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About Ryan Clark

I'm the CEO of Linkbuildr Marketing and the brains behind our branding and blog content. I specialize in effective marketing strategies for hotels, luxury brands and real estate. If your brand is in need of a boost then don't hesitate to contact me for a free proposal. Follow me on Google+: +Ryan Clark Twitter: @Linkbuildr on Twitter. You can also come ask me a question on our Facebook Page.

Link Building With Forum Signatures Part 1

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Ok so everyone talks about link building with their forum signatures, but I’d like to actually show everyone the effect these links have been having on some of my campaigns. I’m going to be offering my link building services on a lot of the webmaster forums that I’m on, so this would be a good time to put on a public campaign so everyone can see the results. I’ll be laying out which forums I’m on in the follow up post entitled “part 2”, and I’ll be using forums I’m only taking part in socially, and for business. When I get clients, and for myself, on forums I make sure they’re there to participate and not just spam around. I’m aware some of my tactics are walking the line, but someones gotta do it.

This is currently where I stand for some of the keywords I’ve been attacking. Since the blog is only a few months old, it is still been somewhat of a battle to climb to where I am now. I imagine it will be another few months to get top 10 for link building, but I’m thinking with this forum campaign we can make this move within the next week or two. I’m not looking to get top 10 just yet, but for 3 chosen keywords I’ll not be building any more backlinks for those anchor texts except for this signature experiment.

A lot of people put all the websites they can in there signature, I’ll be adding only 3 links all to Linkbuildr. As of right now I know I’ll be doing one to the main site, and two more links pointing to internal pages most likely my link building services and link building tips or podcast. I’ll be taking a normal role in the forums chatting and helping people out while offering link building services. Hopefully everyone will get a better and more clear view on how powerful signature links can be, especially from related forums.

Tagged Link Building, link building strategies, link building tips, link building with forum signatures

SEO Keyword Ranking Tool Review

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November 6 | Link Building Tools | Ryan Clark

Well I’ve got so many clients to track keywords for, most of which don’t have a blog so I cannot use the WordPress plugins that would make this part of the job easier. But thankfully a fellow Linkbuildr reader and now friend, Will Reinhardt, gave me access to his SEO Keyword Ranking tool. I asked if I could review it out of the kindness of my heart, so this in no way influenced by money what-so-ever(so f%$! off Google :).

This tool is for one thing and one thing only…tracking your position in the search engines. I’ve used a bunch of free tools, paid tools and doing it by hand but the simplicity of SEO Keyword Ranking takes the cake. The tool tracks all the major search engines and provides reports on a time schedule, depending on how you want it. The reports are handled two ways, one within your account and secondly, straight via email all packaged in a nice and easy to read report. This is great because I can send my clients the reports automatically without worrying about it, and if I ever need to review them they’re only a few clicks away.

So lets talk about the pricing. A lot of the other keyword rank tools out there cost quite a bit but you won’t have to worry about that here. William has included 3 different pricing structures, the first being 100% free and the ability to track 3 projects with 5 keywords per project. The standard package is only $9/month and allows you to track 10 projects with 50 keywords per project. The highest package available is only $24/month which tracks 20 projects and upto 200 keywords per project. I encourge you all to sign up for a free account and give it a whirl and then report back in the comments here.

Cons: These cons only effect you if you are using this for clients as well, and I can imagine would be a lot of you. First up I would like to see some sort of unlimited account option because I sometimes do work for 20 clients/projects a month and would quickly run out of space. Secondly I would REALLY like to see an option to send reports via email to my client as well, or just my client. This would allow me to sit back and not worry about sending reports…I’m kinda lazy sometimes! I doubled checked to make sure this feature wasn’t in there, and if it is and I missed it Will….I appologize.

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Tagged keyword tracking, keyword tracking tool, search engine ranking, seo keywork ranking, seo tools

Link Building Podcast Intro

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November 6 | Uncategorized | Ryan Clark

I’ve been mulling over how to do the link building podcast and I think I’m going to go about it over video instead of just audio. I don’t really like the idea of my mug all over the web, but it’s a great way to let you all get to know more that much more plus show things I cannot with audio. The format will be loose and I was thinking of doing it a few different ways. Mainly I’d like to go over a few posts I did in the week, and screencast my findings and link building so you folks can see what I’m seeing. I’d also like to do interviews and product reviews, but those could perhaps be audio only. So really I’m hoping some of you get back to me and let me know what you would like to see in the podcast, or how I should go about it!

Tagged Link Building, Link Building Podcast, podcast, video podcast, videocast

RSS Link Building With FeedBees Feed Directory

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November 5 | Link Building | Ryan Clark

I hope everyone had a good weekend. I’ve been mad busy with clients but here is an update to give you all that extra link love you’ve been dying for. FeedBees is a really cool, well laid out and designed RSS Feed Directory. The feed directory was started up early this year so it’s relatively new in regards to great link juice, but already has well over 40,000 pages indexed in Google. You can submit your feed absolutely free, and to get an idea of what you’ll get, take a look at someone’s feed page. I also wanted to mention they make use of Adsense for RSS so you can enjoy 100% of the ad revenue shown in your streams.

