Posts Tagged ‘Link Building’

Blueclaw Media Ltd Appoints Gary Beal as Head of Search to Expand Their Globally Top-Rated SEO Offering

Published: April 21st, 2011

Blueclaw, an award winning Leeds based SEO and Internet marketing agency has appointed Gary Beal, former MD of Vanguard SEO, to enhance their existing team and expertise within the search engine optimisation industry.

Gary, who has been in the SEO field for over 15 years, will become the Head of Search for Blueclaw Media. He attended Ohio State University in the US and holds a Masters Degree in Biometrics and Mathematical Statistics. He is also a regular speaker on the conference circuit, sharing his SEO tips and SEO theories with the online community.

Blueclaw works with businesses across the globe, some of which include the tougher sectors such as Gaming, Affiliates, Travel, Finance and Ecommerce. From ambitious SME’s to FTSE companies, Blueclaw’s portfolio includes the top names in each industry.

Gary is known best for his free 1-to-1 sessions at events and his non-commercial, plain talk delivery. Gary is also known as GaryTheScubaGuy and has published many well researched and informative guides. His Top 12 SEO Tips are pure tips anyone can implement (novice to Pro) and he will be presenting his latest tips, including optimisation after the Panda effect at a number of conferences over the next few months.

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Tinyurl Now Counted As Legitimate Links

Published: February 2nd, 2011

tinyurl backlinksThat screenshot above is the screenshot of a competitor’s backlink profile that I was checking out during my analysis today. See those links in green – that’s right TinyURL links, recognized as backlinks.

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Slow and steady wins the link building race…

Published: January 31st, 2011

When deciphering 2011’s new phase in taxonomy treats towards your website it is important to remember a few key points.

Be sure to consider the relevancy of your backlinks in alignment with your choice in Search Engine.

Take into consideration the level of backlink exposure your verticals competition is manipulating.

Seek cross channel taxonomy; niches within niches to define core sub-user sets where your link-baits may perpetuate forward.

Consider your acquisition rates and allow the search engines enough time to correlate cached data effectively.

Have fun and get creative with content, compelling content can go 100 times further than drivel for the sake of article or blog – try to add value to the web through your content, this will assist your link building tenfold and is increasingly ‘hard’ for search engine to penalise.

Lastly, stop reading this and begin link building today – a link builder must be proactive, contacting and contacting websites until the cat is out the bag and first place is delivered…

Follow these simple methods and you will see more bang from your link building buck, however it is worth noting that bad or poor, even spammy link building can set you back 5 years in the SERPs, thus seek the assistance of the professionals such as the link building service and team here at Blueclaw, our competitive link building campaigns deliver positions and add to your online brand presence.

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SEO Spyglass Review

Published: July 15th, 2010

If you are serious about ranking high within the search engine result pages and are serious about SEO then you will know that obtaining high authority, quality links from related website is one of the main factors in increasing ranking position.

Links can be achieved through a number of methods. Sourcing high authority blogs with link bait ideas, paid directories (yahoo directory) which offer instant boosts for a fee or article marketing and free directory submissions.

Working within a success SEO company, we are constantly challenge by our clients to ‘beat’ the competition. I am sure the competition are saying the same thing! Regardless, one of the main principles of SEO is ranking high within the serp’s for the keywords chosen by the clients. Achieving this requires back links and where better to start than analysing the back links of your nearest and dearest competitors? Gaining the knowledge of how your competitors rank high for a competitive keyword is a crucial aspect of successful SEO. Once you understand these links you are able to emulate their most valuable links aligned with your own strategy to move ahead in the search result pages.

There are many tools which you can use to analyse competitor back links. The SEO moz open site explorer is a fantastic tool for link popularity and backlink analysis. Alternatively you can explore competitor back links through Yahoo site explorer. Principally these tools are great in sourcing competitor back links but a personal favourite of mine is SEO Spyglass produced by Link Assistant.

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10 Killer Link Building Tools

Published: April 24th, 2010

At Blueclaw we use many SEO tools to acquire the best links for our clients – Here’s our top 10 link building tools.

Link Insight

Link Insight by Adgooroo – Various tools to find and monitor high quality links, thoroughly recommended!

Open Site Explorer

Open Site Explorer by SEOMOZ – Allows you to download CSV files and build up your link targets. Free to use, paid subscription if you wish to use the advanced options.

Compare Domain Backlink History

Compare Domain Backlink History by Majestic SEO – Compare competitor backlink activity then dig deeper to find those juicy links! Free to use, paid subscription if you wish to use the advanced options.

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