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New & Improved: Announcing The Beginner's Guide To Link Building

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Posted by Cyrus-Shepard Link building isn't always easy, but if you want to rank with SEO, links are often the cost of admission. While Google says SEOs sometimes focus too much on links, links remain one of the few confirmed ranking factors. For many, link building also presents a challenge.

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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

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Last week we wrote a best practice guideline for a client, on how to acquire quality links in today’s SEO environment. 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.

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The Rules of Link Building - Best of Whiteboard Friday

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Posted by BritneyMuller Are you building links the right way? Or are you still subscribing to outdated practices? Britney Muller clarifies which link building tactics still matter and which are a waste of time (or downright harmful) in one of our very favorite classic episodes of Whiteboard Friday. Just be awesome.

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The One-Hour Guide to SEO: Link Building - Whiteboard Friday

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Posted by randfish The final episode in our six-part One-Hour Guide to SEO series deals with a topic that's a perennial favorite among SEOs: link building. Today, learn why links are important to both SEO and to Google, how Google likely measures the value of links, and a few key ways to begin earning your own.

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How to Spot a Link Scheme (and Get Away Fast)

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Link building is a practical necessity if you want to increase your rankings in search engines. Search algorithms evaluate the trustworthiness of your site based in part on the number and quality of links pointing to it. What Is a Link Scheme? Link exchanges. This is definitely considered a link scheme.

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How to Explain Domain Authority to a Non-SEO

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Therefore, the two main types of SEO are on-page SEO, creating content, and off-site SEO, PR, link building , and authority. Because links basically are trust. Web page, links to web page, that's kind of like a vote. The name for this stuff originally in Google was called PageRank. That is called authority.

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Topical SEO: 7 Advanced Concepts of Link Relevance & Google Rankings

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This is the popularity part of Google’s algorithm, described in the original PageRank patent. But Google doesn’t stop at using links for popularity. They’ve invented a number of clever ways to use links to determine relevance and authority — i.e. what is this page about and is it a trusted answer for the user’s search query?