Link Building Is Sweat and Creativity, Says Matt Cutts

As last year’s Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Advanced, Google’s own Matt Cutts answered some questions during a live Q&A, some of which focused on link building. Whether you’re building your first website or your hundredth, you should pay close attention to what Cutts has to say. Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, said that link […]

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Generate Backlinks Through ‘Mentions’ of Your Brand Name

It’s no secret that backlinks play a critical role in determining where and how a website ranks in the search results. Search engines uses hundreds of different factors in their ranking algorithm, including load times, domain age, and backlink relevancy/quality. But how are you supposed to build backlinks without getting caught in the crossfire of […]

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Google’s Unnatural Link Warning: What You Should Know

Have you received an unnatural link warning from Google? It’s disheartening when you invest countless hours of your time into building backlinks for your site only to discover this message in your Webmaster Tools account. There are several different variations of the unnatural link message sent out to webmasters. One of the most common, however, […]

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Top Social Bookmarking Sites For Web Traffic

Social bookmarking and networking sites have become all the rage in the past 2 years. They’re an easy, free and effective way for webmasters and small business owners to spread the word about their website. Best of all, you can create a “viral” effect using social bookmarking if your content is good enough for others […]

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Tips To Attract More Links With Your Content

The adage “Content is king” holds true in the webmaster/Internet marketing industry. Regardless of your niche, it’s crucial that you constantly publish high-quality content on a regular basis. Doing so will improve your brand visibility, generate more visitors, and it will attract more backlinks. Publishing content alone can yield a significant number of relevant backlinks […]

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How does link matchmaking work?

When an article is published to a blog, it is stored in our database as an link target.  Associated with this article is a single keyphrase and a group of categories.  While the keyphrase is provided by the author, the categories are identified by our tools to consistently apply a taxonomy to an article based […]

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What is a Natural Link?

In the simplest sense, a natural link is a hyperlink from one article to another where the secondary article provides more details that benefit the reader of the first.  The hyperlink can be to a definition, an authority to strengthen a point, a trusted seller in the case of a product or any other type […]

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Natural Link Matchmaking

Here we are … spammy links are bad!  But, now more than ever links from authority sites on related topics are critical to getting visible. We work with hundreds of sites helping to build authority through relevant back links.  While challenging, once there are enough sites with common topics, there are many opportunities to link […]

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