Link Building

Link Building With Guest Blog Posting

2 Comments
September 2  |  Link Building  |   Ryan Clark

We all have been seeing more and more guest blog posting happening in the blogosphere, especially within the SEO/SEM industry. I’ve been asked to write a few guest blog posts and it got me thinking…how can I get more? Guest blog posts are great because it provides a fresh style of content on the users blog, as well it allows you to get links within content you don’t have to pay for..so no google slap. There are a few ways to go about finding blogs to guest post on so lets take a look at a few, and hopefully it will get you thinking about how to find new ways.

First up is the most obvious and that is to make a list of all the respected blogs within your niche and personally contact them by phone or email. If you were to get a request from another blogger to write on your site, how would you feel? Personally I’d welcome it because it never hurts to have someone do your work for you. You could spend that day off building links or working on that other slacked on project that’s collecting dust. Even though you’re allowing someone else to input links back to their site, at least it’s within your niche which won’t hurt you as much if they were writing about something off topic. I also like to think the person writing the guest post is going to bring something interesting to the table, so you could potentially have some content that will go viral.

Secondly we can use good old Google to rely on to find us some great blogs to apply to. I’m sure most of my readers here are familiar with Google commands and can hack their way around with little or no problems. This opens up a whole bunch of possibilites in finding blogs to post on, it is as easy as just searching for things like “write a guest blog post” or “guest blogger“. You can even get more specific by using Google’s inrul command to try and narrow it down by niche. Even though this method is still not that popular, you should be able to find a few places to write for within your niche.

Lastly I’ve setup a section for exchanging blog posts on the Link Building Forums which has yet to take off so sign up! I’m hoping to make it the place that bloggers can use to find all sorts of blogs to exchange with. Places like Bumpzee and BlogCatalog are also great places to find bloggers within your niche who are always up for guest blogging. I’ve found a majority of my guest bloggers on Bumpzee mainly because people are hungry to write. After I’ve posted about it on those two sites I’ve received numorous requests from other bloggers who’ve written a bunch of my conent for free!

Tagged , , ,

This Week In Link Building September 02

7 Comments
September 2  |  TWiLB  |   Ryan Clark

Hey everyone and welcome to the 3rd installment of This Week In Link Building. I’ve been busy preparing for a move so my posts we’re down by a couple of days, but I still have a whole whack of good information to go into this weeks post. As you may have noticed I changed the design a little, so it may not look the best but it is nicer on the eyes. I’m back full time for the next two weeks so keep coming back and giving your comments/flames/thanks within my comments because I love to hear what you folks think.

I’ve been having a good productive day so far and the night is continueing on. I’ve been snooping around for a new place to build some links and low and behold here came Bemba, the social sharing network. Bemba is a pr4 do follow social media site that covers the basics such as videos, pictures and blogs. Another pretty cool feature of the site is its statistics which gives you direct and continuous feedback on your bookmarks. Read the post Link Building With Bemba.

I’ve been trying to find another way to build links that will come off as reputable links and it led me to resume websites. There have been quite a few web 2.0 resume creating/posting sites coming out as well, if you dig deep, there are a ton of old and authorative resume sites. The beauty about link building this way is that you can also sharpen your resume writing skills, and even perhaps snag a few jobs within your industry. Some of the web 2.0 based resume sites have built in wizards to create your online wizard in a snap, which usually includes a place for a backlink. Read the blost post Link Building With Your Resume.

I was scouring Youtube for link building videos, and while having a good chuckle at some, there was a pretty good video series from the folks at Themematic. A lot of people have blogged and discussed methods of using social media websites such as Squidoo, Hubpages(etc etc etc) for the purpose of providing quality one-way links to your main websites. There’s almost no need to exchange links anymore with websites because there are so many one-way link building options out there, why bother? Read the post One Way Link Building Strategies.

Mugshot is an open source social platform sponsored by Red Hat which allows users to compile an online portfolio of themselves from their online social media sites. So basically it lets you build a page filled with content streamed in from your Youtube acount, Flickr account, Delicious bookmarks, blogs and so much more.You can get do follow links from your profile page and join/create groups to promote whatever you like. Read the post Link Building With Mugshot.

