http://www.linkspiel.com Link Building | Website Promotion Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:22:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Recently, on the SEOBook Community Forum*, this question was asked: I built too many incoming links too quickly and tripped a filter sending me from about #17 to #95. Whoops! Not being much of a link builder historically, this has never happened to me before. Is it possible I could just ... http://www.linkspiel.com/2010/02/pulling-a-kesey-or-tripping-link-filters/     Have fun this holiday season! http://www.linkspiel.com/2009/12/happy-holidays/ The search engines have been publishing their “Top Searches” lists for 2009, so far I’ve collected lists from   Bing , Yahoo!, and Google. Other sites posting “top” searches are  ESPN,  Snopes, and my favorite, Yahoo’s Top Video’s (warning: time killer!). I  set my alerts to catch these lists because they spark ideas for ... http://www.linkspiel.com/2009/12/top-searches-can-attract-top-links/ We talk a lot about back linking competitors/authority sites as a viable linking method and for the most part it is, but if you're only going after what you see in back links, you may be leaving a lot of marketing power on the table.   Let's take a look at this link building ... http://www.linkspiel.com/2009/12/how-to-get-more-from-back-linking-competitors/ You often hear people say "think outside the box" when it comes to building links,  its a way to say "do something different"  or " be creative".    But what exactly is "the box" and how do you "think outside" it when it comes to  links?  Good questions but hard to give stock answers to so ... http://www.linkspiel.com/2009/11/building-links-outside-the-box/   Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal ran an article on how businesses were using Live Chat to make incremental sales.  This bit caught my eye:    In late April, home improvement e-tailer Improvement Direct Inc., of Chico, Calif., used a chat feature on its site to converse directly with customers about its products and services. ... http://www.linkspiel.com/2009/09/using-live-chat-to-build-links/           As a link builder I'm not enamoured with YouTube and do not recommend using it as a primary way to build links or as an integral part of your SEO program.   Why? Videos on YouTube are on YouTube so any optimization effort you implement helps YouTube and not your website/pages.      YouTube contributes to the pinking of ... http://www.linkspiel.com/2009/09/you-shouldnt-use-youtube-for-building-youlinks/ If you like  new toys and notoriety, I may have something to satisfy your techno fathead  and bring in a link or twenty. I came across a social media  service today called SayNow;  they give away free telephone numbers people can call to hear personalized recorded messages from their favorite celebrities. Once they've heard the ... http://www.linkspiel.com/2009/09/yak-yak-link/ No link building post here, just a HUGE air punch for William & Mary, they beat The University of Virginia (UVA) this evening in an exciting season opener in Charlottesville.  It's the first time WM has beaten a FBS (football bowl school) school since 1998 so KUDOS to the green and ... http://www.linkspiel.com/2009/09/pride-in-the-tribe/ My column today on Search Engine Land is a case study of a link building contest we ran a while back for a client in a very competitive niche.  The article gives you a step-by-step outline of what we did, the results and some insight on what it cost to run.  If ... http://www.linkspiel.com/2009/08/using-contests-to-build-links/