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I wanted to thank the entire SEOintelligence Dev. Team for their hard work, our developers are dedicated and incredibly good at what they do (mad respect to the DB crew!) – Special shout outs to Fernando and Chris – all three did a fantastic job on this release!

Cheers,
Jeremy and Kyle

Few can speak about link building and link baiting with the experience and authority that Eric Ward brings to the table. He’s been doing this sort of thing since 1994, before the vast majority had even heard of a hyperlink.

In this WebProNews: The Insider video, Managing Editor Mike McDonald connects with Ward via webcam to discuss the finer points of link building today, what constitutes good link bait, and creating a good balance of organic and paid links.

What is linkbait?

Linkbait can be anything – anything that inspires somebody at another website or blog to link back to it. The only boundary is creativity.

What makes something linkable? We can only speak with examples and general guidance, but:

Whatever it is, it should be clever and useful to the end-user, either by “interestingness” or by its ability to solve a problem.

Widgets, then, make sense as great linkbait.

Good linkbait is pure, not coming off as “slimy” or “cheesy.”

“In the long run,” says Ward, “the end user votes with the mouse.”

How do you develop a linking strategy?

Strategies should mesh with the intent and market of the website being promoted.

Any link is not necessarily a good link. Quality links matter. The right audience matters.

Timing is important. If you want to promote something for next week, organic SEO isn’t going to work. You may need to buy some links or bid on some keywords.

Use organic SEO for promotions far in the future (if for the Christmas season, begin in September).

There is no optimal balance of paid and organic links. It depends on what the end goal is.

Get the content in front of the audience you care about.

There are many improvements that are incorporated into the new application, getting us so close to a v.1.0 release we can taste it. Changes/improvements include:

• New sign up process and pre-population of project keyword, and competitive information from the initial SEOiQ Scan
• Optimized DB integration and faster overall performance
• Expanded WebStats to 1080px width (allows for easier reading and navigation)
• Implementation of support.seointelligence.com ticket and management system (powered by ZenDesk)
• Updated graphics and look/feel
• Much more!

There are TONS of improvements, and we’re not even close to finished. We are working hard on v0.96 and are sprinting towards the full “out of Beta” release v1.0!

I wanted to personally thank our loyal customers for their support. To date we have produced over 5K+ SEOiQ diagnostic scans, on approx. 3.5K unique web sites! We’ve come a long way, and are just getting started!

Cheers,
Jeremy and Kyle

We are continuing our previous radio success and trying to expand the messaging and format of the messages – let’s see how it works

Like our other ads it will be played over the next 4-6 weeks (1000+ spots) and we look forward to the ongoing feedback and user comments.

Click Here to Listen to the new SEOintelligence v2.0 -30 second radio spot!

*A special shout out to David K. Jones for his amazing voice over production and scripting capabilities! He truly is a genius to work with.

The Robots.txt Generator helps you to create an optimized robots.txt file for your site, to ensure that search bots and crawlers are only looking at the stuff you want them to see. No more having your /admin folder get indexed (and pull your whole site’s search ranking down with it). You just visit the Generator, enter some basic info, and voila — you’ve got yourself a properly-formatted robots.txt file.

Sign up for your free trial today and give the Robots.txt Generator, and all the many tools in the SEOi warchest a whirl!

The first up is our SEOiQ Testing Center — one of the centerpieces of SEOi. From the Testing Center, you can input up to three competitor site URL’s to measure your own site’s SEOiQ (a score generated by an algorithm that encompasses PageRank, backlinks, Compete.com scores, Technorati rank, and a series of other proprietary measures of site search engine ranking strength).

After the jump, your first screenshot of one part of the SEOiQ Testing Center results page.

As promised, the SEOiQ Testing Center lets you compare your site’s PageRank, Backlinks, total pages indexed, Compete Rank, Alexa Rank, and Technorati Rank — all from one easy-to-read interface. Get a quick overview of how your site stacks up against your closest competitors, or just see how you measure against the leaders in your industry. And like I said in the intro — this is just one part of the SEOiQ results set; on this same page, you’ll also be able to see how you stack up on specific keywords (up to 7 at a time).

There are so many aspects of SEOi that we’re excited to share with all of you. But I must say, the SEOiQ Testing Center is way up my list of favorite parts of the app. I suspect it will quickly grow to be one of your favorites as well.

More SEOi Sneak Previews soon to follow. For now I encourage you to check out the SEOiQ Testing Center to find out your score today!