1. Don’t mention anything nice about the person’s site you are writing to. Keep the focus only on your site and how important your site is.

2. Mention repeatedly how important your low ranked, unknown site is and that the person you are writing to with an established, popular site “needs” to know about it. Don’t use phrases like “you may find it of interest to know about my site” or “we seem to share a common interest” – those words are too polite and might actually get a response. Be sure to use terms like “you need to”, especially when corresponding with a total stranger.

3. Address your email to “whom it may concern” even if the person’s name you are sending your link request/demand to is in the title of his or her site, on the home page and listed again on the contact page. Remember your site is the important one, so it doesn’t matter if you show an interest in the other person’s name or web site.

4. Don’t offer to link to the other person’s site even if it is on the same topic as your site. Just repeatedly mention how important your information is and how linking to your site will help spread the word about this important topic. Ignore the fact that the publisher you are writing to already is spreading the word on this important topic.

5. Don’t use words like please or thank you. If you use polite terms like that and the person you are writing to may actually respond to your email.

6. Repeatedly namedrop every important person you know related to the topic of your site. This shows how important you and your gray bar site with no links really must be. Make it seem like you are doing the link request recipient a favor by even taking time out of your busy schedule hobnobbing with important people to send him or her unsolicited spam email.

7. Don’t bother to proof read your email and be sure to include spelling and grammatical errors.

Some internet sources consider that organizing a link campaign, the number of new links per month should be less than 10 % of the overall number of links that the site has. Do you think it is right?
That 10 % refers to all the links ( outbound, inbound )?
Or does it refer to the unique links ( considering several links from the same site a s an unique link)?

My impression, in these days, is that it’s not necessary a big number of links, but few good links per month.
I think that Google is implementing something like a “sandbox” for sites getting too many links in a short term.

I think that is largely dependent on the level of authority your site commands, but even more dependent on the quality of those links.

If you have an established authoritative domain I don’t believe there are negative implications with getting too many links too soon. There are many examples we can point to where a site can naturally gain thousands of links within a few days such as an exclusive news story breaking on a site that gets picked up by the media and blogs, or a new widget getting picked up thousands of customers.

With a newer site I might take a more conservative approach when building links…but the same concept applies.

How many links do you think some site acquired within the first few days it launched? Hundreds? Thousands? And it wasn’t penalized…..

I’d focus on what links do count and share how and where I find them. All the link building tactics we’re fond of still work: reciprocal links, three way links, using article directories, adding your site to a million general directories, and even paid links, why ‘even’? because everybody is scared whether this is the right way to get links today as it was announced google doesn’t think so and even more this search engine will be punishing such guys who sell links but by the present day it’s only a theory. All links count in some way, even those cloaked in things like nofollow, robot.txt, or a third party tracking code. These types of links may not be SEO friendly, but they do work and depending on where they sit, can go a long way toward boosting your visibility.

Here’s the short list of guidelines I follow when building links to influence rank:

- Place links on indexed pages

- Use multiple variations of anchor text and point to optimized internal pages

- Links should go from thematic sites

- A page where your link is placed must contain no more than 50 links

One more thing is PR. Many webmasters require PR on pages where their link will go from. I don’t think that PR is so important nowadays I personally think that the linking page must be indexed in Google and if this page does not have PR be sure it would get some one day. When I receive link proposals PR is the last thing which I’m looking on when link exchange, the more important thing is for example google indexation, number of links on the page where my link will be placed or the age of the domain of my potential link partner.

Over the years, I’ve found the challenge in linking is less about the tactic and more about using smart SEO on quality resources.

Remember: all links count.

Rocky Mountains, ski resorts and lot’s of fun – that’s my summer vacation!! I used to think rental services in Aspen were to be a routine as usual with all the rest I had to face in my life. That was a mistake. Guys from Alpine Property are doing really well and have a proven experience since 1981. I was really happy with my staying there and hope that was the first but not the last time in Colorado!

I will definitely post some photos from my trip on flickr and will place a forward message here. Just stay with the news update!

Let’s assume you are in an average user’s shoes seeking for global warming stats on the net. What will you type in the search field of Google? – “Global warming stats” will be the first on your mind with a higher possibility.

Does Google see difference between the two terms?! For sure it does! Google can hear accord in movie and cinema, that’s true. But as I believe only due to the existance of the both terms on topic-related sites. I doubt one can find “globalwarming awareness2007″ on an official governmental site or any other trusted resources. It is SEO-contest web sites owners who make Google believe the term is truely eco-related.

If so, what is the purpose to write about global warming or deforestation problems?! It seems useless at least…

Moreover, the “toppers” in Google are not about global-warming-only sires. And they don’t put “global warming” as their anchor-text for link exchange.

Globalwarming awareness2007 – no more than a buzz word!! Let’s call it a new brand – and optimize pages in accordance. You wouldn’t start optimizing new Apple’s device (iPhone) with listing it in “Fruits directory”, would you?!