Comments on: Budget SEO From Scratch – The Tools I Use

By: Jeffrey Geidt

Jeffrey Geidt — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:45:58 +0000

Hello John, I totally agree with you. To be successful you don’t have thousands of links in a day, you will get banned by doing that. All you need to do is to make a couple of links today. It looks natural and will not be considered as spam and course fresh content regularly. I think outsourcing is not that bad but you have to be careful and try to look for someone that is has an experienced and an expert when it comes to SEO.

By: Gary Ruplinger

Gary Ruplinger — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:34:15 +0000

Blog commenting can be a fantastic way to get links to be sure, but I’d also recommend to your readers that they work on getting guest blogging opportunities as well. Those links meet your requirements of being free and not only send link juice your way, but traffic… the thing we’re all trying to get from our SEO efforts anyway.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:07:00 +0000

Jon, yep it’s just link:url with no “s” included.

By: Jon Wade

Jon Wade — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:12:24 +0000

It is just link:url for Google search, no “S”.

Not looked at href, will have a peak.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:12:22 +0000

In reply to Jon Wade.

On Google – Do you use the operator links:url or is there a better way? Also, for a paid service, ahrefs is a good one.

By: Jon Wade

Jon Wade — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:32:25 +0000

I generally use Open Site Explorer, Majestic and sometimes take a look at Google too, but the data set is limited.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:46:22 +0000

Hi John – Thanks for the informative post. Now that Yahoo Site Explorer is no longer updating their database, what backlink checking tool are you using?

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:48:37 +0000

In reply to Alex.

Which SEO plugin did you chose? I am still torn between the Platinum SEO and Yoast’s. I do not automate social media from WordPress anymore, instead I have been playing with Hootsuite that allows you to add feeds, so works in a similar way I guess.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:49:57 +0000

Hi Jon, thanks for the informative post. I just setup my new website in WordPress and agree with you that WordPress is in itself an amazing SEO tool. I’ve been using a couple of free plugins as well that help to improve the SEO in WordPress. Regarding social media I’ve been using a plugin that posts all my updates to Twitter and that has helped me to get more social media exposure.