Archive for April, 2010
I got an email from a friend commenting on my previous article on building some free organic rankings. His problem was that he was nailing his keywords, but that it was taking far too long. He also noted that he was getting nowhere getting listed high in the SERP’s at Yahoo. When I ask him if he is generating sitemaps on a regular basis for Google and Yahoo we quickly realize why this is happening. Last month I discussed automating Google Sitemaps for Movable Type and in this article I will describe how I do this for Yahoo as well.As
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Link Popularity refers to the number of links coming from other web sites to your web site (also called inbound links). The competition between search engines and webmasters has led the search engines to find new ways to measure the importance of a site. Google has been responsible for introducing link popularity as an important aspect in its algorithms. For instance, if Google reads your site and sees many inbound links from related web sites it interprets each link as a "vote" that your site is good and as a result gives you a boost in your ranking.If you want
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Link building is one of the basic methods to reap the benefits of favorable search engines standings. SEO experts all agree that link building is the basis of successful traffic and SERP standings. One thing that many people do not understand is how important it is that your links are put on sites that have valid PR and have an authority presence.Really quick for those who do not know:SEO = Search Engine Optimization SERP = Search Engine Results Pages PR = Page RankNow what about these Authority Sites? Well authority sites can be social networks or they can be sites
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