The SEO sphere always talks about modern ways of building quality links that are pointing back to the website. People use multiple techniques that help them build the authority of your website and at the same time it helps them get a quick boost in SERPs. Few of the top highlighted modern )high quality( link .

This is my honor and privilege to share the interview with the lady who has been an inspiration to the most of the search marketers, especially the link builders. She owns the link building agency ' Link Fish Media ' and writes a lot about link building on her SEO blog ) Julie is also our monthly contributor in the "Links" column (. Question : You started as a programmer and then shifted to search industry and then started your own Link Fish Media,

Note from Ann: We a SEJ are all for knowledge exchange and therefore we encourage various SEO meetups and evens and always agree to cover them. Here's one of the most recent SEO meetups covered by our guest author. SEO is not always a glorious profession, it requires a great deal of motivation and interest and without it one can fail miserably. In order to stay on top and up-to-date with technologies, one should continuously participate in research, sharing experiences,

This question has been very often discussed. Yet, we are getting back to it again and again. Let's try to crear up some confusions? Here's what makes us discuss that questions again: Whiteboard Friday from SEOmoz . The question is simple: how Google finds out that a website is building spam links? Incoming links are not under your control, there is no simple way you can stop your website from getting links back from spammy websites.

A few days ago I came across a post at Search Engine Roundtable that features the Google's thought on link building through comment spamming, the post ended up with the final words of Matt Cutts on how Google treat nofollow attribute: " Let's be absolutely clear about this: Links that use the rel=nofollow microformat do not pass PageRank and are not used in our ranking algorithms. This does not mean that the target URL will never be crawled.

One of the basic issues I am facing with my career is that, when people ask me in general what I do and I reply "SEO," they give me that strange look and ask what is SEO? And then I have to start the Wikipedia definition of SEO all over again. SEOs spend lots of time on research and experiments and with that it's hard to find time for anything outside their work but this never means SEOs don't laugh - they do.

This is kind of a different interview from the normal format your eyeballs are used to. When I designed the questions I had readers involved with the SEO industry in mind, so most of the interview will be focused on the search space and online marketing . For those who don't know who Lisa Barone is, Lisa is the Chief Branding Officer at Outspoken Media . She is also an active twitterer, you can follow her at Lisa Barone .