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Best SEO Link Building Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far)

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Optimizing a website by incorporating keywords into page titles, headlines, text, page URLs, image alt tags and internal links will help improve the position of a site in the search engines—but it’s only half the battle. As one of the posts linked below notes, “In Search Engine Optimization, things that are happening OFF of your site can be just as important (if not more so) than things happening ON your website.” Search engines look at on-site factors to determine relevance, but at external links to gauge authority.

Best SEO Link Building Tips of 2010 (So Far)So how do you get more links, without resorting to spammy or questionable tactics? Find out here in some of the best blog posts and articles about SEO link building of 2010 so far.

Nine Tools for Your Link-Building Toolkit by ClickZ

Julie Batten offers nine key elements to include in a link-building toolkit–such as lists of targeted keywords and directories–to make link-building efforts more efficient and productive.

5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Page Rank via LinkedIn by VibeLog

In this brief but useful post, Jessica Nielsen explains five ways, such as crafting a relevant “professional headline,” to use LinkedIn to improve your company site’s Pagerank.

Raiding Your Competitor’s Backlinks by Internet Marketing for Business Owners

How to quickly find and replicate backlinks to competitor’s site to improve your site’s search engine ranking.

71 Technical Factors For Backlink Analysis (From 30 Link Building Experts) – Part 2 by Search Engine Land

For those who have waaaay too much time to spend on link building, Garrett French walks through the URL, on-page and sitewide factors to use in backlink profile analysis. Includes helpful commentary from a range of SEO experts like Eric Enge and Aaron Wall.

The 30-minute-a-day link building plan by iMedia Connection

Another piece from Garret French, this one outlining his recommended link building plan, starting with linkable asset identification: “common linkable assets include webinars, job listing pages, PDFs, blogs, forums, subject matter experts, deals, news, a community participant, contests, podcasts, and free tools.”

Top 100+ Link Building Resources by Vertical Measures Blog

An extensive list of blogs, tools, forums and other resources to assist with link building knowledge and tactics.

Simple tips for improving your website’s links by iMedia Connection

Ramsay Crooks presents guidelines for building quality links as well as low-value link building tactics to avoid.

Another Big Roundup of Link Tools by Search Engine Land

The always brilliant Debra Mastaler presents a helpful list of backlink analysis tools plus mini-reviews of several “non-standard, outside of the box link tools like Smarter Search.

Ultimate Guide to Link Building by Agent SEO

Jacob Stoops provides an excellent tutorial, beginning with explaining the process and importance of link building then stepping through different tactics and key sites of different types (directories, social bookmarking, article submission, etc.).

Build Links Backwards by Search Engine Journal

Rather than begging for links or hoping your content will appeal to a publisher, Jennifer Van Iderstyne suggests throwing the process into reverse — contacting great sites (blogs, educators, news sites, associations) and asking what type of content they would be interested in linking to.

SEO & Social Media Track: Show Me The Links: Real Life Link Building by Bruce Clay

In this guest post, Dana Lookadoo engagingly live-blogs a session from SMX Seattle featuring tips from several link building experts including Roger Montii (use target searching, don’t rely solely on competitor backlinks), Arnie Kuenn (targeted email requests, content development and promotion), Chris Bennett (infographics), Debra Mastaler (content syndication, guest blogging) and more.

The Art (or Science) of Building Links by Search Engine Watch

In her first post for SEW, Nichola Stott compares link building to expanding one’s professional network: factors like reputation, connections and relevance all matter in both realms.

Google’s Recommendations for Organic Linkbuilding by 10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Strategy Blog

In this short post, Marc Purtell shares Google’s recommendations for organic link building, which basically come down to: produce quality content.

Case Study: I Listened to Google and I Failed by Graywolf’s SEO Blog

This case study puts Google’s linking advice (see post above) to the test. Is great content really all you need?