Having inbound links isn’t enough to send you shooting up the SEO rankings. You need to be sure they’re the right type of link if you want to get SEO juice.
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What Are Paid Links?
As a White Hat SEO practitioners we have been pretty vocal on why you should follow Google’s webmaster guidelines. This really applies to link building and not amassing paid links. Paid links are a dangerous SEO strategy designed to artificially boost your ranking by paying other sites to link to your content. So how can you make sure your links aren’t damaging your SEO.
3 Things That Might Overtake Link Building
SEO is constantly evolving and there are few parts of SEO as important as link building. If you’re building links in the right way they can provide a solid SEO foundation from which you can increase your website traffic.
A good link profile helps to establish your authority online, giving the SEO crawlers enough content to prove confirm your legitimacy, as well as helping out your readers. Inbound links are slightly different, but again if you are building solid relationships and creating quality content you should start to build a high authority domain.
How to Keep Comment Spam off your Site
Comment spam is the scourge of any blog or website that is trying to attract more users with a comment section on it. Inappropriate or spammy comments can seriously damage your online reputation by making your website look neglected, or by exposing your website visitors to potentially harmful links. You go away for a weekend, …
Filtering Referral Spam From Your Google Analytics
Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees Recently we wrote about referral spam, where we explained how you can stop spammers from clogging up your website’s data. Today we’re going to explain how to start filtering referral spam from your Google Analytics, giving you a clearer picture of your website’s performance. As mentioned in part …
Can-Spam Act Compliance Considerations
Is Your Email Marketing Breaking the Law? Your business likely uses email blasts in your marketing campaigns. Many small businesses start out their email marketing campaigns by researching and studying what other marketing professionals have done. However, what you might not know is that there is a law that regulates your use of email marketing …
Black Hat Link Building Defense
There’s a growing SEO trend that few online marketers are talking about. We’ve experienced it first hand and think it’s critical that Webmasters become aware of black hat link building and how to defend against it.
Link Building
Link Building Shape a robust link profile to build authority and credibility to search engines Link Building Drive web traffic by earning relevant links, building your site’s authority, credibility & online visibility Unlock the Power of Connections Link building is more than just connections—it’s about earning links from other relevant and reputable websites. Each link …
Link Profile & Negative SEO
Guard Against Negative SEO There are two main elements of SEO: content and links. In Google parlance, Penguin rewards quality pages and posts while targeting spammy links. Sadly we’re seeing an uptrend on negative SEO — the practice of other sites using malicious tactics like backlink spamming to damage organic rankings. In this post we’ll …
Link Sculpting, What It Is and Isn’t.
Beware of Advanced Technique Link sculpting officially died in 2009 (according to Search Engine Land). Yet it’s an advanced White Hat SEO technique that some less-than-White-Hatters still use today. In this post I’ll explain what link sculpting is, why you should avoid it, and tips for building a better long-term strategy. What Exactly is Link Sculpting? Link Sculpting …