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In response to the increasing numbers of questions I get about guest posting, I wanted to put together a Q&A post which aggregates some of my answers and hopefully proves useful to anyone who is exploring guest posting as a link building technique. These are all genuine questions I have been asked, in most cases [...]

Developing and acquiring high-quality links is a challenge, let alone being able to effectively scale the process. Luckily though, there are a number of tools which will help with a lot of the heavy lifting which frees up your time to really get down and dirty developing those relationships and actually scoring the links. Here [...]

I want to preface this by saying that nobody really knows what is going on at the moment, there is a lot of craziness in the SERPs right now. Anyone who tells you they have the answer or the magic fix is lying. The good SEOs out there (we include ourselves in this group) are [...]

Introduction successful blog will become the heart of a business; the content engine, the customer acquisition system and the platform to develop thought leadership in an industry. At Skyrocket SEO, we’ve built a business around our blog and many people comment that our website feels more like a blog rather than a corporate website but [...]

AuthorRank – it’s no longer a case of if but when. It’s coming and it is going to be big.(AJ Kohn reckons bigger than all the Panda updates combined) As webmasters, we’ve all got the ability already to implement rel-author but the full effect of AuthorRank is yet to be fully seen. To many it [...]

A question we frequently get asked is how we evaluate link opportunities. Whilst we don’t reveal our precise system for scoring and sifting prospective link partners, in this post I will explain the general principle behind our system to give you an idea of how we operate. The way we operate and our strategy depends [...]

-Indian Proverb As someone who has been working really hard over the last 18 months to build a reputation, now seemed like as good a time as any to reflect on what I’ve learned so far. Overall I’ve come to realise it is true what they say; building a name, a brand and a reputation [...]

Turns out that some things really are dead…public link networks and Build my rank in particular. You may have seen the news that broke on Monday culminating in the closure of one of the most prominent link networks around. Build my rank is no more. Far be it from me to make light of another [...]

As anyone who participates in content-based link building will tell you – coming up with ideas for content to produce is one of the hardest parts. If you’ve got a great idea, the rest of the process becomes a lot easier…pitching great stuff makes outreach much less painful. Bloggers get excited if you are pitching [...]

Guest posting is one of the most effective tactics for earning natural links. Granted, they aren’t literally ‘naturally occurring’ since you are going out and seeking them but we all know that “great content” alone rarely gets links in the volume you need. Guest posting is one of the best methods of putting top-notch content [...]