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About Ryan Clark

I'm the CEO of Linkbuildr Marketing and the brains behind our branding and blog content. I specialize in effective marketing strategies for hotels, luxury brands and real estate. If your brand is in need of a boost then don't hesitate to contact me for a free proposal. Follow me on Google+: +Ryan Clark Twitter: @Linkbuildr on Twitter. You can also come ask me a question on our Facebook Page.  

RSS Promotion With ReadBurner.com

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August 19  |  Uncategorized  |   Ryan Clark

I just discovered Read Burner as a new place to drop relevant links. It looks like Pligg, and smells like Pligg, but it isn’t. Read Burner analysis current hot topics and trends based on certain factors and the latest news gets spat out to the site. If you want to see what kind of topics and sites are making the rounds they provide open stats you can view. For all your folks with nice phones you can view a mobile version as well which is what I’ve been tuning into all day from my iPhone.

ReadBurner (www.readburner.com) analyzes what people are sharing with their personal social networks on a variety of services to determine the best content across the Web. With an increasing amount of news consumption taking place in RSS readers and personalized start pages versus traditional web sites, ReadBurner aggregates the most frequently shared content from these next generation services to determine what’s popular.

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Link Building With Faviki

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August 19  |  Social Bookmarking  |   Ryan Clark

Faviki is a pr6 social bookmarking site that allows you to tag pages with Wikipedia terms( Semantic Tags). This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world’s largest collection of knowledge. So what are Semantic Tags? semantic tags represent references to unique concepts that have their own URL. This solves the problem of having different tags for the same concept, which is the case with good old regular tags. Faviki is 100% free and you need to sign up before posting.

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WordPress Plugins For Link Building

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August 19  |  Internal Link Building, Wordpress SEO  |   Ryan Clark

WordPress has a few great plugins that will help with link building to external resources, but also help build internal links within your blog. Google has recently released official tips for optimizing your link structure on page to improve spidering and indexing. I always like to mention that you send me your links/plugins/advice and I will gladly write about it or add it to the post. WordPress continues to dominate the blogosphere and as you can tell, is easily my favorite CMS.

First up is the brand new plugin called “Internal Link Building” developed by the folks at SEO ROI. I’ve been using aLinks to accomplish some of what this plugin does, but the new one surpasses any in its path. The best feature is that you can set custom links within the post that won’t effect the entire site. You can download the plugin here.

WP-DeliciousPost is a plugin I don’t leave home without. It automatically adds every blog post to your del.icio.us account…pretty sweet eh? The plugin’s homepage says it has been now merged with a new link tool suite called WPLinkTools, but I couldn’t find the homepage anywhere. So if anyone know’s where to get this, comment away. You can download the plugin here.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin is a great plugin to keep your readers browising around, but allowing the spiders to keep your content freshly indexed. The latest 2.0 version makes use of the tags and categories to bring the reader the most related posts.

Finally Eli from Blue Hat SEO has released a very nifty little plugin called PingCrawl. This powerful took gets WordPress blogs deep links automatically on every post you make. I’ve been modding the code a little myself and this is a really intersting tool that could be used in so many ways.

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Blackhats Are Using Mashable.com For Top SERPs

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August 18  |  Black Hat  |   Ryan Clark

I spent the evening writing a bunch of new posts for tomorrow and eventually crashed and burned. I’ve been watching Seinfeld while browsing competitive keywords to see how the black hats are gaming Google. I did a quick scan for the top listings in Canada and the US and notice this link in the top 10 http://my.mashable.com/andy379. A quick search of that URL minus the http:// and you’ll see the typical handy work of Xrumer.

I’ve seen this member profile technique a bunch of PHPBB forums, but this is the first time I’ve seen Mashable used. I can’t imagine they will let this kind of nonsense to go on, but hey it gives me a good look into what’s going on. I followed the link in the profile and then checked to see what other domains were lurking on the same host. Well needless to say this person likes his Viagra :)

Now just incase you’re thinking, yes those links on the profile page are no follow, so there isn’t a real point of spamming good ol Mashable. I don’t quite get why they do this because they have to keep repeating this back link spamming process for a mere 2-5 days of ranking. Slow and steady wins the race folks…

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This Week In Link Building For August 17 2008

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August 18  |  TWiLB  |   Ryan Clark

This is the first installment of “This Week In Link Building” which will wrap up all I’ve blogged about in the recent week, as well as what my fellow bloggers have come out with. If you have anything to add please fire me the link via the contact form. This will eventually get podcasted as well when I launch the “Bedroom Office Podcast” which will cover everything from web 2.0, search marketing and affiliate marketing. If anyone doesn’t want me to blog about what they’ve written just let me know and I’ll make sure not to include you.

First off I’ll start with interesting posts from here and cover all the sites I’ve found to link build on. Most of this weeks finds have been social bookmarking sites, and some are very niche specific. I’ve noticed a lot of new and interesting social bookmarking CMS’s hitting the scene and it’s refreshing to say the least!

