Inbound Internet Marketing Blog

SEO, Blogging, Social Media, Landing Pages, Lead Generation and Analytics

SUBSCRIBE

The HubSpot Inbound Internet Marketing blog covers all of inbound marketing - SEO, blogging, social media, lead generation, email marketing, lead nurturing & management, and analytics. Join 53,183 others and subscribe now!

Subscribe to RSS feed Add us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter

Get Free Marketing Info!

Get the world's best marketing resources right to your inbox! Join more than 817,000 inbound marketers!

Subscribe by email

Your email:

Listen to this blog!

Work at HubSpot!

JoinTheHubSpotTeam resized 200

HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog

Current Articles | RSS Feed RSS Feed

Did You Graduate From Link Building High School Yet?

 

.

In a recent blog post discussing the importance of link building for search engine optimization, I asked people to share how they build links to their website. I recommend you go read the responses. I also recommend you read that article so you know how to construct inbound links so your business can rank higher in search engines for your target keywords.

link building

Link building is not easy. And it's not that intuitive until you do it. There are also many different techniques and methods that will have varied results. Below is how I recommend clients start and master link building. 

I tell people that there are 4 Levels of Link Building Excellence. And it usually takes 4 years to master it - just like high school:

9th Grade: Links You Can Build Yourself That Require Little Time Investment

Before I get into this, I'd like to stress that you should have a really good keyword strategy and make sure you've optimized each page on your site around a different keyword phrase. Any link you're building should be designed to help a specific page rank high in the search engines for a specific keyword.

That said, the first set of links that every business should get are the ones that don't require anyone else's help. There are lots of business directories out there where you can just submit your URL, company name, and a description of your business. Some of them require approval. Some of them require a fee. Yahoo's directory, Joe Ant, Aboutus.org are some of the ones you should do right away.

In this class of Level I links, there are also many social media sites where you can simply build links to your site. Most of these no longer pass SEO credit, but they're still good links to get, assuming your target audience visits the site or these sites rank high for your keywords already. 

It's arguable that you should hire someone to do (or start) this stuff for you. It's low level work that generates low level returns. Just make sure that you don't hire a firm that will get you 1,000 links for < $1,000 dollars. If it's too good to be true, it is.

10th Grade: Links You Build Yourself that Require Effort

Before I get into this level, I'd like to stress that launching a business blog should be done before doing this. Without having a blog on your site with lots of good, well-optimized content, you don't really have anything to link to.

That said, there are two very common link building techniques that work well that don't require you to be a "thought leader". Yet. These activities require a bit more time investment and a small financial investment. They are article marketing and press release optimization. With both of these methods, you have to create relevant content that will appeal to your market. So, it requires more time than Level I. Also, the process of getting your articles syndicated and your press releases submitted and picked up - takes effort. You might consider hiring a wired pr firm or a strong SEO firm to do some of this stuff for you. 

If done correctly, both of these methods can significantly increase the links to your site. Also, if you write your articles and press releases with a keyword strategy in mind, and with links that support your keyword strategy, it can significantly increase your rankings for specific keyword terms. Run your press releases and your articles through press release grader to determine whether they're going to help.

11th Grade: Links You Network For that Require a Significant Time Investment

This part of link building is kind of like sales. Cold calling can be done effectively with persistence. But, networking, getting referrals, giving first, the law of attraction, etc is a better way of getting new clients.

Link building is the same way.  If you're more of a cold caller type, and there are lots of potential places you can get a link, you might consider just creating a list of webmasters and asking them for a link

If you're a natural networker and you're in this for the long haul, I'd recommend being a bit more patient. Apply your persistence and spend your time building relationships.

No matter what route you take, the goal of this level is to make yourself visible among people interested in the same topics as you. This process is a bit self promotional. But, you must promote yourself in a way that you're adding value. You master this level by acting like a resource for people in your industry. How do you do this? It's all about networking and building meaningful relationships. The first step is reading other people's blogs. Then, commenting on them. Then, eventually starting a relationship where you're communicating 1-on-1 with them. I recommend you take the leap from reader to 1:1 with a blogger, by pointing them in the direction of other people's content that might be interesting to them.  In the non-marketing world, this usually happens through email. In the marketing world, this usually happens through Twitter. If you're techy, this might happen through Delicious. If you use StumbleUpon or Digg, those are great platforms to share things with peers. Even google reader lets you do this kind of networking. But, it can certainly happen through any social networking platform or system that enables 1:1 communication. 

From a link building perspective, the ultimate goal of this level is to get invited to write a guest article for other people's blogs or website. For example, I wrote an article about inbound lead generation for Aaron Ross not too long ago. In the article, I linked to relevant resources on my blog and the HubSpot blog and site. These are great links from an authoritative  source. Aaron reaches our target market sending relevant traffic. These links also help us rank for our target keywords.

During this process, you're also building up a group of people that will most likely begin following you...

Seniors Rule! (12th Grade): Links Other People Give You Because You Create Remarkable Content. 

This level is like the last month or two in high school when you've already passed midterms and you've been accepted to the college of your choice. You've done the hard work already. Now, it's time to go to parties and enjoy being the carefree big man on campus.

You don't necessarily halt the activities above. But, you spend more of your time just creating remarkable content.  (And some link bait.)

At HubSpot, we do some guest articles once in a while and we optimize our press releases. But, mostly we just put time into churning out content on our blog and producing other online marketing resources like webinars and white papers. Some of you seem to think this stuff is pretty remarkable. As a result, it generally creates great conversations in our comments, strong attendance at our webinars and lots of white paper downloads. And regularly, people link to our webinar announcements and blog articles of their own accord. 

This doesn't start happening overnight, unless you're already famous. We have a lot of advantages at HubSpot. Website Grader's success, funding in the bank, successful clients, smart founders who started blogging before they had a product and now... a lot of employees who contributor to the blog, a strong social media following, etc. 

But, we did it in < 2 years. If you're a small business and you follow the path above, there's no reason why you can't stake your claim on the web. Link building is an important part of that. Hopefully, this post demystifies the process a bit and gives you a roadmap to get started. 

The biggest mistake that newbie internet marketers make is thinking that creating great content on their blog will be all it takes to be successful internet marketers. My biggest frustration is when newbie bloggers pack up shop after just a month of writing because the blog doesn't have an immediate impact on their search traffic and lead volume. 

At the end of the day, if you publish great content on the web AND connect, relate and build relationships with other humans, really good links will come naturally. Until then, put in some homework and earn your way through link building high school. 

