Tag: backlinks

How do I remove spammy links from my site?

I hear this question now more than ever before.  The reason why?   Since the beginning of the year, hundreds of thousands of webmasters (heck, maybe even millions) have received a warning similar to this:  Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links to http://example.com/ Dear site owner or webmaster of http://example.com/, We’ve detected that some of your site’s pages…

A variety of noFollow / doFollow backlinks is key

I just saw a very interesting video post on SEOmoz: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/correlation-data-for-seo-and-social-media-analysis-part-2-whiteboard-friday One of the things we did when we saw no-follow links having a really high correlation was we went, well that’s just weird. Maybe what’s going on here is that no-follow links and followed links have a high correlation with each other, and in fact, they do. If you…

One Hour Backlinks is WINNING

A recent link building service I’ve tried and wholeheartedly recommend is One Hour Backlinks.  The dude who created Linklicious launched this creative site that makes it super simple and super quick to blast your sites with backlinks.  I’m a big fan not only of the ease-of-use of the site but its pleasing design.  It’s rare to find an internet marketing…

The impact of the latest Google Caffeine changes

On June 8, 2010, Google officially completed development of its new “Caffeine” indexing algorithm.  Many marketers were left wondering, “How does this impact me?”  Well, I’ve done a fair bit of research and here’s what I’ve come up with… 50% fresher results – Google actually says “Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and…

SocialAdr – New Social Bookmarking Services Community

For the last couple months I’ve been working on this new Web 2.0 social bookmarking services community. What is it all about? Rather than submitting merely your own bookmarks to the many services available (like Digg, BlinkList, Delicious, etc.), members submit each others’ bookmarks This makes it less likely that you’ll be considered a “spammer” for constantly promoting only your…

Fresh content versus quality backlinks

Lately I’ve been wondering what Google favors more – fresh, unique content or quality (PR 4 or higher) backlinks. There’s oceans of people that are on either side of the argument.  Some say it’s best to have lots of one-way backlinks from respected, authority sites.  Others say it’s best to be constantly adding new, unique content. Personally I think both…

SocialMarker – A free social bookmarking tool

SocialMarker is a free tool that I use fairly often.  It makes it a heck of a lot easier to submit my sites to social bookmarking services, than if I was to do it manually. After my negative review of SocialBot yesterday I figured I should discuss what I do find useful for social bookmarking. So why do I use…

Free Directory Submitter App

This is what I use for submitting my sites to website directories.  I know there’s a debate about how useful “directories” are for improving search engine ranking, but it’s hard to argue with the benefits of getting a bunch of 1-way backlinks for free. Some people complain that directories are a waste of time because “they’re sooooo 1999” (ie. Web…