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Seven signs of quality linkbait

There's a new article over at SEOchat.com called Seven Important Qualities for Good Linkbait. Terri Wells presents some good information here, but the design of SEOchat is simply not condusive to reading their articles. Let me explain:

Way too many ads
Obtrusive ad positioning
Article options are not clearly presented. I always have to hunt for the […]

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Posted April 23, 2008 in Search Marketing, Design and Usability | Comments (0)

Checking backlinks with Yahoo! Site Explorer

I've pretty much always used Google queries to evaluate backlinks. MSN and Yahoo! results were just never as helpful as Google's. The Google "link:" query has been "broken" for some time and doesn't return reliable results. Instead, I've relied on "www.mysite.com" -site:www.mysite.com, which shows you all links pointing to your site that are not on […]

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Posted June 20, 2006 in Search Marketing | Comments (0)