Comments on: A Guide To Link Building

By: kaitlyn@web designer

kaitlyn@web designer — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:56:44 +0000

Domain trust and authority is the biggest indicator of SEO success (have about 24% weightage in Ranking factors) which is given by the quality incoming links. Links flow towards your website have been considered as indication of people’s trust on website. Therefore, Google trusts that site too.

By: clipping path

clipping path — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:28:37 +0000

The article is pertinent,and link building is a timely issue.But I adhere to every day. Bildbearbeitung

By: Krystian

Krystian — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:46:33 +0000

@MikeHopley
Have a look into their advanced ranking factors 2009 I think, it’s all out there, but it’s only statistics. They’re talking about domain authority etc, apart from links, but you can’t get authority without links.

Anyway, very short article, it’s good that you mentioned about a varied incoming link text, but you didn’t say why it should be like that.

You also said “when asking for links”, not many webmasters will link to your website if it’s not an authority site or if it doesn’t offer any quality, really interesting content. Most webmasters are used to reciprocal link exchanges and if you don’t reciprocate they’ll get mad, even if you asked for one way link as they’ll feel cheated.

Good point with the variety of link sources, “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, that’s very true for SEO.

By: MikeHopley

MikeHopley — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:41:34 +0000

I made a quick search on SEOmoz, but I didn’t find it.

If you have a particular survey in mind, then why don’t you provide the link? It’s not that hard to list your sources.

The internet makes lazy writers of us all; but I expect better from an article on TWS. I suppose I should remember that the purpose of most articles is to justify the back-link, and nothing more.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:23:02 +0000

The stats were taken from SEOmoz, when they surveyed over 70 SEOs (The figures are also backed up from other sources).

Rough Stats:

24% domain authoirty and trust
43% Link building
16% on site optimisation
17% Other data (such as traffic and CTR, hosting and more)

By: MikeHopley

MikeHopley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:29:51 +0000

It is thought that link building constitutes around 43% off the overall ranking factors

Where exactly does this figure come from? By whom is it thought? SEMs? Google employees? Monkeys?

I can’t even tell what the figure means. Is it saying that inbound links (i.e. page rank) constitute 43% of ranking factors (with 57%, presumably, being on-site factors)? Or is it saying that a good link-building campaign can be expected to account for 43% of your final page rank (with the other 57% being “organic” links that you didn’t “build” yourself)?

Sorry to whinge, but I hate bad statistics. If you’re going to quote statistics, then back them up with a source, and make it clear what they actually mean. Don’t just use them for impressive hand-waving.

Otherwise not a bad article, if rather thin.

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By: Canvas Photos

Canvas Photos — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:07:14 +0000

I try to link build everyday for about an hour or two. It’s timely, but I think it really works. Thanks for the article man.