Tagged feedbees, rss, rss feed, rss feed directory, RSS Link Building, submit rss feed

Link Building In The Health & Fitness Niche

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November 2 | Link Building, Niche Link Building | Ryan Clark

Here’s another niche link building strategy guide that is similar to what I can put together for your company, or blog. I picked the health niche because it is so vast and this will make finding a lot of resources to write about much easier. If you would like to have me map out a custom link building and social media marketing campaign for your website feel free to contact me.

Although the healt and fitness niche’s are heavily competative, there are still a lot of new ways to market your product or site. These new methods should also bring in strong, healthy links from niche related social media sites, forums and more. We’ll first take a look at a few health directories that would be worth the time spent submitting. I usually don’t like wasting my time on these, but because it’s so competitive you don’t have much choice!

Health & Fitness Web Directories:

PR7 [email protected] – Submit Site

PR4 [email protected] – Submit Site

PR3 [email protected] – Submit Site

PR3 FitnessDirectory.org – Submit Site

PR3 The-Fitness-Directory.com – Submit Site

PR2 Directoryfitness.com – Submit Site

PR2 Directorymed.com – Submit Site

Health & Fitness Forums:

Most of these sites are good for do follow signatures, but please don’t spam these forums. Take part and get involved in your community.

PR5 + 1.2 Million Members Body Building Forum – Join Forum

PR5 HealthBoards.com – Join Forum

PR4 Shapefit Forums – Join Forum

PR4 ClutchFitness.com – Join Forum

PR4 HealthCastle.com – Join Forum

PR2 AthleticRunner.com – Join Forum

Health & Fitness Social Bookmarking:

Don’t forget to submit to the usual Digg/Mixx/Mr Wong/Reddit/Propeller because they all have health directories. Here are a few obscure health and fitness social bookmarking sites.

PR5 Healthranker.com – Submit Links

PR4 Contentpop.com – Submit Links

PR2 KieFit.com – Submit Links

PR0 Joose.us – Submit Links

Web 2.0 Sites & Social Networking:

Most of these communities have blogs, forums and bookmarks all combined into one. If you search around enough you’ll see there are plenty of ways to get do follow links from these sites.

PR5 Traineo.com – Join Community

PR5 PeerTrainer.com – Join Community

PR4 Fitfriend.com – Join Community

PR4 Fitlink.com – Join Community

PR4 ExtraPounds.com – Join Community

PR4 MyFitTribe.com – Join Community

PR3 FitResolution.com – Join Community

PR2 Fitspot.com *BETA* – Join Community

So this is just a small taste of what’s out there and hopefully it provides with you new marketing avenues to play with. I didn’t even get into do follow blogs for this niche and all the other social networks out there. Dig deeper into your niche and hopefully you market ethically and come out on top in the end.

Tagged diet niche, fitness niche, health niche, Link Building, Niche Link Building

Obama & McCain Compared Digitally

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November 2 | Link Building | Ryan Clark

As we all should be aware of as link builders and Internet marketers is to watch other sites succeeding online in regards to getting their image/message out there. Since Barack Obama has been on the campaign trail he has employed some very crafty online marketers, and if you divulge into his online strategy, you’ll see just how viral someone can go.

The way this election has been going, especially in the last week, it seems that Barack has a good lead out on McCain both in the polls and on the web. I wanted to take a quick look at both their websites to see if it will “predict”(used loosely) the outcome of the election.

First let’s take a looksy with Yahoo’s site explorer to determine the number of backlinks for both domains, both candidates use for social media, Google Trends and finally Alexa. From what I’ve seen by using only these few tools is that Barack Obama has clearly put the Internet to good use over his opponent.

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So we can start to see that Barack has a lead over McCain when it comes to the number of backlinks, and I think we can all agree that more than 60% of these links are obtained through viral means, mostly within blog entries. Obviously there never has been an election covered as much online and this has. I highly recommend you all take a look at the links they’ve obtained just for educational purposes, but don’t bother goin through a million of them! Next lets take a look at Google Trends because from this first bit of evidence, we should see that Barack Obama is leading the pack in terms of search queries;

Ok so no surprise there. The younger generation has been behind Barack which is another good reason why he has such a larger web presence. Next we can take a look at Alexa comparing both candidates domains to see who has been getting more traffic. Now I’m aware Alexa isn’t the worlds greatest traffic meter, but it should be good enough for our little experiment;

Again that’s no surprise to me…If you go take a look at Youtube, both candidates have made use of this free video sharing website. John McCain has 28,217 channel subscribers, and has 2,015,088 channel views. Barack Obama has 113,659 channel subscribers, and a whopping 18,330,318 channel views. Barack leads out with roughly more than 16 million voters he’s had a chance to convince, and all from a free service.