Squoogle is a site I managed to miss until my good friend pointed it out to me. It’s another nicely put together place to drop links to your social media articles. Continue reading “Squoogle Anyone?”

MillionRSS is not only a RSS Feed Directory, but it aims to be the largest on the Internet. As I type this they are currently indexing 178,374 RSS Feeds! Continue reading “Submit Your Feed To MillionRSS“.

It is a way of managing not only your business/professional identity, but a way to build solid and related links. Continue reading “Link Building And Character Builing With Lookup Page“.

Yattle.com is a relatively new web 2.0 social bookmarking and mini-blogging system that is do follow. Continue reading “Link Building With Yattle“.

OYAX is a web 2.0 social bookmarking engine that isn’t a whole lot different from the masses of similar sites, but it holds a strong PR4, a lot of users and almost 130,000 pages indexed in Google. Continue reading “Link Building With OYAX“.

Blawg is a great resource for Lawyers, Judges and even criminals. If you have a law blog then it might be in your best interest to add yourself to their feed directory.Continue reading “Link Building With Blawg“.

Subbmitt is a new social bookmarking site invading the already crowded market. Thankfully this isn’t run on Pligg, so the links are SEO friendly and the site has somewhat of a unique appeal. Continue reading “Link Building with Subbmitt“.

So what’s been going on in the blogosphere this week? Well thankfully I’m only covering link building because I’ve got enough going on in my life :) Again a little reminder to hit up the contact us page and send me links to be blogged about for these updates.

Colin Lahay formerly of Mixed Market Arts has rebranded the site to reflect his personal image. Do not worry though because the only thing that has changed is the domain name. Colin was first to blog about link building with LookupPage, and just recently got interviewed by Blueverse about his recent life in internet marketing.

Tom from SEOmoz wrote a great article covering a completely new link building method that goes beyond and might even thwart spammers with this technique. Basically he talks about finding pages that used to offer a service or product and aqquiring a link from that page. This is a must read to continue over and read “A Link Building Method So I Can’t Believe It’s Not Black Hat“.

Breakaway from the Link Building Bible once again covers the do follow topic by thoroughly explaining how to use a do follow search engine. He also hints at cleaning out a lot of the blogs in his search engine that went back to no follow, and also about adding in a couple hundred more sites. I hope the search engine keeps on going and if you use his service send him a thank you email! Continue reading “How To Use A Do Follow Blog Search Engine“.

Semvironment has released a very cool WordPress plugin that tracks the websites and pages you link to and sends an email message to that website administrator notifying them of your link. This is a great way to start networking within the niche you’re working in and its 100% free…you can’t go wrong there! Head on over and download the plugin. Here is a video showing you how to get it all going…

 

Link Building With Subbmitt

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August 17  |  Social Bookmarking  |   Ryan Clark

Subbmitt is a new social bookmarking site invading the already crowded market. Thankfully this isn’t run on Pligg, so the links are SEO friendly and the site has somewhat of a unique appeal. I’ve added a few links over the past week, but I haven’t seen much traffic from the links. So what’s unique about it? Well for one you don’t have to sign up to submit or vote, which is a cool concept but opens a huge door for spamming and gaming the results…so depending on which hat you’re wearing today, you can get a bunch of links regardless. All the articles submitted make the front page and if you want to make your own group, then you have to sign up.

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Link Building With Blawg

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August 17  |  Link Building  |   Ryan Clark

Blawg is a great resource for Lawyers, Judges and even criminals. If you have a law blog then it might be in your best interest to add yourself to their feed directory. Blawgs has been showing a lot of growth and they’re holding a pr6 page rank, which isn’t too shabby. I’m sorry to dissapoint my readers who are not running a law blog and wanting a general place to snag a link. You can also add your law related podcast to the mix and it will surely drive very targeted traffic to your show.

Blawg was started in December 2002 by Bill Gratsch. While not a blogger himself, Bill had stumbled across a few interesting and useful postings at various weblogs, but too often it seemed simply luck that he found good ones. There was little organization or structure to the blogosphere. With this in mind, Bill scoured the web looking for weblogs that focused on legal-oriented subject matter, with the idea of creating a law blog directory. He found 57. From lawyers writing about their area of expertise, to law librarians offering research tips and tricks, to law professors expressing their opinions and analysis, to technologists discussing the latest trends and ideas in legal technology, these law-oriented blogs or “blawgs,” were providing an early view of the changing dynamics for communication and collaboration within the legal community.

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Using Pikaba For Social Marketing

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August 17  |  Social Media Sites  |   Ryan Clark

Pikaba might not get you juicy back links but it can be a new tool in your online marketing efforts. Pikaba allows you to ask about where to buy a product, and people submit their offers to you….all you have to do is pick the best price and you’re set. And of course it’s social, so that means you can easily make money by selling your products directly to the consumer. The site is relatively new so I’d sign up and test the waters because there is a lot of potential for this take become very big, very fast.

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