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In the world of SEO, SIZE DOES MATTER! If you have a site with 5 backlinks and a site with 500 backlinks (assuming they are both decent sites), who wins in the battle for the top spots; the one with the bigger backlink count or the one without? (yes, there are circumstances that can cause the site with the lower backlink count to rank higher, but we’re sticking what’s generally the norm, extenuating circumstances notwithstanding, in this post)

Your site needs votes, and it needs its link to be embedded in relative sites telling the search engines ‘Hey I’m a good site and this link has content that’s very relative and good, check it out and share it!’

It also needs its link to show up on different types of sites to say to the SEs ‘Hey this site is being linked to all over the web! It’s being bookmarked, it’s showing up on blogs, it’s showing up in articles, it’s showing up on social and web 2 platforms…it’s EVERYWHERE, you REALLYYY need to share this site!’

If your site is being ‘talked about’ all over the web and the other site isn’t…what do you think the search engines will think?  …that your site is more relevant and more popular, so it says ‘Hey, I need to share this site with people because it’s relevant and it’s well liked!’ and it gives you a boost in rankings.

That’s the plain English version of ‘why’ size DOES matter. It really is that simple (yes you still need content, yes you still need on-page SEO…we’re speaking in terms of off-page).

It’s the size of the ship that makes the motion in this ocean! Minnows will just be little visitors swimming by here and there!

~k, Visibility Specialist
@areaK on Twitter
@areak on Facebook

Need more links? The Link Vines team will build them for you!

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Comment Luv is a Wordpress Plugin that shows some love to your commenters by adding a link to their last blog post under their comment. It’s a nice little thank you to your commenters and it’s also an encouragement for them to leave comments.

I think it’s nice to show people a little love back and to give them a little incentive to comment. Personally I love comments and enjoy people interacting on my blogs, so why not say thanks and let them get some luv? A lot of my favorite bloggers use Comment Luv.

Sure you may be concerned about spam but you can install something like Askimet that will catch most of it (I usually scan my Aksimet every few days because occasionally it catches non-spam comments) and are you going to just shut your blog off from the world in fear of spam? Blogs are meant to be interactive so let them take their natural course and help you build and engage with a community. And when others see people leaving comments, it’s encouragement for them to get in involved in the discussion too so don’t be scared of them, embrace them.

But now Comment Luv also gives YOU some more link luv! Install Comment Luv and register at http://comluv.com and you’ll get to create a profile over there AND:

• You can add your site so that every time you comment on a blog that uses Comment Luv you’ll get up to 10 links from chosen sources.
• You get your own blog over there (do you smell MORE links?) Tip: add a blog post and link it back to your site & add yourself to your blog roll.
• You can also purchase credits (really cheap but not necessary) to do some different things like register more sites or choose a static post that you always want to show when you comment on a blog that has Comment Luv installed.

If you’re always looking for new ways to get link juice this is a great way to accomplish 2 things: encourage readers to comment & say thanks to them for doing so AND to get YOURSELF some more link love! Go ahead, it only takes a few minutes to set up and start spreading, and getting, link luv!

And then come back over here and comment on your first Comment Luv enabled blog and get those links rolling!!

~k, Visibility Specialist
@areaK on Twitter
@areak on Facebook

Need more links? The Link Vines team will build them for you!

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So I’m always reading around forums, blogs and social networks; listening to what people say, think, and have questions about.

I saw someone ask about the fairness in link building. It was something to the effect of if you’re busy building good content and your competition is busy building links to outrank you, how fair is that? I’m sorry but this is the marketing world and all is fair in love and marketing.

Yes, you should build good content. But yes, you have to have links too. You can build good content for 2 years but if your competition builds enough links in a matter of months, they may just outrank you (I only say ‘may’ because there can be other contributing factors but you STILL need links).

We’ve done campaigns where a client puts up a new site and even though their competition has been around for who knows how long, we catch up to them with links. Do I think it’s unfair. Nope, you gotta do what you gotta do to get to the top and get those clicks. And I’m oh-so certain the competition is doing their fair share of link building!

It’s simply not just about how good your content is. Now don’t get me wrong, the better your content is, the more people are likely to link to you and help you spread the word so that ultimately you do get links but it’s a question of whether or not you care to wait for years potentially to get enough people to link to you on their own to rank you on the first page (unless you’re some HUGE name or brand, you may be waiting that long).

We all want to be found, we want to be on the first page, we want clicks, we want visitors, we want profits from our hard work … all is fair in love and marketing.

~k, Visibility Specialist
@areaK on Twitter
@areak on Facebook

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We’re so excited to have the new site up and running and we look forward to being your quality link building and social networking partners!

We were providing services before the new site hit the scene but now that it’s up, we’re ready to take the marketing world by storm! There’s a big huge gap in quality service providers in this arena…let me rephrase there WAS a big huge gap in quality service providers, until now!

I’ve been around this biz for a while and I got so fed up with the ‘junk’ I saw that I felt driven to bring quality services to the field. Of course I’ll make money from the business but I honestly didn’t build it based on that reason alone.

I was told a long time ago by my dearest client that I should start a VA service because I was very good at managing people & projects and that she would love to have a one stop shop for her needs so she didn’t have to fool with finding and managing people. I thought it was a good idea but for some reason I wasn’t driven to do it, so I didn’t. Then as I focused more on the marketing arena, I saw a big gap there and people were always so happy with me that I thought “you know, I could fill this huge gap for everyone” so I started putting a team together and deploying them to implement strategies for people and it went great! And I kept getting more work and more referrals. So Link Vines was born.

And I now realize there was a reason I didn’t pursue starting a VA service years ago (no we’re not really a VA service but we are in a sense, we’re just not focused on admin tasks). I believe it’s because I would come to realize, like I did recently, and like I didn’t before, how I could fill a big void and help people with a specialty service. It took me continuing to develop my own skills in the marketing arena and seeing the things I’ve seen to realize what people really needed and how I could fill the quality gap.

So, thanks Michelle for planting that seed years ago, now it’s come to fruition, just in a different manner than I thought of back then.

I LOVE marketing, I LOVE social media & networking, I LOVE providing top quality services, I LOVE watching a site rank higher & higher….so not only is the difference here at Link Vine about quality, it’s also about passion. These 2 things are what separates us from anyone else.

We’re excited you’re here and we hope we get the chance to work with you. Please check out our services page and read what others have to say.

Karen J., Visibility Specialist

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