Archive for the ‘Link Building’ Category

Does Paying Bloggers To Post Benefit Your Website?

Link building is critical in increasing your website traffic. If, and only if, it is done correctly and that means well targeted. However, getting your message across to a wide range of blogs is not always easy. You can write a lot of articles and submit them to article directories and maybe even through bulk [...]

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If PageRank Is Dead, Is Link Building?

PageRank is, or probably more accurately was, Google’s measure of the number and weight if incoming links to a website. But it is fairly obvious that Google has given up on PageRank recently. There are better measures of a website’s popularity that it can now use (for example Analytics to watch what people actually do [...]

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Some False Link Building Spam

You might be on the receiving end of some fake link building spam at some point. I know that this John Stahl email is one that I have had before for certain. What’s so wrong about it? Well, it is just random spam for a start. But the email is inviting you to join their [...]

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A worthless link trade?

I was asked this morning by a customer if the following link exchange email was worth while following up. To be honest, these days my standard answer to any such email is to instantly delete it as I find reciprocal link building is just not worth the effort any more. But, being a customer asking [...]

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Exchanging Link – No Thanks!

Hear me out and possibly save yourself a lot of wasted time and effort – link building through reciprocal link exchanges is a waste of time and the idea is dead in the water. It does no good! Take this email that I have received today (click the picture to enlarge it). It is obviously [...]

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