Mike The Internet Guy’s Blog

In case anyone had doubted the power of an image link with an alt tag passing juice, here is an excellent example. My friends at timeforcake creative media, a Frisco Colorado Web Design Firm, were wondering why Full Frame Design was ranking for the search ‘frisco colorado web design‘. Full Frame does not have the […]

Just to be clear up front this link will not have any search engine value, but you might get some great traffic from it and find some future link sources. There is a company called Sphere that has created a Related Content Widget which displays related external news and blog stories on a web page. […]

UPDATE CHRIS S. FROM LINKEDIN REPLIED THE LINKS ON THE PUBLIC PROFILE ARE NOT REDIRECTED. THE REDIRECTS ONLY HAPPEN WHEN VIEWING A PROFILE INTERNALLY AS A MEMBER. THANKS CHRIS
Up until recently anyone with a LinkedIn profile had an ability to create a few “free” anchor text rich links back to any websites of your choosing. […]

As far as buying links goes, $20 for a link for a ‘lifetime’ on a decent site in your ‘theme’ seems like a pretty good deal! Well that is exactly what the folks over at V7N’s contextual link program offer. I don’t typically buy links through brokers, but here is a quick list of what […]

Link reclamation is usually the first tactic I employ in a link building campaign for a client. Link reclamation is simply taking some existing links (or near links like mentions) and making them work a little harder for you. Typically web designers place a “credit line” on the bottom of every website they create. […]

Pizza Patron has got the right idea. The restaurant chain announced this week they will accept Mexican Pesos as currency in their restaurants. Now if that doesn’t earn some links I don’t know what will. It is almost the “Perfect Storm” of link bait for a local business if you consider the current immigration debate, […]

Simon over at Search Engine Tigers, pointed out an interesting new site called PlaceBlogger. Basically this site which just launched a few days ago I think, is a blog directory by location. There were actually a few blogs in the Denver blogs section that I hadn’t seen before that were pretty cool. One of them […]

Once again Mike Blumenthal has given business owners some food for thought in his latest quest to uncover hints for high rankings in Google Maps. In his latest research Mike has demonstrated that ‘links’ to “local websites” , don’t even really need a live link pointing to your business website to get some bang for […]

Man, as if I don’t have anything better to do I’ve been on LinkedIn a ton the past few days. What a great tool. If I have contacted you or invited you, thanks for putting up with me :). I worked on a similar tool many years ago at www.bizcircles.com. It never quite took off […]