Happy New Year, everyone!
I know my lack of blogging is starting to really show, but January has kicked off majorly and work just doesn’t seem to stop.
The next few months won’t be boring that’s for sure. And hence I need more staff for the Edinburgh office. So if you know anyone looking for a junior SEO job or Link Marketer role, please pass them my way.
For more info on current openings, please check out our SEO jobs section.
Summer´s finally arrived here in Barcelona and therefore my time spent in front of a laptop reading my feeds is diminishing by the day!
In my post from March 2009 Link building advice from 11 Experts, some real experienced professionals gave great advice on how to best gain links.
But I just stumbled across this interesting post on Keeping track of links with link building tools & spreadsheets. Anyone who ever done link building knows how important it is to keep track of URLs, anchor text, dates etc. Especially keeping track of all data is paramount during link building campaigns, when more than 1 person is working on gaining links.
The 3 link building worksheets & guidelines mentioned are as follows:
Additionally in the comments of Ann Smartey´s post are a couple of link building tools listed, which some of you may find helpful.
And here are a couple I would like to add to the mix:
For anyone pretty new to SEO and link building, this should give you a good overview of what’s available to ease some of the link building tasks for you. I am sure there are many more tools out there, feel free to share them with us!
It’s always interesting to see what experts say about link building. I guess everyone has their own take on that. In December 2007, I shared some insights from gurus on link value factors.
Just a couple of weeks ago, I read Sugarrae’s interview: 11 Experts on Link Development speak out. It’s a really interesting read and covers the insights on link building resources and tips of the following whizz kids in the SEO world.
I like Rae’s idea to get each person to chip in a link building question, which is then in turn is answered by everyone. Nice idea!
As I am planning on having a series of interviews coming up, I may “borrow” this format!
For experienced SEOs it’s common knowledge that link building is crucial to give a website the necessary boost in order to perform well on search engines.
During many SEO projects I’ve been seeking new and innovative forms of link bait and built links in order to achieve for a myriad of search terms my clients wish to perform on search engines.
It is also a fact that there are really no two links that are indeed the same. Therefore Wiep Knol decided to ask about 17 well known and respected SEOs to gives us their input on link value factors. This article is really interesting and outlines about 40 link factors and their importance.
The importance of each link has been rated as follows:
There is also a section on so called “dampening effects” of links that perhaps lower the strength of a link.
These factors were also rated as follows:
It’s about time we had a full “bible” on link value factors.
Read it! It’s an eye opener!!