seo today building critical inbound links
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Presented by Kaila Strong| [email protected] | @cliquekaila
SEO TODAY BUILDING CRITICAL INBOUND LINKS
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Housekeeping Notes
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ABOUT YOUR SPEAKER KAILA STRONG @CLIQUEKAILA
@cliquekaila
• Director of Client Strategy
• Vertical Measures: Search, Social Content Marketing
• Link building for 5 years
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QUALITY LINK BUILDING PRE-PENGUIN/PANDA
@cliquekaila
• Article marketing
• Spun articles
• Directories
• Sponsored blog posts
• Commenting
• Blog networks
• Link farms
• Forum links
• Link exchanges
• Site wide links
• Content scraping
• Social bookmarking
• Profile spam
• Domain purchase & redirect
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HUMMINGBIRD END OF LINK BUILDING?
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• New engine, very different than Penguin/Panda
• End goal: serve up the best results for users
• Link building isn’t dead
• Focus on relevancy
• Principles of co-citation even more important
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QUALITY RELEVANCY AUTHORITY
SUSTAINABILITY
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LINK BUILDING HASN’T CHANGED, THE RULES ARE STILL THE SAME.
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18 LINK BUILDING LESSONS
6 Link Building Examples
6 Useful Tools
6 Things You Can Do Today
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Lists
Broken Links
Niche Directory
Competitors
.EDU
Employee Sites
LINK BUILDING EXAMPLES
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“ASK YOURSELF WOULD YOU WANT THIS LINK IF THERE
WERE NO GOOGLE?” -ERIC WARD
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LINK BUILDING EXAMPLES
Tactic
Advanced Search Query & Synonym
“continuing education” “doctors” “list”
“bioethics”
DA 54 PR 5
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#1 Lists http://www.cmelist.com/otherlinks.htm
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LINK BUILDING EXAMPLES
Tactic
Advanced Search Query & Association
“fire education” “training” “association”
inurl:resource inurl:.org
DA 92 PR 7
Live in 1 Week
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#2 Associations http://www.nfpa.org
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LINK BUILDING EXAMPLES
Tactic
Positive Brand Mention w/o Link
Use of social media
DA 84 PR 7
Live in 2 1/2 Weeks
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#3 Brand Mention http://www.chicagobusiness.com
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LINK BUILDING EXAMPLES
Tactic
Links to 404 Pages & Link Checker
27 Broken Links
DA 75 PR 7
Live in 1 Week
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#4 Broken Links http://people.uncw.edu/albertm
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LINK BUILDING EXAMPLES
Tactic
Competitor Backlinks
Macro Spreadsheet
DA 66 PR 6
Live in 2 Months
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#5 Competitor Backlinks http://www.oakville.ca
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LINK BUILDING EXAMPLES
Tactic
Niche Directory with Advanced
Search Query
inurl:gov “health professionals”
“directory of”
DA 100 PR 8
Live in 3 Months
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#6 Niche Directory http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html
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USEFUL TOOLS
• Find Broken Links
• Inform Webmaster
• Provide additional suggestions
@cliquekaila
#1 Broken Link Checker
#2 Ubersuggest.org
• Find Similar Keywords
• Wide Array of Keyword Suggestions
• Get Inspiration
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USEFUL TOOLS
• Find Brand Mentions
• Competitor Mentions
• Keyword Mentions
@cliquekaila
#3 Fresh Web Explorer
#4 Bulk URL Opener
• Open Multiple Websites at a Time
• Improve Productivity
• Great for Competitive Analysis
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USEFUL TOOLS
• Generate Advanced Search Queries
• Find Guest Blogging Opportunities
• Uncover Niche Sites
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#5 Guest Post Labs Query Generator
#6 Google Alerts
• Find Interesting Content
• Reuse Advanced Search Queries
• Increase Productivity
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6 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY
• Uncover sites quickly
• Narrow down results
• Work efficiently
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#1 Become an Advanced Search Command Pro
#2 Create Content Your Competitors Want to Link To
• Get “Priceless” links
• Interviews, ‘history of’, industry
news, industry secrets, etc…
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8 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY
• Find your images others are using without links
• If you have the bandwidth, allow others to embed/hotlink your
images
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#3 Don’t Forget About Images
#4 Use Social Media
• Try contacting via social media
• Follow and Like your link contacts
• Get in front of webmasters before outreach for familiarity
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8 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY
• Switch up outreach approach
• Test new strategies
• Set goals to improve rate of response
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#5 Test E-mail Outreach & Make Improvements
#6 Look for Old Content to Update on Third Party Sites
• Data Mining Tool
• Scrape Lists to Find Similar
• Scrape SERPs to Find Similar
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LESSONS WE’VE LEARNED
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• Avoid spammy tactics, nothing worthwhile is easy
• Develop content that attracts links or can be leveraged
• Conduct backlink analysis and ensure you have quality backlinks
• Use tools and natural tactics to garner links
• Learn from past spammy mistakes
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LINK SMARTER, NOT HARDER.
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Kaila Strong
@cliquekaila
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