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Link Building

Q: Can bad links hurt my site? A: Yes

by admin

This is one of those questions which comes up every now and again in the SEO community but tends to get skimmed over because there’s not a huge amount of conclusive information available on it.
“If a bad (spam) site links to me, will it damage my rankings by association?”
This naturally has to lead on to [...]

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Building lots of links to ecommerce product pages

by admin

If it’s your first time here you might want to read this post on link building for ecommerce sites first.
I recently started reading the Hobo web blog (which is really good for practical SEO advice by the way) and this post caught my attention. Shaun’s advice on using article marketing to build [...]

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Link building for online shops

by John

This is another post which I know has been done before, haven’t they all?! But I still think its worth revisiting. A couple of other good posts on ecommerce link building which I think are worth a read are here on Blogstorm and this interview with Aaron Wall. If you’ve come across any other good [...]

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100 Ways to Build Real Links

by John

This is not the first big list of link building technique posts, there’s a couple of others here, here and here. My intention here was really to create a list which was just link building tactics, no recommendations like ‘use spell check’ and ‘get your site to validate’- although these are fair points they can’t [...]

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Why does reciprocal linking still work?

by John

I realise this subject has been addressed plenty of times before but I wanted to wade in because its still a topic there’s some confusion over and I’d say some fairly bad advice floating around about.
The title of this post obviously starts with an assumption, that reciprocal links do still help your search rankings. To [...]

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Link Building in Tough Markets

by John

While the truth about link building is that many search markets (particularly local) are still really easy to crack with some fairly unsophisticated tactics, other markets are notoriously tough to build links in, either due to their extreme competitiveness (like insurance) or the stigma attached to them (like gambling). In this post I want to [...]

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