Photo by CarbonNYC 

Free Download: Learning SEO From The Expert

Free Download:  Learning SEO From The Expert

Posted by Pete Caputa on Tue, Sep 30, 2008 @ 08:15 AM

COMMENTS

Pete, this is an exceptional post. In Marketing 101 we are taught the four Ps of "traditional" outbound marketing (product, price, place, promotion). What you have defined here are the four Ps of inbound marketing — Profiles (directories, social networks), Publishing (articles, optimized press releases, etc.), Participation (in blogs, forums, social networks) and Publishing (great, multi-media content). And yes, I know Publishing is in there twice, but it's that important. Inbound marketing comes down to continually publishing great content. Nice work!

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 10:40 AM by Paul Roetzer


Thanks Paul. I agree that "publishing" deserves a second mention. Did you just make this 4 P thing up? I think that'd be a good guest post.

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 10:47 AM by Pete Caputa


Pete, 
 
I appreciate how you broke the idea of link-building down into tactical "grades." Nice idea! I also agree fully that having a corporate blog should be a major portion of any web strategy, though the reasons for blogging and the way the blog is managed may differ among B2B and B2C companies. I just posted a newsletter on blogging, specifically targeting B2C professional services companies.  
 
Best, 
 
Chris

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 10:54 AM by Chris Butler


Pete - this is great. Not enough people break down the ideas we're all hearing about into actionable plans. WRT SEO'ing your articles and releases, how many marketers have been able to "train" their existing agencies on doing this, versus finding a new PR agency that takes a more comprehensive social media approach? Is it worth it, if you have? 
The other thing that would be so helpful for this guide... Time estimates, especially for the underclassmen. For example, when you transition to HS, there's an emphasis on time management, guiding students on how long they should spend reading, studying, etc. This transition to link building can be overwhelming; there's so much noise and so many distractions. Should you set aside a window of time, a certain amount of it each day? Or a certain number of comments or posts or links that you try to achieve each day? Should you designate some percentage of a headcount on your marketing team for just this? (I see that HubSpot is hiring a FT person just for this, so I guess I know what the answer is!) That gives a real target for people.  
 
Thanks so much for doing this. Really interesting stuff...

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 11:07 AM by Katie Poplin


Great questions, Katie.  
 
I'm not the best guy to talk to about time management. I get distracted easily. (I'm in sales actually, so I should be calling people instead of using Twitter and writing blog posts.)  
 
But, in principle, what you're suggesting about time management is necessary. It seems that people "never get started w/ link building" because they have a million other things to do.  
 
There are some smart people at HubSpot trying to make it easier for our clients to do link building on a regular basis. But, at the end of the day, the marketer or biz owner has to have some discipline to create content, interact w/ people online and build links.  
 
Re: training a traditional PR firm to do online PR, I start by sending them to Press Release Grader. I have one client/partner who is an SEO consultant and she works with a traditional PR company who is very good at traditional stuff. The SEO consultant does keyword research, guides blogging content production, reviews press releases, and runs social media marketing w/ traditional agency oversight.  
 
I think teaching old dogs new tricks is hard, personally. But, sometimes it is necessary. Traditional agencies still add a lot of value with TV, event, print and radio exposure.  
 
Paul Roetzer wrote a really cool article the other day called, The Dawn of the Inbound Marketing Agency
 
At HubSpot, we're seeing a lot of demand from traditional agencies who want to "learn internet marketing". I think they'll need to adapt or at least broaden their offerings to include online marketing, if they want to survive.

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 11:17 AM by Pete Caputa


Katie, 
 
I saw your comment and thought I'd throw in my 2 cents there, too. Time management is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for most of our clients when it comes to adopting new techniques and procedures for marketing. I recently posted an interview with Lee Erickson, founder of Erickson Barnett, who had some strong comments about this. She said, "It has to come from the top down. If management doesn't believe in it, then client work will always come first." This conviction led them to restructure several roles internally, including her own, in order to support some of the strategic initiatives that they wanted to adopt. You can read the interview here, but I think they serve as a great example of a B2B that was willing to fully invest in these new marketing strategies. 
 
Chris

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 11:27 AM by Chris Butler


Interesting round up guys! Thanks for the link back to my SBM link bait article.

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 11:33 AM by Dev Basu


I am still learning a lot about SEO, so this article is great for me. Can anyone reccommend a good place to look for the directories you mentioned in the 9th grade section?

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 2:45 PM by Abby Clubb


@Abby. Are you a client? Our internet marketing training program provides a nice list of directories worth spending time/money on.

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 2:52 PM by peter caputa


Interesting you have mentioned "law of attraction" in your post. Recently I have decided to intend for one major / high traffic blog to link to my website each week. Last week, one of our blog posts got picked up by another blog that drove more than 500 people to our website in 2 days. That is independent of the regular traffic we get.  
 
This was my blogging law of attraction experiment.  
 
Networking has worked surprisingly well too, but it took months to get to the right people. Most people who are networking are not into online marketing. Networking in the tech crowd seemed to be most effective for generating links.  

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 8:44 PM by May Chu


Interesting feedback, May. I've had the same experience. Networking amongst internet marketers, tech crowd and a few other categories through blogs and linking back and forth is prevalent. But, I've noticed that a lot of other industries don't get it. I think it's part of our job to educate people that we all will succeed when we collaborate. I get a lot of resistance amongst my clients when I try to get them to help each other. Their typical excuse is that "he's a competitor - even though there in two different parts of the country" OR "they target a slightly different market than I do" or "why would I want to talk to someone who isn't my target client".  
 
In business, collaboration isn't always the modus operandi. And you certainly wouldn't collaborate on traditional marketing or biz dev unless it was very mutually beneficial. But, when it comes to the web and blogging and seo, it's certainly true that collaboration makes everybody more successful, especially the people we're all trying to help. I think the web is slowly teaching the world this lesson. But, I think it's going to take a while for it to kick in - atleast in most industries.

posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 at 8:09 AM by Pete Caputa


@Abby, you can do a search for all the links a website has by typing into Google 
 
 
 
site: mywebsite.com 
 
 
 
(make sure to put a space after the colon) using whatever url you want. You should do this for a competitor or a similar website in your industry and geographic region to show what kind of inbound links they are getting and see if you can submit your own url. Some of my free favorites are: 
 
 
 
AboutUs 
 
Minority Professional Network 
 
LinkedIn 
 
StartupNation Marketplace 
 
Kellysearch 
 
Delicious 
 
xomreviews 
 
DMOZ

posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 at 12:54 PM by Kelley Mitchell


Excellent! Excellent! I keep telling people that the strategy is not as difficult as they think, but most people are too ill informed or procrastinate taking action. Another challenge is that many folks don't have their act together enough yet, in the form of compelling content, to begin driving all this traffic to their site. it should come easy for multi-taskers who can crank out magnet content and execute on the linking and networking strategy. Another really big thing is time, you cannot shortcut the process as the author said, unless you are already famous. This takes time and commitment. 
 
