Comments on: Link Strategies – Use your brains http://xebidy.com/link-strategies-use-your-brains/ Queenstown Web Design for the Social Web Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:30:13 +1200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Tiki http://xebidy.com/link-strategies-use-your-brains/comment-page-1/#comment-5262 Tiki Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:15:35 +0000 http://xebidy.com/?p=188#comment-5262 Thanks - I always like it when people clarify my thoughts for me. I hate reciprocal link requests. Firstly, they're never from sites with whom I would want to associate and secondly, it's just tacky. It's like the age-appropriate adage that anyone with more then 200 friends on MySpace is just plain sad. Old school analogue rules do apply on the web.....Focus on writing/producing quality content. Be clever in developing readership. Have some style. And then happiness, satisfaction and dollaros may just follow. lovely footer! xx Tiki Thanks – I always like it when people clarify my thoughts for me. I hate reciprocal link requests. Firstly, they’re never from sites with whom I would want to associate and secondly, it’s just tacky. It’s like the age-appropriate adage that anyone with more then 200 friends on MySpace is just plain sad.

Old school analogue rules do apply on the web…..Focus on writing/producing quality content. Be clever in developing readership. Have some style. And then happiness, satisfaction and dollaros may just follow.

lovely footer!

xx Tiki

]]> By: Andrew http://xebidy.com/link-strategies-use-your-brains/comment-page-1/#comment-5223 Andrew Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:59:26 +0000 http://xebidy.com/?p=188#comment-5223 While I totally agree that links (and content for that matter) should always emerge from the thought "what would our visitors want?" - at times we must still continue to play the SEO game - as unfortunately the two are not alway mutually inclusive. Finding the right balance between maintaining usability and validity for your visitors - and sticking within the search engine guidelines (perhaps better read as: pushing to the limits of these guidelines) - is really the art of SEO. While I totally agree that links (and content for that matter) should always emerge from the thought “what would our visitors want?” – at times we must still continue to play the SEO game – as unfortunately the two are not alway mutually inclusive.

Finding the right balance between maintaining usability and validity for your visitors – and sticking within the search engine guidelines (perhaps better read as: pushing to the limits of these guidelines) – is really the art of SEO.

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