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• On Low Budget? 3 Quick and Cheap Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website
  HG - This article has been written by Rosalind Gardner, author of the famous Super Affiliate Handbook in which she teaches very effective strategies and step by step methods to earn enough affiliate commissions in order that you can live on them. After you have worked long and hard to get your new website installed and running, you may loose patience after waiting month after month for the first relevant amount of traffic to your site to start making sales or respectable affiliate income... 
  
• 12 Top Tips to make more Money with Google Adsense 
  Google AdSense has quickly developed into one of the most fast and easy methods to earn money with your website. The little Google AdWords Ads that you can easily implement into the HTML code of your site really turn out to be a boosting affiliate money generator.
  
• Useful Tips for Affiliate Banner Optimization 
  The use of banner advertising is a very valuable resource of income. Also text based link advertising is a very valuable resource of income. The important thing is, to get the mixture between the to done correctly. To implement banners where they will be successful and text link ads where they will create their optimum results. This means optimized click through and conversion rates to bring lot´s of affiliate income into your pockets. In this article we will concentrate on... 
  
• Basic Techniques to Generate Traffic from Search Engines
  Statistics have repeatedly shown that anywhere from 20% to 80% of your visitors will find your web site via a search engine. However, you should also know that statistics show that most web surfers never search beyond the top 30 results they receive. With that in mind, it is clear that a top position a top position should be the goal of any savvy site owner. But top spots are no longer achieved by crossing your fingers...
  
• Website Title is useless and Content is NOT King!
  Books and articles about SEO mostly have the following statement in common: The keywords that are implemented within your TITLE Tag have the highest ranking value with almost all important search engines. - Well, this was true, but today things are changing for SEOs and webmasters rapidly. The most important factor for getting higher search engine rankings is the so called link popularity...
  
• The Good and the Bad of SEO directly from Google´s Mouth - A Google Interview  
  Recently I had the chance to ask questions directly to some guys from the Google staff via a conference call. Within this article I will give you some of the most important points of information gathered from the Google officials during the conversation. Some of the questions discussed: Is Pagerank Still Important? - Can Dynamic URLs hurt you? - Is URL Rewriting (e.g. MOD Rewrite) OK in Google´s view? - Is there a Need to use the Google Sitemap Tool? - How many Links are recommended on your Sitemap? - Is Clean Page Code really that Important? Read on ...
  
• Google and the Jagger Aftermath
  Starting somewhere between September 22 and November 17, 2005, Google launched a major update to their search algorithm which shook up the search engine optimization (SEO) community and millïons of website rankings. The update has been named Jagger and is apparently finished. The keywords that people used to find your site within Google may not be producing as many visits any more because the Jagger changes caused...
  
• How to Add RSS Feeds to your Website in five Minutes
  I have written this article to teach you about how RSS Feeds can boost traffic for your website and to show you how to implement them into any of your webpages easily. I am sure, you may have heard about RSS and RSS Feeds already, but I guarantee you are not harnessing the full power of the tool. RSS Feeds are very hot, and the internet marketing professionals are getting their websites listed in Google or Yahoo within 2 to 3 days.
  
• Google´s SEO advice: Quality content!
  The web pages actually at the top of Google have only one thing clearly in common: good writing. Don't get so caught up in the usual SEO sacred cows and bugbears, such as PageRank, frames, and JavaScrïpt, that you forget your site's content. I was recently struck by the fact that the top-ranking web pages on Google are consistently much better written than the vast majority of what one reads on the web. Of course, that shouldn't be a surprise...
  
• Web Directories for SEO
  If you are looking for ways to promote your website, then web directories should definitely be considered a big part of your promotional plan. Web directories provide web visitors with a one-stop destination on the web to find the information they are looking for. Further, in using web directories, you can increase the visibility of your website and derive myriad benefits offered by web directories. Some webmasters might wonder why they should bother...
  
• SEO Specialist reveals his Secrets about Website Submission
  As webmasters or homepage owners, many of you have heard of submitting your website, but what does this really mean? What places should you really submit your website? What about submitting to thousands of search engines and directories through some website promotion service? At the minimum, you should submit your home page. Many search engines will promise to find and crawl the rest of your website automatically...
  
