link building: FREE SEO Opportunity for links to your website - 11/29/11 02:24 AM
NOTE:  Just to reiterate, the tool offered in this article is truly free with no hidden surprises.
Friends, a couple of weeks back I posted a "free" SEO opportunity that has turned out to be quite the disappointment.  What was once a nice idea to share information has been turned into a monetization tool...a practice, I might add, that can be destructive to a business.
A practice that concerns me with regard to how ActiveRain has handled the whole "Rainmaker" thing.
Since that turned out to be, in essence, a non-opportunity, I wanted to bring you something substantial to the table … (4 comments)

link building: Look Before You Link (Do You Really Understand WHY Your Links Are Important?) - 11/16/10 09:33 AM
With all of the social media forums available to us, it's terribly easy to get overwhelmed and feel trapped in a maze of (virtually) your own creation. Last week I touched on the importance of connecting your social media so they work together in harmony.
The other part of using social media properly is making sure, as with all of your traditional and modern marketing, that your social media is linked to your website and vice versa. All of your marketing should be making it as easy as possible for people to 1) go to your website or 2) contact you … (3 comments)

link building: Link Building: Removing the Confusion - 05/30/08 05:31 AM
Are you dissatisfied with the results from your website?  There is so much information and technical jargon out there that it all gets ridiculously confusing after a while.
There are a million ways to get links to your site, and without people linking to your site you're going to find it very, very difficult to be found online.  There are millions of websites in existence...how do you get people to link to YOURS?
My friend and colleague, graphic web designer Chad McComsey, created a chart that is far and away the best and simplest explanation of links I've ever seen.

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