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Creative Link Building Round 2

October 16th, 2007

Last month I wrote an article on Creative Link Building to help give some insight into “thinking outside the box” when it comes to your linking campaign. Now it is time to take it to the next level.

Quality Content is King

It does not matter what niche your marketing or audience your trying to reach. If you want to really see a significant traffic increase and watch your natural links start to evolve, then content really is king. I would like to enrich my statement “quality content is king” with a little explanation. One thing that I have discovered in my few years as a SEO entrepreneur is people are hunting your quality content everyday as a source to link to. So people who take the time to write original quality content will definitely succeed in this area. Take for example, if I copied every article Andy Beard wrote with my own little re-write of it, then I would probably not see much results from that.

However, if I take the time to research my own related information I can still use Andy as a source and it will produce much more results.

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Is Barack Obama a SEO in disguise?

Summary: Barack Obama in my opinion has revolutionized the way campaigns will be ran in the future. You just can not deny the buzz he creates using common SEO strategies we all utilize to promote our online businesses and projects. Obama has been able to raise a reported $31 million for his second quarter c

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CSS Image Replacement, The How To

Summary: CSS Image replacement is very affective for style sheet based themes. The advantage of using image replacement is compatibility for screen readers or non-image based browsers that can not use my .css document. If I did not do this, then non-image based browsers would not be able to navigate my sit

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Will links from Text Links Ads(TLA) result in a penalization from Google?

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Yahoo Site Explorer Measuring Quality instead of Quantity?

Summary: Is Yahoo Site Explorer measuring links authority in a new way? During the recent backlink update from Yahoo tons of sites have dropped thousands of links. SEOmoz is reported to lost over 1 million links. In my short history of being a webmaster this is the first time I have seen this happen. I

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301 redirects for Directory Owners

Summary: Earlier today I was checking on some new links for the directory and some old ones. I ran across a blog post from Links Juice Blog by eazenet. Eaze was discussing Ten Tips for startup directories. One of the first tips was in regards to using 301s to eliminate duplicate content via the .htaccess

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Adding Google Analytics to your Directory

Summary: I decided to add Google Analytics to Lobo Links so I could track day to day failure or success. It is too soon to tell which, lol. The New Google Analytics Google Analytics has been re-designed to help you learn even more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site.

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Submitting to Lobo Links Web Directory

Summary: Here are a few short tips for submitting your site to Lobo Links. Let me just first say that submission guidelines are most important. If you don't meet them then your site will simply be rejected. You can always resubmit, but the same rules apply. Browse the categories or use the search fea

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Directory Page Titles

Summary: While there are tons of internal SEO improvements you can make to increase your rankings in the SERPS. My vote for the most important is Page Titles. I personally think there are two factors that make all the difference when it comes to Page Titles. Page Titles should be descriptive of the c

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