Comments on: Holistic Link Building 101

By: Andreas - Linknami

Andreas - Linknami — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:01:19 +0000

It will always be difficult for search engines to determine whether a link is free as “a vote” or actually paid. This is because it may be even both, a vote and paid lol.
A natural link can be through a blog post I write about your site because I think it is a interesting resource for my website visitors but you may as well pay me for this link.

By: John Ryan

John Ryan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:18:04 +0000

Ive spent years trying to do the right thing. The main word in SEO is “relevant”.
By this I mean:
relevant content to
relevant keywords and meta keywords to
relevant backlinks.
Although backlinking to a high ranking website is usefull, it is better to back link with websites who are covering the same issues and subjects as your site.

By: Rob Abdul

Rob Abdul — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:21:08 +0000

My two sense worth on link building:

1. Write well researched academically underpinned overwhelming good articles. Write articles as opposed to blogging which are usual too short.

2. If you comment or participate in someone’s blog, forum or website; to and be creative and articulate; leave a comment that adds value.

3. I try and locate and call webmasters and establish a human connection before discussing links.

4. Write articles and post them to article submission websites – that works a treat and links from your article are more relevant to your site.

By: Tulsa SEO

Tulsa SEO — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:39:40 +0000

It was good to find your collection of posts on holistic link building. As an SEO, I try to make sure I keep all my methods white hat, and it’s refreshing to find someone who believes these are the proper ways to go enough to detail them. Thanks!

By: Webdesigner

Webdesigner — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:21:16 +0000

I am always looking for some good explanations on how to build effective backlinks that works. After a time I recognized that nearly all articles about such a topic repeat each other, so I am very glad to read your article! Thanx a lot fot it.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:21:10 +0000

You are correct that many people find a nugget of SEO wisdom, apply thought, and ride it untill they get banned or penalized by the search engines. I’ve worked with so many people who just outright violate what the search engines say you can do. In one instance I had a website owner contact me and ask me why they got banned from Google. Had a quick look and the site was full of spam, had obvious link schemes going on, and was abusing meta data. When I asked him about this he also informed me that he purchased almost $3,000 dollars in links. I helped him clear it up but its been about 7 months now and the site is still recovering.

Just adding a tip for everyone here, read the webmaster guidlines of Google and Yahoo before you start doing any SEO.

By: mark harrison

mark harrison — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:23:45 +0000

Stephen
Pleased you are going to go through this in detail because I for one am hugely confused about the whole linking piece. I just installed a link plugin to help my inbound link structure and it was just crazy…ened up having the word ‘business’ being linked everytime it appeared in one of my posts (11 times in a 1000 word article) and I couldn’t appear to change it! Be great to have a masterclass on this.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:32:52 +0000

i agree with you. alot of people dont understand that seo is not a one time thing. seo has to be consistent and ongoing. whatever your link building strategy is, make sure it is something that is sustainable for a long period of time.