Link Baiting

Value Of A Link: A Hierarchy Of Links In Order of Value

value of a linkThe opinions in this post are my own and based on my own experience.

There are a lot of opinions and arguments about the quality vs quantity in the SEO world and the thing that keeps coming up again and again is Link Quality. But frustratingly enough, everyone’s definition of quality varies. We keep pushing for High Quality links but what ARE they? Where can we find them? How do we get them?

10 Image Bookmarking Sites As Part of Linkbuilding

we heart itA Brief History of Social Bookmarking

Hi! Its me again! I’m back with more social media goodness to share. This time round, I’m touching on the brief history of social bookmarking and the advent of the image bookmarking phenomenon, PLUS a list of 10 image bookmarking sites (and 2 more!) and the seo benefits of image bookmarking. Bargain!

UPDATE 17th May: Rand fishkin at SMX London has just confirmed that image ALT tags weigh more than H1 tags.

Eric Ward Guest Post - Identifying Trust Link Targets

A couple of the more widely used terms in SEO circles are “high trust links”, aka “trusted links”, and “authority links”. As often as these terms are used and written about, you’d think there would be agreement as to what the terms actually mean. That said, I dare you to find a consensus or “universal definition” for any of them.

Google and the Circle of SEO

Google is laughing at us.

They have developed SEO from the cheap alternative way to promote your business into a fully integrated follower of the long-standing traditional rules of business. And a lot of people don’t seem to have noticed.

Niche Specific Content

Recently we have been focussing heavily upon the importance of content on your website. It is always useful to bear in mind that the search engines can only read text so even if your website has relevant pictures, logos and colour schemes, whilst they may be pleasing to the eye they will do nothing to aid your search engine rankings. Alt tags can show the search engines what keywords your pictures are relevant for, however, paragraphs of text are paramount for the success of your website on the search engines. We have already seen how to write content for your site in a recent post but here I shall focus on the importance of nice specific content.