Whiteboard Friday - Using Trust Rank to Guide Your Link Building

March 29th, 2008

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This week Rand discusses Trust as a ranking factor: how it originated, what it may look like, and how you can use it when planning your link building campaigns. The closer you can get to major authority sites, the more trust your links are likely to have, and as we all know, trusted links are the most powerful links.
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Google Analytics Why Do You Make Me Distrust You

March 13th, 2008

So I logged into Google Analytics this morning and I get the following message

Google Analytics why are you ruining it why? I always recommended to customers who don’t have an analytics package in place or were using sub standard analytics packages to switch to Google Analytics, without reservations, Read the rest of this entry »

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[Video] Why Does Google Trust Old Websites So Much?

October 29th, 2007

The Evolution of Natural LinkingWhen the web was younger is was less spammy. When the web was less commercial a larger percentage of sites were created out of passion, and those who spammed generally were not link spammers. Most new websites are spam.

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Building Your Attention, Traffic, Trust, & Subscriber Base by Owning Ideas

October 2nd, 2007

Some Things Only Spread Because Who is Behind Them

I recently created an Internet marketing mind map and published it on my tools subdomain with a link to it from tools.seobook.com, but nobody mentioned it. A few days later I blogged about it on SeoBook.com and dozens of webmasters linked to it. Same publisher, same content, drastically different results…because one channel has attention while the other does not.

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Buy Old Trusted DMOZ Listed Domains & Sites for $8

October 2nd, 2007

Justin Laing recently emailed me to let me know about his SEO sitefinder tool, which uses the ODP and the Internet Archive to find DMOZ listed websites that have not been updated in a while.

Domain Tools also allows you to find expiring domains that will be up at auction soon. You can view their top picks or use the right rail filters on that page to search for DMOZ and Yahoo! Directory listed domains.

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