• How to Create Keyword-Rich Pages for good Search Engine Ranking
  Keyword rich pages are essential for SEO and good search engine rankings. Here are some thoughts about how to create good keyword rich pages, which will suit both, the search engines and your page visitors. I am assuming you have a working knowledge of the different HTML tags like the Title tag, the Meta Description tag, the Meta Keywords tag, the Heading tags, the Alt Tag etc. Now, let us assume that your...
  
• About One Way Links - The New Generation of Links and Linkbuilding
  One way links have many advantages over reciprocal links. The first and most important plus for this kind of links is that you won't have to worry anymore about linking back to a so called "bad neighborhood". So buying permanent one way links will really help your site to rank well and you won't have any problems with bad seo. Also one way links usually stay in place for a very long period of time. If a webmaster puts a link...
  
• Link popularity and press releases
  The quantity of links to your site is used by the search engines (like Google) to calculate the importance of your site. This measure of incoming links is called "Link Popularity". Press releases are a powerful way in which you can promote your site, service or product while at the same time increasing your link popularity. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a process of fine tuning your website to get higher rankings on Internet Search Engines...
  
• What new websites are tending to overlook
  We design a new website, code it, and add some content. Then, we submit it to search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We wait anxiously for our websites to be somewhere visible in the search engines result pages. We may even start swapping links with other websites, hoping that this will increase our back links and therefore increase our ranking placement in the search engines. We look again at the search engines...
  
• How to get one way links for my website?
  One way links have become very important to get top 10 rankings on the search engines result pages. Now Google gives very low importance to reciprocal links as it can easily understand that this has been done just to boost search engine rankings and nothing else. A lot of time people ask me: how can i get one-way-links for my website? In that case i suggest them the following methods to acquire natural one way links...
  
• Google - Much more than a Search Engine
  We do all know that Google is the dominant search engine, and controls a large percentage of online advertising. But many of us -- even regular Google users -- are not aware of some of Google's other services. Most of them are presented as new ways of listing and categorizing the universe. However, consistent with Google's new status as a profit-first public corporation, what lies at the root of most of Google's... 

• The Importance of good Website Content for Search Engine Ranking P1 P2 
  Do you really know good content when you see it? The internet is a huge playground with an endless number of websites and pages. I would really love to say, that most of these sites and webpages do provide useful content. But as a matter of fact the vast majority of websites in the internet contains what I would call useless content. But how can we really distinguish useful content from rubbish? How can we make sure, as a webmaster or site owner, that our website and every single webpage within it really contains the most useful content possible. Content that search engine spiders as well as the human visitors to our website will love to use and read? What makes the difference?
  
  
• The Good and the Bad of SEO directly from Google´s Mouth - A Google Interview  
  Recently I had the chance to ask questions directly to some guys from the Google staff via a conference call. Within this article I will give you some of the most important points of information gathered from the Google officials during the conversation. Some of the questions discussed: Is Pagerank Still Important? - Can Dynamic URLs hurt you? - Is URL Rewriting (e.g. MOD Rewrite) OK in Google´s view? - Is there a Need to use the Google Sitemap Tool? - How many Links are recommended on your Sitemap? - Is Clean Page Code really that Important? Read on ...
  
  
• Link Exchange for Extra Traffic  
  Here is a piece of information about exchanging links. Create a "Link To Us" page on your own website where other website owners can link their site to yours. Why should you allow that? Well, it is just simple. By giving permission to link to your site, you could also link your site to their site. This link exchange will add to others and can be quite effectice to provide an alternate stream of visitors to and from all participating websites. A stream of potential customers. Customers in addition to the visitors the search engines already send to your website...
  
  
• About Search Engine Optimization and Reindexing your Website  P1 P2  
  Everybody wants to have his or her website to be displayed on the top of the search results if a user types in an appropriate search within a search engine´s search box. Everybody wants to be on top of the URL (Universal Resource Locator) or SERP (Search Engine Result Pages) for the desired top keywords for his business. But how do you achieve getting there? How can you manage your website to be chosen for top rankings and top results within the SERPs? Well mainly this is up to the search engine bots or robots or spiders or crawlers...
  
  
• Online Advertising as if it was 1999.  
  Starting a website used to be relatively easy. Register a domain name, get a virtual hostïng account, setup a basic looking website, then choose from the literally hundreds of marketing agencies that were willing to send traffïc to your site for a relatively small price. A lot has changed since 1999 on the Internet, and maybe nothing so much as the way we market our websites. Some may be tempted to say that marketing has become easier in today's Internet. We know more about user's expectations and are able to better target our ads...
  