 
 
Excellent post, and I enjoy following your blog!

posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 at 1:12 PM by Steve Tout


Pete- Great list you put together and I like how you structured it in grade levels. I think one of the most important parts of your post is when you mention the importance of developing real relationships with others through networking. The importance of this is brought up often but I don't think that some really take it to heart. But, this is a common need whether online or in-person. Meaningful networking is extremely important.

posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 at 10:21 PM by Justin Levy


These are great - simple, straightforward and most importantly, very effective. Well done!

posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 5:44 PM by Pawel Binkowski


thank you for ur sharing

posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 10:08 PM by shengzzz


why,what ,where go to zhidao1.cn

posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 2:52 AM by zhidao1.cn


support you website ,thank you for ur sharing

posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 2:54 AM by zhidao1.cn


Heyy, great stuff this article, im just starting up to sell t-shirts and im having a problem with people not coming to my website but ill be following this school process and ill let ya know how it goes, btw if you want a night out t-shirt, go to  
 
 
 
www.simplytopuk.com 
 
 
 
FREE Worldwide delivery.

posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 8:52 AM by Adam Leaf


I'd like to suggest people use your website grader to track their progress. It has been a tremendous help for us to determine what we need to do and how we are doing vs. our competitors. We have 10 times more inbound links than some of our competitors who have been around much longer.

posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 4:02 PM by Janine Libbey


I'd like ...

posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 at 3:12 AM by Sassan


I have no idea how, but my blog has over 26,000 inbound links already. I must be doing something right. ;)

posted on Sunday, November 02, 2008 at 10:19 PM by Chelle B. - The Offended Blogger


Thanks for the great article. Very helpful. Hope to increase my links atwww.grafsata.com.

posted on Monday, November 03, 2008 at 10:15 AM by Lisa Gibbs


Good post.. hopefully this will help my site break the 80% score on website grader.  
 
I find my Drupal sites are a little different then sites not built on a CMS

posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 at 9:25 AM by Rethink SEO


good post, i've found it very useful

posted on Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 8:03 PM by Ed


Thanks for the follow-up article. Who would've thought creating links could be such an art... 
 

posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM by Nathan, Austin Wellness Clinic


Great post. Good to see someone saying it how it is . . . there are so many cowboys out there offering impossible quick fixes for a few hundred quid.

posted on Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 10:05 AM by Fred Campbell


I like this idea, i use website grader loads and I have learned a lot and helped loads of other people with sites make changes for their sites... thank you!

posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 at 5:40 PM by scott duncan


thinks man the post

posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 4:26 PM by دروس فوتوشوب


Thanks for your PageRank

posted on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 8:37 AM by çerkez


Hi great article. I'm setting up a photography web site and of great help. So if you need any photo's taken please visit: 
 
Htto:/www.lizkavanaghphotography.com

posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 7:24 PM by Garret Bourke


Hi, 
 
 
 
Good articles. 
 
 
 
thanks

posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 8:30 AM by WEB EXPRESS


Good information to increase traffic.

posted on Saturday, December 06, 2008 at 8:00 AM by Rajeev


thank you for your great tips.i've hired a seo company in greece for my hotel, and the same time building my own second webpage with my own seo,so i hope i can compare the results and not spend so mucu money for no reason.

posted on Monday, December 08, 2008 at 8:10 AM by hotel fanari santorini


This was one of the most helpful articles about linking to other websites. I will start over at 9th grade and see what i can do over the next year or so.

posted on Monday, December 08, 2008 at 6:31 PM by Adam


Always useful information on this site and this one is no different

posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 at 11:12 AM by SocialTrending


This is a great article and extremely informative. We are new to this style of promotions and found it very helpful to have your insight. Burrell Colour is just beginning to tackle how we can draw more attention to our Optical Printing, Digital Printing & Film Development website. Thanks! 
 
Burrell Colour Imaging

posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 at 5:06 PM by Tim Bandura


Excellent article. A client of mine turned me onto Hubspot. I have been reading through your website to see if your services are something which may benefit my clients. I am impressed so far! As a Website & Multimedia developer, SEO is always an issue, yet not something we always excel at - so I thank you for your recommendations. 
 
www.mediamechanic.net

posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 at 5:10 PM by Paul Ward


Thank you wo much for the great info.  
<a>www.aerpro.com.au

posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 5:07 PM by jini


Thanks for this fantastic tool, I love it and use it very reguarly!

posted on Friday, December 12, 2008 at 12:48 PM by Christopher Roberts


Extremely useful post on link building Pete! I like how you broke down the details into the 4 high school grade levels.  
 
You are so right when it comes to newbie internet marketers thinking they can have an immediate impact with a blog. Patience, persistence and putting time into it on an ongoing basis is key. It is just like traditional networking...creating good and lasting business relationships take time to build. The same principle applies to blogging, except it is online and not face to face.

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1:10 PM by Michelle Berdeal


One thing we all can do as we are educating our clients is to teach them how to find these conversations in the blog posts. By using a simple tool such as Google alerts, it allows us to see exactly who, what , when, and where conversations are about and they can be proactive in the betterment of their link building strategies.

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 3:34 PM by Dianna Kersey


One thing we all can do as we are educating our clients is to teach them how to find these conversations in the blog posts to help in all of these link building strategies. By using a simple tool such as Google alerts, it allows us to see exactly who, what , when, and where conversations are about and they can be proactive in the betterment of their link building strategies.

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 3:38 PM by Dianna Kersey


Very good post Pete! I have to agree. It can sometimes feel overwhelming when a client looks at the number of inbound links it is going to take to make them competitive online for their keywords. By taking this approach and breaking it down into smaller "grades", I feel it will be perceived as something more attainable. I also hope that more clients begin to realize the importance of blogging and other social media to their SEO and SEM efforts.

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 4:47 PM by Charles Eidschun


Very nice post. Not only have you given us a very clear step by step approach for link building but also great advice. Be persistent, strive for quality and build relationships.

