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Ok...Now that you've learned about backlinks... and created some... heres a way to get a GREAT tool for free. Likely one of the most powerful backlink analyzer's out there! Visit Shawn's site and sign up for his free tools and learn exactly how to get them! These are NO BULL$%@! tools YOU NEED, for SEO. Remember, though, like any tool for SEO - don't go crazy and OVERUSE it. Search engines DON'T

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What is a backlink?If a link exists, somewhere on the Internet, directing visitors to your site, or to one of your pages - this is a "backlink". It is the opposite of an outgoing link, or a "forward" link, that takes visitors away from your site. We all know about having a link page on our site. These are "forwarding" links. If a site other than your own, had a links page, and there existed a

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Meta Tags!They used to be a powerful means of optimizing your website. Do they even matter any more? Truth is - not very much. However, having said that - they are still important, because the search engines still use them to to provide a description of your site, the text that appears on your entry. More so than ever you can use the Description tag as it was intended, to properly describe your

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Over the past decade I have kept a small number of clients consistently ranked well in their respective searched terms. Even as someone who has a sound understanding of SEO, I am continuely asking myself, what are the most important factors. I have experimented continuously, and I would like to share with you a technique I use that I call Close Analysis.As an example, let us look at the key word

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Search Engines, especially Google, love to see one-way links leading back to your website. One of those links in particular, that stands above the rest - is a relevant Dmoz.org link - The Open Directory Project. Make sure your website is updated and everything is running smoothly though, before you apply for a http://www.dmoz.org link - in your approriate category. Spend some time finding the

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Search Engine Optimization - BC Canada - Passing Google PagerankSomething I just learned today, or should I say "re-iterated". In regards to passing PR. This site, this morning was PR2. I noticed a lot of people had "spammed" the site, in that they had left comments, which ultimately ended up on one of this BLOG's sub pages. In those comments were a lot of links - leading to various places online

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SEO - Automated Link ExchangesWell 2006 is here and guess what... Once again strategies have changed. One of the main purposes of this BLOG was to experiment with various SEO techniques - and be a bit more brave, here - than I could with any client websites. 2004/2005 was the year of automated link exchanges. As an experiment I bought a membership and tried it out on this site. I opted for

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In the sea of websites involving Real Estate and MLS, I have learned that the sites that display good search engine status, typically involve:Well structured and keyworded pages, each somewhat optimized for individual phrases specific to the region.A home page that has hundreds of backlinks from other sites. A listings area that produces listings where the Title and Descriptions are well coded,

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Every once in a while you come across a great search engine optimization tool or script, service for free. This is definately one!Quoted directly from her site:"Put your website promotion, marketing, & search engine positioning on autopilot with my all new Link Management Assistant. The "Link Management Assistant" totally automates your reciprocal link partner management, allowing you to focus

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Is it keywords, or key words? I'm not sure. Perhaps I should check Google !What is certain is, for small business online, you need to know them! From a "Keyword" point of view take a look at your site on an online keyword analyzer like the one at VirtualPromote. If the keywords that are being used online, or key phrases, are not appearing, then you'll need to add them.But what are they?Keywords

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Optimizing a website for PHP can be a challenge. Often the code created does not allow for proper Titles, Meta Tags, or Descriptions (like HTML homepages do). If you are careful and create dynamic Titles that match the key words and content in your dynamically produced code, you will have more luck. If a website contains a great number of pages, dynamically produced, with the same Title and

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Google PageRank(TM) According to Google(TM): "The heart of our software is PageRank(TM), a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools." * source: http://

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Search engine optimization is effected by our choices of structure - our site layout. With so many ways to create a web page - some lend to better search engine "look". (More info in my previous article SEO - HTML - Body Text. )I mentioned using this great tool: The Delorie.com Online LYNX Viewer Tool. This will help you compare one HTML page against another for it's layout's effectiveness at

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Search Engine Optimization of body text is an important area of SEO. For now, and probably some time to come, websites that contain relevant and key worded text will continue to do better than sites that don't.Placing text (whether it is in H1 tags or not) at the top of a page is a very useful technique. However, having said that, where exactly is the TOP of the page, in the eyes of a search

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Search Engine Optimization of a website greatly benefits from proper usage of H1, H2, H3 etc. These tags create "Headers". You may have noticed that when you search for a key word or phrase on a search engine, you often arrive at a page that has a large occurrence of the very words, you used to find that page. It's key words. This is no coincidence. H1, H2, H3 etc. are large bold, loud and proud.

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Search Engine Optimization begins with your HTML Tags. Proper Usage of Tags is still important in SEO. Perhaps the single most important Tag is the Title Tag.What belongs in the Title tag? Your entire life story. Joke. No really, what belongs first in the Title tag is your key words. Followed by a dash or comma, then your company name. No more, no less. I have experimented over and over with this

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Search Engine Optimization is a misunderstood part of web design: No Doubt. With a million companies and websites, SEO rates from $10/mo. to $500/mo. how is one to determine, what works, and why? Small Business websites require a low budget solutions. SEO Tricks are really just a myth. Decently coded pages with key words, are a reality. The truth is, search engines are still not incredibly

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