It is no secret that a website must get lots of quality incoming links for ranking high in search engines. These days however, search engines are getting smarter; they have realized how easy it is to arrange link exchanges, so reciprocal links just don’t count any more. Now the emphasis is on getting ’one way links’ (a link [...]

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Mike McDonald of WebProNews recently interviewed Matt Cutts of Google at PubCon in Las Vegas. In this interview Matt offered insight on the future of SEO/SEM and Google’s move toward becoming a comprehensive social media portal.

Matt Cutts also talked about the new trends in Search Engine Marketing in recent years, stressing the shift from traditional marketing approaches to a more social and [...]

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Blogs can bring in a lot of traffic to your website via the big search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN if they are updated regularly and of course are properly optimized for these search engines. WordPress based blogs are search engine friendly, however their SEO power doesn’t all come by default.  After making a few blogs [...]

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These days we see many contests and free giveaways increasing being used for linkbaiting. Such linkbaits are good for attracting traffic too. Today I came across a unique contest which caught my attention. The contest is about winning a coconut – straight from Hawaii !!  Here are some example entries .
I went through their rules and found out that [...]

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Building backlinks from other sites is important for improving a site’s Pagerank. However. many a times webmasters do not pay much attention to the internal linking. So the question is, are the internal links counted as backlinks by Google? And do the internal links contribute to the pagerank?
The answer is Yes. You may ask what is the proof? On Google toolbar you can see [...]

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When I started blooging I did not know what a trackback was and how to use it effectively till I come across an article by Intenet Entrepreneur Yaro Starak on blogging for beginners 
So what is a trackback? A trackback is a form of blog communication that links two or more relevant blog entries together. One blogger writes [...]

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Quality inbound links are extremely important for ranking high in search engines like Google and Yahoo. Link popularity acts as a catalyst to the on-page optimization efforts.  Building good quality backlinks is a time consuming exercise. That is why SEO companies charge a heavy fee to carry out link building tasks for you.
Many website owners [...]

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I started this blog in February of 2006 and for the first few months my traffic was really low. It was because I was not blogging seriously.  I knew that the site was in the Google sandbox and so I was waiting for it to get out of the sandbox. I started little serious blogging only from mid-July after [...]

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Recent Search Engine share as published by comScore puts Google at 43.7% followed by Yahoo at 28.8% and MSN at 12.8%. And in some countries like Japan, Google is still at # 10 position, the top position being enjoyed by Yahoo.  Though most SEOs or website owners concentrate primarily on optimizing their sites for Google, we can not [...]

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I first noticed this post at Internet Marketing Fool last month. That time the worth of my blog was predicted zero. But today the same tool predicts the value of my blog to be $23,710.68 !! 

My blog is worth $23,710.68.
How much is your blog worth?

So did my virtual real estate appreciate by $23,710.68 in just [...]

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