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 10:52 PM by Jackie Weber


I want it is Very nice post.I feel it will be perceived as something more attainable.Patience, persistence and putting time into it on an ongoing basis is key.

posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 11:41 PM by frank3475


Great information. How do I know when I am ready to move to the next Grade? Is there a magic number to know when to go from grade 9 to 10? 
 
 
 
Alan

posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 12:27 AM by Alan


Great question, Alan. 
 
You should know when it's time to move up a grade. Once you've mastered all the activities of that grade, it's time to move on to the next. Kinda like math, though, you're always using the stuff you learned the year before. You should never stop building 9th grade links. They're the easy ones and they still bring value.

posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 4:08 AM by peter caputa


Thanks for the information. I am still new to seo but everyday I find something new to look into. 
 
warren 
<a href="http://www.warrenphillipswebdesign.co.uk>web design manchester

posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 2:32 PM by Warren Phillips


I like your article...Thank you for the info. 
 
 
 
Frank 
 
www.welcometoinsurance.com

posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 6:30 PM by Frank


You have written a great article. I think the best way to build links is writing controversial content. Then people will link to it. Make that page have only one outbound link so you save page rank. I don't know about press relesaes anymore though.

posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 7:21 PM by Unlocked GSM


@unlocked GSM (did your mamma give you that name?)  
 
I think that writing controversial stuff is one way to get traffic, assuming people are paying attention to you first. But, I think an over-reliance on that is not healthy. Especially for business bloggers. It can sometimes do more harm than good.  
 
Optimized press releases definitely work.

posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 7:27 AM by peter caputa


thank you so much for this post. i would do a more in depth comment, but my appreciation is beyond additional comments.  
 
i am currently struggling with linkbuilding. i hadn't ever learned it before and i am in a situation where i need to preform all four grades at once. i'm a little stressed, but i look forward to the challenge. thank you for posting that learning linkbuilding can take years (i read on one blog that one SEO learned linkbuilding in like 18 days because that is ALL that h/she did)... knowing that it's not as easy as everyone makes it out to be (sometimes i feel like i should be just getting this overnight and i'm not so that adds to my stress) gives me some relief.  
 
thank you for the post and the helpful suggestions :)

posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 12:43 PM by sadly anonomyus


Thanks for the article and we will begin finding ways to get more inbound links

posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 9:36 AM by mark


Hi,  
 
 
 
Great info for new comer in SEO  
 
 
 
Thanks,  
 
http://www.sba7o.com 
 

posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 at 1:22 PM by Casper


This is a really great read.  
 
I'm new to link building, so a big take-away for me here is the prioritisation of other activities (e.g. create a business blog before tackling 10th grade). 
 
Thanks. 
harry

posted on Monday, December 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM by harry


Hi Pete 
 
 
 
Thanks for great information. I wish I've read this a long time ago - it certainly would have made my life easier! 
 
 
 
Keep up the good work! 
 
Francina 
 

posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 12:44 PM by Francina Smit


Very nice article and useful too.

posted on Thursday, January 01, 2009 at 11:04 AM by Mohsin Khawaja


I just started blogging 2 months ago and one of the intention is to make money from blogging. There are sometime too many information for me to grasp and understand and HubSpot.com really make my life easier by providing simple, easy to understand and straightforward info. Thanks!

posted on Sunday, January 04, 2009 at 10:29 AM by zaizab


I have learned a lot through this site. I appreciate all you do. 
 
Thanks

posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 2:08 PM by Internet Marketing


I really enjoyed this article. I have been working on getting inbound links and am having great success thanks to your article.

posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 5:05 PM by Tammy Lessick


 
 
Hi Pete, 
 
 
 
Thanks for offering this comprehensive information although I think that you're being charitable by starting us from the point of high school. :) 
 
 
 
I thought certain search engines, such as Google, were going to "penalize" sites for paid links. I realize that some "pay for inclusion" directories (e.g., BOTW) may be worthwhile. How about others?  
 
 
 
Obviously, it would be best to garner links from free sites, but do you have a list of "paid sites" that would still provide search engine optimization benefit? 
 
 
 
Thanks so much for any feedback! 
 
 
 
Best Regards, 
 
Andy Lax  
 
http://www.intelli-collect.com

posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 at 12:46 PM by Andy Lax


We do not recommend paying for links. The only time we'd say to pay for a link would be to buy one from a reputable directory such as Yahoo's.  
 
If you are in doubt of what a reputable paid directory looks like, run it through http://website.grader.com and see what their score is. If it's 85+, it's probably a good site pay for inclusion.

posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 at 1:05 PM by peter caputa


Hi Pete, 
 
 
 
Thanks so much for your timely response. I did not know about the Website Grader and this tool looks extremely useful. 
 
 
 
I appreciate all your help! 
 
 
 
Best Regards, 
 
Andy Lax 
 
http://www.intelli-collect.com

posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 at 1:19 PM by Andy Lax


Great resource. Love the content.. very professionally structured. This article thought me another technique that im not serious about all these days..

posted on Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 3:03 AM by fathhi


<a href="http://monetarytruths.blogspot.com/>Aish 
helpful information.Eventually the thing which matters is the quality of content,otherwise building quality incoming links is not possible,at least not for free.

posted on Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 10:11 AM by Ashutosh


Aish  
sorry for the wrong html code

posted on Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 10:15 AM by Ashutosh


Thanks for a very informative article. 
 
Used Cars In Richmond VA Chase Motors  

posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 8:29 PM by Used Cars In Richmond VA Chase Motors


I enjoy testing my website to see my new score. It was fluxuating a bit but it is stablizing in the low 80s now. I hope to get it higher soon.

posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 10:15 PM by Ask Your PC


Thank you for this nice article. As SEO is becoming more and more of a profession of its own I welcome these articles.

posted on Monday, January 12, 2009 at 4:17 AM by Webdesign SEO and hosting


Thanks for the tips, nice one.

posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 7:12 PM by Scott Donald


Hi, 
 
I absolutely agree with you about the newbies :-) 
Some people simply are impatient and want immediate results... just like you said: after a month of writing, they almost give up because there is no immediate search engine traffic, etc. 
 
Better and better! 
 
