Amusing: The other day, Daniel Tan released another press release, this time on a smaller release site and added the anchor text “leasreepressmm” pointing to the blog of Matt Cutts. His goal was to get Matt’s blog to rank for leasreepressmm ,and guess what, it worked. read more...

People spend a lot of time scratching their heads, trying to understand how Google reads their backlinks. They want to know what links they should seek to their websites that are still “safe”. read more...

Pandas got you down? Penguins gnawing at your website? SEO is tougher than ever in 2013, now that almost every link-building scheme that once was useful at best and useless at worst has now become a gigantic kick in the pants. read more...

In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses co-citation and its impact on the future of SEO and brand association. Hold onto your hats for a wild ride down the co-citation trail! read more...

Local links increase your website's visibility, can bring relevant and converting traffic, are critical to a diverse profile, and could also help form in-person relationships, partnerships, and business opportunities. Here's how to get started. read more...

Link cleanups are all the rage right now, rightly so if you can judge by the number of webmasters who received Google warnings or had their sites tank. Strategies for effective cleanup have been outlined, tools to help you find contacts for cleanup have been unveiled, but there isn’t much information out there about the bottom line: are link cleanups worth the time and effort? read more...

Sharing some of the silly ways of using CommentLuv plugin that actually make you suck trying to get a backlink to your blog! read more...

The 2012 edition is out! Link building with the experts. read more...

The SEO industry needs to make sure it has an up-to-date link removal strategy in case disaster strikes. Below is outlined a brief strategy to get you started on this process. It will get you to consider the different levels of information you should be looking at, show you how to acquire the information you don’t have, and give you a few tips on some removal strategies and reconsideration reques read more...

Today I want to share with you some interesting details about research that I've done recently and which I have also presented at SMX Advanced Seattle. read more...

Today I want to share with you some interesting details about research that I've done recently and which I have also presented at SMX Advanced Seattle. read more...

If something is scalable, its size can be changed, like fonts. How long you have to link build for to get results will never change. It will always be one of the most time-consuming and arguably hardest things you do. If it isn’t, you’re doing it wrong.

Still, there are a lot of things you can do to improve your efficiency and productivity. Below are just some of my favorite, but fair warning: read more...

For search engine optimization newbies (including people who are both learning about building links and clients who seek link services), this helpful glossary will help define some of the more common link building terminology, from A to Z. read more...

Here’s a hustle process that I went through with excellent results. I was working for a fairly large brand, but with just me doing the process, I managed about 1,000 manually built links (which I specified the exact location and HTML of) across about 50 sites over the course of three months. I even got my brand ranking number one in the world for ‘kama sutra’ in the process (200k visits a month). read more...

There are three key ways to force usable, 20 result "segments" out of Google's insanely huge index: research phrases, advanced operators and tactic-specific footprints. Learn how to dig into each and build out thorough prospecting query lists. read more...

By the mighty Rand Fishkin read more...

Tips on how to scale up the process of checking back link profiles with a few coding tweaks. Essential if you have to check extra large link profiles. read more...

Overview of the latest google algo tweaks with an emphasis on anchor text read more...

Links still matter today for the same reasons that they have always mattered: they send traffic by making connections. Yes, they are still a large part of ranking, but depending on search engines as the only route to your site is a bad idea. read more...

A refreshingly different approach to link building - who knew that's why they put ridiculous requests on celebrity riders! read more...