Starting a list of directories that I have successfully submitted this website. Directories can be a great way to implement a portion of your link building strategy (you have one of those right)

List will be added onto as I continue my ow link building process. In no particular order:

Web Directories Australian Web [...]

Jim Westergren has published an article on link building that is a very helpful summary for beginners.

The article covers a breakdown of the structure of a good link as well as effective ways to get links. Overall, a very effective guide for understanding link building.

The best advice:

Use a mix of [...]

Linking Matters has a great article on understanding your competition to help build links. Understanding how your competition is linked can help you identify the true competitiveness of that competitor as well as identify other linking opportunities for yourself.

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Linking Matters is a great site for beginners to learn the basics of linkbuilding.

Linking Matters provides a blog and articles about the whole process of linking. But the best resource available is the Linking Matters Report.

This report walks beginners through the steps of understanding the purpose of links and helps them [...]

Graywolf has a great post about inline linking.

I have to agree with him that I prefer resource links to be at the end of an article, rather than scattered through out the article.

Makes me think about how I write posts and how usable they are to my readers.

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Who links to your site?

With MSN’s linkdomain: command, you can find everyone who links to your complete SITE (all pages) not just to an individual page on your site.

I am not sure whether MSN ranks these links in any manner, but it seems like more important links come first, especially in the [...]

In the process of building links to a website, it might be helpful to find “Hub” web sites which might be willing to provide a link.

What is a Hub web site?

Hub Finder defines them as:

sites which have co occuring links to related authoritative websites on a particular topic

It [...]

Who links to your website? What anchor is used to link to your website?

We Build Pages has developed a new free tool to help webmasters answer such questions. The Neat-0 Backlink tool finds all the backlinks to the entered URL and returns the Anchor Text used.

How to use such a tool:

Find [...]

It is easy to want to cheat when it comes to link building. Why? Because it takes work AND time.

One of the reasons this website exists is to try to find the web tools and information that will lessen the amount of your work and shorten the amount of time it takes to [...]

Link Hounds is a link building tool and link building resource website. It is run by Aaron Wall over at SEOBook.com.

I worried at first that the site might be a platform for selling his SEObook. Though he does mention it twice, it is hardly a hard sell. In fact, quite the opposite [...]

I wish I knew the “expert” (I hate using that term) of every area discussed on this site. However, when it comes to link building one name keeps coming up over and over: Eric Ward. What can an expert offer a beginner? Won’t he talk over a beginner’s head? I am glad to say [...]

Stuntdubl has thoughts about the future of link popularity.

Key thought:

Personalized search is the solution to the flaws in pagerank and link popularity that we have all been manipulating for so long. If you are an SEO, I really hope you see it coming. If you are focusing ONLY on link development [...]

I came across this site from a blog I just read and I closed the blog window and have forgotten the source!

Anyway…We Build Pages is an internet marketing firm. They are offering a directory submission service to the top 28 directories. Most beginners, cannot afford the $1500 to get submitted to all [...]

What exactly is link snobbery?

I myself am very picky about the links I will put on this site whether free, reciprocal, or paid. Am I a link snob? I am very concerned about links being quality, relevant, and of value. All links need to serve the interest of my readers.

In my efforts [...]