TLC SEO: Advanced Link Building Techniques & Strategies

Link Building for Startups – Find Unlinked Brand Mentions at Scale

When you start working with a new client, sometimes you have to educate their internal marketing teams about the value of link building. If done correctly, there is potential to create a link building machine inside the core of a savvy marketing department.

It’s key to educate your clients moving forward, but what about all that press from before SEO became a priority? There may be sites out there that have interviewed your clients, hosted them for events, written about their products – and they aren’t all linking over.

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This methodology, although intricate, will allow you to:
  • Automate prospecting for all unlinked brand mentions and any C-level write ups.
  • Automate determining which prospects are most likely to link over.
  • Track high level influencers who have featured your client before and are likely to do it again. 
  • Reach out to mid level sites that are likely to link over. 

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Competitive Analysis Hack: Find Blogs Linking to Your Competitors

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Building links on sites that publish content on a regular basis is easier than having someone change hard coded content. Blogs need to publish on a regular basis or they will lose their audience. Luckily, you can find most of the blogs linking … [Continue reading]

How To Scale Link and Citation Prospecting

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I love the idea of scraping.... but I just can't do it. I've sat through presentations from Annie Cushing and Eppie Vojt, and I still can't do it. I've had Ethan Lyon sit me down, and try and teach me - but it doesn't sink in. I don't do much intense … [Continue reading]

Using Graceful Degradation to Prospect for Widget Footprints

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Giveaways are a solid deep link strategy for e-commerce that helps raise brand/product awareness, and my preferred method of moderation is Rafflecopter. With Rafflecopter, people that sign up for your giveaway earn points by sharing information … [Continue reading]

What’s Your Landing Page’s Unique Ranking Proposition?

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A site I've been working with took a rankings and traffic hit from the 12/13 phantom update. I spent a lot of time trying to get to the root of the issue, analyzing what exactly this non-update was targeting. Eventually I realized I was never going … [Continue reading]

Link Prospecting with Pivot Tables

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I have a lot of tools in my SEO toolbelt, but I only consider a few of them to be absolutely necessary - Link Prospector from Garrett French is one of them. LP takes all the grunt work out of advanced queries and scraping SERPs. But just like when … [Continue reading]

Scaling Internal Link Building with Screaming Frog & Majestic

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I have a tool crush on Screaming Frog. I consider it one of the keys to scalability and I don't know what I would do without it. Dan Sharp deserves a medal because his tool has saved SEOs countless hours of manual work. Screaming Frog can be used for … [Continue reading]

Finding Link Directories in a Post Penguin World

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I am not a fan of directories. They don’t feel like something Google would want you to do, but – they aren't against the rules (yet) and they are a valuable provider of anchor text, so I'll use them. Many agencies have coveted list of free and … [Continue reading]

Big Brand Link Building: Identifying Link Opportunities via Misspellings

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Everyone makes typos, including respected webmasters and journalists. If you are link building for brands you need to be two things – scalable and efficient. You can’t spend your time emailing individual sites who may or may not be interested in … [Continue reading]