Narek Gabrielyan

posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 11:12 PM by Strategic Internet Marketing Tips


I am new to marketing, Ive been in sales for a few years and have always been relatively successful without much effort. About a year ago I decided to try marking unique services, marketing is a lot different than sales and web marketing is proving to be a new and scary experience. I never thought I would jump for joy when my website jumped from an average of about 1 hit per day to about 10 but that is the sad reality of staring with absolutely no experience or education.  
Using the teqniques I have learned from the resources hubspot has provided has helped me jump from the average of 10 hits per day to about 100 (10 to 100 in three days makes me hopeful that this might really work out).  
I appreciate the advice and the "high school" step format you have laid out in your blog.  
If anyone would like to network, my website focuses in on retail gasoline, the effects of macro economics to the resulting retail price fluctuations, I would be more than happy to link swap if you have a related topic, process or service. Please contact me at <a>links@regular87.com and be sure to visit my site at 
<a>http://www.regular87.com 

posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 11:03 AM by Nick Miller


I wasn't bluffing, I am very new to internet marketing (and HTML...) 
let me try that again 
<a> http://www.regular87.com  
<a> links@regular87.com

posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM by Nick Miller


One more time 
 
http://www.regular87.com 
 
links@regular87.com

posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 11:08 AM by Nick Miller


<a http://www.regular87.com

posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM by Nick Miller


Great insight. Will be sharing with my team.

posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 5:10 PM by Christopher Doran


i'm new for study seo, many paper i has read for optimize my website. but i don't know, why google can't indexed my web for normally with my keyword ? 
my web describe about bio necklace or bio infra red ray, in Indonesia called "kalung biofir". bio necklace can make your body health and protect for deseases without drug. life time guarantue products and original. 
for more information click http://www.BiofirLife.com/

posted on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 9:43 AM by sigit


It is true that it is a very painstaking process - this link building thing - but this post is encouraging because it reinforces the notion that it takes time to build a successful blog, no matter how good the content.

posted on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 8:17 PM by Divorce Saloon


Best article i have read in a long time! Plus all the links in the article are fantastic. I have some homework to do.

posted on Friday, January 16, 2009 at 4:39 PM by Ian


You really have done incredible job we therefore thank you a lot.

posted on Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 8:39 AM by Diversity Tours Ethiopia


link building very useful for the improve the page rank  
 

posted on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 1:10 AM by Flexible Shaft Machine


I think the social networks such a technorati, digg, stumbleupon still give pretty good bang for the buck. I also suggest using sites liked LinkedIn and facebook for link building.  
 
 
 

posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 1:47 AM by Bailey Cross


Very nice blog i have learned from it and that is what matters.I didn't know how important it was to build links until i read your blog.

posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 8:32 AM by Eddie Frueh


This post was written awhile ago, so not sure Pete reads the comments anymore, but here we go. I have a blog that links fairly well at the freshman level; scored an 18 when I began this and most recently a 67 and a PR2 so getting better. On marketwire; do we publish our best posts (i.e. 2007 compared to 2008 real estate sales for "X" City) like I would to DIGG or Carnival? I don't want to be on a street level when you are talking a 50,000 foot view. What types of publishing are we talking about? 
 
Sorry if this is a basic question; just trying to go piece by piece through your post.

posted on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 9:31 PM by Cindy in Indy


Hi Cindy,  
 
Good question. You want your keyword research to drive your link building. If you're trying to rank for "real estate IN", you want to first optimize a page around that phrase by including the keyword in the page title, url ahd h1 tag. Then, when you write your press release, you want the anchor text of the link pointing to that page to be "real estate IN"

posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 at 3:25 AM by peter caputa


Thanks for give valuable information.

posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 3:57 AM by jay


Thanks, very fresh and inspiring.

posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 9:16 AM by NBWeb.it


If you're doing the majority of things mentioned in your article how long should you give it for you websie's search engine ranking to improve?

posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 1:25 PM by Gift Baskets Montreal


I have a question, Last week I used the website grader and it reported nearly 1600 inbound links. This week, it just says N/A and my site has disappeared on Google for certain keywords. Any feedback on this?

posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 2:40 PM by David Allred


I too show inbound links as N/A and my grade dropped from 73 to 59. I'm assuming it's because of the inbound link value as nothing else has changed. Anyone know what happened?

posted on Monday, February 02, 2009 at 4:49 PM by Lisa Gibbs


@David and Lisa. The place where we get the "link data" has not been reliable lately.

posted on Monday, February 02, 2009 at 4:51 PM by peter caputa


how can i get the inbound links, can anyone tell me dear

posted on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 at 3:01 AM by Induction Motor


Great article, seems the best way is to gain inbound links is to provide good useful content that people want to read.

posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 at 5:09 AM by Rob Walker


I have been using WSG for about a year now... I managed to get the Zerocarbonista blog up to 97% recently, and last month was our busiest month, what with all the UFO business. We have about 1000 inbound links, but today's report says N/A. 
 
Is that anything to do with the google meltdown recently (you know - the one saying all sites might damage your computer)??

posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 at 7:03 AM by Zerocarbonista


@zerocarbonista. Congrats on getting your WSG and traffic up. NICE how those things correspond, ha?  
 
The source where we get links from for WSG has not been reliable lately.  
 
I'd encourage you to check out LinkGrader:  
 
http://www.hubspot.com/products/link-grader-link-analysis/

posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 at 8:11 AM by Pete Caputa


Great article to get going on link building.

posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 at 8:34 PM by Kick Ass Media


Great article...I was just reading a couple sites with questionable link building tactics.

posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 at 9:02 PM by Kick Ass Media


Pete 
 
Great info - many thanks!

posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 at 10:26 AM by Alex Guest


Nice and Inspiring. Short and up to the point. 
 
 
 

posted on Saturday, February 07, 2009 at 7:55 AM by Vera Chandler


I'm building a web directory. The database is getting entries but the text content is minimal, can my site still get a good rank with your suggestions?

posted on Saturday, February 07, 2009 at 11:46 PM by believersland.com


link building is the best technique in SERP

posted on Monday, February 09, 2009 at 7:13 AM by kalung biofir


Thank you so much for this very informative posting.

posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 1:01 PM by Julie


Great post and info. I appreciate your comments about patience. Many expect this to happen overnight. Would they close the doors to their business if they didn't succeed overnight?

posted on Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM by Chuck


great article post and your information 
 
 
 
NDT Technology

posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 at 4:48 AM by NDT Technology


Thank you so much for the information, this is really helpfull.

posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM by MEAR


listen nugoomfm 100.6 and chatting with others listenrs

posted on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 6:46 AM by Nugoomfm


I appreciate how you broke down the different aspects of link building into easily understandable sections. It was also good to be reminded that this all takes time and patience is key.

posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 at 7:09 PM by Alex Mansfield


Adding links to other sites, blogs, and feeds works great. I hope I can get to a google rank of 4 soon which would be outstanding for a state level photographer. 
 
