I am often asked how to choose keywords. If you unsure of what keywords could bring more traffic to your site or what you should write about more, then you should determine the potential of keywords that are found on your site, but did not lead to any search engine clicks up to now. If [...]
Link popularity is an important factor in the promotion of your website. Without it you will find success hard to find. Many entrepreneurs devote a great deal of time, energy and expense into the quest for more links to their website, some gain success while others fail terribly. What are the reasons for this?
The most [...]
Perhaps you have already read the first article to this topic (Get backlinks from social bookmarking sites) so you already know about the importance of bookmarking your site on a social network. While Jon points to sites where you can submit your page or post to a whole bunch of social bookmarking sites, there is [...]
An excellent and proven way to get backlinks is to write an article about your topic and publish it at article sites.
Most article sites allow you to put one or two links in the article and/or in your author bio box. Depending on the article site, your article may be picked up by other webmasters [...]
How fast can you get ranked if you want use your last chance on Google recommendations?
I will conduct a little experiment to see how effective 3waylinks really is:
As you may know the Google recommendations programme will be suspended end of August… Not much time if you want to make a little money from that.
Today I [...]
[Update: The service does not seem to exist any more...]
The Rarest Word is a new service that can show definitions of words that are characteristic for websites. When you check your own website (you can add it, if it is not known yet) it shows you all the words that are seldomly used on your [...]
To make it short: Yes and No!
Yes, because it determines a few aspects of the quality of your links.
No, because it doesn’t tell anything about your ranking for the keywords that will give you the most traffic…
For example, one of my very new sites, www.naturfotokalender.de, has a Pagerank of 0, not surprisingly…
But the ranking at [...]
Typically, those of us in the SEO community in the past have counted on a few reliable link building tactics to drive our rankings. Directory submissions and blog commenting seemed to be the easiest way to get a high volume of do follow backlinks without expending too much energy. But as Google continues to tweak [...]
That is a question that many of us ask themselves quite often…
Too bad that many ask this question at the wrong time – after they have put great effort and time into ranking for a certain keyword and not reaching the desired goals.
Is there a way to estimate whether a given keyword is worth [...]
My name is Michael Busch, I have more than 10 years of experience working in the IT sector, in various areas such as internet access and proxy server administration or developing online shopping applications, as well as systems administration. On this blog I share my knowledge on what it takes to make a website successful.
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Is Google aware of comment spam?
By Michael Busch on 10. June 2011
I wrote a lot about gaining backlinks by commenting on blogs, and I always warn people that if you use this technique for link building, you have to deleiver real value as otherwise you are nothing but a spammer.
So what – a few people might think, then I am a spammer as long as [...]
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