Linkbuilding

For prices starting at $100 a month, a reputation management company in Texas offered to help companies suffering from bad online reviews. Using a combination of automated and human efforts, they explained, they could flood review sites with positive write-ups. Not reviews from actual customers, of course, but multiple accounts set up by one person,…

The first step in linkbuilding is to place links in places like Google Places, Brownbook, Thomasnet, Spoke, Blogcatalog, Yelp, and other places where people look for information. Typically, your task there is just to do a great job of describing your website so that visitors will want to click through when they’re interested in your…

Linkbuilding is one of the most important things you can do for your website; that’s been true since the Google algorithm was first developed, and it’s still true today. Basic methods for linkbuilding have changed somewhat since then, though.

If you own a website, you’ve probably received unsolicited offers to swap links,  invitations to buy links, or promises of thousands of links for your website at economical rates. You might have tried automatic link submission software or hired cheap linkbuilding services in hopes of getting that large number of links that makes your site…