Blog commenting is one of the earliest ways to get backlinks to your site (or if you’re a link builder, to your client’s site).  Although many seasoned internet marketers and SEO personnel no longer see this activity as an effective link building technique because aside from the implementation of the nofollow tag, which allows blog [...]

As the song goes, “it’s been a while”. Yes, it’s been a while since I posted my last Learn SEO article but I haven’t forgotten about it, especially because the last SEO topic I will share is about off-page SEO optimization. No SEO article series will ever be complete without discussing this because off-page optimization [...]

From the SEO perspective, links are more than just those clickable texts that direct you to another webpage. They are, in essence, the building blocks of a successful SEO link building campaign. But as with PageRank, it’s not just in the number of links but in their quality as well. Before we drill down to [...]

As I’ve mentioned previously, blog commenting is one of the most popular link building strategies. The reason is obvious: it’s easy and free. But it doesn’t mean that it’s the best nor the most effective way to obtain backlinks. Why? They are often nofollow links. They don’t always carry significant link juice. (Link juice is [...]

Last week, I mentioned that I just finished signing up to more than 200+ social bookmarking sites and noted how these sites have become the target of many spammers. I even went further and enumerated a few strategies that I believe, will allow us to take of advantage of social bookmarking without being seen as [...]

I’ve just finished a social bookmarking marathon for my client’s sites. I was able to obtain this humongous list of 900+ social bookmarking sites. But after a long and arduous task of manually checking each one of them, the list was reduced to merely 200+. What happened to the other 700+ sites? Most of them [...]

Blog commenting is a simple yet effective way to increase your blog readership. The purpose is twofold: 1. to gain traffic from people clicking the links you left on other people’s blogs and 2. to obtain backlinks for SEO, provided that the blogs are dofollow. But because of these, some blog commenters are abusing this [...]