 
 
<a>http://www.kiwisunphoto.com

posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:51 PM by Tovis Bratsburg


Excellent info for the newbies like myself. Really lays it out. Thanks very much.

posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 4:06 PM by barry Shereshevsky


My boss wants me to optimize our gentlemen's club website, I find it hard because we don't have much "text" content. Any tips on what I can do?

posted on Monday, March 02, 2009 at 12:00 AM by Walter


Thanks Pete for such a nice article.

posted on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 at 1:01 AM by New Car Prices India


I really appreciate the author efforts to write the article with great info.

posted on Monday, March 16, 2009 at 5:35 PM by Vineet Chawla


it is amazing article, thank you

posted on Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 7:30 AM by منوعات


Great stuff! I have been incorporating your ideologies on SEO for a short while and have seen some great results. I appreciate it!

posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 at 5:45 PM by Andrew G. Harris


nice article John! 
good for newbie

posted on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 11:45 AM by top5internetmarketingreview


برامج,تطوير,مواقع,منتديات,خدمات,مجانية

posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM by s2mia.net


very good.

posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 8:54 AM by letras


One of the best ways to get your site ranked.

posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 11:56 AM by StoreUpon


Thanks for the SEO help. My big beef is with Yahoo! Directory. It's not okay to do link building or link farms, but Yahoo! can charge $299 annually to be in their directory? Come on! I'm sorry, but I won't be putting my site, which does Reviews for Redding Restaurants, on Yahoo! anytime soon. BTW, even though Joe Ant and Aboutus.org charge, you can avoid the charge by VOLUNTEERING to edit.  

posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 5:16 PM by Chris


Thanks for the lessons on link building. HubSpot is such a great company for educating us in the new world marketing of web 2.0. Thank you for all your value you add!

posted on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 at 2:14 PM by Steve


This is great! I think link building, back linking with targeted landing pages and keywords, as well as social media marketing and online viral marketing are essential to getting the word out about your website and online business. With so many PPC ads to compete with and such high expense for banner ads and offline advertising methods, SEO, inexpensive SEM, web 2.0 and viral, link building techniques are the best way to get more bang for your buck over the long wrong. You have to put a lot of initial effort in at first to generate link building campaigns, but once you have something to maintain and improve upon it will save online businesses a lot of time and money over the long-term. I've been trying out some of these methods on our company website, Rubicon Marketing Group and so far our Website Grader score has gone up over 40% in the last couple weeks!

posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 at 1:00 PM by KGreenhaw


Haha "over the long wrong!" I'll have to remember that typo :-) 
 
I wonder if posting comments with funny typos increases organic clicks to your website? I know that you can optimize your Adwords campaigns and meta tags by using some of the most popular typos that users make when they search the web. I'm sure something similar could be said about viral posts and social media campaigns.

posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 at 1:10 PM by KGreenhaw


Thanks for sharing this. It is informative. :)

posted on Friday, April 03, 2009 at 1:30 AM by Ellyn


It is so usefull to me,and I want to do it now!Thank you:)

posted on Sunday, April 05, 2009 at 8:46 PM by sam


Ok hi

posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 at 3:30 AM by Meshary AlShehry


Thanks for the great information. I will be working on your suggestions.

posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 at 1:14 PM by Shirley


Very informative article. Thanks for the post.

posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 at 11:31 PM by <a href="http://www.mccloudphotography.com">Justin</a>


Really a nice article. Personally I feel that 12th Grade links increase the search engine visibility most. 
 
Regds, 
Team ERP Deals<a>http://erpdeals.com 

posted on Thursday, April 09, 2009 at 5:22 AM by Tina Malhotra


I understand great article thanks a bunch 
 
Colorado Airport Transportation 
 
"colorado's leading authority of denver airport transportation for the denver international airport" (720)842-2186  
 

posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM by Colorado airport transportation


I am a big fan of websitegrader and use it almost daily. But I do have a question, not sure if I should put it here, if not sorry 'bout that. 
 
Appearantly it is of value to be listed in ZoomInfo but this service still doesn't accept submissions; does websitegrader still weigh ZoomInfo with the grading?

posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 8:34 AM by Pieter


Hi, 
 
 
 
great post. Im interested to learn more about your search engine optimistion link baiting ideas. can you point me in the right direction?

posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 3:02 PM by SEO-Authority


Pete, 
 
 
 
I found this article really interesting. I will deploy your techniques in my own blog for my free website builder website, EzWeb123.com. 
 
 
 
Thanks. 
 
 
 
Pete (UK)

posted on Friday, April 17, 2009 at 11:50 AM by Pete Moore


Acesse nosso site.

posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 9:53 AM by Nisto Cremos


Thanks for the great info. I am starting to use your grader more frequently and hope to follow your advice to improve my site on the web

posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 3:32 PM by Matt


Very very interesting post! I'll follow this steps... 
Thanx

posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 at 11:12 AM by Ilaria


Applying these strategies to our outsourcing website. Thanks!

posted on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:58 PM by TryBPO.com Outsourcing Solutions


Thanks for the great info! We'll try to get some of this going over at Career Step

posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 7:03 PM by Matt


Wonderful article and I loved the way you broke it down!

posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 7:34 PM by Joe Rinehart


good article, txs

posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM by IzradaWebStranica


really interesting and true article

posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM by SEOMetuzalem


Thanks for sharing this knowledge.

posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 11:49 PM by Email Tracking


No - but I would like to know as well, as I've been trying for years!

posted on Monday, May 04, 2009 at 2:48 AM by Peter


 
 
Retro Jordan, Cheap Jordan Shoes,Nike Dunk High,True Religion Jeans,New Air Force Ones,Air Max,Air Shox,Adidas shoes,Gucci shoes,Prada shoes,,Nike Air Yeezy,Free shipping!

posted on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 1:15 AM by Retro Jordan


This is a great post. I Wonder if it is better to have less links with higher PR's than a ton of links with lower PR's.

posted on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 9:17 AM by Garage Door Repair Companies


Want to learn about New York
 
We have job postings. 
 
