Comments on: Dead Content Recreation Best Practices

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:01:24 +0000

Thanks for the insight!

I know my comment form is pretty low quality, I’ve had some serious issues integrating it with my blog’s theme. Considering switching to Thesis so I don’t have this problem…

By: livingseolife

livingseolife — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:16:18 +0000

I thought you niche is car james!

By: livingseolife

livingseolife — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:15:07 +0000

Good resources on 404 link building. I have been using this for a while now and quite successfully.

You folks might find this useful too http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/broken-link-building-feast-on-your-competitors-this-thanksgiving/2010/11/24/
by Napoleon Suarez.

# I had quite a bit of trouble for the non contrasting color where to put the captcha code! and also “submit comment” is actually a button you can click to submit!

By: James

James — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:47:00 +0000

Tried it this morning and worked a treat. Nice link from a well-respected mid-level blog in our niche!

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:59:16 +0000

Thanks Gyi! I’m glad to hear its working!! This is probably my #1 strategy for building highly authoritative links, and as long as you get a response back from the webmaster, you’re good to go.

By: Gyi Tsakalakis

Gyi Tsakalakis — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:07:50 +0000

Jon, just learned about you at SEOmoz. Great stuff. In fact, we implemented some of the strategies you recommended there and we’re 2 for 2 in getting new links from broken links. Beginners luck? Maybe, but the strategy is sound as it increases web quality. I’ll be looking for more great ideas from you.

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:46:51 +0000

That’s tough, in that case I’d try to extend into other similar niches. For example, one of my clients is in the hr outsourcing niche, so we has to branch out into human resources and small business, two much bigger and broader niches where we could find these opportunities.

Hope this helps

By: Escapism

Escapism — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:15:08 +0000

What sort of advice might you have for dead content recreation / dead linkbuilding in a tough affiliate industry? For instance, the hot tub industry – I took a stab at running Screaming Frog for a few of the top contenders for head terms like ‘hot tub prices’ and ‘hot tub reviews’. Upon finding their 404′s, I ran them through OSE and Yahoo site explorer and found countless backlinks from what I assume to be crappy affiliate sites (that they likely own). Would you maybe have a trick for weeding out the affiliate sites?