Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Links (and then some)
Rae had a great idea for a “round robin” of link development questions to a great bunch that does quite a bit of it. I’m still reading through it all, since no one got to see one another’s answer’s until it was posted.Eric Ward, of URL Wire, Rand Fishkin - The wizard of Moz, Roger Montti, the VP of Verticals at the world’s coolest directory - Best of the web, and of course Rae Hoffman of Sugarrae and SEO Class. I tried to find favorite parts, but seemed to enjoy most all of the 6600 words of it, and would be a disservice if you didn’t read the entire article anyhow.
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Glen
March 15th, 2007,
3:15 pm
Long post, Ill see what I can do
MeTheGeek
March 15th, 2007,
3:32 pm
Thanks for pointing it out Todd. It is a long article indeed, but of great value.
Zach Katkin
March 15th, 2007,
3:33 pm
That article was great. Has a lot of really great information about what really goes on with SEO and how Search Engines are NOT always linkers’ main concerns. Thanks for the link.
Brian Mark
March 15th, 2007,
4:27 pm
Very cool. Can’t wait to learn how to build links… why do I need links again? LOL.
Jim Keough
March 15th, 2007,
4:31 pm
good to see the differing points of view. looks like you guys are all white hat? am i wrong? maybe your grey hat
tmoney
March 16th, 2007,
11:14 pm
yeah that was a long article, but a good read that kept me interested the whole way through. But as I mentioned previously, I cant help following many of the links that are provided to other sources in article, sometimes the content that i go to is really good and i forget where I came from.
solay
March 18th, 2007,
5:32 pm
wow, 244 digs so far. excellent article, i will reccomend to others.
Ken Savage
March 19th, 2007,
12:38 pm
I’m still in the middle of it but find it’s definitely a what’s what on links. God stuff Rae. thx Todd for the heads up.
Solomon Rothman
March 22nd, 2007,
5:22 am
I’ve become a big fan of short summary posts lately. Occasionally I get a kick of long rants and posts that spark long discussions in the comments like what you run into a lot at seomoz. How many blogs a day/week do you read?
Arnab
April 5th, 2007,
3:42 am
Good to see something on links.
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