43 Local Blog Directories - Get Your Blog Listed

With the recent influx of recent clients interested in local SEO, I’ve been writing a few posts on local search engine optimization. This one follows suit with a slight twist. This post focuses on link building opportunities for local blogs - after all blogs need local love too!
Specific Regions
Washington Post - DC-area blogs
CityPages.com - Minnesota
Minnesota.com
Newsbobber.com [...]

SEO Basics - Internal & External Link Building

Today wraps up our 4 part series of SEO basics and we’ll be focusing on link building - both external and internal (view our Title Tag basics, Meta Description basics and Hx tag basics).
Inbound linking to your page or website helps a lot in terms of SEO, firstly because every link is a reference and [...]

How To Create a Natural Backlink Profile When Link Building

One of the most important things when building links is gaining them ‘naturally’. If you’re an SEO or site owner buying links or building them manually through directories, blog posting, etc. it is becoming more and more important to make it look like you’re gaining them naturally.
Why? Google, Yahoo and Bing are all becoming increasingly [...]

How to Find .edu Links - Simple Link Building Tips

Well, this link building tip will be short and sweet but hopefully you’ll find it very effective. We all need links to achieve search engine optimization success and getting links from authority domains is a big piece of that.
This tip is quite simple and leverages some advanced search techniques to scrub through the search results [...]

Website Directory Gold: The Top 250 Website Directories

The world of SEO strategy and ranking factors is forever changing. What was popular today may not be popular tomorrow. Certainly what we knew even a few months ago has been challenged by what we’ve learned of the ranking algorithms since then. That said, one thing that has continually proved beneficial in getting a website [...]

DMOZ Directory Turns 11 Years Old

Congratulations to The DMOZ directory who turned 11 years old yesterday!  The Open Directory Project, aka DMOZ.org, launched way back on June 5, 1998 and has quickly grown into more than a half-million categories and content in more than 80 languages. Happy Birthday DMOZ!
Interested in submitting your website to the DMOZ directory? You can start [...]