. Although not all of these examples were created with specific goals (traffic, links, cash) they are notable for their creativity and effectiveness...
Linkfromdomain is a search operator that is unique to Bing. It returns the pages that are linked-to from a domain. And it's a great addition to a linkbuilder's arsenal. I'm going to walk through some theory and end with a worked example.
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I work for a healthcare non-profit organization (npo) in Kansas City, KS as the project manager. As a npo we little funds if any for advertising much less online advertising. So when I learned about SEO and what it could mean for us I dove in head first. First thing I did was add the meta tags (the guy before me left everything black) and began to add us to different directories online as well ...
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Last week at Pubcon Las Vegas, I presented on Linkfluence: How to Buy Links with Maximum Juice and Minimum Effort with fellow panelists Roger Montti (Martinibuster), Aaron Wall (SEOBook) and Todd Malicoat (...
I'm going to share some data visualisation tips today that I reckon I could use to beat up on Rand in a presentation-off. We have recently been doing some deep dives into clients' and prospects' link profiles which gave me an excuse to mash up some Linkscape API data in Excel.
We all know about the Linkerati by now - how to identify them, how they're segmented and why they're the secret to SEO. Yet, time and aga...
When I first started in SEO, link acquisition was almost always a manual process. I'd search the engines for links that pointed to the competition, find relevant directories and link lists, email relevant sites and beg, borrow or bribe (aka buy advertising) to get a link. I tried reciprocal link building (and did some pretty dumb stuff). Then, as I got more intertwined in the SEO community...
What really makes a blog post worth linking to? In my last post, What Makes a Link Worthy Post - Part 1, I took a look at the 3,800 blog posts on SEOmoz and did some analysis on a few different aspects of the posts and their affect on the number of in linking domains (ILDs) as recorded by ...
One of the best ways to build inbound links is to create an affiliate program. It's also a great way to drive real customer traffic from related sites. But...don't just sign up for one of the big third-party affiliate programs--you'll get the customers, but you'll be throwing away a terrific opportunity to get great inbound links. ...
I was recently inspired by a post by MikeTek, Examining the Top 150 In-Linked Posts at SEOmoz. While the information was very informative, it was taken from a limited sample of the over 3,800 post on SEOmoz. Along with the small sample size, the data was not proportiona...
Has anyone watched the movie called Semi-pro? Where a small basketball league called ABA is on the verge of collapse and has to be merged with the NBA to survive, but the NBA only accepts four team to be merged and thus the trouble begins.