Cool. A funny SEO comic strip of Dilbert! I guess that it means that SEO is getting more and more popular…
Comic strip of Dilbert just here, found via SEOBook, in the “Funny Dilbert SEO Comic Strip Cartoon by Scott Adams” post.
There’s no way out. To rank in the majors search engines, a website need links. Depending of the market you’re dealing with, you might need lots of links. And quality links. In an ideal world, great content would bring great links. In real life though, lots of work are required to get those juicy links.
And as written by Mark Lus of RedFlyMarketing on the SEO ROI blog of Gabriel Goldenberg, most people do not like doing Link Building for 2 major reasons (excerpt from the “Cicero and Link Building” post):
1. The best quality links in terms of SEO value are tedious to obtain and involve the traditional research-and-request model. Aka link begging.
2. Even if you do everything right, you might still not get a response for a multitude of reasons, going from stale contact information to derelict sites so old they’re grown over with ivy.
One of my preferred link building method is to get a list of the links from the competitors, and trying to some of these links. To do this, I use the Linkscape tool of SEOmoz. If you’re looking for a free product though, I would recommend the Open Site Explorer (another SEOmoz product). The Yahoo Site Explorer also does a good job.
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Congrats to Vincent Abry, of Abry.biz, 01date.com and VincentAbry.com for his new job as a web marketer for RobotShop.com. Vincent will write the content of the Robots Blog, and promote it on the web through various ways, such as SEO, SMM, community management, etc.
RobotShop specialize in personal and professional robot technology and offer a wide range of robotic products and services in this sector.
Google recently published a Quiz related to SEO for webmasters. The quiz has already been removed though, but the answers have been published on the Google Webmaster Central Blog just here. For those interested, It is a good way to learn more about SEO.
Only 3 persons got a perfect score of 40/40, too bad I was not one of them!