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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

KoMarketing Associates

In addition to healthy dose of Matt Cutts (Head of Google’s Webspam Team), these videos cover common questions, link building tactics, and the impact of link building schemes and questionable behavior. You can use the links below and also after each video to navigate through the videos and sections.

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Is Quora or Medium Dead?

nDash

Quora: Founded in 2009, Quora is a question and answer-based website where users search for and obtain information. Medium: Launched in 2012, Medium is an open platform for writers to share and readers to obtain information. Use Quora as part of your link-building strategy. Complete a content gap analysis using Quora.

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How a Tiny Finance Startup Dethroned Fortune 500 Giants in Google Search

Hubspot

In 2009, most people would have called Tim Chen, the founder of Nerdwallet , crazy for even trying to take on the titans of the credit card industry. Founded in 2009 as a bootstrapped startup, Nerdwallet has grown at an exponential pace, from 283 users per month in 2009 to 2.2 Picture Credit: SlideShare.

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Confessions of a Google Spammer

Hubspot

My Mindset in 2009. Spamming Was Very Profitable Back in 2012. 500 list in 2012. And that became all too clear when I went to Distilled's LinkLove event in London in April 2012. Seeing the Writing on the Wall: The Death of Link-Building. Link Building”. Link Building ”.

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In the Aftermath of Penguin 2.0, Branding Is Now a Major Ranking Factor

Hubspot

Just as with the initial release of Google’s Penguin update last year, SEOs all over the web are writing post-mortems about aggressive link building tactics that were once the bread-and-butter of successful search engine optimization, but are now resigned to the dustbin of internet history. Perhaps you’ve heard about it? Yeah, figured.

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Learning SEO? The Beginner's List of Resources to Get Started

Hubspot

They start with searcher intent, move to modern ranking and conversion strategies, review international SEO, share successful link-building plays, and end with the future of SEO. But even if the design looked straight out of 2009, I'd still read it: because the content is also really, really good. But back to the courses.

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity

Aden Hepburn shares a wealth of social media ROI statistics here, such as that 74% of CMOs believe they will get a handle on social media ROI in 2012. The most rapid increase in adoption has been in the use of social networking, which has nearly doubled since 2009. • Paid Search To Grow 15% In 2012 by MediaPost Online Media Daily.