As you all I’m sure are aware of of the open source social bookmarking CMS called Scuttle. Well it isn’t anything too special except for the fact it happens to be one of the most popular scripts chosen on many many many niche based social bookmarking clones. Within the past year there also has been a launch of ScuttlePlus which is an improved version of Scuttle with a few more features such as do follow, administrator panel and advertising control. Read Link Building With Scuttle.

AideRSS is a really slick interface that parses your favorite feeds by its own rating system called the PostRank. This system takes in many variables of the blog post such as amount of comments, rating and inbound links to the post to determine which ones you should most likely be reading. I’ve been using the software for a while now out of pure personal enjoyment, so take your time and check the site out. This site is put together by a cool group of people that really take an interest in the site so please don’t abuse the services they provide. Read Link Building & RSS Promotion With Aide RSS.

When it comes to directory submission I usually don’t do it by the masses, but when I need to I can always rely on SubmitEaze. Version 8 has just been launched and there is no secret about this program, it just works like it should and can get very profitable if used properly. I think we can all agree how much submitting to directories sucks the big one, so any sort of automation is good in my books. Read SubmitEaze Version 8 Launches.

Listable is a social and do follow list creation tool for online lists. As most of you know it was first blogged about by Collin in his Link Building Cookbook, so I take no credit for this discovery. So basically you can create lists which can become great do follow backlinks which can be voted on and ranked socially to help make your list as accurate as possible. Read Link Building With Listable.

I’ve been compiling a very large list of forums that are do follow and have a section for website reviews which are a great way to get some some feedback as well snag some juicy links(ooo sexy links). Most of my readers are aware of the sections that Digital Point and V7N provide for website reviews, so I’ve hunted down a lot more for your personal link building enjoyment. Read Link Building With Website Reviews On Forums.

To no one’s surprise, Ann Smarty has once again written a friggin great article on link building entitled 6 Ways To Build Links With Your Graphic Design Skills. I’ve one of these techniques for a bunch of different clients and she just opened my world to a whole bunch more. Ann always writes quality articles with new information so I’d get her feeds into your reader!

Andy Boyd of Setfire Media has written a must read article on How To Build Links To Linkbaits That Don’t Go Viral. He touches on so many different methods on how to still make you or your clients linkbait be worth its while. This is a great article because with all the people trying to get their content seen, it’s getting harder and harder to pop that viral bubble.

The fine folks over at SMM Guru have put together a mammoth list of do follow blogs ranked by PR…how mammoth you say? About 1114 blog posts that do follow. Again I’ll pipe up with please only comment if you’re writing something related and good, because we all know these blogs are about to get spammed the f&*! out!

That’s it for this week so I urge everyone to send me their links to be included in next weeks post. You can reach me on Wicked Fire or by hitting me up on my contact page. I’m going to be quickly writing a couple more great posts right after this so stay tuned!

Tagged , , , , ,

Link Building Links To Keep You Going For Today

1 Comments
August 29  |  News  |   Ryan Clark

I’ve been quite busy in the last couple of days sorting out my move and hacking up my theme behind the scenes. I’ve got another post coming which I might get out later tonight…depending on how my girlfriend feels about that. I’ve managed to set a video interview with one of my favorite startups which happens to be local and growing like wildfire. Info Barrel is a new revenue sharing content site that is based out of Vancouver and they’re going to let me harass them for a day on video. I’ll be putting together the episode as my first Link Building Podast although I didn’t plan it to be video based, so I think most of them will still be audio.

I need to get the Link Building Forums promoted better, which is part of the reason I’m hacking up the theme. Another big part of the theme hacking is to help monetize the site in a way that doesn’t clutter the readers eyes with ads. I want to get all my link building services offered and presented in a way that is pleasing to the eye, and in a spot that still will help pay the bills. I’ve stopped a lot of my affiliate marketing efforts for now to give this site a huge focus.

