Tag Archives: link building

What Happens When Link Popularity, well Becomes Less Popular?

The success of the Web has traditionally been based around linking, so much so that the search engine algorithms are based heavily on thinks like link popularity amongst hundreds of other elements.  The fact is that the engines do place a lot of weight on link popularity and link authority.  My concern is that pages with high link popularity do not always serve up the best result for my needs as a searcher.  This is one reason why I was excited to see some of the focus from Google switch to real-time search results.  Many real-time search results do not [...]

Google’s Reasonable Surfer Patent: Interlinking, Link Building and SEO Strategy Implications

Interlinking and link building are essential parts of an effective SEO strategy so anything that could have implications on the effectiveness of these tactics is a core organic search marketing concern. On May 11, 2010 a six year old Google patent application was approved that will change the way link juice is passed from page to page, both within a site and across domains. One month later, the implications of this new patent are starting to get the attention of the SEO community. Dubbed the Reasonable Surfer Patent by SEO Bill Slawski, this new link analysis methodology anticipates which links on a page are [...]

There Is More to SEO than Just Link Building

Let me start out by saying that to be honest, link building is not one of my favorite subjects.  I have seen way too many examples of webmasters, site owners and so-call SEO people who have abused this idea of link building and used this to try and manipulate the search results.  That’s not what we are about here at Enquiro.  There is more to our SEO services than just link building.  We consult with clients on their linking efforts through items such as link audits and such.  We are well versed in link analysis and use tools to help [...]