If you are overly enthusiastic for a short spurt of time about the development of your inbound linking efforts, how much will that really help you? Aaron Wall (SEObook) has offered a post and graphic titled, What is a Natural Link Growth Profile? on this subject. Aaron compares the patterns of “Spiky,” “Linear” and “Geometric” [...]
One important aspect of search engine optimization revolves around incoming links, also known as backlinks. (See the third point of the SEO Triangle video). Measuring the quantity and quality of links from other relevant domains that point to a given website is an important signal that search engines use to determine which are the most [...]
Dan Thies is the author of SEO Fast Start, which is an excellent ebook on search engine optimization. The following text is about one aspect of internal linking. There is quite a bit more to know about the subject, and you can read about it in Dan’s ebook. This excerpted part is focused on [...]
SEOmoz.org posted an article on How to Write Effective Press Releases That Help SEO. Getting your name out through traditional media and generating inbound links through press releases is not a new one, but it’s certainly worth gaining additional insight for the purpose of increasing this channel’s effectiveness. The entire post (and comments) are a [...]
Matt Cutts (Google engineer) wrote a post titled: PageRank sculpting that is somewhat revealing about certain aspects of Google’s search criteria, at least in terms of a search engine optimization (SEO) environment that is largely based upon Google “not” revealing how their search engine works. The post includes broader references to SEO than simply “PageRank [...]
Well done to Dixon Jones for his review of backlink analysis services Linkscape vs Majestic. He starts out with the question “Who has the best back link data in the world today?” and ends with the following summary: Linkscape is considerably more intuitive at the present time, but there is much more depth of data [...]
Incoming links are an important component of growing natural traffic. (See training video on Driving Website Traffic with the SEO Triangle). But how do you know how many incoming linking your site is receiving? In fact, how do you know which sites are linking to your site? Would it be useful to know which are [...]
