Can Buying Links Get You Banned From Google?

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: September 5th, 2011 Published in: Link Building, Search Engine Optimisation, Spam

Throwing this one out for the pros – do you think Google will ban an average website for buying links?  I’m not so sure – in fact I think the whole link buying idea is more of a fantastic PR campaign on Google’s behalf than reality.  Let me explain my chain of thought;

Staff got some time on their hands? Here’s some SEO related bits n’ pieces they can handle

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: April 7th, 2008 Published in: Blogging, Link Building, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Media Marketing, Traffic Generation

Someone asked me the other day what their staff member could be doing to help with SEO as they had some spare time on their hands.  While there isn’t really a perfect answer that will fit any business, these tips should be useful on the whole (not in any particular order)…

Karma be gone! Reporting paid links to Google is a legitimate business move!

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 16th, 2008 Published in: Google, Link Building, Spam

David Wallace has a nice write up about reporting paid links to Google this week, which is based on the back of a poll by Blogstorm.  Both posts have some interesting comments on them and while I don’t agree with some of them, the articles are well worth a read. The key areas that grabbed my [...]

Why in-house link building isn’t a practical solution for most companies

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 1st, 2007 Published in: Link Building

ADDED:  Welcome SmallBusinessNews readers!  Just an advanced warning that this article contains a range of profanities.  But seeing you already read the article over at SBN or by email that’s too little too late ain’t it?  Perhaps that should be the motto for the SEO industry? Ho-hum. I read an article over at SEW today [...]

v7n now selling contextual links

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 24th, 2007 Published in: Link Building

Hat tip to John Scott who’s now offering contextual links for sale over at v7n.  Also note the landing page is almost entirely composed of images which I would guess is an intentional little experiment to show the value of link weight over on page optimisation. More info on John’s blog here. Best of luck [...]

Google Backlink Update – Jan 2007

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 11th, 2007 Published in: Google, Link Building

For all those back link junkies out there, Google have / are in the process of updating back link counts.  Fused Nation for example has gone from 29 to 83 (thank you blog tag game!). Noticing some TB PR updates too. UPDATE – there’s some chatter about “PR Outages” – sites showing PR0 for no [...]

$50,000 a month from a web directory

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: December 5th, 2006 Published in: Link Building

Nice post by John Scott offering some tips and background on monetising a web directory.  A great example how even in a saturated market you can nurture success through an original approach to your project.  I can only hope I see the same return with mine! MG