*The guest tip was provided by Pradeep Sahu* My excel sheet, containing list of blogs, social bookmarking sites and forums that allowed me to get dofollow backlinks, used to be a great SEO asset. Not any more. With the release of tools like open site explorer, the competitive advantage that I enjoyed because of that list has become close to zero. Any competitor can now put my website into the tool and get information about all my dofollow links within seconds. Backlink analysis tools have been there for quite sometime. But the noise in the form of nofollow links used to make the process of backlink analysis quite time consuming and frustrating. Regaining...
*The guest post is by Gab Goldenberg* This is an exercise in asking "why," learned from Joel Spolsky of Inc Magazine, which apparently got it from Toyota. The idea is to get to the bottom of a problem to avoid repeating it again in the future. I was asking myself why a contract that was due to have X# of links hadn't yet been fully delivered on, despite my...
The guest post is by Ross Hudgens, a Senior SEO Analyst at Single Grain. You should follow him on twitter here. Seth Godin coined the term Permission Marketing, which means that you obtain permission from the consumer before advancing to the next step in the purchasing process. The opposite of this is interruption marketing – interruption marketing frequently occurs when you watch television or surf the...
This article was by Christopher Holland who works for nbat Digital - a multimedia design agency based in Kent. If you plan to start guest blogging, do join My Blog Guest: the forum that connects bloggers to guest posters. As the Internet has grown so much in the last decade, it has become vital for small and large businesses to gain an online presence. This can be achieved by search engine optimisation, with the...
*The following guest tip was provided by Warner Carter who provides Search Engine Placement Marketing services.* SEO ultimately means driving traffic and making sales. What I like to call "Search Engine Placement Marketing" I will be implementing this in a few weeks for a new client that has a retail vitamin store and a website. He also has his own brand and this should get him some quick results. You can go right to any of...
*The guest tip is by Daniel McGonagle who writes about SEO and link building at LinkVanaReviews* Yes, Virginia, you can get backlinks with Index Drivers sites! Index driver sites are websites whose main goal is to increase the indexing power of your content. It can also be used to index other people's content, too. Later on in this post you'll see why you might want to index other people's content in addition to your own. How does...
*This blog post was written by a guest blogger that specializes in Boston SEO services.* Imagine how much traffic you could get with a longstanding link to your site from Wikipedia. This would be incredibly valuable for your company profile and reputation. Only problem is, Wikipedia definitions can and are constantly edited and changed by anyone with a computer and internet access (brainpower is not a requirement, unfortunately.) Luckily,...
*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who runs a Tulsa SEO company* Note from Ann: please don't spam :) Only comment when you have anything worth saying! One of the most well-known methods of off-site linking for SEO is blog commenting. However, to really get a solid boost in SEO, there's one detail that is not always mentioned when this SEO tactic is shared: most blogs are nofollow. That is, they have...
*The following guest tip was provided by Umair Asif* Links are an important part of SEO strategy. While, most of us are already aware of its significance, it sometimes gets difficult to acquire a list of high quality websites related to our industry. Tweaking Google directory listings may resolve this problem. By default, Google directory offers listings based on Page Rank, but these groupings may not include every major website. For example,...
Note from Ann: I'd like this post not to turn into another "PR algorithm" one. Instead, I'd love us to discuss how many of us still use this information and how we do that. So please, share your opinion in the comments! *The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who does Tulsa Website Design and SEO* One area of SEO that is limited to one search engine but gets plenty of...