We sell tickets to New York Events, Concerts and Broadway Shows!

posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 10:01 PM by metrony


Thanks for the great article. Excellent summary of the key points to work on for those of us newer to SEO.

posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM by Mike


Always learn something new on Hubspot, this is an informative article. Keep it up and Thanks - onthebuzz.com

posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 6:47 PM by PJ


i have a lot of work to do! thanks for the info.

posted on Monday, May 25, 2009 at 2:54 AM by renee Hindman


Just wanted to say thanks for your comments on my website. I never realised there is only a certain amount of words allows for mega descripton until now so, thanks i have adjusted that. Will have to look in to getting more links!

posted on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 11:51 AM by Jan


Great article, definitely one to bookmark and reread, just learning all this stuff and takes lots and lots of time to understand

posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 10:22 PM by Weaim2pleez.com


Helpful article. I am trying to do this in multiple languages (English and Chinese). Any tips?

posted on Friday, May 29, 2009 at 2:06 AM by Alex Raymond


This is one of the more comprehensive SEO lessons I have seen.

posted on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 at 1:06 PM by Michael Lerner


Article is really great for newbie's. But still there are other technique around which would help you a lot in improving your search engine ranking. You should buy high PR links.

posted on Monday, June 08, 2009 at 9:34 PM by Joseph


Gostei muito das dicas, parabéns...

posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 1:42 PM by Russo


Thanks for the tool, its really awesome and will keep using it to track the progress of the sites Im SEO-ing.  
 
I am also interested about the articles / press releases and how we can publish these online. 
 
Thanks again 
 
Elemental

posted on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 7:16 AM by Elemental web and mobile solutions


This is an excellent and well researched article. As someone new to this entire process I found it to be extremely helpful. 
 
 
 
Thank you!

posted on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM by Jason Daniel


I must say you folks practice what you preach. 
 
 
 
Insanely helpful content, reports and website grader. 
 
 
 
Yes there's a lot more to it than meets the eye, that's for sure. 
 
 
 
For those bloggers you talk about who pack it up after a month, they just need to have their expectations set and their plan worked out. 
 
 
 
Thanks agaian

posted on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 3:20 PM by Larry LaFata


I have achived a page rank of 1. 
My website is http://linuxandmicrocontrollertips.blogspot.com

posted on Friday, June 12, 2009 at 6:23 AM by Dipin Krishna


What's amazing is how people over-complicate some of these processes. Whenever I hear of someone slaving for days over an article or press release, it boggles my mind.  
 
I don't think life moves at the speed of sound or light anymore - it moves at the speed of content. Those who can keep up with the pace and demand for content are ultimately the ones who are going to be the most successful.  
 
Great way of formatting the blog post too. It's a great way of tackling content creation. 
 
- Jeff

posted on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 2:04 PM by Jeff Machado | Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant


Hubspot: This type of content is a very helpful guide for those of us who are building links. 
 
 
 
Not only does this post outline what to do it also provides some indication about the importance of each activity. 
 
 
 
Thanks for the tips! 
 
 
 
- Scott

posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 10:08 AM by Scott Guthmann


Ótimo artigo!!! Muito bom mesmo pessoal! Vcs estão de parabéns!!!

posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 11:36 AM by Rafael


Thanks for his learning all the time. 
 
 
 
Regards 
 
Jeff 
 
Director at: 
 
<a href="http://www.companyalliances.com>Company Alliances 
 
<a href=">KYKO-UK 
 
<a href="http://www.diamonds-software.com>Diamonds Software 
 

posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 7:45 AM by Jeff Goddard


Can't type - need food. Trying again.  
 
Thanks for all this good learning.  
 
 
 
Regards  
 
 
 
Jeff  
 
Director at: http://www.companyalliances.com, http://www.kyko-uk.com, http://www.diamonds-software.com

posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 7:52 AM by Jeff


Thanks for all this good learning. 
 
Need suggesation for my site <a href=http://www.fmmultan.com>FmMultan.Com

posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 5:18 AM by Ahsan


Nice tips. I will start to implement some of the issues and ideas on the post, and see what hapens in the future....

posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 4:58 AM by Nuno Bandeira Salvador


It will be very pleasure if you give detailed backlink description with PR.

posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 7:42 AM by affiliates


So, blogging will always be blogging, everyone always talks about "great content" but no one ever defines what makes great content.  
 
Isn't it all in the eye of the beholder?

posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:49 AM by Anthony Bliss


Thanks so much for the tips. Now to put them into action...

posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 8:53 PM by Paul


I've recently set up my site www.easysudoksolver.com and I'm confused by what counts as a backlink in Google's eyes, Websitegrader says 1 Google says not and yet there are several links from Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon etc showing up in serps. 
 
Any one got any ideas

posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 4:57 AM by Johno


this article is simply mindblowing, but i guess implementing the things you mentioned will take really long time and patience. Is there any shortcut way for doing this ?

posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 1:19 AM by Rajje


Oh no, I'm a freshman... again. It's helpful, though, knowing that. Any estimates on how much money should be spent at each level? Directory fees? Other posting-type fees?

posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 12:25 PM by BobP


Great article. For a lifestyle, humorous blog without consistent keywords overall for the search engines, I'd love an article tailored to the non-business (but revenue...desiring) sites. 
 
Thanks!

posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 12:29 PM by Amy


I have created a new website which gives <a href=http://www.markamoment.com>Daily Motivational thought for the day. You have been very helpful in this article.

posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 1:53 AM by markamoment


Your website grader is not quite right. First, I am using DotNetNuke a popular .NET CMS. The blog module is NOT recognized by the grader. 
 
However, it is recognizing a RSS feed as a blog and the site is getting credit from the articles on the feed. Nice, but probably NOT what the search engines really do. 
 
Oh well. 
 
Effective Agile Development LLC

posted on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 at 12:23 AM by Rod Claar


Pretty nice post, thanks a lot!!!

posted on Thursday, July 02, 2009 at 1:27 PM by Webdesign Stuttgart


I used few of their tools, and they are pretty accurate. So it might be the way your site is created... check for compatibility issues, I would start from there. 
 
