Comments on: Link Building Do’s and Don’ts

By: Affordable Link Building

Affordable Link Building — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:02:52 +0000

Surely. Link building is one of the most important among the SEO tools that have been accepted by the search engines.

Thank you

By: zaira

zaira — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:52:43 +0000

Excellent post! I’m reading it now and learning a lot.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:57:54 +0000

Hi Denzil,

If you are looking at Google webmaster tools, it may take a few days to a month to fully update…I would just keep checking!

Take Care!
Nick

By: Denzil@Technical Copywriter

Denzil@Technical Copywriter — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:16:40 +0000

Very useful tips here Nick. May I ask you a question? I am new to Internet Marketing and have developed a strategy, one of the points being to develop backlinks. How long does it take for Google to take notice of backlinks? I keep checking but as yet (one week down the road), my number of backlinks seems not to be growing.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:06:28 +0000

Hi Chris,
Thanks for reading, I am happy that these link building tips really helped…

Thanks again & Take Care,
Nick

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:03:06 +0000

Once again your advise has proved useful and I will try to put these do’s into practice.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:31:06 +0000

Hi Efi,
Thanks for your kind words and for reading!

I am happy to answer your questions:

1. Writing newsworthy, press releases (or news/media release) about something that is relevant to the business. For instance a good press release topic, could be a launch of a new product, service, etc. Where it helps from a link building perspective is the links that you include in the release, when you send it out via a press release distribution service, such as PRWeb, PRLeap, 24×7 Press Release, etc.

2. For a low cost option for creative of a video, take a look at Animoto or Pixability, both different low cost types of video creation services.

I hope this helps!

Take Care,
Nick

By: Efi

Efi — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:10:29 +0000

Thank you for this great article which helped me immediatelly. Since last night, I started asking questions to my community and lead them to articles in our site and it’s working. They are responding more and more.

So please, keep sending all these useful newsletters!!

I have 2 questions:
1) Can you explain a bit more the sedond “Press Release Marketing aka Online Publicity”, especially the part of “Link Building Do”. I m not sure if I understood exactly what you mean
2) I understand the importance of the video. I have the scripts, I have the idea but I don’t have the technical skills. I also don’t have the budget for a production company or even for a freelancer. So I was thinking to get help from people that they already have a clue and I will discover some more alone. Do you have any link suggestions for creating a video?

Thank you for your time

By: Horizon Holiday Cottages

Horizon Holiday Cottages — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:16:01 +0000

Thanks for this helpful overview Nick; once the small business owner started down the road of link building and SEO, it is amazing how many offers will be received from those promising to build thousands of permanent links and write hundreds of articles. I have seen many articles published that have must have been created by such article spinning software where the content has been manipulated so many times that the article is no longer even coherent. I certainly would not want to leave a link to my website from such rubbish. I believe that you have, in many articles, shown us that reputable link building is a slow and laborious process.

By: mau the realtor guru

mau the realtor guru — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:50:04 +0000

Thanks Nick. I find this information very refreshing as most online traffic software pushers tells an opposite story. They always recommend outsourcing article writing and submitting them along with news releases and the works and the launching of videos often. This was very refreshing.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:04:34 +0000

Thanks again for the great recommendations! Right on in terms of the SEO for Social Media. The absolute worst way to start a social media presence is to just post useless info on repeat. Engage and Inform are important, but most is communicate and respond to your potential customers! great points!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:59:18 +0000

Hi Brijal,
Thanks for reading and your comment!

If you are brand new to SEO (other than reading my SEO newsletter and SEO blog

I would recommend reading the following:
Google SEO Info:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291

Search Engine Guide
http://www.searchengineguide.com/

And the Add Me Blog:
http://www.addme.com/blog/

Best of luck!
Nick

By: B.Shah

B.Shah — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:41:20 +0000

Hi Nick,

I really appreciate your research and sharing knowledge about Link building where you say “Google might gives out penalties sometimes for link-only pages?”

As i am new in SEO, i was always wondering about the strategies most of the SEO analysts use for Link building and also most of the directories needs reciprocal links which eventually lands the analysts creating these kind of links only pages.

so the question always arose in mind was what’s the need of these and how can they justify that?

Thanks,
Brijal

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:29:14 +0000

Hi Luk,

Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts!

The point is, linking is good ONLY if you have relationship with the company you are linking to…

Thanks again,
Nick

By: Luk Meulebrouck

Luk Meulebrouck — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:31:54 +0000

Hi Nick,
Do you seriously believe Google gives a penalty if you link to other sites? I always thought they encourage linking. After all, the web is not supposed to be an archipel of separate islands, but a city with interconnecting streets .
But of course, linking to a site doesn’t do any good for your own one. It’s when they link to your page, they share their PR with you.
By the way, I couldn’t help sharing this one on my company FB page. It’s good info for newbies
Greetz, and keep up the good SEO work.
Luk.