links for 2010-03-17

My biggest concern was the lack of extensions (”plugins” for Firefox users), but after about an hour on the Google Chrome Extensions site, that was no longer a problem. So, I’ve compiled a list of the best Chrome Extensions for SEO and a few other can’t-live-without extensions (in no particular order).

Usability.Deep links can immediately get users to targeted information and thus decrease frustration (and site bounce rate, perhaps.) This, to me, is perhaps the most important point because (gasp!) it has nothing to do with either rankings or traffic. When have you heard that in a link discussion? This is about usability, and all the links in the world won’t make people want to use your site.

Here are some ideas and resources to help:

•A solid how-to article. This almost always works. MUO has a good, detailed guide and tool collection on how to research the topic properly and create a perfect how-to article.
•A detailed and helpful infographic. A good infographic helps to mind-map and organize massive amounts of information. Here's a good example: Affiliate Marketing Review Report Card
•A useful list. People love lists: they are eager to bookmark them as a good reference. Creating just another list like anyone in your niche won't help. Work on something more complete and better organized than anything that has already been published on the topic. Something of the type I once did listing free SEO tools.

A while back we interviewed a handful of link-building experts (Garrett French and Ben Wills, Wiep Knol, Debra Mastaler, and Julie Joyce) on everything from what features they'd want in their ultimate link-building tool to how to brainstorm linkbait. Here, you can find all of their answers to eight key SEO link-building questions in one place.

Domain Age vs Inbound Link Profile
Currently – inbound links. However, like in #1 they hardly exist separately. Older domains have more links (and are expected to). If a new domain generates plenty of links, this may seem suspicious. So the two factors directly impact each other.

There are all sorts of challenges when dealing with international SEO, such as what domain extension to use, how to structure multiple target countries on a single domain, dealing with country selection without losing link value, how to build incoming links across all countries, and so on.