The Long-Term Link Acquisition Value of Content Marketing
The long tail of link building holds a wealth of value, but you might not know it unless you've done the analysis. Luckily for us, Fractl did — here are the results.
Link Building
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!
Most Recent Articles on Link Building
A Quarter-Million Reasons to Use Moz's Link Intersect Tool
Smart link prospecting is the key to earning high quality links, faster. The Link Intersect tool helped my agency land a $250,000 contract — read the story and see what it can do for you.
Tracking Your Link Prospecting Using Lists in Link Explorer
Tired of tracking your link prospects manually? Learn how to use Link Explorer's tracking lists to keep tabs on your prospects and track links to specific pieces of content. Whether you're doing link outreach, PR, or just keeping tabs on your industry news sources, Link Explorer's list management can make your life easier.
Backlink Blindspots: The State of Robots.txt
Ever wonder why you see different links in Google Search Console compared to Moz, Majestic, and Ahrefs? Learn how usage of robots.txt across the web impacts the major link indexes.
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How to Find and Monitor Bad Backlinks
[Check Bad Backlinks] Identifying bad backlinks has become easier over the past few years, but for many in our industry it's still crudely implemented. Russ Jones shares a simple methodology using Link Explorer and Excel to do a comprehensive link audit.
The New Link Explorer is Here
Link Explorer may be in beta, but when it comes to your links, it's still a big deal. In this Whiteboard Friday, Rand transparently addresses many of the biggest complaints about OSE over the years and explains the vast improvements Link Explorer provides, from DA scores updated daily to historic link data to a huge index of almost 5 trillion URLs.
Efficient Link Reclamation: How to Speed Up & Scale Your Efforts
Link reclamation isn’t a new tactic, but this high-ROI activity is becoming more complex. Luckily, there are tool providers that can help optimize your efforts. In this post, learn which tools get the job done and how to apply them to speed up and scale your link reclamation.
Faster, Fresher, Better: Announcing Link Explorer, Moz's New Link Building Tool
We’ve rebuilt our link technology from the ground up and the data is now broadly available throughout Moz tools. It’s bigger, fresher, and much, much faster than our legacy link tech. And we’re just getting started! Learn what's new and take Link Explorer for a spin.
How Mobile-First Indexing Disrupts the Link Graph
Google is moving forward with its mobile-first index — how might it affect your site and the link graph as a whole? It turns out the mobile web is very different from the one we have come to know.
Where Clickbait, Linkbait, and Viral Content Fit in SEO Campaigns
For your clickbait and viral content efforts to bear fruit, they need to be done the right way and used in the right places. Rand discusses what kind of content investments make sense for this type of strategy and explains why it works in this week's Whiteboard Friday.
How to Face 3 Fundamental Challenges Standing Between SEOs and Clients/Bosses
SEO is more important in 2018 than it's ever been, but the biggest challenges SEOs face still revolve around getting clients and bosses to see its value. In this post, Serge Stefoglo shares methods to tackle three of the most-reported hurdles SEOs must jump to prove their worth.
How to Earn More Links and Social Shares: Insights From 759 Content Marketing Campaigns
What's the best way to earn links and social shares from content marketing? Your content should have an emotional hook, be surprising, and/or have broad appeal. There's also the matter of effective outreach. Learn what works from the results of 700+ content marketing campaigns.
Why It Can Pay to Get Links from Domains that Don't Always Rank Highly
Contrary to popular opinion, high ranking pages aren't always the best targets for link building. This Whiteboard Friday delves into the pros and cons of targeting top ranking sites for links, and why you should consider a link intersect strategy, targeting sites that rank for broader topics, and earning links from publications ranking beyond page 1 of the SERPs.
Link Strategies that Stand the Test of Time: A Tribute to Eric Ward (Link Moses)
In honor of the late SEO pioneer and our friend, Eric Ward, this episode of Whiteboard Friday covers the kinds of link strategies he worked so hard to teach.