Ultimate Guide to Link Building How to Build Backlinks, Authority and Credibility for Your Website, and Increase Click Traffic and Search Ranking

by Ward, Eric; French, Garrett

• ISBN13: 9781599184425
• ISBN10: 1599184427
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781613081808
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-03-01
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
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Summary

The web today is comprised of trillions of links: links between websites, links within social media venues like Facebook and Twitter, and even links in email inboxes. Who links to a site and how they link to it is one of the most important factors that search engines rely on when ranking results. But how do marketers control this? Link building expert Eric Ward provides the answers. Sharing little-known techniques for link building via social media platforms, blogs, partnerships, public relations, articles, and more, Ward teaches marketers which link-building techniques will maximize the quality links that point to their site, allowing them to charm both search engines and customers and which methods to avoid. This one-of-a-kind guide details a variety of link building tools, tactics, and techniques illustrated by case studies, expert interviews, and resources. Ward leaves no opportunity unexplored, and no link-building questions unanswered.

Author Biography

Eric Ward is recognized as the web's leading expert on content linking strategies. Nicknamed LinkMoses, Ward has been creating linking strategies since 1993, and founded the first online publicity services for web sites, called NetPOST and URLwire, in 1994. Ward’s company was hired by Jeff Bezos as the online publicist for Amazon.com's debut. Today, Ward helps companies create and execute linking strategies, and teaches others his techniques. He is the Chief Link Evangelist for AdGooroo, and writes a private subscriber newsletter. He also writes the LinkWeek column for industry news site SearchEngineLand.com, and has written for ClickZ and Ad Age Magazine. Ward has spoken at more than 125 industry conferences, and his clients have included PBS.org, WarnerBros, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, TVGuide.com, and Weather.com.