Do you spend much time on the phone when link building?
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When it comes to link building for a client how important is it to get on the phone when chasing links from other sites? Would you say this done all the time, half the time, not at all?
Is this the SEO experts responsibility or the clients?
Update: Really hoping to get an idea of how important this is to acheive good SEO results. Any chance the SEOMoz employees have any answers here?
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Most SEOs don't call people to acquire links although I know someone who has good success by calling the decision maker and asking for a link. I think it requires good phone sales skills which is generally not a strength of most SEOs. If you are comfortable calling people I would recommend trying it and measuring the results against your other efforts.
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Hi Daniel,
When I was working on my own I spent just about zero time on the phone building links. Like they said below, I did most of my link building via emails since it was much less time consuming. I've also talked with some of the other people in the office and over at Distilled and they agree that they spend almost no time on the phone building links.
I'd say it's your responsibility to build the links but I would pick a easier solution than the phone.
Casey
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I have never done so, but should : )
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