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The task of search engine optimization, or boosting your webpage's rank in search engine results, is vital to the success of your website. No matter how valuable your site's content, you won't get traffic if it doesn't appear high on the list of search results for its niche.

SEO has changed dramatically over the years, responding in large part to changes made to the search engines themselves. As searching technology improves and becomes more sophisticated, the path to the first page of search engine results changes. Many old SEO tactics no longer work, and some things that didn't even exist a decade ago are now of utmost importance to page ranking.

To help you navigate these changes, this guide will look at the current state of SEO and provide you with practical tips for acquiring backlinks and boosting your site's visibility. Most importantly, these tips have been identified by SEO experts as having sticking power. By employing these strategies, you can ensure the value of your site in the long-term, weathering the storms of Google algorithm changes without suffering a loss in page rank.

Recent Developments in SEO

For a long time, search engines found and indexed pages based upon the prevalence of certain keywords. Those keywords would appear within the page’s content itself as well as on other sites, with the keyword phrase linking back to the original site. This was the earliest function of backlinking, and it worked very well for […]

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What is a Backlink, Anyway?

A backlink is, simply, a link placed on one page that leads back to a specific website. These links help to draw new visitors to the site in two ways. First, any visitor who finds a link and clicks it will be taken to the site. This directly boosts the site’s traffic. Second, backlinks act […]

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Grow Traffic with Natural Link Building

The task of search engine optimization, or boosting your webpage’s rank in search engine results, is vital to the success of your website. No matter how valuable your site’s content, you won’t get traffic if it doesn’t appear high on the list of search results for its niche. SEO has changed dramatically over the years, […]

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How does link matchmaking work?

When an article is published to a blog, it is stored in our database as an link target.  Associated with this article is a single keyphrase and a group of categories.  While the keyphrase is provided by the author, the categories are identified by our tools to consistently apply a taxonomy to an article based […]

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What is a Natural Link?

In the simplest sense, a natural link is a hyperlink from one article to another where the secondary article provides more details that benefit the reader of the first.  The hyperlink can be to a definition, an authority to strengthen a point, a trusted seller in the case of a product or any other type […]

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Natural Link Matchmaking

Here we are … spammy links are bad!  But, now more than ever links from authority sites on related topics are critical to getting visible. We work with hundreds of sites helping to build authority through relevant back links.  While challenging, once there are enough sites with common topics, there are many opportunities to link […]

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Directories – Good or Bad?

There are so many directories.  Most of these suck!  Many of these provide zero value to the web.  Why would someone use one?  There are no signals of quality. Look at Yahoo, DMOZ, etc.  These were once strong.  Now, Yahoo’s directory is invisible to the user.  The collaborative model at DMOZ was a fine vision, […]

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Are Link Building Queries Important?

I often get this question.  Are link building queries important.  The simple answer is … Yes!!!  Link building queries are the most important thing you need to know as a link builder. As a link builder it is your responsibility to learn every advanced search parameter and know how to combine them together to extract […]

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Link Removal Tools

Google has gotten really picky about inbound link quality.  These are recognized by google and published in Webmaster tools as “unnatural links”.  We have moved 180 degrees,  once there we companies that only focus on adding links of varying quality.  Now there are organizations and third party tools that will assist with the link cleanup […]

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Is guest blogging a waste of time?

Guest blogging is not a waste of time, however, the caliber and credibility of the site hosting your guest blog is key to the value.  Run a backlink profile of the site that you wish to submit a guest blog.  If they have spammy backlinks, do you really want to work with them?  Look at […]

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