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By Jesse Stoler
01 Oct 2014

The Importance of Value Proposition

You know that your site has unique value, but the webmaster you’re pitching doesn’t. If he/she knew that value, you wouldn’t have to be pitching them because they would likely be linking to you already. And the value you can provide for site A can differ from what you can provide for site B. This makes blanket pitches highly ineffective.

I’m talking about value proposition, a crucial component of any marketing campaign. If you don’t explicitly state the value of what you have to offer to your audience, your audience is not going to see it for you.

By Cory Collins
30 Sep 2014

Creating an Outreach List with Google Docs - Tutorial Tuesday

Each and every week we work hard to bring you a simple, easy to follow tutorial on an SEO or link building process, tactic, or strategy. This week we’ll be focusing on creating a useful, functional outreach list for free with Google Docs.
By Jesse Stoler
25 Sep 2014

Private Blog Networks Manually Penalized: Continuing Google Trends

Every so often, there seems to be another tactic that dominates SEO/link building. Sometimes these tactics start off perfectly fine, but quickly get abused by spammers. Other times, the tactic is clearly an attempt at devious manipulation from the get go.
By Cory Collins
24 Sep 2014

Improving Outreach Response: 5 Human Methods

To build real, worthwhile links requires an intentional, editorial effort from another human behind a relevant website. The game of link building (really all of marketing) then is to convince another person that you’re worthy of their audience, their exposure.
By Andrew Dennis
23 Sep 2014

Using Advanced Search Modifiers: Finding Brand Mentions – Tutorial Tuesday

Brand mentions are when someone on the web talks about or mentions your company or brand. These mentions can often be leveraged for natural and worthwhile links as your brand is already being referenced. Finding brand mentions should absolutely be a consideration in your link building campaign.

By Don Sturgill
22 Sep 2014

The My Blog Guest Penalty -- Right or Wrong?

It has now been over six months since Google dropped the bomb on guest blogging; let's take a look at what folks are thinking now ... with the My Blog Guest (MBG) penalty in the rear-view mirror.
By Andrew Dennis
17 Sep 2014

The Impact of Google's Penguin Algorithm on SEO

Recent comments from Google’s John Mueller in a Google+ video hangout seemed to validate the speculation that a Penguin update will be coming in the near future. In preparation of an impending update, let’s take a look at the impact Penguin has had on the SEO industry and how it will continue to affect SEO moving forward.

By Cory Collins
16 Sep 2014

404 Link Reclamation Using Google Webmaster Tools – Tutorial Tuesday

In this step by step tutorial we cover link reclamation by finding links pointing to 404 pages on your website via Google Webmaster Tools.

By Andrew Dennis
11 Sep 2014

Niche Analysis in New Industries

Link building is no longer a one-off marketing cost that you can fire and forget. Link building needs to be intelligently and appropriately directed; link building needs to be an accurate representation of your company.

By Jesse Stoler
10 Sep 2014

Ego Bait for Links, Visibility, and Authority

In my mind, Ego Bait is really just about attempting to engage influencers to further amplify your work and build links. It's a very basic marketing/psychology principle - the element of reciprocity. If you positively feature another person, they're more likely to return the favor. In this case, through social media shares and maybe even a link.