Yes, This Link-building Tip is Definitely White Hat!
By Hamlet Batista at September 5, 2008 | 4:14 pm | 14 Comments
A couple of months ago I found a really clever and easy way to build thousands of links to any site (with your choice of anchor text). In the spirit of sharing I try to promote in this blog, here it is… PAD your link-building regimen There are thousands of software developers that provide
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Baiting and Beseeching — Obtaining the right mix of chasing links and getting them to chase you
By Hamlet Batista at March 28, 2008 | 1:51 pm | 22 Comments
In this blog, I’ve often spoken about different link-building strategies. Generally, we can break them down into two categories: chasing links vs. letting them chase you. Both methods have their pros and cons, and personally I’ve found that a mixed approach of link acquisition and link baiting is best. In this post I’m going to
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Link Mass: How to determine how much effort it takes to rank for any particular keyword phrase
By Hamlet Batista at March 12, 2008 | 11:34 pm | 23 Comments
Based on the emails and response I received for my contribution to the “Link Building Secrets” project, I know that I am not the only one that loves to use metrics to measure how close I am to my goals. Thanks to everyone for your emails and encouraging comments. In this post I want to
Categotries : Blog , Featured Posts , Keyword Research , Link Building
Giving it away – Advanced Link-Building Strategies through Viral Marketing
By Hamlet Batista at September 22, 2007 | 8:14 pm | 23 Comments
As the Web keeps growing, search phrases become more competitive, and the demand for links increases, the art of link building becomes far more difficult. It’s that much more difficult if you only know traditional link-building tactics. As we move forward, it’s going to be increasingly important to think outside the box and use our
Categotries : Blog , Featured Posts , Link Building , Social Media Marketing
Long tail vs fat head optimization strategies – Part 3
By Hamlet Batista at August 23, 2007 | 1:04 am | 6 Comments
This is the final post in the long tail vs fat head optimization strategies series. The focus of this post is to expand on the optimization strategy for highly competitive keywords. We are going to leverage our insights from the link analysis explained in Part 2 to build better and smarter links. The purpose of
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Digg this: How to use social networking sites properly to boost traffic
By Hamlet Batista at July 30, 2007 | 4:44 pm | 6 Comments
We all know that building solid, natural and authoritative links to your site or blog is the best way to obtain unshakable rankings. There has been a lot of chatter lately about using social networking sites to help build traffic and eventually links. Those links are hard to get, unless of course you have a
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Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day—Neither is effective link building
By Hamlet Batista at July 25, 2007 | 4:01 pm | 16 Comments
Link building is without a doubt the most time consuming—but most rewarding—aspect of search engine optimization. It usually takes more effort to promote your content (build links) than to actually create it. As I have stressed repeatedly before, compelling, useful content should make your link building efforts much easier. Before I go any further, let
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LinkingHood v0.1 alpha — Improve your PageRank distribution
By Hamlet Batista at May 30, 2007 | 11:57 pm | 7 Comments
As I promised to one of my readers, here is the first version of the code to mine log files for linking relationship information. I named it LinkingHood as the intention is to take link juice from the rich to give to the poor linking sites. I wrote it in Python for clarity ( I
Categotries : Blog , Link Building , Technical SEO
The harder to get the link, the more valuable it is
By Hamlet Batista at May 27, 2007 | 10:20 pm | 1 Comments
Links that are too easy or relatively easy to get do not help much in getting traffic or authority for search engine rankings. If your link is placed on a page where there are several hundred links competing for attention, it is less likely that potential visitors will click than if the page only has
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