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I will not pretend that I am the expert of building links, I will leave that to Eric Ward! Also I don’t want to write another link building blog post, there are plenty of those as well. So what I am doing is giving you a good resource to Link Building tools, services, and articles.

So all you SEOs out there do you ever feel like this dog when it comes to link builing? We all know how powerful quality links back to our site are when it comes to Search Engine Optimization. So why can’t we have a cool tool like this dog.

Here are some quality link builiding tools & services that can can help with your link builiding campaigns:

• Aaron Walls Back Link Analyzer
• SEO Elite
• Links Manager
• Xinu
• PR Prowler
• http://www.googlealert.com/
• Marketleap Link Popularity Checker
• Web CEO
• LinkAssistant SEO Tool
• WebLink SEO Software 2.7
• Link Hounds Hub Finder
• DoFollow Directory
• Free SEO Friendly Directories
• Back Link Watch
• OptiLink Software
• SEO for Firefox

Here is a great list of articles that I read in the past that will help with Fetching For Link Love:

• Aaron Walls - 101 Link Building Tips
• Eric Ward – Link Bait Kool-Aid?
• 21 Keys to Link Bait Success
• Rand Fish – 5 Rare & Valuable Link Building Tactics
• Andy Hagans’ – Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and SMM
• Jerry West – Link Baiting – Article Debunked
• SEOChat – Using Internet Directories as a Link Building Tool
• [Video] How to Build a Self-reinforcing Authority that Keeps Building Free Links
• 15 of the Best Link Building Techniques
• If you want all the top Link Building articles of Sphinn.com then click here!

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clipped from www.ericward.com Aggressively Seeking Links: How Much Is Too Much? By Eric Ward August 27, 2007 When it comes to link building, how much is too much? How fast is too fast? Neither of these questions would have been asked in 1997, because their was no such thing as too fast or too much. But it isn’t 1997 anymore is it? And since link development now plays a prominent role in web success and failure, these questions deserve answers. Question:How much linking is too much linking? Answer: I could take the easy way out and say “it depends,” and I have done that for years, because it’s true. But, let’s dig a little deeper. First, the site is so useful to so many people that everyone naturally links to it. See this obvious example. Second, a site is dedicated to a topic that suddenly and without expectation generates massive amounts of natural news coverage, like Hurricane Katrina did. Third, someone is actively seeking links for a site far beyond what it would naturally be able to obtain .read the full column

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So I was on vacation this last week and got to watch my Cubs in spring training in Mesa, Arizona. While there I was thinking about what I could write about to help those that may stumble upon my fairly simple blog. With my experience in mentoring individuals, the question about getting websites indexed in the major search engines is always one of the first questions. So I would like to give a quick outline of what I think you can plan on when it comes to getting indexed in Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

First off there is no real amount of time that I can tell you that your site will be indexed cause I have seen my own sites take as long as 3 months and have had sites get indexed as fast as a week. But overall I have found that my sites get indexed in MSN first within on average about 8 weeks and then Yahoo follows on average of 10 weeks and Google usually shortly follows of an average of 12-15 weeks. Now keep in mind this is just from my research and also that I am talking about brand new websites.

Here is the manual way to see if your site has been indexed go to the search engine (I know this works for Google, Yahoo, and MSN) and in the search box input site:(your url) for example site:http://www.yourseomentor.com/. Then click search and if you see at least your home page in the results then BADABOOM your site has been indexed in the search engine, meaning that the spiders/robots have found your site.

Here are secret SEO tips (ok it so they are not so secret anymore) but none-the-less a great tip to getting indexed faster:

• Start your Link Building and get links from related authority websites with high pagerank
• Also link to other sites (External Links) it is rumored that some search engines don’t index sites that don’t have external links
• Content!!! Make sure that your site has content related to your site Title and Meta Tags (Note: Stay away from Frames, Flash, and all image site design)
• Do not Spam (e.g. Keyword Stuffing)

The most important thing you should remember from this article is PATIENCE, continue your SEO campaign and don’t give up.

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So I am finally getting done with the design of my blog here at YourSEOMentor.com and am almost happy with the layout and design. I am so sorry I know that design doesn’t matter and content does but I guess I am a perfectionist when it comes to all this stuff. Any ways I just wanted to write and let everyone that ever reads this blog know what I will be writing about and why you should continue reading it.

First of all if you are beginner, guru, professional, or whatever you are you should become a reader of YourSEOMentor.com. Here is why:

Why Not!!!

No, I do not consider my self a guru or professional I simply consider myself a Teacher and Mentor of SEO and Social Marketing. I have had much success in the last 4 years and would like to share that success with everyone that is willing to accept my point of view (Which won’t always be right). I say this because I can tell you right now that I will be getting people commenting on my posts that will disagree with me which is fine. I know the SEO industry all to well and I know there will be people that consider themselves know it alls and will try and tell me that I don’t know what I am talking about. But it all comes down to this I DON’T CARE what they think. I know what works and what doesn’t work cause I do this for a living all day every day. Does this mean I know everything, of course not and I would never dream of telling you all that I do know everything.

So there it is somewhat of a disclaimer for all those that read this blog. Will I give you some great content? Yes! Will I help you with your SEO and Social Marketing online journey? Yes! Will I make mistakes? Yes! But you can know this I am here to help and mentor those that want to Learn SEO and Social Marketing. I will give you access to great tools, techniques, to help you get better rankings in the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. I will be writing about what others in the industry is saying, and any news that I think is worth talking about.

Here is a list of my Categories that I will be talking about (this is the list as of February 6, 2008):

• SEO
• SEO Tools
• Google
• Yahoo
• MSN
• Link Building
• Keyword Research
• SEM
• Social Marketing
• Social Bookmarking
• Web 2.0
• Web Design & Usability

So there it is all laid out for you to decide, “Is this blog really worth following?” Well I hope it is and I will do my best to give you the content you want. So simply click on the Get SEO Advice under that cartoon image of me and ask me anything and everything and I will try and help answer all you SEO and Social Marketing questions to the best of my ability.

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