The document discusses the inadequacy of traditional selling strategies for acquiring backlinks in eCommerce SEO, emphasizing the need for a shift towards value creation and brand establishment. It outlines that effective link building requires producing engaging content and participating in relevant conversations rather than relying on outdated tactics. Key recommendations include collaborating with influencers and leveraging paid media to earn links.

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Ecommerce SEO:
Selling Does Not Make You
Link Worthy
by Tim Grice

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Category Links Rankings
Ecommerce SEO 2002 - 2011

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Why?Why?

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It worked1#

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Google are stupid2#

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Everybody was doing it3#

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1
It was cheap4#
But mainly because…..

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This Categorically Doesn’t
Work Anymore

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Manual Reviews
Trigger
Review
Approved
Applied

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But Also Because…..
• Disavow Data
• Devaluation of other signals
• Network Discovery
• Webmasters are more inclined to report

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Unnatural Links
Bad Strategy
Penguin 2.0

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If this is your strategy,
Please STOP.

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Google's Thoughts
Want to sell products?
- Adwords
- Google Shopping
- AKA – You pay us for it
Want to rank organically?
- Add value
- Become a brand (the result people want)
- AKA – Pay someone else for it

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What’s Your Leverage?
PR
CONTEN
T
SOCIAL
Creative
Leverage

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This gives you 2 key benefits

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Gets you in the conversation1#

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Makes you worth talking about2#

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You have to promote

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A word on buying links

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Your New Link Strategy
• Create something to talk about
• Promote to relevant audience
• Be a part of the conversation

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Don’t worry about
• Anchor text
• Keyword relevance
• Target pages (Unless it’s based on link
worthiness)

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Biggest Challenge for Ecommerce
You need
a new
approach

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Online Retailers have to become Publishers

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A few tips…

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Pay a popular writer1#

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Paid media = Earned links2#

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Work with the right people3#

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Work with the right people3#
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