I hope all of you folks go out and vote for whoever that may be. Up north here in Canada we’ve been watching your election process closely, and I can think of only one thing to safely say on behalf of Canada. At least you folks can finally all agree that a certain president that has been in house for the last 8 years isn’t working out any more.

Tagged alexa, barack obama, google trends, john mccain, Link Building, presidential candidates, social marketing, social media, usa, youtube

Link Building For Your Web 2.0 App

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October 29 | Link Building | Ryan Clark

With all the crazy web 2.0 sites coming out these days, and yes the ones I’m finding to link build with, it gave me the idea to write this post. If you have your own web 2.0 app to promote you have many options which luckily will bring in some very juicy links! I’m currently helping a client promote his web 2.0 site and found an abundance of resources to get your site listed. Some things to keep in mind here are the quality and uniqueness of your web 2.0 site because a lot of these places I’m going to list have a strict quality control.

First up is the famous and most notable Mashable. This is the news spot for the web 2.0 world and luckily for you they take suggestions on sites to write about. Mashable is a blog that has a press release feel to the site. So go ahead and submit your site, and if you’re lucky enough you’ll get a nice writeup with do follow links to your site…along with an assload of traffic and exposure!

Next up is my favorite web 2.0 site, Feed My App. This great site is a web directory for web 2.0 sites you can submit your site absolutely free! If your site gets approved you’ll get added to the directory as well get a nice little write up better describing your site to their readers. This site has been growing quickly and is without a doubt a great place to get listed in.

Next up is another big web 2.0 directory that has been kicking it since 2006! Go2Web20 is one of the largest web 2.0 resource sites on the web today. The look and feel of the site is completely fresh and the directory is a visual browsing experience. It makes me never want to see another link directory again in my life! You can submit your site to get reviewed and if you’re lucky, your web 2.0 app will get sprung into the site.

Listio is another up and coming big hitter in the web 2.0 world and lists so many apps it makes my little head spin. Not only do they have a directory of sites, but they also review web 2.0 apps indepth which brings a little more juice to your links as well attracts way more potential users. I highly recommend you get your ass in gear and submit your site.

All Things Web 2.0 is another PR5 web directory that seems like total chaos upon viewing but is very worth the time trying to get in there. The sites looks to be built on Joomla, so that might explain the crazy design. Some of the extra features include most popular and best voted apps, so if you got something good you can potentially get some extra exposure. You can go ahead and submit your site here.

Ziipa is a great web 2.0 directory that usually will list your site within a few hours as well giving you a nice do follow link(as long as you anchor text it properly). The site is not too old but the way it’s layed out and marketed, it seems it will stand the test of time. I got not much else to write about, the site is pretty straight forward and just showcases your web 2.0 site in a beautiful way. Easily submit your site here.

NetWebApp is another newish web 2.0 directory that is quick to index your site and put it on display. It looks like it’s built from the same script as Feedmyapp and has all the same features. It is also getting a decent amount of traffic so it is very much worth the time submitting your site. The site already has a PR2 and is updated on a daily basis, or depending on how many submissions they got that day.

W2 Directory is another newish directory for web 2.0 sites only and it requires registration before submitting. The site itself has a lot going on such as a full featured search, profiles, news and a whole lot more. You can submit your site for free and reap the benefits of some traffic and exposure. I added my clients site a couple of hours ago and was listed within minutes of following the instructions in the email you get once you sign up.

That wraps up this post until a few more sites come out, and you know they will. This should be enough to get you started and be a big help obtaining new users to your web 2.0 app. If you want to list your site, or know of one, feel free to drop it in the comments and I will be sure to blog about it. You can also contact me and make me write about your web 2.0 app site.

Tagged Link Building, web 2.0, web 2.0 apps, web 2.0 directories, web2

Press Release Link Building With PRWeb.com

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October 29 | Link Building, Link Building Tools | Ryan Clark

I’m sure most of you folks have heard about, and even used PRWeb.com’s press release distribution services. Using a press release to get the word out has long been an effective way of marketing your brand or product, and even more so it’s a great way to get some very powerful links. I’m currently writing a post entirely dedicated to free press release sites, so I thought I would get this out of the way first.

I always recommend to my clients to get the 200 dollar package they offer because it covers all your basis such as SEO friendly links and distribution to all the places that matter. You will get some kick ass links from places such as Google News and Yahoo News plust a whole host of authorative sites. Another thing to think about are the sites that scrape and use for news to blog about which can bring in a whole other set of links you wouldn’t have otherwise expected. All in all if you want an effective link building campaign this is really not to be overlooked! Let’s take a look at all the various packages PRWeb has to offer.