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Link Popularity for the Unpopular, a Quick Primer for Today’s Search Engine Landscape November 20, 2006

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By Casey Markee

So tell the truth, were you popular in high school? Did you have a lot of friends, and a wide social circle? Were you an athlete? Did your accomplishments extend far outside the halls of your alma mater to neighboring schools and counties? If so, then congratulations; you’re probably in the minority of those reading this article. What does this example have to do with link popularity you ask; more than you think.

Just as in high school, on the World Wide Web, your website is known by the company it keeps. Link to the wrong site or “hang with the wrong crowd” and you could be ostracized by the search engine community before you even begin. Achieve quality inbound links from a wide range of popular kids on the internet, however, and watch your site’s online profile soar. Sounds simple, and it is, if you know what to do to climb the online social ladder that is Link Popularity.

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How To Find The Right Keywords For You

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By Luella May

Finding the right keywords for your own website or articles is not easy. In fact it can be quite daunting a task, especially if the keywords or keyword phrases you do choose never get searched for by anyone using the popular search engines through Google or Yahoo searches for example.

So how do you know if the keywords you’ve chosen or are considering for your site or article is actually searched for by anyone? Do I simply guess? You ask, or is there some magical way of getting a free helping hand from somewhere, that could help you to determine what keywords or phrases to actually use, ones that are at least being searched for by real people.

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How to Strategize Your Link Popularity Campaign November 19, 2006

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By Gerrick W

Link popularity is the number of links pointing to a website. It is an important factor that major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN use to rank web pages.

Webmasters figure out that in order for their web pages to rank well at the search engines for certain keywords, they need a lot of incoming links with these targeted key words. Linking schemes of all kinds were hatched…mini-sites, site networks, link farms and reciprocal linking, just to mention a few. Some schemes like link farms were clear indication of manipulating the search engines.

Google has clamped down on such practices and further fine-tuned its SERP algorithm to stop manipulation by anyone as evidenced by ‘Jagger’.

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Manipulate Web Content And Get Higher Search Engine Ranking November 18, 2006

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By Monica Corral-lorica

Web content is one of the most important factors that search engines look for in a website. The search engines are in constant search for fresh quality web content. Because of this, webmasters and website owners must equip their websites with updated and fresh content regularly. Web marketing experts advise webmasters and website owners to add new content on their website whenever they can. Web content is beneficial to webmasters and website owners because it helps them get higher search engine ranking. Other than that, new content is also beneficial to online users because they provide new source of information.

Aside from updating your website’s content, do you know that you can actually manipulate your website’s content? In doing so you will finally get the high search engine ranking you are aiming for. Different search engines have different algorithms in deciding what rank your website deserves. However, one thing that all the search engines are looking for is fresh web content. And these web marketing techniques presented here applies to the major search engines.

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How to Increase Your Web Site Link Popularity

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By Charles Ryder

Link popularity is without doubt one of the most important aspects of a search engine ranking algorithm – this variable tells the search engine how many web sites out there are linking to your web site, which gives a really good indication of how popular or important your site is.

Your web site NEEDS links, it can’t survive at the top of the search engine rankings without them. In this article I am going to explain how anyone can get good quality links for their web site, without paying for them…

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Role of Link Popularity in getting Top Google Rankings November 17, 2006

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By Prabuddha S Raychaudhuri

How many sites link to your site? In other words, state the link popularity health of your site. Have you ever been asked this question? And, did not know what to say?

Go to Google. Type in link:www.cnn.com in the search box. The number that Google throws up, namely, 115,000 (on the blue-colored bar present on top of the page) at the time of writing this article, is the total number of sites that are currently linking to www.cnn.com, and which have been indexed by Google. In other words, this number can be greater than 115,000, or more than 115,000 sites may have currently linked to www.cnn.com, but it won’t show up with the (link: www.cnn.com), because those sites are not in the Google’s Database.

Methodology for building link popularity through Reciprocal Link Exchange Programs

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Basics of Social Bookmarking

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If you’ve been messing around online, chances are you’ve come across the expression “social bookmarking”. The really basic explanation of social bookmarking is that it’s like taking some or all of your “Favorites” folder and storing it online. So you can login from any computer, anywhere in the world, and access your important URLs.

Sounds great, right? It makes life much easier if you don’t need to carry around a list of URLs, or email them to yourself so you can login to your favorite sites from an Internet cafe. But that’s not all that social bookmarking can do. You can share your list of favorites with other people. So if you know other people who are interested in the same things as you, they can check out your list and discover what new and exciting sites you’ve found about that subject.

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Do This And You Will Lose A Lot Of Traffic

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By Izrul Fizal

To make money online and earn financial freedom from your online business, all you need is lots of traffic to your website. No traffic simply means no business. It is just as simple as that – but it is not so simple to get that traffic.

Most business owner fail miserably to make money online just because they could not get enough traffic to their website. And some do stupid mistakes by not taking good care of their incoming traffic.

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5 Ways To Reduce The Chances Your Pages Won’t Get The Duplicate Content Penalty

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By Marty Fiegl

If you’ve done any marketing in the last 6-12 months you’ve no doubt heard about the duplicate content penalty.

Web search engines (mainly google) have been slowing improving the technology they use to determine which pages get the penalty (if there really is a penatly).

So for starters let’s remember that search engines index PAGES not websites. So when we are talking duplicate content penalty we are referring to pages that are getting penalized not sites.

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Building Targeted Traffic for Your Website

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By Miles Galliford

You could spend a lifetime reading about tips, tricks and tools that ‘guarantee’ visitors will come to your website.

Unfortunately a lot of what is written and discussed is rubbish. For new siteowners the challenge is learning and putting to practise what works and leaving the rest to the geeks and fraudsters.

This article provides an overview of what techniques have stood the test of time. This is where your attention and effort should be focused.
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