For months, I’ve thought about writing a post about a technique I’ve had a little success with. Recently, two posts were written that were extremely close to the topic of my post.
When I saw both post titles, I thought “Shit. He just wrote the post I was procrastinating on for the last few months.”
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When I first started link building, I would simply take a giant list of websites that I thought would be a good target (like my competitors backlinks) and then just fire away. Email after email. Most often than not, the end result was a few email responses, even fewer links and a lot of my [...]
Email outreach is tough. At times, going through a list of email targets can be monotonous and frustrating. Lack of response and people simply not taking you up on your request are the two biggest causes of said frustration. Plus, the work can seem dull and impersonal if you let it be that way.
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This post is so simple and basic, a lot of you can stop reading right now. Some people (myself included) are not experts at scraping things. In fact, I am a complete noob when it comes to XPath, importXML or basically any type of coding whatsoever. Luckily, I work in an ever-gracious industry. [...]
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Link Building 101 teaches you to leverage all of your client’s existing relationships. Look for business partners, current vendors, technology partners, employee blogs, customer blogs, and your friends’ friend’s website. After you reach out to all the obvious people, link building gets a lot harder. The easy wins are gone. Now you have [...]
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Guest blogging is considered one of the best ways to get leads, build links and establish your company as a trusted authority. This post is not going to teach you how to guest blog. There are a ton of posts out there that do an amazing job already. Instead, this [...]
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I hate to do this, but within the first 10 posts on my new site I’m already writing about Pinterest. Sigh.
I know the whole Pinterest copyright situation is murky, but this link building idea is simply too obvious not to discuss. Pinterest added the ability to embed images from Pinterest onto [...]
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We all pick up a few easy links as we wander around the web. SEOs can’t visit a single website without briefly thinking, “where can I get a link on here?” It’s a mindset that you can’t turn off.
The following list is a few places where different SEOs have nabbed [...]
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I’m happy to say that Northside SEO made it to SES this year. This post is a few weeks late to be a timely recap for SES NY, but I didn’t think there was anything covered at the conference that was breaking news or time sensitive. This post is [...]
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You’re probably visiting my site for the first time after clicking-through my Broken Link Building post on SEOmoz.
I originally started writing my broken link building post right here on Northside SEO, but decided that it would be better served reaching a larger audience as a YouMoz post.
Don’t be [...]
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