Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advice.
Broken inbound links are the curse of many website owners. There’s nothing more frustrating than finding that a new link to your site has been broken through a simple misspelling or typo.
Not only do they create a poor experience for visitors, they also cause issues for search engine spiders and your overall ranking in search engines.
The good news…
We all know that link building is an important step in any search engine optimization campaign, so in this post I’m going to show you how product reviews can help build extra links to your website.
If you’re planning on launching a new product (or want some exposure for an existing one) getting reviews about your product can…
Yahoo! have just announced that will be shutting down their much loved Yahoo! Site Explorer tool later this year as they finalise the merger of Bing and Yahoo! organic results.
Personally, I find it disappointing to see the end for site explorer which has been one of my most frequently used link checking tools for ineedhits.com and…
Every couple of years a group of search marketing experts from across the globe gather together to share their opinions on the most powerful search engine ranking factors.
This year we have a panel of 132 SEO experts who have shared their thoughts and predictions for the future of SEO in SEOmoz’s 2011 Search Engine Ranking Factors…
Xenu’s Link Sleuth is one of those rare SEO tools that’s both free and feature packed. In case you haven’t heard of it before, it’s marketed as a tool that can find broken links across your website, but it can actually do so much more.
To get started, visit the Xenu Link Sleuth homepage and download a copy…
Last week I wrote about the importance of flat website architecture and how cross linking can help to improve the ranking of sub pages on your website. This week I’d like to cover this in a little more detail by discussing the concept of PageRank leakage and how you can prevent this happening on your website.…
We all know that links are the holy grail of top Google rankings, but how many of you actually track where you’re links are coming from and how they’re changing and performing.
Tracking your backlinks doesn’t have to be a time and resource intensive process thanks to a range of free and fairly cheap backlink analysis tools that are now…
Link building has become a hot topic of late in the search marketing arena. While it has been around for years, sometimes it can be done very poorly or overlooked altogether in an SEM strategy – don’t let this happen for your website.
I recently came across a great article which outlined the dos and don’ts of link…
Today I came across a great post called “I Listened to Google and I Failed” which discusses whether Google’s advice on link building actually works.
The post argues that Google’s long standing link building advice, Produce great content and users will link to you, is not an effective way to improve your Google rankings and attract search…
The team at the Google Webmaster Central blog wants to help you make the most of your link building efforts.
A new blog post outlines in depth a number of ways to earn quality links to your site.
Here is a quick rundown:
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