Linking News and Headlines
June 15, 2007

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Google Webmaster Link Tool June 2007 Update

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Google has updated Google Webmaster Tools with a link update and I suppose other data updates as well. There is currently discussion at DigitalPoint Forums and two threads at WebmasterWorld. Here is a look at our top pages, by links...

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Yahoo Site Explorer Orders Backlinks By Quality

 

"It seems that they are ordering my inbound links by the perceived quality of the site."

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SEW Experts: Creating Link Bait With Hot Content and Promotions

 

In today's Link Love column, "Creating Link Bait With Hot Content and Promotions," Justilien Gaspard tells you how to create hot, compelling content and then spread the word with promotions that create buzz, gain links, and bring in new customers.

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Buying Links from Anonymous Publishers : Poyfickly Leegull

 

This is the story of A Quandary. And it’s all Google’s fault. You need links. You already buy as many links as you can from Google, but you are tired of paying that middleman so you look out onto the web to buy direct from web publishers. An attempt to disintermediate Google, if you will. Of [...]

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Buying Links

 

Vanessa over on the Google webmaster central has Posted up How to report sites that are buying and selling links to manipulate results and deceive search engines. She also added “Links that are purchased are great for advertising and traffic purposes” So here’s the problem and I do feel sorry for Google here, If people stop [...]

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PageRank Explained

 

J.P. sent me a great post this morning describing the intricacies of PageRank. Most of this wasn’t news to us. In fact, it was nice to see more scientific proof to what we’ve said for years. Here are a few things that we learned: PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + … + PR(tn)/C(tn))—It’s the PR formula.With regard to ranking popularity, there is weight given to site age and duration,

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Get your .EDU blog and .EDU text links

 

Step right up … Get your Wordpress MU powered .EDU blog from Adison University. With just a $25 monthly “donation” you will get your own .EDU blog as long as you respect the blog rules. The webmaster of Adison University is Preston White. He manages the Blog network and the whole Adison website.

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Link Building On Webmaster Radio

 

No, this blog post isn't about how to get a link on Webmaster Radio. The show today is on link building and we've got ourselves a lineup of some of the best-of-the-best in the industry to discuss how it's done. We'll be starting off with none other than Eric Ward. Eric is one of the worlds top link builders. We'll of course have MUCH to discuss there. After Eric we'll be chatting with

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Q and A: Why has my Google PageRank dropped to zero?

 

Dear Kalena... A couple of weeks ago our Google PageRank was 6/10. Not bad but room for improvement. This week I'm finally ready to work on this and my Google tool bar says the PageRank is 0/10. What happened? The only change I made was some contact info for our http://dmoz.org/ directory listing. Diane Kalena's Answer: Dear Diane Rest assured, your dmoz listing change has nothing to do with

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Link Bait is the New Reciprocal Link

 

Link bait and reciprocal linking programs have quite a bit in common. Many forms of link baiting are just a dressed up version of reciprocal links without the reciprocation.

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Are Digg the best linkbaiters of all-time?

 

Everyone always talks about how SEO's manipulate social media websites such as <a href="http://digg.com">Digg</a> in order to potentially gain hundreds of natural inbound links from the huge amount of traffic generated from promoted stories. Seeing that SEO's are getting quite a bit of stick I thought I'd take a look at this from a slightly different angle and by analysing some of the inbound link stats Digg aren't doing too badly themselves! <br /><br />A story which made the Digg homepage last week from TechEBlog titled <a href="http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-top-5-google-tricks">top 5 Google tricks</a> was arguably a piece of content crafted specifically for the social media aud...

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