Links with “nofollow” do not count as backlinks to search engines like Google, so you don’t get the PageRank juice or search engine ranking benefit for a link with “nofollow”. Commenting on DoFollow blogs is one way of getting some Pagerank or link juice. There is no specific penalty from Google (as of now) for having [...]

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We often hear the SEO advice that ‘Content is the King’, and search engines like Google favor good quality content. Many people confuse it with creating more pages, and they often end up in buying software like spam site generators, automated content generators and scrapping tools. Many others buy cheap articles and stuff [...]

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Many webmasters give importance to inbound links, but are reluctant to link out to other sites – trying to hoard the pagerank. However, many search engines including Google grade your pages based on the sites you link to, apart from the content and inbound links.
Linking out if done properly can improve your ranking in [...]

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A Common SEO mistake made by many webmasters is that they are not consistent when it comes to linking to their URLs across their site.
If some of your links go to the URL http://yoursite.com, and the rest go to http://www.yoursite.com/, your link popularity gets divided among these two URLs – thus affecting the pagerank as [...]

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Most of my clients in Japan have multi-lingual websites targeted at Japan as well as other foreign countries. So, I always keep looking for techniques which can help to rank well in different local search engines. Recently, I came across a software which claims to improve rankings in Google and other search engines [...]

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Google is harder to manipulate compared to other search engines because of various filters it incorporates in its algorithm to prevent spam. Minus 30 penalty is one such filter for handling spam in Google algorithm.
So, what is this minus 30 penalty? If your site was previously ranking high in Google search results, and [...]

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In the last post, we saw that the product/service you plan to sell on the internet should target a niche market. You may have seen that many internet marketing gurus are selling digital products like e-books and software on auto-pilot. So many times novice internet marketers try to emulate them, but fail miserably. [...]

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SEO alone can not help in making an internet based business successful. Though there are many successful internet millionaires, most web-based businesses fail. Here are some proven tips for building and growing an internet based business.
1. Target a unique niche
If you are creative enough, you can virtually sell anything on the internet. [...]

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Search Engines like Google and Yahoo have become intelligent in the past 4-5 years. It is very difficult to game search engines nowadays by manipulating tags and keyword stuffing. For a new site it may take 6 to 9 months to achieve competitive rankings at Google. From SEO point of view, I [...]

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Google Inc. recently announced their offering to run the search engines of small web sites starting from $100 per year. This service is targeted at the million of Web sites that either wish to have search engine capability on their site or are not satisfied with the quality of their current search results.
The price [...]

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