iGB Affiliate 52 AugSept | Page 12

TRAFFIC OFF-SITE SEO: FROM LINK-BUILDING TO CONTENT-MARKETING TO... MARKETING With Google’s policies on link-building increasing the pressure on operators and affiliates to come up with innovative content-marketing ideas, Matteo Monari of BizUp looks at how these can be transformed into highly successful link-baiting campaigns. DURING THE PAST 20 years, Google’s improvements have pushed webmasters worldwide to improve their link-building techniques in order to survive. In this article we will see how this evolution has progressively subverted the traditional link-building approach, to the point that links can now almost be seen more as a key performance indicator (KPI) of traditional ma