I’ve seen more SEO interest in Pinterest in the last month than the rest of the image bookmarking site’s life. One day, I saw multiple veteran SEOs ask for an invite and I’m pretty sure they’re not going for cute animal pictures and interior decorating ideas. Most of the SEO talk about Pinterest concern a Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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Pinterest: Link Building & SEO Strategies

Taking advantage of trending topics is a tremendous opportunity to net more links and more traffic for your site while using a relatively small amount of resources. The beauty of promoting trending content is that you can ride the wave to additional free links beyond your initial promotional push.

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Real Guide to Getting Links and Traffic from Trending Topics

Hua Marketing released an infographic called “ How to Build Links ” today that has a lot of great information on methods, characteristics, factors and management of link building.

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As a social marketing tool, StumbleUpon Paid Discovery (a.k.a.

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Infographic Link Building with StumbleUpon Paid Discovery

Photo Credit You can attend a conference or local event, blog about it, and people will link to it. Having blogged recaps to many different events with mixed backlink results, I’d like to address more effective ways of blogging about events, if SEO and link building is one of your primary goals. Pre-Event A few questions I ask when preparing for an event, from an SEO perspective: Who is writing online about the event

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Effective Link Building Using Event Blogging

As SEO’s and internet marketers, understanding and knowing the value of backlinks is one of the key aspects of our job.

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Understanding Your Backlink Profile

The Loch Ness monster is a myth. Despite concerted and scientific efforts, the only signs of Nessie are a few grainy photographs…yet the myth continues. In the SEO community, we have a similar mythical monster lurking, and it’s called “inbound links from bad sites can earn your site a Google penalty.” Let’s put this myth to bed once and for all.

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Let’s Kill the “Bad Inbound Links Can Get Your Site Penalized” Myth

The Birth of Search Engine Journal It all started on a sleepless night 8 years ago. After taking a hiatus from the world of online marketing to do some traveling and teaching, I decided to start getting back into the swing of things and checking out what had changed in the world of search. On that sleepless night in 2003, I started logging back into my forum accounts, checking my archives of iSearch email newsletters and renewing my interest in SEO.

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SEJ’s Future: Change Can Be Very Good

We in business judge all information by four fundamental criteria.

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SEJ: A Renewed Focus On ROI

Besides Link Manager and Website Directory that allow to effectively manage your link building campaign, SEJ tools have another cool feature to help you organize your link building contacts. The Contact Manager is used to manage relationships with website owners and editors.

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Keep Track of Your (Link Building) Contacts with SEJ Tools