Angela Moore is now bored that the Olympics are over but it has sparked her creative brain to come up with the Link Development Decathlon. The idea is a competative link building competition where we’d compete for rankings scored around a tight ratings system.

1) Research Steeple Chase – Every link builder worth their paycheck knows that finding good links requires a ton of research. This event involves jumping hurdles of low quality sites and slogging through the mess to find the coveted high-quality, relevant sites. Points are given for each site found in one hour; deductions are made for sites that have low quality factors such as hidden text, link farms, and irrelevant content.

Jazial Crossley has written a cool, short and to the point article entitled The Lowdown On Deep Linking. What I really liked about this article was the fact that a case study was brought into backing up the facts, and not just rehashed information we all know already. I will be the first to admit I need to work on my deep linking game.

If anyone wants to write a guest post while I’m down and out for the next couple of days get in touch with me, and I’ll be glad to review what you’d like to write on. And one last thing before I bust out to get back to PHP code and Photoshop, the owner of Digital Point is in some hot water over cookie stuffing although it could be a wicked link bait experiment.

Tagged , , ,

Link Building With Website Reviews On Forums

4 Comments
August 27  |  Link Building  |   Ryan Clark

I’ve been compiling a very large list of forums that are do follow and have a section for website reviews which are a great way to get some some feedback as well snag some juicy links(ooo sexy links). Most of my readers are aware of the sections that Digital Point and V7N provide for website reviews, so I’ve hunted down a lot more for your personal link building enjoyment.

First up is the forum that everyone loves to hate(well mostly), Digital Point Forums. DPF has been a home to me for a couple of years only due to the giant user base which provides a great place to promote my articles, waste time and occasionally learn something. They do however provide a great place to get your websites reviewed by the fine folks at DPF. To get your review you have to sign up and then head on over to the Digital Point Website Review section.

V7N is another huge webmaster community with a lot of down to earth people who will give your website an honest review. I really like V7N mainly because the level of professionalism there even though the forum is filled with noobs. Not only will you get a decent review but the amount of people that look at the threads in the section should also bring in a decent amount of traffic for the first day or two. Get off your ass and head on over to get your website reviewed at V7N.

The High Rankings Forum has a really large and active community and you must have at least 20 posts before you can request a website review. Now if you mosey on over and look at their website review section, you’ll notice they get a staggering amount of views, so the potential for traffic is great! These forums are well worth taking part of every day so go on over and sign up.

The Web Developer Forum is a great place have your website reviewed as long as you do not come off as spammy. I understand that link builders are going to be considered spammy more often that not, so just becareful and only put your backlink once in the review write up. The forum is also a great place to keep up on web design and is worthy of a registration. Head on over to get your website review.

The Searchen Forums is a place I like to haunt a few times a week and low and behold…a website review section! The review section isn’t too active which can be both good and bad. On the one hand it might take a bit to get a review, and on the plus side your review should stay on the first page for a lot longer. Head on over to sign up and get your review.

The last one I’ll at least write about are the Zymic Forums which has an active website review area that usually ives indepth reviews. The users there really are good at taking part of the community and the place is growing more and more everyday. You know the drill, sign up and take part in the community and get some feedback from respected webmasters.

This is just a small list that I put together so when you combine Google’s powerful search queries you will be able to find a lot more forums that offer website reviews. But don’t stop there because the web offers all sorts of platforms where one can obtain a free website review. To get you started load up a new browser window and plunk down this command in Google’s search box inurl:forum website review.

Tagged , , ,

Link Building With Listable.com

1 Comments
August 27  |  Link Building  |   Ryan Clark

Listable is a social and do follow list creation tool for online lists. As most of you know it was first blogged about by Collin in his Link Building Cookbook, so I take no credit for this discovery…I would however like to have it go on record here as well push some juice to my list that I created! So basically you can create lists which can become great do follow backlinks which can be voted on and ranked socially to help make your list as accurate as possible. I’ve created a list for Link Building Blogs and have added a few of my favorites to the list…oh and you can embed your list on any webpage which is the icing on the cake!

