Comments on: Why Links From Content Are The Best Kind Of Links

By: marissa @ lehtitarjous

marissa @ lehtitarjous — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:05:24 +0000

I guess you make a lot of guest posts then to get the incontent links to your blog posts. That is a great way to market your blog to other readers and to the search engines. First you have to build your relationships with the bloggers tough.
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By: Justin Germino

Justin Germino — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:21:47 +0000

First time I have seen the mention of the article tag as well but very easy to have WordPress encapsulate all of your post content in article tags by updating the index.php and single.php if it is determined that Google will start paying attention to that tag for finding backlinks/content to index.
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By: benwaynet@microsoft sharepoint

benwaynet@microsoft sharepoint — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:18:30 +0000

Did know people are still using blog carnivals. I hadn’t seen anything about them in over a year.
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By: Duane Kinsey@Logo Design

Duane Kinsey@Logo Design — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:58:14 +0000

Had no idea about the article tag in HTML5, so thanks for the heads on that one.
SEO really isn’t that hard. It is many of the self-proclaimed experts out there who make it seems more difficult than it is just to make an industry out of it.
Build a solid platform, create good content and the links (and ranking) will come.
It is not a “magic” formula.
Nice post:)
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By: Karan Singhal

Karan Singhal — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:54:28 +0000

Yup, in-content links are also better for their content value.
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By: Kristi Hines

Kristi Hines — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:40:56 +0000

In content links are usually more valuable because they are going to be crawled before sidebar and footer links. But one thing to consider when it comes to not getting links just because of their location is their traffic value. While they are not going to help boost your rankings, if the site receives a ton of traffic, your link still might get a lot of clicks depending on how it is placed which is still valuable if you want traffic from a relevant site.
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By: Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing

Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:26:17 +0000

While not new news, this is certainly a point that needs to be spread wide.

However, as someone touched on above, one problem we face is a lot of bloggers do not allow contextual links back to ones site within a guest post.
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By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:31:50 +0000

I am happy to hear about the new HTML5 tag, this will hopefully change the way people think of comment links down the road, stopping this nonsense that comment links should be part of any SEO strategy.
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By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:30:04 +0000

If you write good content, people will WANT to link to it. Personally, I think article directories are not time well spent, and that time could be better spent on your own content.

By: Dr Joe@Toronto Dentist Blog

Dr Joe@Toronto Dentist Blog — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:59:28 +0000

Excellent article Karan. I’ve been learning more about link value lately. Optimizing on-page links doesn’t seem like a big deal, but unique, well-placed anchor text on a topic-related post is golden. Especially when that page eventually gains solid page rank. You can eventually own a good-sized chunk of a category having multiple posts supporting a topic.

Those static footer links aren’t as valuable because the wording is always identical and the link isn’t always relevant to the keywords on the page.

I see how Brian does it at Coppyblogger and you’re right on track. Sharing link luv with multiple posts (and sites) gives a lot more depth to the reader’s experience and more credibility to your post.
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