Comprehensive Link Building Guide

I found this in-depth, comprehensive link building guide recently. It doesn’t promote spam, hacks, or black-hat techniques. Simply, hard work, planning, and research. If you are interested in SEO and driving traffic to your websites I highly recommend reading this guide.

Below are a few highlights from the guide:

When performing link building research, specifically to determine the value of a link (as opposed to relevance), the important thing to look for are URLs that have the qualities and qualifications of a rank-influencing link. [http://link-building-guide.com/Analyzing_URL_Link_Value]

One of the greatest opportunities you have for quickly finding large scale link opportunities is to look at what websites link to your competitors. [http://link-building-guide.com/Competitor_Backlink_Gathering_Tools]

We recommend a 2-step approach in the qualification stage. First, use automated methods to focus on easily measurable factors to cull the list down to those URLs most beneficial to your goals. Then use a by-hand, human review to further qualify and segment the best link opportunities. [http://link-building-guide.com/Two_Step_Link_Qualification_Approach]

There is a lot more to it of course. Be sure to read the whole guide if you want help building links.

A Wrinkle in Time

I just finished reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. This is another classic that I never got around to reading when I was a kid. This may sound strange, but that’s not the reason I chose to read it now. I actually read it because it’s one of the books from Lost. My wife and I recently became hooked on Lost, and we’ve watched the entire series over the last couple of months. Since we are seriously addicted to the show, we of course have to read the books referenced in the show as well (yeah, I guess we are huge nerds).

Anyway, regardless of the reason for reading it, A Wrinke in Time is a great book and a quick, easy read. It has an interesting combination of a sort of fantasy and sci-fi theme. I don’t want to give away any of the details, so I’ll leave it at that. I sort of got a C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia feeling from the book. I can definitely see a relationship to Lost as well, again I won’t mention any details in case you haven’t read the book or seen Lost.

I enjoyed it very much and I definitely recommend reading it.