Link spam pointing towards this site

Posted: March 17th, 2013 | Tags: , ,

I have never commercially built links to this site (just a few blog comments when reading about data visualisations), but I was using ahrefs.com today to see who and which sites had linked to it, when I found a surprising set of links from rather naughty sites. Read the rest of this entry »


2000 of the strongest links that power successful sites for 100 UK industries online – SEO help time

Posted: September 9th, 2012 | Tags: , ,

OK, I am being amazingly generous here – this is a list of 2000 links that point to some of the most successful sites in 100 UK industries online.  This data is collected across tens of thousands of sites that help to produce rankings for companies in several UK-focussed online sectors.

Here’s the question – are you sites good enough to get links from some of these sites?  I’m sure that you will find some amazing links here for your or your clients sites.

If you do find this page useful, please retweet it, or dare I say link to it from your own site :)

* I know that some of the longer URLs cover their score, but Im sure you get the picture. Read the rest of this entry »


200 of the best links that power UK-based websites*

Posted: August 19th, 2012 | Tags: , , , ,

insightsOver the past few months my Insights team and I over at Online Ventures Group have been working on something very special indeed.  As well as creating industry reports for various UK sectors, several byproducts have been produced.  One of those byproducts is the collection of important links that power the best sites in various industries within the UK. Read the rest of this entry »


Brilliant Link Building Example by Kogan

Posted: June 15th, 2012 | Tags: , , ,

How about this beautiful example of building links by Kogan from Australia (oops, they just got another one).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18440979

Im sure that they have just gained a few likes, plus ones and tweets, too :)

Well done to their online team, PR agency and CEO, Ruslan Kogan.