I have never been a huge fan of old school “emailing for link building” but hey, it works, and that is why people continue to do it (you know who you are). I thought I would share two stories of link building in the same industry. One that worked, and one that most certainly did not. To me, it was interesting to see the two side by side, and they both happened to come across my email path on the same day. Here we go. By the way, I have removed names/URLs etc. to just make everyone happier – you get the point without knowing the details. 
The bad:
Bad Link Building Example
I mean, it seems nice right? Using somewhat decent English (I have no room to talk by the way – bad english, spelling all around my posts) etc. Well, if you take a look at the red arrows you will see what is wrong with this request.
Link Building
bad link building, example of link building, good link building, Link Building, link building example
Last week, Mat had a post where someone asked the question:
I’ve contacted some of the sites that have linked to my competitors and requested that they link to me, but have never heard back. What do I do?
And I couldn’t help myself but to email Mat a reply.
It was a little edgy, but he thought it was funny informative whatever enough that he asked me to turn it into a post and be a random contributor.
Here. Goes. Nothing.
Some people are made to be hunters.
Some are made to be hunted.
Whether you are a hunter or a someone who is usually hunted — deep down inside, you know what your natural tendency is… and don’t even try lying to yourself about it.
So first you have to be completely honest with yourself and admit whether you are a hunt-er or a hunt-ed.
Link Building
Link Building
I got asked the question below after a link building webinar I did this week. It is a great question, and one that is asked to me often by many people. I thought I would take the time to really answer it, and provide some useful tips for overcoming the link building block that we all hit. I even got some link building ninjas to help me answer this, so sit back – buckle up, and get ready for a great ride!
Question Asked:
I’ve contacted some of the sites that have linked to my competitors and requested that they link to me, but have never heard back. What do I do?
Link Building
Link Building, link requests, linking, linking strategies
I had a dream conversation with a new client today. I often don’t hear the results of my client’s success or lack thereof. To be honest I didn’t expect this one. The business owner lives out of the country. When we announced programming classes he held in the US. I knew that he didn’t get a lot of response.
I wrote a press release and even though no one came to the classes, people found him.
Here’s a bit from the conversation:
Client: We’ve developed a second class following the success of the first one so I want to announce it.
Me: Was the first class successful?
Client: YES!
Me: tell me about it…what made it so good?
Client: 70K worth of business
Me: and how did they find out about the class?
Client: They found out via OUR press release!
Branding, Business, Link Building, social marketing
For those of you that have been in the game (Internet marketing/SEO) for a while, just reading my title will be enough for you to guess what this post is about. Yep, you guessed it – Reciprocal linking emails and other link building offers you get in your inbox. I get these everyday too, almost as much as the spam I get on my blogs!
The reason I wanted to do a post about it is because of an email I got from a client, who happens to be a really smart guy (a contract lawyer in fact) but still to new to Internet marketing to have a clue about the things to embrace and the things to toss out. He received the usual email that started off “I visited your site today, and really liked it” – and went on to flatter more - then the question came to me:
Link Building
Link Building, linking, linking strategies, reciprocal linking
A lot of buzz has been generating in the SEO community about the launching of In Links, InLinks.com – The new Text Link Ads program that is an Inline Link Buying Program. 
This link buying program seems to be virtually undetectable (but not under the radar 100%) by Google (which is much better then the “elephant in the room” old version of text links TLA offered), and puts the links where they matter most, right into the content of blogs, articles and other places where content is on your website. I think the only way users can be detected is if they abuse the program. If they do abuse, they can be caught and probably will be punished by Google.
Link Building
Buying Links, InLinks, Paid Links, Text Link Ads
