Link Building

8 Ways to Build Links When Guest Blogging isn't Possible. Guest blogging is a great strategy for many businesses, but it isn’t for everyone.

There are some niches that are hard to write for, or the market for guest blogs just isn’t available. Fortunately, there are other link building strategies that can help you drive traffic to your website. These strategies focus on not only getting inbound links, but also promoting your business and building the credibility of your brand, products, and services. 1. Repurpose Existing Content If you’re like many other companies, you may already have a wealth of content available on your website; you can leverage it to attract inbound links. Next, repurpose your content. Once you’ve got a plan for how to repurpose your content via other media types, begin to syndicate it through appropriate channels. 2.

While most social media links are nofollow, it still helps to promote your content via Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Google+, and more. 3. 4. Awe-inspiringFunnyStunningCuteHappyUseful 5. 6. 7. Best Sources for Local Citations by City (U.S.) Best Sources for Local Citations by Category (U.S.) How Blog Commenting Can Still Be a Healthy Part of Your Post-Penguin SEO Strategy [Case Study] - YouMoz. One of my daily tasks is to find, visit and sometimes write comments on blogs that are related to the two different companies for which I do in-house SEO.

Now, I am not talking about using some cheezy interface that serves up blogs and tells me how many words I need to write and then takes my keywords and turns them into anchor text and leaves them as the comment author's name (ahem, Linkvana anyone?). That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about real, thoughtful, relevant, well-written comments that actually have some value to the readers of that blog. Sometimes, I don't have anything good to say, so I don't write anything. But if it's a good thread, and I get inspired, I write a comment. As I am doing this, there are two things I really don't care about: 1. 2. Using this method, here is a real life example of how effective this can be. On October 8th I found a blog post written specifically about the core product of a niche site I do SEO on for a larger company. Using Twitter for Link Relationships - Whiteboard Friday.

A List Of Local Citation Websites That Doesn't Suck. Local SEO has a special place in our history.

Many years ago (in 2011) Bryant and Aaron won an international SEO competition doing local SEO. You can read about that victory here. Over the past few years, we have enjoyed learning and testing every aspect of local SEO that we could get our hands on. We have gathered valuable insight from industry standards like David Mihm, and Andrew Shotland. Our experience in local search has helped nation-wide companies grow their sales and it has helped local companies out-perform their larger and more established competitors. Here is a long, long list of local citation websites. Are you new to local SEO? I will show you an example NAP (and consonantally give some nap-luv to a client). Kern Carpet Cleaning The Most Trusted Carpet Cleaner In Bakersfield, Ca. (661) 331-6000 3001 Joshua Ct, Bakersfield, CA 93301 9am – 5pmwww.kerncarpetcleaning.com. Aligning SEO Strategy & Social Media Activity to Build Links.

One of the most underappreciated aspects of SEO is the necessary alignment of SEO strategy with social media activity.

If SEO and social media teams work in silos and don't communicate nearly enough, they can't form a well-coordinated, comprehensive marketing plan. Therefore, it's extremely important that SEO is integrated into social media activity. What follows are some specific tactics that can be used to increase the impact that your social media activities have on SEO performance. Using Social Media for Link Development It's no secret that social media has become increasingly important from an SEO standpoint as the engines have incorporated social signals (e.g., likes, shares, views, etc.) into their ranking algorithm. The 3 Link Building Tools I Always Use (And How I use Them) Link Spiel - Link Marketing tips and talk from Debra Mastaler. Enterprise Link Building Strategies - MORCon 2012. Using Evergreen Content to Improve Business Sales and Marketing. Content marketing is a marketing practice that has been recently embraced by a lot of online marketers, especially people in the SEO industry.

Although the principle has existed for decades, continual changes in the online marketing landscape have substantiated the immense weight that Content Marketing can contribute to today’s businesses. Given that it allows small to large brands to be more competitive in their respective industries and this channel enables them to empower both sales and marketing efforts. Infographic via Junta42 Now that you have a brief background of what content marketing is, let’s head on to the one approach in content marketing that can extremely grow your business in so many ways - pushing out evergreen content on a massive scale. Why? Link Building in 2012: Scalable Link Building. There are tons of things happening and changing in the link building game since the start of the year, from the finer value being given to social signals, changes in the search results (primarily with Search plus your World and continuous roll out of different versions of Panda update), expected demise of link networks, to the improvements made by Google in interpreting the use of anchor texts to determine relevance.

Most of these changes clearly denote that we all have to adapt and evolve as well with how we market, brand and make our websites more visible through link building. Ethical link acquisition has grown more significant, especially nowadays, wherein the practice’s results affect and encompass other areas of online marketing if done in large scale and targeted approach, such as: Referring click-through visitorsBuilding brand signalsKeeping the site regularly crawled and indexed by search enginesImproving search rankingsLead generation.