Part of effective off-page search engine optimization is getting listed in web directories. These are websites whose whole purpose is to sit like the old yellow pages, just waiting for people to look through their categories. While not as popular as they once were, they are still a good place to make a backlink, mostly [...]
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Linkwheel for Backlinks

Link Wheeling Think of a bicycle tire. You have the rubber outer part and the inner cog. Between them are the spokes. Now, think of Web 2.0 properties rotating on the outside, and your money-making site in the middle. The spokes are links from those 2.0 properties. That is backlinking. This is one step further. [...]
Using Google Alerts to find where to backlink
There is a very handy tool that Google gives us to use for free to find “dofollow” blogs and news articles. Google Alerts. First, what do I mean about “dofollow”? In the search engine META there is a code called “nofollow” & “dofollow”. A nofollow means that the hyperlinks off site of a page should [...]
Best Practices to Dominate for a Keyword Term
***Make it interesting and unique*** Research your keyword phrase. It must have thousands of searches, and be low competition (Google AdWords: Keyword Tool) Buy a domain name that has your keyword phrase. Remember, on the search results page, all matches to the search will be in bold! Put your keyword in the title tag (WordPress [...]

