Link Building is a fundamental skill for SEO practitioners, but many go about it in ways that could hurt their long term ranking benefit. Just over a year ago I wrote my first and only guest post, as an entry into Marketing Pilgrim's annual competition. At the time when I published the article, I joked that "I had been robbed", you wouldn't believe the number of comments suggesting a way to get my revenge, file DMCA, report to Google or recover my "stolen" article.

Climbing The Heights Of Mount Google

When you set out to climb a mountain, or rank for a competitive keyword term, some methods are effective. This is a simplistic look at climbing the heights of Mount Google.

Human Pyramid

A human pyramid might be suitable for those low hanging fruit, but this method is unlikely to help you scale great heights. Not only is it hard to gain great height, but the weak construction is easily eroded by competitors. Photo credit: >S@TS<

This post is likely to cause a little controversy, but it is my honest opinion that bloggers have been led astray for long enough regarding how many services you really should send a ping notification to. My Advice Ignore all the other ping lists published - they are frequently irrelevant and could potentially highlight you as a spammer.

I just went to follow a link on Twitter and discovered it was blocked by OpenDNS

I just went to follow a link on Twitter and discovered it was blocked by OpenDNS