Two Fantastic Things to Start Your Week

Some of you who have been reading Blogstorm from the beginning might remember my hotlink builder script. Basically when a visitor right clicked on an image they were presented with some code to hotlink the image which included a link back to the page – a fantastic automated linkbuilding method.

As ever with online scripts there are always lots of ways to implement the same thing and my implementation was pretty basic. However Michael VanDeMar has improved on the script with a pretty amazing implementation. If you get any traffic from Google Images then installing this script is a must.

Right click the image below for a demo (won’t work for feed readers).

Secondly I enjoyed reading Why Spam Pays by Brian Turner, here is my favourite quote:

Whatever the good intentions of DigitalPoint’s Shaun Hogan, the co-op network has become nothing more than the biggest link spam network on the web.

And it’s free. And easily accessible.

BY Patrick Altoft AT 9:11am ON Monday, 28 April 2008

Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3 and has worked in the SEO industry for over 10 years. With experience across some of the worlds largest brands as well as startup businesses Patrick is well known in the industry and speaks regularly at the major SEO conferences and events. Follow Patrick on Twitter or Google+