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Topics related to building links, which generate traffic directly for web sites and influence search rankings. For more background, see the Link Week column or link building news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 7:37 am
Posted By: mrmunchies 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: Link Building
Recently, with mucho fanfare, TLA launched a new service called inlinks – designed specifically to restore freedom to the link buying industry – freedom from the prying eyes of the grand overlord Google, freedom from… well actually just from Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 26, 2008 - 6:41 am
Posted By: saadkamal 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.saadkamal.com)
Category: Link Building
Find out how you can build Authority Links without having to pay for any of them. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 18, 2008 - 11:04 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Debra Mastaler writes, "Building links through brand and reputation management takes time so it’s not considered a proactive link building tactic. If signature links are basically worthless and brand attraction takes a while, how else can you use a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2008 - 8:30 am
Posted By: dailymoolah 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Ann Smarty writes about using Blog Carnivals to build links and engage your community. Often forgotten as a link building tactic, especially for clients, carvnivals can build niche connections, links, and establish authority in one's industry. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2008 - 6:40 am
Posted By: Lisadit 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.baseonesearch.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
The second episode of SEO Wars by Base One. This episode is about the discovery of a new planet called "Link Space",from this planet you can see the link paths that both SEO jedis and the "evil" SEOiths have taken.

Rand LinkWalker and Princess Ja read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 14, 2008 - 7:57 am
Posted By: SEOAly 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.zetainteractive.com)
Category: Link Building
I tend to agree with Hugo about the risks involved with making sweeping generalizations that a search engine like Google intends to do away with something that has been a critical element of ranking for some time. I believe they will develop new an read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2008 - 1:28 pm
Posted By: saadkamal 19 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.saadkamal.com)
Category: Link Building
Contains Everything that you Ever Need to know about Link Building ... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2008 - 4:20 pm
Posted By: zigojacko 20 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Ann Smarty describes 3 FireFox extensions that can help with backlink research in Google Webmaster Tools. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 11, 2008 - 12:39 am
Posted By: AutomotiveSEO 21 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
To properly organize yourself and your work and to make your clients happy, you should definitely have your own backlink reporting system. Of course, the reporting method can vary from client to client based on two major facts: read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 8, 2008 - 7:09 am
Posted By: barnaseo 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wordtracker.com)
Category: Link Building
Essential insights on link development from Eric Ward: look for passion & partners and pretend once in a while that you work for Google ´making sure search results are good for your particular industry´... read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 8, 2008 - 1:06 am
Posted By: cemper 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingfan.com)
Category: Link Building
.EDU links have been hot for a while now, and reason for a lot of controversy - mainly from people who understood the value lies in the domain extension ".edu" as opposed to the the inherent domain strength and trust the universities have.

Toda read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: barnaseo 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
"During the Blog Your Mind Link Building Techniques session at SMX in London, I (Wiep) shared a panel with Lyndon Antcliff, Tom Critchlow and Jay Young. It turned out to be an awesome session, of which my presentation is included below." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2008 - 9:45 am
Posted By: searchkari 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.linkbuildingbestpractices.com)
Category: Link Building
Most SEO's agree that there are three components to higher search results; 1) good content, 2) onsite optimization and 3) quality link building. However, in my opinion, most SEO's are not link builders and most link builders are not SEOs. I believ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2008 - 6:09 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
I [Ann Smarty] have posted a lot about backlink research previously:

* Exploring the anchor text of backlinks;
* Backlink checking tools;
* Yahoo advanced link: operator to explore your competitor’s backlinks;
* Analyzing your read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 4, 2008 - 2:44 pm
Posted By: AnnieCushing 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Link Building
With the potential power of directories for SEO currently in hot debate, I thought that it was the right time to unleash this list. (For the record; yes they are still powerful!) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 3, 2008 - 4:51 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
In an outrageous act of selfishness and greed the BBC has decided to stop giving real links to the websites featured in the “Related Internet Links” section on the right hand side of each news story. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 7:53 am
Posted By: KateMorris 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Link Building
He said Free ... Link Building ... and Report. Need I say more? Best words in SEO history. :) read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 28, 2008 - 11:52 am
Posted By: Xemion 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webuildpages.com)
Category: Link Building
A lot of the techniques that are useful for picking up girls are also useful for getting links. Both enterprises are a delicate art which rely on equal parts luck, timing, product and skill. Here are a few of the ways in which getting links is a lot read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2008 - 12:31 am
Posted By: JeffMHoward 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
Exactly two weeks ago, SEOmoz launched Linkscape, their new link analysis tool. There has been much accusation, feedback and discussion over the inner workings of the product itself which this post does not cover. Instead I’d like to take a look at read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 21, 2008 - 12:49 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Link Building
Are site wide links still effective and can getting a lot of links really fast from Digg hurt you? Since there is still a lot of interest in these two topics, Debra Mastaler shares the answers here. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 20, 2008 - 11:55 am
Posted By: MattSawyer 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.hobo-web.co.uk)
Category: Link Building
As a seo I wanted to know - how many words or characters does Google count in a link? What’s best practice when creating links - internal, or external? What is the optimal length of a HTML link? read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 20, 2008 - 11:22 am
Posted By: dannysullivan 42 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Link Building
After Linkscape launched, some people didn't want to be included in it. Eventually, we got information posted for exclusion. But then there was a debate on whether that will exclude you or not. So, a discussion about how it works. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 16, 2008 - 5:37 am
Posted By: gyutae 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: Link Building
But really, do you know why you’re building links? Your reply may be “to gain traffic”, but there’s a lot more to it than just that. Depending on your goal and your purpose, your strategies will differ wildly. If you don’t know WHY you’re building l read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 16, 2008 - 1:38 am
Posted By: gyutae 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Link Building
While hiring expensive experts can definitely be worth it in some occasions (if you happen to hire the right one, of course), you don’t need to hire a link builder to get more links. Every company -even yours- has employees that can increase your li read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2008 - 8:08 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Link Building
Last week e-Commerce link building was discussed at WebmasterWorld Forums (also reviewed by SEroundtable). Why is it actually more difficult to build links to an e-Commerce website? read more »
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