Comments on: 7 golden rules of link building in 2009

By: Alex Newman

Alex Newman — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:09:57 +0000

Good stuff. The pages that already top Google for keywords and niches that are related to yours, are the ones you want your link on – makes sense doesn’t it!

By: G.weber | link building services

G.weber | link building services — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:29:01 +0000

Good article it is. A page is juicy when there are a lot of information you can actually squeezed out of the write up.

By: web designing

web designing — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:31:06 +0000

May I go for some trusted/authority site that are not relevant? Do you think few of them really hamper the other rank building factors?

By: Chris Boushey

Chris Boushey — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:56:42 +0000

This was well done and easily understood. Thank you for explaining it so well.

By: Willing2Learn

Willing2Learn — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:02:06 +0000

Awesome work!!! Very well written. Thank you for sharing… I’ll keep dropping by.

By: Scentsy - Katie Jones

Scentsy - Katie Jones — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:08:32 +0000

Thanks to you I have slowly watched my search engine placement improve. Thank you!!

By: Lively Jason

Lively Jason — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:30:11 +0000

Excellent write-up. did picked a couple of tips from you. Thanks v much.

By: The Penalty of Perfect Incoming Links | FoundByDesign.com

The Penalty of Perfect Incoming Links | FoundByDesign.com — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:01:30 +0000

[...] recently read an article about Linking Strategies for 2009 and while most of what I read was basic common sense to anyone that has been around the internet [...]

By: Eduard Blacquière

Eduard Blacquière — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:56:10 +0000

@Eric
First of all thanks for your comment.

With mentioning your co-authored article I wanted to provide some background, as I think that article still is a really good resource in link building. Of course it is not possible to summarize it in 3 bullet points, but my point was to illustrate things have changed.

Furthermore I state that in my opinion those tactics are not all the best way to go with these days. I do not say those tactics are useless.

I really appreciate the work you are doing and you inspire me for several years now! I also think that the link building methods I describe above are used for years by many of us (including myself).

The presentation by Christoph Cemper at A4Uexpo in Amsterdam just summarized well what I and other people realized before, definitely also thanks to your writings. And as I do not see these kind of link building methods described a lot these days unfortunately, I chose to write this article.

By: Eric Ward

Eric Ward — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:35:11 +0000

You mention an article I co-authored (131 LB tactics…) back in 2002, and then summarize it with three bullet points? Of course things change. And some of us were never foolish enough to use those tactics that now do not work. Don’t insult the old school link builders by intimating their approach isn’t effective. As I enter my 15th year of link building, I reckon I’ve requested a few hundred thousand links for a few hundred clients. Never did I use the tactics you deride as useless today, because frankly they were useless then too to anyone with the f’n sense to know it. What you describe as effective today is what many of us have done all along. You just finally realized that what I’ve preached for over a decade turned out to be correct, then and now. Merit based linking never goes out of style, friend.