Article archive of posts tagged “Linkbuilding”

We  got a great spam comment from an "SEO" agency this morning:For those of you who can't read it and don't want to enlarge the image, that link has a rel="dofollow" attribute attached to it.  Here's the thing - there's no such thing as a "dofollow" attribute. The search engines created... read more

Years ago there was this great, authoritative resource called The Open Directory (Or DMoz). This directory prided itself on being staffed by volunteers in it for the value of the resource and to give something back to the web. Their job was to find the best sites on the internet and list them by... read more

Yesterday was the first (annual) SASCon (that's #sascon if you want to see what people were saying on Twitter about it) SEO Conference, held at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and the first major SEO event in Manchester. For an inagural event I must say I was impressed with the quality of the... read more

Those of you who thought emailing an organisation such as a charity or university for a link was easy, think again. There's a big difference between a successful email and spam. Heres some tips to stay away from the Junk Mail box 1. Contact a Person (Where Possible) When searching around a... read more

I've come to the conclusion - link building isn't a million miles away from wooing a woman. Both can lead to prospective partners for life. Both require patience and understanding. In addition you need to be friendly, courteous and have a good ear for listening. So here's my list of  six... read more

In my first post on link building I mentioned in some detail how you can find your online competitor's back-links using a free, simple tool from Yahoo! Now it's all well and good having a list of competitor back-links, but how do you know which ones are good quality back links and have been given... read more

OK so it may not be as simple as that but, as one of the senior SEO Consultants here at I-COM, I thought it was about time I shared some of my tips and tricks that I've gathered over nearly 10 years of Search Engine Optimisation and link building. While we all know that social media... read more

I've been looking at the Twitter feed of a fairly comprehensive list of UK SEOs this morning and I noticed something. Of the most recent 140 tweets in the feed at the time I was looking (about 11:45am): 13 people plugged their own content 27 people plugged random sites such as... read more

This morning I was trying out the new SEO Moz linking tool. One thing that struck me when examining sites in a particularly competitive niche was the aggressive nature of the link building strategies employed by the highest-ranked sites. When I say aggressive, I mean that the sites in question... read more

Now Google has removed PageRank from Webmaster Tools and is rumoured to be removing it from the Google toolbar soon, what impact will this have on linkbuilding in the future?To be honest Google's PageRank was never an indicator of SEO success for a website. In fact, here at I-COM when we are... read more