Comments on: SEO Advice: Getting Links

By: seojane

seojane — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:00:53 +0000

Getting links is like feeding your pet.
if you make spam, your pet throws up on you

By: Umang

Umang — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:34:58 +0000

Thanks Spencer, I think we could learn a lot from each other. You are right in everything you have said. It is impossible to have links magically appear from the ether unless you are facebook or google.. Link building is also hard work. There is no quick and easy way.!!

By: Jason Vandenbrink

Jason Vandenbrink — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:06:33 +0000

Dear Spencer,

Welcome to the real world. Many top SEO experts continue to tell us that if you build a quality site with great content, people will just naturally find it, love it, and link to it. Of course these visitors also just happen to have relevant high PR sites and want to give you one-way links using your keywords in the anchor text. Come on, give me a break.

Having a really, really great site without backlinks is like having a really, really great 1-800 number. Nobody is going to accidently type in these digits and say “Oh my God, this is exactly what I was looking for, I’m going to start giving this number free advertising because it’s so awesome.”

If you want links, you are goint to have to work at it. And by checking your backlinks in Yahoo, it seems you have been working hard on acquiring relevant backlinks. Keep up the good work. My site UstillUp is now PR4 with about 450 quality backlinks. I’m aiming for a PR of 5 for the next update. I’m also hoping to be on page 5 for “free chat rooms” one day, so don’t you complain.

By: Umang

Umang — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:29:48 +0000

Hi Matt,

I like your ideas, however link baiting is a strange concept as you still need to get people to your site in the first place, which is what the challenge is.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:21:37 +0000

Matt, I have read this article several times. However, the last time I read it, I said, “hey I saw a cool email obfuscation technique on twitters contact page, let me make a WordPress plugin that does this” I did (its here: http://blueberryware.net/2008/09/14/email-spam-protection/) and I have gotten like 10 backlinks from WordPress plugin sites already! You are a genius Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:57:35 +0000

Matt:
I have tried many of these ideas before and for one reason or another have a tough time getting even found after my initial idea.

Here are my steps:
1. Be the first come up with this really cool idea.
2. Work on it like a madman for a few months.
3. Try to find some links, find only places that want to charge me an arm and a leg.
4. Write some ezine articles on this subject.
5. Month 6 get totally frustrated and move to next idea.

Mike

By: Anthony Cea

Anthony Cea — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:45:27 +0000

LOL Ammon !!

Google policy on paid links is simple, but hard to understand for many webmasters.

Buy and sell all the text links you want, just place “no follow” tags on them to avoid being penalized, but many can’t grasp this simple logic.

The problem is, that SEO’s want to create fake blogs filled with anchor text links that are followed thinking Google will never catch them following tactics that are years old now, not many want to change with the times and still consider spam sound SEO.

By: Shell Harris

Shell Harris — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:36:34 +0000

Or you can create a web SEO comic about a mythical SEO Company – Ranked Hard.
http://www.bigoakinc.com/rankedhard/

By: not my algorithm

not my algorithm — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:40:55 +0000

meant not “as” competitive. either way, you get the idea.

maybe your forum should sell ads like http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?

joking… partially.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:43:58 +0000

Dave… Dude, use his email. Or are you just stroking it for the rest of us by continuing to reply to him here?