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The 6 Fundamentals of an SEO Link Building Strategy

Top Rank Marketing

One of the big reasons why Google revolutionized search engines when it launched in 1998 was its PageRank algorithm , which rewarded pages based on how many other websites were linking to them. It’s little wonder that link building has been a crucial element of SEO ever since. Why is link building valuable for SEO?

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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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The Rules of Link Building - Best of Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by BritneyMuller Are you building links the right way? 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. Today we are going over the rules of link building.

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

Moz

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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Four Predictions About the State of SEO in 2017

Webbiquity

Previously, SEOs had focused more on the authority of sites to improve the amount of pagerank that would help to rank the site for its desired keyword. Now we are seeing improvements in site’s rankings if they receive links from more relevant sites, even if the authority of their site isn’t as high.

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How to Explain Domain Authority to a Non-SEO

Moz

This video is my best attempt to help you explain a really important concept in SEO, which is Domain Authority , to someone who doesn't know anything at all about SEO, to someone who is non-technical, to someone who is maybe not even a marketer. It's links. Do these pages have links to them? Are they trusted by other websites?

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

Moz

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?