Tagged , , ,

SubmitEaze Version 8 Launches

2 Comments
August 27  |  Link Building Tools  |   Ryan Clark

When it comes to directory submission I usually don’t do it by the masses, but when I need to I can always rely on SubmitEaze. Version 8 has just been launched and there is no secret about this program, it just works like it should and can get very profitable if used properly. I think we can all agree how much submitting to directories sucks the big one, so any sort of automation is good in my books.

So what’s new with version 8? The one major feature that I should get out there first is its new “Turbo Submitting” feature which employs a browser-less interface, and instead displays the submission form as part of the graphical user interface. SubmitEaze can now submit to directories faster than before, but keep in mind that too many links too quickly will get you penalized in Google….so be a smart submitter. Here’s a look at the graphical interface;

SubmitEaze also now submits to over 4000 free directories, so remember to stick to ones within your niche because quality links is what counts. Version 8 also submits to article directories which helps kill two birds with one stone. Also on that note you can randomize titles and descriptions and anchor text which should all help make sure you have profitable SERP results by doing it the right way.

Click Here To Download The Trial Or Purchase For Only $64.95 USD

Tagged , , , , , , ,

It’s Going To Be A Slow Few Days

1 Comments
August 27  |  News  |   Ryan Clark

Coming up I’m preparing to move deeper downtown Vancouver where I’m currently in an apartment on the beach. I’ve got to move in January and my good friend asked me to look after his cat and apartment for free until then, so I said what the hell. So the next few days are going to be slow on the link building news front because I have to finish a few things up for a client. So on that note if anyone needs some consulting work to formulate a link building strategy that’s 100% custom to your businesses niche, give me a shout.

I’m also still wanting to draw you guys into the Link Building Forums so we can get that going, but I’m aware it’s going to be another 6 months before that place is all hustle and bustle. I’m in talks now with a new moderator who can bring a lot to the forum due to his career in the SEO game, so more on that soon. I’ve managed to get within the top 10 on the first couple of days for the forum which should help a little bit but as I’ve stated before, I really think the link building niche is yet to take off as much as it will.

Tagged ,

Link Building & RSS Promotion With Aide RSS

1 Comments
August 26  |  Link Building  |   Ryan Clark

AideRSS is a really slick interface that parses your favorite feeds by its own rating system called the PostRank. This system takes in many variables of the blog post such as amount of comments, rating and inbound links to the post to determine which ones you should most likely be reading. I’ve been using the software for a while now out of pure personal enjoyment, so take your time and check the site out. This site is put together by a cool group of people that really take an interest in the site so please don’t abuse the services they provide.

You can watch a screencast which shows you the basics of AideRSS and what it is for, and how to use it. They introduce the concept of PostRank, the core technology behind AideRSS, and how it can help you find and read what matters. Within the system you can enter your blog(s) and as you’ll see upon viewing my AideRSS page how your backlinks are produced. They also take in effect your posts “rippel effect” in the social media world such as Digg, Delicious and others. They have managed to hold a Goolge page rank 7, so that means they’re doing something right in the 2.0 world. The more feeds you pump into their system the better AideRSS gets.

Our company

Based in Waterloo, Canada, AideRSS Inc. is a privately held company created to help deal with daily information overload, and our overwhelmed feed readers. Utilizing the latest cloud computing technologies, and distributed algorithms we created the PostRank™ filtering process. With a great mix of strong technical and creative talents, our team continues to innovate on finding new information management solutions.

       

The folks at AideRSS have been featured on Leo Laporte’s TWiT and all the major blogs such as Mashable and Life Hacker. The entire team’s bio is online as well a look into their office life on Flickr. They also happen to be hiring, so if anyone has some programming skills give them a shout.

Tagged , , , , , ,

  • The New Paid Link?



    Find out the results of a year of high volume content marketing on guests blogs taught us money still talks. Read the results!

  • Join Us On Facebook

  • Negative SEO Attack?


    Check out the anatomy of a "negative SEO" attack on our own site in our latest post. There's too much worry about these attacks happening, but I wouldn't worry too much about it. Come read what I think and just what to do if anything like this happens to your brand.

    Read It Now: View Article

  • Archives