Let’s get this round up kicked off with a bit of news… Check it out over on the Ontolo blog: Congratulations to Garrett French on Starting New Link Building Agency, Citation Labs! Be sure to @me some high-fives on Twitter too: @GarrettFrench ;) You can read more about Citation Labs here, and do check out my training and custom campaign services. I look forward to hearing from you – Garrett@CitationLabs.com.
Now that the housekeeping’s out of the way, here’s your recommended reading list of 89 link building resources. Block out the next week or so ;)
5 Link Prospecting Resources
- Link Building Insights Using Your Competitor’s Big News
- Improve Your Link Prospecting With Reductive Queries
- FINDING LINK OPPORTUNITIES WITH ADVANCED SEARCH QUERIES
- HOW TO: Use Wildcard Search with Various Google Services
- Search Geeks Speak: Link Prospecting and Content Strategy with Garrett French!
7 Signal Shift Resources
- Search Ranking Factors in 2011 – What’s Changed?
- 40 Google +1 SEO Resources
- The Regulators: Exploring the Social Graph
- Facebook + Twitter’s Influence on Google’s Search Rankings
- Page level link Metrics less important, social signals more important in ranking factors?
- Can Likes, Pluses & Tweets Cleanse The Link Graph?
- Which Link Metrics Should I Use? Part 2 of 2 – Whiteboard Friday
3 Link Building vs. PR Resources
- What Do We Get Out of Online Press Releases?
- PR Is Not A White Hat SEO Technique
- PR-SEO Mythbusting for Better Link Building
11 Content + Marketing + Panda Resources
- CONTENT TALKS: EPISODE #6: RELLY ANNETT-BAKER
- Using the Valuable Content Checklist: A Step-by-Step Guide for Different Content Types
- 7 Ways To Create Content Within Your Organization
- Content Marketing 101 – An Interview with Elise Redlin-Cook
- Content Curation Grows Up, Original Content Still Key
- Random Acts of Content
- B2B Webinars: How HubSpot drew 25,000 sign-ups, almost 10,000 attendees, and more than 3,500 new leads
- Is Your Content Great, Big or Just Long? Quality vs Size
- Google Rolls Out Its Panda Update Internationally And Begins Incorporating Searcher Blocking Data
- A Scalable Content Strategy in a Post-Panda World
- Post-Panda, Your Original Content is Being Outranked by Scrapers & Partners
4 Link Building Events
- Seminar mit Christoph C. Cemper und Saša Ebach – Operatives Linkbuilding – Prospecting, Acquise, Controlling (zweitägig)
- SEO Conference in Boston – May 16th/17th 2011
- Future of Link Building Begins April 27 at 10:00am PST
- Seminar with Christoph C. Cemper: Link Building Experts Workshop
49 Link Building Resources
- Wiep’s Link Building This Month (03/2011)
- How Professional SEOs Do Link Building
- 10 Ethical Ways to Buy Links
- Let’s talk about Backlinks: Interview with Dixon Jones
- Link Building – Don’t Just Throw Mud Against a Wall (Guest post by @paddymoogan)
- Harness Affiliate Links for SEO
- What We Learnt From a Pills Link Hacker
- How would a non-optimized site outrank a site which has done SEO?
- Most SEOs Say There Are Penalty Proof Paid Links
- Creating content that gets natural backlinks
- Link Building Expert Eric Ward Answers Your Link Building Questions on LinkedIn
- Efficacy of Negative-Emotion Link Bait
- Are Online Directories an Effective Form of Legal Marketing?
- Future Proofing Your Links
- How To Scale B2B Link Building Across An Organization
- Google Invests in Creating Paid Links?
- Link building techniques you may not have got round to yet
- Traditional media’s refusal to enter the link economy
- Using Educational Linkbait to Get Valuable .edu Links
- How to Build Links Without Fancy Tools
- How your reports make your link building suck
- Google Buys Links with Hidden Anchor Text
- Link Building Tactics in 2011: Keeping it Fresh
- 10 QUICK TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL LINK REQUESTS
- DIY Guide to Successful Infographic Production by Voltier Creative
- How to Build a Link Network – This S**t F*&cking WORKS !!
- The Value of NoFollow Links
- 7 Pieces of Sound Advice for Link Building Noobs
- 3 Link Building Methods that Work
- Giving Your Links a Boost with Tiered Link Building
- How to Get Natural In-Content and Editorial Links
- White Hat SEO: It F@$#ing Works
- Dissecting Local SEO Via Competitive Analysis
- WordPress Plugins Security Flaw – A Blackhats Dream
- SEO Link Analysis Pitfalls – Whiteboard Friday
- How to Undermine Your Link Building
- Do URL shorteners pass anchor text?
- Its not about link placement as much as link discovery
- How to plan a successful social media contest
- Leveraging Current Events When Link Baiting
- Creating Link Content that Sells in 5 Easy Steps
- Please Exit The Link Building
- White Hat SEO is a Joke
- Linkbuilding in Competitive Niches Using Communities & Content
- Notorious S.E.O.: The 10 Crack Commandments of Link Building
- The Link Builder’s Guide to Tracking, Documentation and Productivity
- What if JC Penney Link Buying is Just the American Way?
- Give Me Nice Toiletries, Get Nice Link
- How Google Might Judge A “Muddy Hill” Link Profile
8 Link Building Tools
- Find the PageRank of a website from multiple datacenters
- SEO Smart Links é um plugin pago, que se encontra atualmente em sua versão 1.6.1.
- Crawler Face-off: Xenu vs. Screaming Frog
- Using Tools & APIs To Track Your Social Media Strategy
- Linkdex to announce game-changing feature: link “Timeline” shows latest link efforts
- Technical SEO: Tools and Approach
- SERP Scraping for Fun and Profit
- Test Linkbird SEO Tool
2 Link Building in French Resources
- Comment réussir sa campagne d’acquisition de liens – Partie 1 : La prospection
- “Ce que la Grèce antique peut vous apprendre sur le linkbuilding”
Agency Thinkery
- SEO and OODA Loops
- The Potential Misery Index: Ranking potential clients
- How to Start an SEO Business
- The Story of SEOmoz
- Moving From Social Media Tactics To Your Social Business Plan
- How Did You Get Started in SEO?
- Manage Like You’re Dying: A Humbled Entrepreneur’s Reflections
- How a personal crisis shaped my business
More Awesome
- Most consumers seek out online reviews, but not on social networks
- Humility, Twitter Reciprocity and Not Being Famous
- On Blogging: One Year of RossHudgens.com
- Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users’ Problem Solving
- Find the shortest route between two Wikipedia articles.
- How Content Strategy is Transforming an Entire Marketing and Sales Organization
- The Important Aspects of Search Engine Marketing
- Why Attention is the New Currency Online
- How We Got Our First 5,000 Users
- 3 Essential Social Media SEO Tips for Advertisers – ad:tech San Francisco
- Earley & Associates offers access to articles and research reports that will help you learn basic concepts, identify best practices, understand requirements and be more successful in your content management, taxonomy, or search projects.
- 10 Charts About Sex
- Small Business SEO: 45 Experts on the Biggest Mistakes SMBs Make with SEO and Internet Marketing