‘Link building’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: With the growth in cheap digital video cameras and the low cost of bandwidth, it cannot have escaped the average searcher that video has become a much more popular medium on the internet. The advent of YouTube and many other video sharing websites have  made this a viable method to drive traffic for many website owners. Google is showing video results  as part of their Universal Search and these results usually appear high in the rankings. With the thumbnail image there is also evidence to suggest that these results are more prominent to the searcher[1]. It is not easy, but sometimes a video…

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Excerpt: When I first heard of Twitter I thought that it was a stupid idea. Even the word has connotations of pointless gossip or incessant chatter. I did not see the point. However, I thought that I would give it a try just to see what it was about. If you have never heard of Twitter it is a cross between instant messaging and blogging. You register an account and the idea is that you should say what you are doing now in 140 characters or less. You can subscribe to other people’s Tweets and read what they are doing by following…

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Excerpt: Creating links for directories or signing-up for forums or otherwise signing-up for useless stuff on the web often involves sending a valid email address. Unless you know and trust who you’re sending your information to,  you probably don’t want to use your real email address. While you can make fake email accounts, you still have to sign up to create an account and even these get clogged up with junk mail eventually. That is why you need mailinator. Mailinator is an email service where you can send those pesky confirmation emails for verification without having to create an account. Any address at…

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Excerpt: In the old days of SEO, people used to write content and insert keywords to get rankings but that is old-hat today. With so many social media networks such as: Digg, Sphinn, Stumbleupon and many more, people can cast their vote on your content. That is why it is more important than ever before to create dazzling content that people will want to read and link to. Copywriting is now one of the most important parts of on-page search engine optimisation;  of course it is still important to write tittles and add keywords, but that will just insure that you are…

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Excerpt: Absolute Links and Relative Links Absolute links are the URL that specify the full name of the domain and the destination. For example to go to a page on the types of link you could copy http://www.seothegame.com/linking-strategies-ideas-for-linking-535 into your browser and a page on linking strategies will appear. This is known as absolute link as it is unambiguous. It can only go to one location. Contrast this to a relative link /linking-strategies-ideas-for-linking-535. It omits the domain information. If it is on the same domain, it links to the same page. But place it on a separate domain then it can refer to…