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Training someone who doesn't know anything about SEO to link build, can be very challenging even for someone who is quite advanced in the industry. You have to know how to dumb things down, while still giving adequate information. You also need to make sure you don't overwhelm the person you are training. I've taken several approaches to this in the past and I wanted to go through a step-by-step of what works for me.
Guest blogging is a great way to build relevant links to your website from authoritative websites within your niche. Bloggers are always in need of content, and many will jump on an opportunity to add great content to their blog that their readers will enjoy. The most difficult part of using guest blogging as a link development strategy is the very first step - identifying guest post opportunities. From the head-smackingly simple to some lesser-known gems, below is a breakdown of the best strategies to find these opportunities.
Since Rand discussed a scammy link building tactics last week, he decided to tackle a good method that anyone can do. This week Rand has 8 tips on how you can build links using Twitter, yes Twitter! Rand discusses what methods he sees generating links and how you can use them. We'd also love to hear how you are using Twitter to generate links and what you see the future of linking building on Twitter will be.
Howdy Mozzers, I've been spending a couple of weeks this summer in the Distilled office looking at the way they do linkbait in order to write up a guide on it. Whilst researching and reading around what people had posted before, it became clear there were a handful of problems which kept cropping up why people were failing at linkbait. In this post, I hope to address some of the...
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Link bait title? Perhaps. Yet, after much thought, research and consideration of our day to day client processes, we've come to the realization of a simple fact: SEO marketing really is dead. It's been in the death throes for a while and optimizers have just been too busy to see it.
While link bait is frequently seen as more "fun", and it's definitely more creative, than doing things like guest blogging or or emailing people asking for links, it has its challenges. I wanted to share a few things I've learned about creating link bait from my experiences.
There is a ton of talk right now about Panda recovery. SEOmoz is no exception to this: questions in Q&A, webmasters cleaning up their content, and so much more. Webmasters are taking control of their sites, building some awesome original content, and ensuring that content can be found by letting users (and bots) know about it.
Step-by-Step Instructions for Non-Branded Custom Segmentation in the new Multi-Channel Funnels Section Multi Channel attribution is amazing, to say the least. In the immortal words of Avinash Kaushik, “You will have an orgasm!” If you weren’t there for Mozcon, I’m sorry. Don’t let it happen again, but yo...
I often wonder how the life of an SEO consultant would have been if there was no Google Analytics. I mean, sure in that case a lot of paid tools like Omniture, Webtrends, etc. would have dominated the analytics segment of the online world,...
Global mobile subscriptions are expected to top six billion this year, which is especially remarkable given that there are only seven billion people on Earth! These mobile enabled individuals have incorporated their devices into every aspect of their lives, including purchasing.
RegEx is not necessarily as complicated as it first seems. What looks like an assorted mess of random characters can be over facing, but in reality it only takes a little reading to be able to use some basic Regular Expressions in your day to day work.
I find link prospecting to be one of the most time-consuming and challenging parts of link building. In order to build and maintain a natural link profile for your website, your prospecting activity needs to cover a wide range of opportunities and generate the right targets and leads for your project/campaign. So prospecting is usually pretty easy to start off with - run a few Google searches a...
Article marketing is mostly a scam. Well, wait... some types of article marketing are really scammy. Guest blogging, legitimate article sharing, and similar tactics are great and sustainable linkbuilding practices, but making up terrible article content and passing it off as something people should read or link to is both bad for users and bad for long-term SEO. This week, Rand d...
Keyword research is an all too often under-appreciated aspect of SEO. I've written a few keyword research posts here on Moz and that's because I believe it to be the blueprint of any successful SEO campaign...