Google values backlinks to your website (links from other sites to yours) as votes for your website’s popularity/relevance. Links = Gold in SEO. The first step in acquiring links is to create GREAT CONTENT. Then you have to tell the world about that content. John Chow has an awesome formula for spreading the word. Create [...]
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Yaro on free directories
Using free directories you can drum up free traffic to your website. Here is a good article from Yaro about that. free traffic from free directories
Yaro on SEO and backlinks
I am going through one of my old binders and purging any info that I printed from an online source. (this is part of my goal to go completely digital. Anyway, I can across a good article I had printed in 2006 by Yaro Starak on SEO and backlinks. http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/264/seo-backlink-faq/
Creating sitemaps
Just a quick rant post. Sitemaps are important for Google. If your site is built on wordpress there is a nifty wordpress sitemap plugin. very nifty and useful. If you use another CMS it may have its own add-on for sitemaps. And in other cases there are nifty generators like, http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/