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Healthy Link Building – Content Is King

Posted : 04/4/10 7:29 PM


I’m sure all or most of you have heard the cliche “content is king” when it comes to link building. But is it true? The simple answer is yes. Having quality original content on a website, or blog as it may be, is vital to the success of the site. Good content can help build solid back links, keep visitors coming back, and draw in new unique visitors. But what constitutes quality content? And even if the content is the best out there how are people going to find it? These are a few of the questions I plan to answer in this article. What constitutes quality content? The sad and sometimes horrifying truth is that quality content is subjective

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Healthy Link Building – Link Directories

Posted : 02/6/10 3:44 AM


Hello and welcome to our second post in our Healthy Link Building series. In this post we’re going to take a good hard look at one of the most popular, one of the most abused, and one of the most misunderstood methods on building links. This method is submitting your link to online link directories. But before we get in to the do’s, dont’s, and questions about submitting to link directories lets look at what exactly a link directory is and learn a little about their history.   Directories have been around on the Internet for a long, long time. In fact, before search engines they were the primary way of finding what you were looking for on the Internet.

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Healthy Link Building 101

Posted : 01/3/10 10:29 PM


Link building is one of the most important aspects of SEO, and yet so often it is done incorrectly. People read that having many inbound links coming to their website can help them rank better on the search engines and thereby increase their web traffic and hopefully their ROI, but many never take the time to fully read the webmaster guidelines and learn how they should be building links. Instead they send out email requests to other webmasters, submit to every link directory they can find, participate in artificial link swaps, and often times even purchase links. Then when their site is dropped and they lose traffic they wonder why. Well, in the next few posts we’re going to explore

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