  
• Top 10 Tools to TurboCharge Your Online-Marketing.  
  Many business owners do not like the entire marketing or online-marketing procedure. I think, that marketing and online-marketing can be an energizing exercise to show my creativity and I really enjoy it. This however does not safe me from falling into the same pitfall or trap like millions of other small business or online business owners: I am so busy with my clients (my profit-generating days), that I often put my marketing efforts (my business development days) back into the shelf. In order to assist myself out of this situation...
  
  
• Redefining the Search Scenery  
  For those webmasters and search engine optimizers interested in search marketing, a number of things will soon be different, most notably, our assumptions about the state of competition in the search sector. The three-way race between Google, Yahoo and MSN-Search is, for all intents and purposes, over. Google seems to be unbeatingly on top. Yahoo is meanwhile improving it´s Yahoo Publisher Network and is almost ready to bring it out of beta. The YPN is a live experiment in online publishing...
  
  
• Jagger Updates and Solutions. Improving Efforts from Google.  P1 P2  
  Google´s Jaggar Update was the most frightening for the SEO community of all Goolge Updates so far. It has also been the update taking the longest time so far. The Jagger Update has been carried out in various steps over a longer period of time. The Search Engine algorithm update affected almost all websites, especially websites with very competetive keywords or keyword phrases. In the following I will try to provide a list of elements that obviously had been implemented within Google´s Jagger Update and tips on how...
  
  
• Low Cost, targeted Traffic is imperative! About Link-Building.  
  Link Building is very essential for a good search engine placement. Many website owners are totally unaware of the importance of link building or do not really understand how link building works. Besides good keyword research and implementation of correct meta tags, link building is absolutely vital for the success of any website. Linkbuilding is a permanent process and is a little time consuming, so you should reserve some time on a weekly schedule or hire an experienced search...
  
  
• Stinking Linking Thinking
  How often did you hear that a link must have this or that PageRank (PR) in order to be of value? How often did you read the advice that you should link only to relevant sites? How many articles and posts are being published throughout the web by SEO experts about the value of links and reciprocal links? Being a webmaster myself I grew more and more weary of getting told how "important" my links are in the eyes of the search engines... 
  
  
• Four important Steps for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  There had been quite some confusion about search engine optimization. A lot webmasters and siteowners believe that SEO (abbreviation) is just about tricking and cheating search engines to gain a higher pageranking or a top ranking in search engine result pages (SERP or SERPS) for a particular website to be optimized. Some webmasters or siteowners believe that search engine optimization is so complex and packed with unrevealed secrets, that it is very difficult to understand...
  
  
• How Many Links do you need for a high Pagerank?  P1 P2
  Link building is a basic issue of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). The majority of websites I have been looking at are reasonably good optimised, at least when we look at the "on page" factors. However, many of them are nevertheless in a terrible condition when it comes to links - and I mean both types of links, links within the website as well as in regards to link popularity. A question raised very often is "how many links are required to have my site rank better?"...
  
  
• Latest Findings about Google´s Jagger Update
  Webmaster's, Site Owners, Online Businesses and SEO Companies everywhere have been desperately trying to decipher the fallout from the longest and most grueling algorithm update in the history of the Internet. Webmaster and SEO Forums have been busier than ever before. Relevancy and revenue generation are the two top goals of any SE (Search Engine). As the Internet and associated technologies mature, SE algorithms have become much more complex. This was demonstrated in Google... 
  
  
• Is Reciprocal Linking Dead? Reciprocal Links and the Google Jagger Update
  If the current indications are correct, we may be looking at the end of reciprocal linking as a method of building rank and link popularity, at least as far as Google is concerned. The latest 'Google Dance', nicknamed 'Jagger', has caused major concern by those suffering loss of position on the top ranks of the search engine's listings. So we decided to take a close look at what is happening and see what we could learn. We have a few small websites that have a limited number of links. These sites... 
  
  
• The Seven Secret Skills Of SEO Work
  There is a lot of talk on the web regarding Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and how, if you just do this one thing, you will be at the top of Google. If only it were that easy! In fact, I believe there are seven distinct skills that a search engine optimiser needs to possess. Most people possess one or maybe two of these skills, very rarely do people posses all seven. In truth, to get to all seven, people who are good at two of these need to actively develop the other skills...