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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 ..

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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 ..

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Blog Comments Sense

Monday, May 26th, 2008

By Judith Kallos

When you contribute your comments to other’s Blogs, it is an opportunity to show your personality, expertise and gain exposure for your Web site.

What many seem to not understand is that Blogs are about opinions and conversations not about one-sided desires for self-promotion. In the almost rabid quest to attain incoming one-way links to their Web sites, Blogs are being hit with generic dribble from marketers that serve no purpose other than reflecting the commenter’s desire to gain a coveted inbound link.

I have a handful of Blogs and each and everyone is moderated. By being moderated ..

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Backlinks: Don’t Believe Most of What You Have Been Told

Monday, May 26th, 2008

From our perspective it seems that the entire Internet world has gone off of the deep end — all over the topic of backlinks. You know what these are, don’t you? These are the little text links that are found on one webpage which point to another. That’s their prime function: when you click on them, they automatically take you to that other place, wherever it may be.

But here’s the problem — everyone is finding out that the search engines value these links and use them in various ways to gauge the importance of a webpage, as compared to webpages ..

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Protecting Your Search Engine Rankings

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Your website’s ranking on search engines is a vital element

of your overall marketing campaign, and there are ways to

improve your link popularity through legitimate methods.

Unfortunately, the Internet is populated by bands of

dishonest webmasters seeking to improve their link

popularity by faking out search engines.

The good news is that search engines have figured this out,

and are now on guard for “spam” pages and sites that have

increased their rankings by artificial methods. When a

search engines tracks down such a site, that site is

demoted in ranking or completely removed from the search

engine’s index.

The bad news is that some high quality, completely

above-board sites are being ..

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