It's been an interesting week on a number of fronts so here's a whole lot of something and just a tad of nothin' as it relates to links...
Congratulations to Liana and her one year anniversary on the Women of Internet Marketing series, take a spin over there and give her a pat on the back.
Our friend Joost de Valk just released a new linking tool that brings back an overview of what anchors are being used in your in-bounds. It's a Firefox extension called SEO Link Analysis. Definitely worth a check out.
There's a good article here titled 10 Reasons Why Social Media Marketing Sucks by Andy Beard that has a lot of good points in it, of course I zero in on the linking specific comments and agree with all, but question number 2:
Topical Linking vs Strategic LinkingEven with a good analytics package, #2 may be tough.
1. Link to a regular reader in your niche who doesn’t get much traffic
2. Link to someone in your niche who has never read your blog
3. Promote someone’s niche ranking list to get included
4. Included someone in your niche ranking list to get traffic
5. Link to like minded dofollow blogs because you get a link from their trackbacks
Three good articles this week about links and link building issues:
* Link Building - In-House vs Outsourced by Justilien Justilien has links to a number of good posts on the topic in his blog post.
* How Changes to The Way Google Handles Subdomains Impact SEO
* Hide & Speak: Letting the Spiders Back into BY
We use subdomains/blogs/promotions in our linking efforts frequently; if you do the same the info/ideas in the last two posts will be extremely helpful.
Ok, now some blantant self-promotion which I've recently been told I don't do enough of or do very well. (Thank you A and B you're both right as usual).
The folks at GSINC put together a list of the Top 40 People Of SEO and yours truly was included. Thank you GSINC, I appreciate the hat tip but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add Barry and Donna to your list.
Evan Carmichael did the Top 50 SEO Posts of the Year and highlighted my "Help! I'm New, I Need Links, What Can I Do? post.
You know what? That post took me about 20 minutes to write and has gotten more play than anything I've done in years. The posts I spend hours on and fret over are the ones no one looks at or says sh!t about! Goes to show you - DON'T OVER THINK THIS STUFF.
New daddy Wiep Knol ** launched his Link Value Results which shares the thoughts and opinions of a number of link builders (like ME ME ME ;) and SEO's on -- link building. Congrats Wiep and Moniek on new baby Liam. :)
**Oh and how (un?) lucky is it for Wiep that his last name is Knol??
Enjoy the weekend. :)
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