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Archive for May, 2008

Don’t Build a Single Link Until You Do These 3 Things

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

By Justin Palmer

Far too often, Search engine optimization experts spin their wheels obsessing

about link building. (I myself included) It’s easy to forget that classic on

page and site-wide SEO still works.

Recently, this hit home. While working on a page on one of my sites, I

accidentally left a link pointing to a page that was irrelevant to the actual

anchor text in the link. In other words, the keywords in the anchor text had

nothing to do with the actual text of the page. Despite this, Google quickly

picked up the page for the target search phrase, replacing the page I intended

to optimize for. Despite ..

Source: seo

Building Links is Like Shaving - If You Don’t do it Every Day You Look Like a Bum

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

By Terry L Mickelson

For years, you have probably had a daily routine for shaving. But have you developed a system of building links?

No one pops out of bed each morning and races to the sink to shave. It is a tedious and potentially dangerous daily necessity. But without a daily shave, our appearance begins to get a little shabby.

Linking is the same way. Rare is the webmaster who jumps out of bed, races to his/her computer excited to find inbound links. Yet, no matter how optimized a site is, without inbound links it is never going to be found in ..

Source: seo

Suggestions about Keyword Anchor Text

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

By Dave Kelly, CEO of Arundel Net Marketing

We all know how we name many of our pages. I’m referring to pages we create to do well for a specific keyword.

Let’s say our keyphrase is..

Buy Microvaves Indiana

Let say you have a page name www.domain.com/buy-microwaves-indiana.html

Many people would simply try to construct blog posts using “Buy Microwaves Indiana” as their anchor text (the text that is underlined in your blog post).

Now what is wrong with that? Well a couple of things. If you use any of the popular keyword research tools you often see many keyphrases such as this, and I’m referring to ..

Source: link building

Can “NoFollow” Links Hurt You?

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

By Julia Gulevich

I often get emails from Fast Blog Finder users who ask about the “NoFollow” blogs. Is it worth to comment on a blog if it’s “Nofollow”? Does it have any sense? Won’t it hurt the website rankings?, etc. are the questions many of our users are concerned about.

Well, I decided to do a case study to see if “NoFollow” links count and if it’s worth our efforts to post comments on “NoFollow” blogs.

But before I jump into the details of my case study, I’d like to share with you a good source where you can read ..

Source: search engine optimization

Search Engine Optimization Basics

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a buzzword that has been around for several years. There are as many misconceptions about SEO as there are website managers. Most webmasters think SEO is too complex and not worth the effort. Others believe that SEO will get your website banned from the search engines. There are a few that actively practice SEO.

Fact #1: SEO can be complex if you want to compete with the big guys. SEO is all about outperforming your competitors. That means the better you do SEO than your competitors, the more success you will have.

Fact #2: SEO ..

Source: Search Engine Optimization Basics