Best Way To Get Great Links

May 10, 2011

This is really simple. Guest Blog. Write original articles and put them on blogs that are about the same subject as your blog.

That's it. Sure you can work your way up the PR ladder getting on better and better blogs as time goes by. Sure you can figure out better ways to make connections to [...]

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Businesses Must Get Proactive About Managing Their Online Reputation

November 15, 2010

If you are not actively tracking what people are saying about your business online you may get a rude surprise.
Effective use of online reputation management means making it easy for people to contact you to resolve problems before they feel the need to publish a lot of negative information online.
“What’s the value of [...]

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Why Social Media Is a Better Investment than SEO

November 15, 2010

The person actually taking the time to search and then finding you is more valuable because that person is a more targeted individual who has expressed an interesting in finding you.
“As a blogger, you probably do not have the luxury of having a staff of people to work for you. As such, your time [...]

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Google Connects Online And Offline With Local Product Availability

November 15, 2010

54% of searches done on Mobile Phones are “Local” searches. Local businesses who pay attention to the emerging applications for ways they can be found will win, period.
“In time for the holidays Google is making it possible for online (and mobile) shoppers to discover real-time product inventory in local stores. Google certainly isn’t the first [...]

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YouTube Tries Being Topical Directory — InformationWeek

November 15, 2010

Getting your videos found now has as much to do with how you optimize performance for searches done at Youtube as done in the Search Engines.
Youtube is now working to make videos easier to find at Youtube.
“On Wednesday, YouTube said that users can opt-in to an experimental service called "YouTube Topics on Search," [...]

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6 Tips for Creating and Marketing Content

November 7, 2010

You can't just write something and stick it on a blog and expect people to read it. You have to know how to get people interested in what you create.
1. Know What You Can Offer
2. Create Content for the Web
3. Create Something Unique
4. Be Easy to Find
5. Make Yourself Known [...]

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Build a Video Blog Traffic Magnet

October 5, 2010

Pick a nice set of keywords related to your niche
Put up a WordPress blog or use a free Blogger blog
Add videos that people in your niche are likely to be interested in and write a unique comment with each one.
Have some attractive banners or anchor text linking back to your main site.

Targeting interests with content [...]

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Missing Element in Video SEO

September 16, 2010

Youtube in particular and most video sites in general are very social. It is one thing to put up a few videos or even many videos in the hopes to get traffic and search engine placement, but to overlook how many connections can be built at the video sites is short-sighted.
There is a lot to [...]

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Google Actively Promotes Bing and Yahoo

September 9, 2010

If Google gave free advertising to Bing and Yahoo it would not send them as much traffic as the "New New New!!" "Instant Search" (faster than a speeding typist, able to distract all users in a single search)

For one thing the results are different than "old slow search" but frankly, it is just ANNOYING. It [...]

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Dofollow Social Profile Sites With High PR

September 3, 2010

These dofollow profile links are on a some high profile well known sites. There is much room for active participation in many of these sites. I undestand some people have been known to make multiple accounts but in truth a person will get better results if they make a completly filled out profile and participate [...]

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