Ontolo's Link Building, SEO, and Content Marketing Blog

Link builders! I hope you're prepared to flex your brains. We've got a phenomenal range of resources, tools, tips and inspiration for you today. Foremost on my mind of course is our newly launched V2 Link Building Query Generator... Give it a shot and let me know your thoughts!

Special thanks this week to Phil Buckley and Scott Roemermann for content submission, and as always thanks to my DJs: Don "inhouse SEO" Rhoades, Napoleon "SEO Company" Suarez and Trevin "SEO Cost" Shirey.

3 Link Building Tool Resources

1. New (free) Ontolo Tool: V2 Link Building Query Generator for Faster Link Prospecting
2. 4 Valuable Link Building Services (Zemanta, MyBlogGuest, EightfoldLogic & Whitespark)
3. Eightfold Logic's Linker is free until October

5 Link Building Expert Interviews

1. The Inhouse Link Building Group Interview Project: 14 Questions
2. Transcript from @arniek #seochat on Link Building (via Don Rhoades)
3. Ruud Questions: Jim Boykin
4. Q/A With Christoph Cemper
5. Nick Schurk Interview on Link Publicity

4 "Link Zone" Tracks for Link Builders

Special Thanks to the Ontolo Link Love DJs:

1. Supernaut76: Missing Link - by Machinae Supremacy
2. Napoleon Suarez: DJ Disse Walk On The Wild Side
3. WebPageFX: Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine + Freelance Whales - Ghosting
4. Garrett French: Deadmau5 - Some Chords + Songs on Deadmau5 Site Player

3 Upcoming Link Building Events

1. "websites that got great links: what we can learn" with Distilled "free Distlled conference call will be at 4.30pm UK time (8.30am PDT / 11.30am EDT) on 6th October"
2. Free Training Webinar for Majestic SEO – 6th Oct. 2010
3. Cemper's Link Building Training: Thursday, 2.12.2010, Vienna

13 Link Building Resources

1. Dear Google, Stop Making Me Look Like a Fool
2. The Anatomy of an Influential Link Request Email, Part 02
3. The Ultimate Guide to Link Valuation
4. Improve Your Rankings by Removing Links
5. 5 Link Marketing Strategies for the Holiday Season
6. Lawsuits & Lemonade: There Really Is No Such Thing As Bad PR
7. My Anchor Text Strategy
8. Silos, Architecture, and Linking...Oh My!
9. Pedigree Donates Dog Food for Blog Posts
10. Links from our Link-Building Webcast, September 16 with Eric Ward
11. The robots.txt, META-robots & rel=nofollow and their impact on SEO
12. De Linkbuildnig Bijsluiter (via @sjaakhummel)
13. Come fare Link Building (Malissimo): un esempio da non replicare

2 Linking-Related Videos

1. How does Google find pages which don't have any links to them?
2. Matt Cutts on Content Unseen

5 Linkable Content Resources and Inspiration

1. THE 6 ANGLES THAT SHAPE YOUR INFOGRAPHIC
2. Why our thought leadership is broken
3. A Content Strategy Toolkit
4. Expert Interview on Content Strategy with Margot Bloomstein
5. Does Google Instant ACTUALLY Affect the Long Tail? (Free Downloadable Spreadsheet!) (brilliant eg of highly linkable content)

Resources for Thinking Differently About Awesomeness

1. JIM HENSON MAKING MUPPETS
2. Finishing a Game
3. THE PERMISSION WE ALREADY HAVE
4. SO YOU NEED A TYPEFACE
5. Maximus Clarke talks with William Gibson about his “speculative novels of last Wednesday”