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In recent years, weblogs have grown from a band of sharp-tongued outlaws to the darlings of online marketing. From Stonyfield Farm Yogurt to the Republican National Committee, it seems that everyone has a blog, or two, these days. Whether you are an individual out to bring in an income through running ads on your site or a large business with a blog on the site as a way to create relationships with potential clients, you are today’s Big Thing on the Internet. Naturally, the major search engines should be catering to your every need. But you make it plenty hard … Continue Reading

So how do you get sites to link to you? Or rather, how do you get quality sites to link to you?

Directory Links – This is the easiest way to get links, but perhaps the worst. Do not submit your site to 200 directories — those links are usually worthless and associate your site with low-quality sites. However, submitting your site to a few quality directories is advised (you can sort of determine a site’s quality by their Alexa rating). Directories like JoeAnt.com and BlogCatalog.com fall into this category of “free high-quality directories.”

Social Links – When you think you have … Continue Reading

Here are a few key aspects of a good inbound link. Some of these aspects are out of your control, but you can still improve how people choose to link to you:

Good Anchor Text – This is the text that is used in linking to you. It is far better for someone to link to this site with the phrase Freelance Blog or Making Online Income rather than Wake Up Later. Remember, it’s the text in the link that helps search engines determine what the destination page is really about.

Variety of Anchor Text – You also want variety in … Continue Reading

Search engines have always been the primary way of finding information on the internet. And once upon a time, these search engines were many and had names like Lycos, Altavista, and Hotbot. Furthermore, these engines all worked very similarly, listing their results based mostly on website content and keyword use. Of course, this made the results fairly easy to manipulate — you only had to stuff more keywords in your meta tags and on your webpage. Then one day, a new search engine arose, one with the curious name of Google. Google decided that the current way of … Continue Reading