A Link for All Seasons
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About
Jennifer Van Iderstyne is an SEO Specialist at Internet Marketing Ninjas, formerly WeBuildPages. Internet Marketing Ninjas is a full service internet marketing company based out of sunny Clifton Park, NY. You can follow her on Twitter but if you come to the office you won’t be able to find her, because Ninjas are invisible.
Articles
Winning Your Link Independence
It’s the 4th of July! And while we’re all enjoying our hot dogs and sparklers Will Smith is off somewhere punching an alien in the...
Why Link Bait is Not a 4-Letter Word
Ok, clearly for those who can count, link bait is actually 2, 4-letter words. But for some people out in web-land it’s become a dirty,...
Link Building Lessons From Improv Comedy
There’s something I do every month or so that helps remind me that making a fool of myself in public is acceptable. I do improv...
How to Undermine Your Link Building
The road to hell isn’t the only one paved with good intentions. Most of us set out with the best motives, but somewhere along the...
Don’t Underestimate Over-Optimization
Is there such a thing as over optimized? Can there be too much of a good thing in link building? Well just like eating 100...
Battening Down the Hatches for a Link Bait Brainstorm
Creating great link bait is something of an art. Everyone wants to originate that one great piece that goes as a viral as the plague....
Using Up Your Leftovers: Link Building Edition
Are you tired of turkey yet? By now we should all be just about done with turkey sandwiches and leftover sweet potatoes. But using up...
The Accidental Link Request Clinic
If you send me a link request, I’m going to go ahead and assume you want my feedback. What? You don’t? You just want the...
3 Things Link Building has Taught Me about Life & Vice Versa
Life is all about the lessons; the things we figure out through trial and error along the way. At its core link building is a...
5 Link Building Questions That Make Me Die a Little Inside
If you offer link building as a service, there are a few questions you hear over and over. They are the questions which, like a...
What to Look For in a Link Builder
What kinds of people make the best link builders? Well, that’s as hard to define as what kinds of people make the best leaders or...
5 Dirty Words in Link Building
There are a lot of bad words people use when talking about link building and link builders. Many of them involve expletives, and only the...
Build Links Backwards
What would you do for a link you really wanted? Would you beg? Plead? Pay? Stand on your head? Kill a man? Ok, if you’d...
Five Fatal Flaws in a Link Request
I’m probably not going to entertain many link requests. At all. Simply because doing what I do for a living I understand the value of...
Cold Calling For Links: Advice from Door to Door Sales
About 8 years ago, I was offered a job in door to door sales. I thought it would probably be the scariest, hardest job I...
5 Ways to Make Back Links More Powerful
Sometimes in link building, you’re only as good as your next link. We’re always on the hunt for new links, more links, better links. But...
Helping Your Niche Site Swim in the Mainstream
For link building purposes, some clients are just more desirable than others. There are some sites that are exciting, because the minute you land on...
Build Links with Better Answers
Have you ever typed a question into Google and the ranking results were from a mass produced “how to” site? Even if you don’t know...