I. What a fall we’re having at Citation Labs…
- We announced the addition of our new Director of PR Services, Ken McGaffin, making our link building agency service offerings stronger than ever.
- We held our first Webinar: “Agency Hacks for the In-House SEO Team.“
- And we’re currently planning our 2nd Webinar: “The Great PR Brainstorm” – a FREE workshop in which Ken McGaffin and Garrett French will brainstorm PR campaigns and ideas based on your businesses and questions. (Enter your business here)
The best way to keep up with all of our link building updates is to follow @CitationLabs on Twitter and sign up for our email newsletter.
We’re also big fans of learning from our fellow link builders. Below is a round-up of the best link building & SEO posts we’ve read this fall (so far!)
II. Pure Link Building
- Traits To Hire In A Link Builder
- Link Acquisition & Contextual Relevancy [Part 1] (Highly recommend this one if you’re a fan of Garrett’s “Areas of Great Human Concern” approach to link building content.)
- 33 SEO experts share their most effective Link Building strategies
- Broken Link Building Bible: The New Testament
- The Importance of Initial Research Prior to Link Development
- Linkarati’s Link Building Resources
- Webinar: Agency Hacks for the In-House Link Building Team (ours)
- Big Prospecting with Authority Anchors (ours)
- Advanced Guide to eCommerce Link Building by Jon Cooper – a Review
- The Future of Link Building
- 750 Popular Subreddits, Categorized by Industry and Submission Type
- Local Citation Audit Tip: Use the New Sitelinks Search Box
- Improving Outreach Response: 5 Human Methods
- Case Study: Building Links in the Travel Industry
- THE Backlinking Strategy That Works – 2014 and Beyond Edition
- Comprehensive Guide to Leveraging Social Media for SEO
- Use Verticals to Increase Reach
- Monitoring Your Brand – Unlinked Mentions
- Guide to Local Link Building Campaigns (ours)
- A Simple Broken Link Building Process for New and Intermediate Link Builders
III. Content + Marketing
- Use Content Marketing to Move into New Vertical Markets
- How Mission Marketing Can Improve Your SEO (Related – check out Garrett’s post on Mission Based Link Building)
- What SEOs Need to Know About Topic Modeling & Semantic Connectivity
- Why Google’s New Hummingbird Algorithm is Good News for Serious Content Creators
- Amplify Your Content Strategy with Influencer Marketing
- You’ve Won! An Interview on Running Competitions
- Mission Based Marketing for Brand Visibility (ours)
- 122 Data Sources for Your Next Great Piece of Content
- 43 Tools for Modern Marketers
- Generating better content ideas (a bit older, but great ideas in here!)
- How To Do a Content Audit – Step-by-Step
- 13 Experts on How To Promote Content Before Hitting Publish
- 28 Expert Bloggers Reveal Their #1 Content Marketing Technique
- 4 Tools (And 1 E-Book) I’m Loving For Content Creation And Link Development
- Six examples of interesting content from ‘boring’ businesses
- The Minimum Viable Content Marketing Strategy
IV. That Pesky Penguin
- Google Confirms Penguin 3.0 Update, Here’s The Reaction So Far
- Penguin 3.0: What Got Hurt, What Didn’t, and 3 Things You Need to Know to Remain Relevant
- How Big Was Penguin 3.0?
- Google Penguin Penalties: Rants, Rage and Recovery
V. SEO
- More than Keywords: 7 Concepts of Advanced On-Page SEO
- Back to Fundamentals: 6 Untapped Keyword Sources that Will Boost Organic Traffic
- 10 Mistakes of a Decade of SEO Practice I Wish I Hadn’t Made
- Social Media 101 – How to save yourself from shitty SEO
- The Only Only Constant in SEO is Change
- Everything You Need to Know About SEO, You Can Learn on Twitter (Part 1)
- Log File Analysis: The Ultimate Guide
VI. Grab Bag of Posts We Can’t Categorize, But Couldn’t Leave Out
- How Google May Select Their Data Sources Based Upon Keywords
- Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup
- Building Authority & Setting Expectations
- Cleaning Up Campaigns with the HTML5 History API – Free WordPress Plugin
- Three Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting an Agency
- The 10 Second Exercise That Could Save You Hours of Writing Time