by Scott | Sep 16, 2013 | Link Building
Today I got an email back from someone that was offended by a link removal request we sent them. He not only asked “did you even read my site?” but implied that we “must not like my message of truth” and accused us of some desire to censor his...
by Scott | Dec 19, 2012 | Link Building
I got to thinking about things that I’ve said in the past about linkbuilding, especially where I’ve been dead wrong. Then I wondered if I’d ever written what I (and a lot of SEOs) had believed for a long time – “I don’t think...
by Scott | Mar 22, 2012 | Link Building
At SearchFest, one of the speakers (Rand Fishkin) said this in his morning session “…it’s not a paid link. It’s just a link that you get when you pay money.” I’m paraphrasing here, but it drew a laugh from the crowd because it’s completely true. We all know that...
by Scott | Feb 29, 2012 | Link Building, SEO
I was asked to fill in at the off-site SEO session of SearchFest last week, and I worked for days on my slides, intending to give the best presentation that anyone had ever seen. I tried to pack nearly 90 slides into a 25 minute presentation, and after the first half...
by Scott | Dec 21, 2010 | Events, Link Building, Public Speaking
I’m on the events planning committee for SEMpdx, and for the January 2011 meeting, I’m happy to announce that I’ll be one of the three presenters. If this seems a little self-serving, then I apologize, but I promise it will be a good one. With the...
by Scott | Oct 13, 2009 | Link Building, Outsourcing, Productivity, SEO
AS OF MID 2011 THIS IS OUTDATED AND DANGEROUS – DO NOT DO IT! Simply put, a Link Wheel is a group of pages on different hosts, that are about a specific product, subject or service, which all link to each other, and also link to a particular URL, or “money...