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Some of the most respected link building professionals have rated several link value related factors, which lead to the Link Value Factors.

HP can spam the hell out of Google and Google engineers are afraid to do anything about it because they do not want to lose the associated AdWords ad budget. But if you follow HP's strategy it is called spam - and a Google engineer will smile while killing your site. It's just business.

Link opportunities are abundant if you know where to look. Sometimes there is value in linking outside the box as your site is only as strong as its weakest link. Are You an SEO Link Opportunist? by SEO Design Solutions. Each link has value, for example a PR0 link from a page already present in the Google backlink algorithm using the link:command has far greater value than a PR6 link from a page that has weak internal linking or is not crawled frequently.

his post is a follow up to my creating and managing your link campaign article. These are not techniques for gaining natural links rather they are methods of contacting other sites about your business and getting them to link to you - without initially coming right out and asking for a link. It occurred to me to add a few links to actual places where you can get free .edu links, however I did that before over at seomoz and the free sources are now useless due to being spammed.

Sending a (good) link request via email is one of the most powerful ways to build links. My good friend and experienced link builder Melanie Nathan has put together an awesome tutorial on manual link building that covers most important link request strategies followed by killer examples.

When it comes to building links and generating coverage of your web site and products online, there's a skill that often gets overlooked. Relationship building gets a lot of lip service these days, but I sometimes wonder how many small businesses really, truly understand how much work goes into it. Relationships go beyond reading a single blog post or scanning a Facebook page...it means investing time in someone.

hat the Buzz? is a keyword research tool with one simple aim: to find out who's talking about a certain keyword. To do that, it does five things: * It displays the Technorati Blog Popularity Chart, showing how popular the keyword has been blogged about in the past 90 days * It displays the Google Trends chart for the keyword * It finds blog posts tagged with the keyword * It finds blog posts containing the keyword (a straight-forward search) * It finds social bookmarks tagged with the keywords

Having battled the SEO war on all fronts (for myself, for clients, for a firm, and most recently, in-house), I've learned a lot over the years when it comes to link campaigning. Although I am completely FOR generating content that will get linked to naturally, often time this is easier said than done. If you're not a link baiting aficionado or if you're limited by what you're authorized to do, then you'll need to get links the old fashioned way and simply ask for them.