Link Building Questions
If I get several links from authority sites that aren't really related to my site's topic, would they count towards an SEO benefit? Or worse, could it have a negative affect on my rankings?
If your back link profile has mostly all do-follow links, does that appear unnatural to Google?Does having a certain minimum ratio of no-follow links improve your Google rankings?
Would it be inappropriate to directly ask journalists to link any mention of your site in their articles?There are occasions where I've spoken to writers and provided feedback as a source, and the...
How large of a factor do backlinks play in SEO rankings in Google?Is it possible to rank high for moderately competitive terms with little or no backlinks?If I put out great high quality content,...
If a large authority site like CNET writes an article about my startup, and somewhere on my site (not the homepage) I have a link to a different CNET article, is that considered reciprocal...
Matt Cutts, the head of web spam at Google, made a statement that site owners should nofollow any link on widgets they distribute. So apparently this common practice has also now become gray/black...
What aspects of link building in SEO do you automate and have found positive results with?While SEO is likely the most sought after marketing channel for any site, it's painfully slow and manual...
Which tools do you utilize to find broken link building opportunities? And what's the best way to organize email proposals sent?
What are some ways to improve results from "broken link building" (where you contact sites that have a broken link to help them correct it and also get a link placed to yours in the process).Any...
With all the information being dispensed by Matt Cutts and the Google web spam team, is link building soon going to be dead. In terms of not being a prominent factor in rankings?Especially since...
What are things to look out for when considering the value of a link? What factors make a back link good or bad?The factors seem to change drastically every year. Here are some things that were...
What are some link building tricks / hacks you've used that a beginner in SEO would not know?
Is there a tool that will let me check which backlinks a site got between a specific time period?All the tools I've seen like OpenSiteExplorer just show all the backlinks.A tool that lets you see...
What is the difference between orphan links and broken links in the context of SEO?
We know that having links pointing to our site is important but easier said then done! What is the hardest part of link building for you? Hopefully we can help one another out.
I am contemplating building a tool similar to BuzzStream for link building. How can I find out if the market size is big enough to easily get to $1M in revenue? BuzzStream doesn't seem to have...