VM

posted on Saturday, July 04, 2009 at 9:18 PM by Vahe Mushegyan


Guide Shoes 
 
Funs blog 
 
collect bag 
 
Ho jewelry Blog 
 
pick your shoes

posted on Tuesday, July 07, 2009 at 1:25 AM by dcsadasd


Fantastic article, and we try to follow these practices wherever possible for our SEO campaigns for our customers. What I find hysterical is that so many people, particularly towards the bottom of the article have tried to hijack the page for link juice. They clearly haven't read your newer blog about the 5 B's of bad link building, and clearly they've never looked at html source to see the links here are nofollow. Lol.

posted on Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 5:48 AM by Jamie Giberti


They always say that content is king, and I couldn't agree more. My favorite part is social networking, hopefully my aspiration for a really solid link structure will be ascertained one day.

posted on Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 4:30 PM by Francesca


Hello Pete. No doubt this is a hard path to walk, being the hardest part the engaging of others (this is what I'm trying now!). However, I'm following these steps and getting good results. Thanks for your advices! 
 

posted on Friday, July 10, 2009 at 9:38 AM by Marco Antonio Blanco


If you want read crazy news and videos

posted on Monday, July 13, 2009 at 7:16 AM by Luis


Crazy news and Videos

posted on Monday, July 13, 2009 at 7:17 AM by Luis


<p>حائل</p> 
<p>منتدى حائل</p> 
<p>توبيكات</p>

posted on Monday, July 13, 2009 at 8:19 AM by haily


My head is spinning--just like in school. All of this is slowly sinking in thanks to this well crafted article.  
 
Thanks much!

posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM by PetNewsandViews.com


What is the difference between inbounds links and the links found when using linkwww.yourdomain.com in Google?

posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 10:29 AM by webwinkel


Thanks for all the great tips!

posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 4:17 PM by Lindsey Tyner


Very good article check my site for TV aerial installations Birmingham 
 
 
 
Midlands Digital, TV Aerial Installations Birmingham

posted on Friday, July 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM by Neil Jones


I feel like I'm still in pre-school and way behind the 8 ball just reading this post. Thank you for sharing the information! I'm going to start working on it, in my spare time ;-) 
 
All kidding aside, many thanks!!! 
 
Trish Giassa in Crested Butte, CO

posted on Friday, July 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM by Trish Giassa


Very goods Thank you so much.

posted on Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 8:22 PM by Anthony


I feel like I'm still in pre-school and way behind the 8 ball just reading this post. Thank you for sharing the information! I'm going to start working on it, in my spare time ;-)  
 
 
 
All kidding aside, many thanks!!!  
 
 
 
Trish Giassa in Crested Butte, CO

posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 at 6:14 PM by mo3ty


Thanks for letting me know how much my site stinks! lol Very useful site you have here. I am reworking my site right now! Thanks again!

posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 12:39 AM by Nate


Thanks a lot for the information about inbound link building... 
 
This really help me a lot. 
 
I will surely work on this... 
 
Thanks again...

posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 5:00 AM by Elvin Sumalpong


Good article. Somewhere in grade 10, wondering how I'll fare in grade 11. Many interesting to work on this summer break. 
 
Does the creation of a single article equate to a single inbound link?

posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 4:35 PM by Paul Beauchemin


Thanks for these valuable tips. It sure opened my eyes on a lot of things that I've been missing. 
Thanks again,

posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 9:26 PM by Abdel


Thank you so much for this article. It has been very valuable to our online business. 
 
www.locksmithnyc.com 

posted on Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 8:16 AM by Arties


Most articles contained within hubspot are very helpful indeed. I would recommend anyone to follow most of what is contained, and see if it works for them.

posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 at 2:44 PM by Newthing


I have learned a great deal from you site and really wish to thank you. I say this with a red face but I did not even know about META tags and keywords until I came to your site. I have a lot to learn. Thanks very much!

posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 at 4:56 PM by CM


Great article, very informative. I will follow it step by step keep posting... Oh BTW i love the website seo tool grader. It's helped me pinpoint my weaknesses as well as my strengths  
 
www.retractablebannerstands.us 

posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 1:14 PM by Ernest


As you can tell by this late entry I have only just arrived at this stage of web development. I am overwhelmed by the work that needs to be put in to building a sucesful site but at least you have given me great directions on where to start.If anyone wants to add any suggestions please contact me.I need to beat 128 links. I have 5 . I told you only just started.

posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 7:12 PM by Tom


It wasn’t long ago that bloggers and money had nothing to do with each other, 
Every article starts with an idea in the mind of a contributor. You can create articles about anything,

posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 12:51 PM by mike the locksmith


What are your predictions for GOP crossover votes during final confirmation?

posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 12:57 PM by locksmith


Good Knowledge for me and every one Thank very much.

posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 11:43 PM by http://www.cranekci.com


This is a great post. I Wonder if it is better to have less links with higher PR's than a ton of links with lower PR's.

posted on Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 12:13 PM by Techdiscussed


Another informative and helpful article. 
 
For those wondering, from our experience, getting a few high PR backlinks is far superior to getting lots of little PR backlinks.  
 
Like most other things on the internet, quality > quantity.

posted on Friday, July 31, 2009 at 5:38 AM by Grow Your Business 10% Or More In 90 Days Guaranteed


This is very good article. I have been using the same techniques mentioned here.

posted on Saturday, August 01, 2009 at 5:26 AM by Sagar


Great article on SEO!

posted on Sunday, August 02, 2009 at 3:39 AM by AskMichaelHart.com


Nice article, I recently started up a new Dutch site about "webdesign en website ontwerpen" and I've been looking into articles about SEO and link-building, it's not as straight-forward as you'd first expect. Hope to see more interesting articles. 
 
I've gotten my grader-rank up to 70 right now, which is pretty cool. Now working on the other pointers :)

posted on Sunday, August 02, 2009 at 1:40 PM by DragolinDesign


Really Good article on Link Building. 
 
 
 
mobile phone recycling UK

posted on Monday, August 03, 2009 at 4:45 PM by Atif


http://ilahievi.com/ veyawww.ilahievi.com veya ilahievi.com ilahi ve islami sohpet sitesidir ilahi dinleme ve ilahiler indlrme ve islami sohpet yapacaginzi iftar vakti saatinin oldugu sitedir

posted on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 at 4:05 AM by www.ilahievi.com


a great marketing strategy online. Thanks! 
 
<a>vipcitymodels.com

posted on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 at 4:54 PM by vipcitymodels-escorts


Hi, I see I have inbound links to my web site - how do I find out who is linking to me?  
 
Thanks, 
 
Wendie

posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 at 2:30 PM by Wendie


This was a really great article, and I appreciate everyone's comments too!

posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 at 9:22 AM by Danielle Nelisse


This is one of the best and most thorough posts I have read on link building. Good job!

posted on Monday, August 10, 2009 at 4:59 AM by Ash


Good Job Pete. Thanks for breaking it down. I agree with all points but most with the last one. Nothing like a supreme content and linking with humans and not websites. Thanks

posted on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 12:20 AM by Biren Saini


A very good post, i knew very less about the link building. Now i understood it in a better way

posted on Friday, August 14, 2009 at 12:18 PM by Chetan


Comments have been closed for this article.