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The Big Book of Getting People to Link to You

The Big Book of Getting People to Link to You

Today, on the Business of Software forums, a newer software developer asked how I managed to get people to link to me.  The motivation in getting links is both to get visitors directly from the websites you are linking to and to influence the search engines into prefering your site over the other fifty zillion [...]

SEO Tips for Ruby on Rails

I’m working on this article as another bit of linkbait, and its about 33% of the way finished at the moment, but I thought I would give you guys a sneak peek.  If you have any comments, please, feel free.  If you want to blog or otherwise link to it, go right ahead, although it [...]

That Shouldn’t Even Be Legal

So I was checking today whether Daily Bingo Cards has started to pick up any search traffic, and aside from the name it is starting to rank for some long tail queries, including #5 on “bingo cards make yourself“.  I was kind of suprised that it did that, because while that is certainly a snowflake [...]

Developing Linkbait For a Non-Technical Audience

Meet The Linkerati  The old computer science joke has it that there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary, and those that don’t.  There are 10 kinds of people on the Internet, too: those that link, and those that don’t.  Those that link are called the Linkerati, and they have the [...]