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Linking for Traffic – Not Positioning!

February 19, 2009 by Blogboy  
Filed under Traffic Building

Linking for Traffic – Not Positioning!

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes By Jason Hulott With more and more experts and search engine enthusiasts claiming the right way and the wrong way to handle link swapping, link exchanging or reciprocal linking! You can tell something is important when there is more than one name for it! GRIN! There are also two schools of thought on the reasons link swapping. The first reason for link swapping has always been to carry favour with Search engine rankings. Have a good site with lots of links and this is seen as a good thing and therefore Search Engines will rank you higher. Sadly, like all things in life, this system can be abused and taken to the extreme. Sites are buying in hundreds if not thousands of links trying to “boost” their ranking artificially. This is fine in the short term but we are starting to see a fundamental shift in Search Engine algorithms. convey_source = "English"; Read More →

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If Content is King, then Surely Relevance is Queen!

February 14, 2009 by Blogboy  
Filed under Content

If Content is King, then Surely Relevance is Queen!

Reading time: < 1 minute By Jason Hulott There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the search engine world of late and there are lots of conspiracy theories as to why these things happen. It is easy as a webmaster to get caught up in these webs of intrigue. You get email notes about them, you view so-called experts’ thoughts on bulletin Boards – hey you probably even read things in newsletter articles! Well I hope so anyway…. The big driver for webmasters currently appears to be content and link building. While link building is important I don’t believe it makes Queen. Maybe a Prince. Content and links DO go hand in hand but, without relevance, the Kingdom is doomed. Sorry I will stop the analogy now! convey_source = "English"; Read More →