November 12th, 2009 by Mitch Larson
Someone once said, “Let information be freely available in digital form for humanity to peruse as it needs and wants,” and behold, the Internet was born. The Internet was born over the course of many months instead of seven days, but it remains a most miraculous source of information, with it being easy to search and navigate and giving millions opportunities to learn things that they may otherwise never know. The Internet, however, was not always so easy to use, and before search engines made everything really easy to find there was another method of finding information on the web. This method involved the use of something called web directories, which still exist in force today.
While there were several directories back in these good old days, there were two that stood out and became the largest and most used directories of the Internet at the time: the Yahoo Directory and the Open Directory Project. Yahoo shortly afterward released a “search engine” service, but it was another face of the same service: this “search engine” (and other engines of this time) only searched through the directory for results, so any website that had not yet been manually added to the directory didn’t exist as far as the engine was concerned
For several years directories enjoyed the status of the “go to guys” of the web. This was not to last, sadly, as some forward thinkers saw the potential limits of directories and how these would become more apparent as the Internet grew exponentially over the years. These forward thinkers happened to work at a small company called Google, and they developed what would become the most widely used search engine on the planet. Other search engines appeared following Google’s lead, and it seemed that directories would soon become a thing of the past. Directories have managed to hang on, however.
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May 16th, 2009 by Peter Jennings
by Peter Jennings
If you thought that video blogging was the preserve of the media savvy with the proper equipment and presentation style, then think again. Anyone can jump on this bandwagon and compete with even the biggest companies.
You don’t even need a video camera as we will show later in the article. Just a computer and an internet connection and the ability to demonstrate your product or service on your computer is enough to tap into the greatest marketing tool in the world.
There is no shortage of video grabbing tools out there. Camtasia is the market leader and they offer a free trial that comes with a video tutorial series to teach you how to use the software and show you its many features.
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April 25th, 2009 by Brent Sweet
by Brent Sweet
One way links are imperative to a new websites success. The more one way links you have pointing in to your site, the higher your page rank and the more traffic you will get. This should also result in more sales.
So what can you do to get one way links?
1. Write articles and submit them to the top article directories. There are some good softwares that will automate the submission process for you. Although the best links are from the top directories such as EzineArticles and Goarticles. You will also find that your articles will be used on other people’s sites, meaning even more links.
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April 23rd, 2009 by Brent Sweet
by Brent Sweet
The quality of your inbound links is a key factor that search engines will use to rank your pages. Contrary to popular belief, the number of links you have is not that important. Having a few high quality links is much better than having a bunch of links that are low in quality. Inboud links can be defined as the links that are added to other websites which point back to your site, sending traffic to it. There are a number of strategies you can use to get high quality inbound links. Remember, the quality, not the quantity, is the most important factor you will want to take into consideration. One of the most common ways to get quality inbound links is to exchange links with sites that are similar in theme to your own.
To do this, all you have to do is find websites that are related in topic to your own, and email the webmaster for a link exchange. In most cases, the webmaster will be happy to exchange links with you. Another way for you to get good inbound links is to make posts on either forums or blogs. Most of these sites will allow you to add your website’s link to your signature, and those who read your posts can click on the link and be taken to your homepage. Both of the methods discussed in this paragraph are free strategies that you can use to build inbound links. However, there are a number of payment options can use to further enhance your inbound links.
One of the most common techniques is to buy a text link on a page with high PR. While some have argued that Google frowns on this, it is a common way to build up traffic. After all, if a text link to your site is clearly visible on a PR 7 page, it is very likely that you will receive large amounts of traffic from this link. It is for this reason that many webmasters are willing to pay more than $50 per month just to have their link on a page with high PR. It will increase both their page rank and their traffic. Page rank is another thing that you can increase by getting high quality inbound links. Page rank is the number Google will use to measure your site.
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March 17th, 2009 by Brent Sweet
by Brent Sweet
One way links from sites with high Page Rank are the best possible links you could get when promoting your site or blog. The easy way to get these type of links is to use services like textlinkbrokers.com or linkadage.com where you pay monthly fees for one way links on sites that you choose.
Those services work very well, but what do you do if you can’t afford to buy many high PR text links.
I’m going to show you an easy way to get this type of links, and you can use this method if you don’t have a big budget or you simply want to save some money.
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February 26th, 2009 by Steve Thomas
by Steve Thomas
The following is a S.E.O plan for getting real targeted and high volume search engine traffic. Certain steps may not be applicable to you, but the order is important.
Most websites are not built for S.E.O and will always struggle for rankings. Consider starting from scratch if your website has never had a lot of hits.
Get a good grip of your keywords for you particular niche, this is very important and will affect your results if you target the wrong keywords.
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