Entries for the ‘5. Site Promotion - SEO’ Category

Text Link Ads had recently launched ‘InLinks‘ - their new content link advertising product. Unlike Kontera ContentLink or similar products, the InLinks gives you actual ‘dofollow’ back links from the publishers’ post content to advertisers’ page and hence these are counted for page ranking purposes. And there’s no ugly popup or anything like that but just normal URLs (scroll down to see how InLinks appear on the page)

As part of their public launch this week, InLinks is offering $100 worth backlinks for just $1, for a limited time. With another Google PR update expected soon, this may be a killer deal for all. The steps to purchase InLinks (ranging from PR0 to PR5, they have 1000s of indexed links in their inventory) are as follows:
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As I have mentioned several times in the past, a good page rank (PR) on the homepage alone is not sufficient to get search visitors for your content. For real search ranking, individual posts and pages need to have good PR and a lot of backlinks as well. While, Google Webmaster Tools can provide backlinks and overall visibility statistics, it doesn’t provide page ranks of individual pages.

While searching for tools that could provide PR for the whole blog content, I stumbled upon a bunch of FREE websites and excellent tools. I thought of sharing it here as it may be of use to many of you.
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Google Webmaster Tools is one of the very first services that every blogger and webmaster should sign up for, as soon as the blog is launched! However, most people do not give enough importance to this tool once the sitemap is submitted and robot.txt verified.

Let me explain here a couple of important pages in the Google Webmaster Tools that provide insights into the popularity and visibility of your content (blog posts, pages, other services etc). Then we will quickly cover a few tips to improve the situation. Please note that I will not be talking too much about Search Engine Optimization or where to find hot keywords etc.
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When it comes to the modern communication media and devices, usually I am the last one to adopt and/or adapt. For example, I don’t usually throw away my mobile phones until I have used it for at least three years! The case is much the same, when it comes to the usage of various social networking sites and tools as well.

However, after reading Shoemoney’s take on twitter recently, I thought of giving it a shot! Shoemoney claims that a huge amount of ‘fresh traffic’ to his blog is originating from Twitter. Moreover, he is successfully using it as a major affiliation channel as well! Well, I thought ‘better late than never’! Moreover, Kim, one of our friends here, endorsed Twitter, so I decided to take the plunge!!
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