advanced link building in 2009 - how to find and get those real juicy links!

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Christoph C Cemper has been building links since 2003 and is a well respected guru in the SEO industry, especially when it comes to getting real juicy links on trusted domains. Link Building techniques have evolved over the years and it gets hard to diagnose a good link at all. In this session, for the first time ever, he gives you an overview of his tactics, techniques and tools he (still) uses. Learn how to pimp your browser, find the best pages, diagnose its health and avoiding bad neighbourhoods. CEMPER.COM specializes in advanced link building strategies like presell pages and persona SEO services for gathering the best and strongest natural links to improve your organic traffic from major search engines like Google.

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Advanced Link BuildingHow to FIND and GET those REAL juicy links

in 2009

Christoph C. Cemper

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Motivation

• Give update on actually USED techniques

• Still LOTs of outdated information out

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Link Building Over Time (2004)

OMG, I got banned from Google for pointing a PR8 sitewide link at my 3 days old datafeed site domain!

Lesson learnt: don‘t overdo it

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About Christoph C. Cemper

• Software Architect (IT Diploma)

• Masters Degree in Marketing/Sales

• Ex-IBM, ex-HP• Today: General Manager,

Owner, Project Manager

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About CEMPER.COM

• Started in 2003 Doing links since 2003• Over 400 current international clients SEO Consulting for premium clients Developing SEO software Running some successful sites on

topics like travel, electronics, finance …

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What I expect from you

• Know WHY you need links• Have been building/buying/stealing

links• Have wondered before why link

building/etc. „stopped working“

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What DID matter in link building

• Precise Anchortext– Because LSI is in full effect and anchor text filters (since 2006!)

• Google Pagerank– Because it‘s crippled by Google (since 2007!)

• Alexa Rank– Because it‘s skewed (since ever)

• Google Backlinks– Because it‘s crippled by Google (since 2004!)

• Google Cachedate– Because it‘s crippled by Google (for a while!)

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What, no page rank?

Matt CuttsSays(SMX Advanced

Seattle 2008)

We return random page rank data if we feel like to – it‘s fun!

• Lesson learnt: don‘t look at PR

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10What still DOES matter in link

building!

RELEVANCY&

TRUST

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117 Golden Rules of White Hat Link

Building

1. Relevant page & in content links2. Domain trust3. Natural anchor text4. Nofollow5. Juicy Page (you‘ll get instructions and our secret tool!)

6. No Spam!7. Don’t buy links for page rank!

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Link Building Over Time (2005+)

GoogleGuysays

Build Content for Users, Not for

Search Engines

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13Golden Rules of White Hat Link

Building (1)

Relevant page with in-content links

• „Presell Pages“– Coined by Aaron Wall in 03/2005– Links in RELEVANT content – R.I.P irrelevant footer links (devalued 2004)

• Lesson Learnt: – build links on relevant content pages!

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Trust Rank

You need links from trusted sites to become trusted!

• Trust of linking FROM & TO domain • Domain Age important• Co-Citations super important … Q?

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (2)

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Trust Rank also means…

Link quality is relative…

– Trusted domains respond differently & more quickly

– Trusted domains = more LSI

• Lesson Learnt: – build trust, not (only) links!

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (2)

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Co-Citations & Neighborhood (2006+)

• Co-Citations & Neighborhood IMPORTANT– WHO you link to with is– WHO is linked with you is

important!– Awesome graphics by JimBoykin

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Co-Citations & neighborhood(2006+)

• Bad co-citation example

• AND – it‘s a navigational text link – devalued ANYWAYs …

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Natural Anchor Text Distribution

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (3)

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• Client in real estate

• Domain age 12 years, trusted!• Well established major brand,

trusted!• Over 100,000 links to domain

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (3)Natural Anchor Text Case Study (1)

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Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (3)Natural Anchor Text Case Study (2)

Effect of anchor text over optimization (Ranking over Time for ONE page of the client's site)

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Sep.08 Okt.08 Nov.08 Dez.08 Jän.09 Feb.09 Mär.09

Ranking

•+30 penalty (algo filter!) for target page thanks to same anchor texts

10 links / month with EXACT same anchortext10 links / month with EXACT same anchortext

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• Solution– Vary anchortext– Add nofollows– add „useless“ anchortext

• Brandname• Site-URL• „cool site“ – „click here“

• +30 penalty gone after 2 months

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (3)Natural Anchor Text Case Study (3)

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Normal users don’t care about anchortext

(and if all your links look like they were built by an SEO then you‘re in BIG trouble)

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (3)

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Do you build NOFOLLOW links?

(on relevant pages that is!)

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (4)

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Yes, also - because you don‘t look at pagerank

(do you?)

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (4)

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Even more YES, because normalnormal users don‘t care

about NOFOLLOWeither

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (4)

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Juicy Page =

it does rank!

I will show you in a minute how to check!(and give you access to our internal tool!)

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (5)

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No Spam!

• Links on duplicate content pages – AKA article directories / article sites

• Adding Links INTO pages that are years old• Bad Neighborhood

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (6)

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Choose your link sources carefully!!

OMG it‘s full of SPAMAnd we‘re in the

middle of all these link buyers!

DO NOT GET A LINK HERE!!!

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DON‘T BUY LINKS

FOR PAGE RANK

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (7)

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BUT, You don‘t

look at pagerankanyway!

(do you?)

Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building (7)

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The Secret Gardens

• Check if a page is JUICY• Finding relevant pages for links

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Check if a page is JUICY (1)

• Pick unique phrase

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Check if a page is JUICY (2)

• Google for it in quotes

stealing my content?Need to DMCA again!

#1 for our phrase – won the JUICE contest

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Check if a page is (NOT) JUICY (3)

DoesTHISLookLikeA

Nice Site?

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Check if a page is (NOT) JUICY (4)

Hmmm… That site could not

be found in these 6, maybe in

the filtered results?

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Check if a page is (NOT) JUICY (5)

Oh man!142 spammy article syndication

sites same content…

Is „my“ page there at all?

No, the site wasNot found in the 142Results at ALL

It‘s a DEAD page!

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Check if a page is JUICY (6)

Prefer to have this info

at the click of a button

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Check if a page is JUICY (7)

• But YOU could at least use our new, free, but still SECRET tool …

Leave your business card to get early access!

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Finding relevant pages

If Google thinks a page is very relevant for a

keyphrase, then it probably is (in Google‘s

eyes!)

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Finding relevant pages for links

Digging thru those could take some time tough…

Damn, I‘d better find a new job, this link builder job looks like A LOT of

hard work…

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Finding relevant pages for links

• Use Combinations!

my keyword informationmy keyword review

buy my keywordpurchase my keyword

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We tried to improve link research

That‘s why we‘ve built our internal SERP research tool for our work

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More tools we built for us

• A tool to handle the workflow – between SEO manager, SEO analyst, link builders, clients, key

account manager

• A tool to keep track of client‘s links– Alert functions– Historical database – Expense management

• More link research tools – Deep link research– Common back links – Common forward links (AKA authority finder)

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Basic Tools you will need

• Google• Firefox• SEOQUAKE• SwitchProxy Plugin• Spreadsheets or good CRM-like

software

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Summary

• Don‘t look at Pagerank, Alexa, etc.• DO obey the

7 Golden Rules of White Hat Link Building

• Don‘t worry about wasting PR or anchortext• Think like a user, not an SEO!• Be efficient!

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THANK YOUR FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

QUESTIONS ?

Want to have FREE early bird access to our JUICE tool?

Please leave me your business card.

In other cases feel free to contact me:christoph@cemper.com

http://www.cemper.com/ http://www.marketingfan.com

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