I am going to give a full recap on SMX in the next couple of days, but I wanted to share something really quick that Todd Friesen (Director of SEO for Range Online) said in a “Better Ways” conference session (referring to link building) that he buys links. There you have it. A featured speaker at SMX and “SEO Guru” telling all of us to “buy links”. (He did freak out and wonder if Matt was it the room because he knew all of his clients, and that was funny)

Please don’t get me wrong, he did not say just go and buy every link you can get your hands on, but the words about buying links did come out of his mouth. Keep it relevant, and find links that would bring in targeted customers (if they clicked). As far as I am concerned - discussion over, go and buy some relevant links!

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Just wanted to let everyone know I finally got around to cleaning a little house with the Internet Business Directory over on Eplanit.biz (the other part of this website). Probably in a month or so there will be a completly new directory with sub-cats and all. For now its going to have to stay how it is. (I am way to busy to do it any other way) I am the only editor on this directory.

There are several categories where there is not much in the way of listings, but the pages still carry good PR. Most anywhere you want to list in the directory has well under 50-100 links, with several 15 and under. I had to offer all the text links inside the directory as paid to get rid of all of the crap that people were trying to submit to me. This directory gets a decent amount of traffic and would be worth listing for that fact alone besides what it could do to help improve search engine rankings.

I look over each listing submitted and do my best to not let any garbage in. So this is still very much a human edited directory. We offer a 29.95 premium submission service that gets you 6 quality text links (yes you can deep link; ie - subpages) and we have a budget listing at 9.95 that gets you one anchor text link with a URL link as well. Most of the time if I like the site I will throw in an extra link or two, but you really do get a lot more for the money with our premium submission service.

I know this directory is not the top of the line ones out there that are all automated and crap, but I wanted to try and keep as much of the human touch to this one as I possibly could!

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On the official Google Blog tonight Vanessa Fox dishes out some cool new updates about the anchor text inside your Google Site Maps account. You can click on the link to check out her full post, but here are some things I am excited to see:

• They are showing 200 phrases now
• You can see all kinds of variations for your anchor text
• Most common individual words in anchor text
• You can view more of your common words

Check this image out as a sample of the extent of the cool information we are getting now:Â (this is the external links varied use etc)

This information is amazing because it shows us flat out how others are seeing our site, as well as see exactly how other sites are linking to us. We can learn from it and grow our websites. Any other cool uses that anyone has found with this new feature?

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Here is the question in full:

I have 50 articles written and ready to submit. I ran across the following suggestion to submit articles but I wasn’t sure it was ok to do. Can i submit the same article to multiple directories? What are your thoughts? (more…)

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I have been getting notified by the MS Small Business Directory (Submit It) about changes to all my directory listings and submit it program about to happen. I am actually excited about this for a few reasons. The submit it tools they offered were crap anyway, and the only thing I ever used the service for was the directory submission. When they no longer accepted new directory submissions a few months back it really bummed me out because it was one of the (few) good things that Microsoft had left.

It looks like they are bringing it back: (more…)

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I ran this promotion I got from Text Link Ads a while back and it went really well for those that used it, so I wanted to share it again with my readers. If you have been thinking about testing the waters on a text link program to help increase your rankings then I recommend Text Link Ads. In my opinion there is no other! They even are gonna give you a free $100 if you give them a shot:

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This Google Sitemaps Greasemonkey script is one of the coolest scripts I have seen in a long time. It is for your Google Sitmaps account and specifically your link reporting section. It displays Google Page Rank, Anchor Text, if the link isn’t found and Nofollow for all the links shown in your sitemap report.

Here is a screen shot from some of my links to 97th Floor

You will see a normal link is in Black with the PR and the Anchor Text.

Red is link is not found but it still shows pr so you can keep of track of those you may want to go back and get again.

Yellow has the same data as black but in Yellow with a strikethrough that is for the No Follow, what was cool is by doing this I found 2 blogs that have really high pr that are not adding no follow to their links. I rarely check blogs for that anymore as most are no following by default.

You need the Firefox greasemonkey addon to use it. Once you have it, go to the link above and click on install and it automatically adds it to your account. Login to Sitemaps and you have all the data instantly.

If they could make this work for Yahoo SiteExplorer I would be stoked as Google Sitemaps is still off on my links by a couple thousand and It would be nice to have a quick and dirty app for analyzing bl’s of competitors from anywhere, instead of always using my internal tools.

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SEO Question:

I wanted to know if there is a quota for getting inbound links on a weekly or monthly basis? (more…)

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Lloyd: What the hell are we doing here, Harry? We gotta get out of this town!
Harry: Oh yeah, and go where? Where are we gonna go?
Lloyd: I’ll tell you where. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I’m talking about a little place called Aspen.
Harry: Oh, I don’t know, Lloyd. The French are a$#holes

Some of the best discoveries are found on accident. This last week I have been testing a tool for a totally different reason than what it was created and it is looking like a sweet way to let relevant pages prime and ready for links “flock” straight to your RSS Reader. (more…)

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What is the Golden link? Whether it is a contextual link, hosted (pre-sell) page, an article or .edu link or even a link on a page with the url, /add-link-free-reciprocal-directory-submit-site.html the best type of page to get a link from is a page with a large amount of inbound links to it. You want links from pages that have links. Sometimes you need to take matters into your own hands. (more…)

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