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1. Related Posts — This plugin helps improve your search engine optimization by allowing search engines to index older blog content more easily. It automatically searches through your blog post database, identifies posts with similar subject matter and keywords, and inserts a link to them.
2. Comment Relish — Once you have a WordPress blog set up, make sure that you are listening to what your bloggers have to say. Not only is replying to blog posts important for SEO but it can also be a useful tool for gathering feedback for user interface web design practices. The comment relish plugin automatically sends an email to bloggers who posted on your blog for the first time thanking them and filling them in about your current events. This is a great way to keep site visitors engaged without being time-consuming. (more…)

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Directories are almost as old as the Web, and have been used with varying success for link building by Web site owners and SEO firms for years. Here are some tips to keep you from wasting your money and improve your site’s SEO.

#1 – Only join paid directories that charge for review, not inclusion

When you are deciding which directories to join, check out their terms of service. If they explicitly say that they do not guarantee the inclusion of your site or give a refund if it is rejected, then the site is one that is worth joining.

In Google’s eyes, if a directory’s revenue stream is not dependent on every site that is submitted being included; they are more likely to be selective about which sites actually make it into their directory. Therefore, the directory is trustworthy and PageRank can be passed from its links. (more…)

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Article Marketing is one of the best known techniques for building links to a site. It’s a labor intensive task and one that is dwindled in power over the past few years. But there is still value in article marketing, especially if you add a little twist to it.

One thing most sites have in common is they always need good content and if you are the one to provide it, the result can be a lot of links back to your site. But how do you find these sites or know what they are looking for ?

Well first you need to find popular topics to write about in your niche. I am going to show you the quick method of doing this, which costs money. Then a longer version, that is free. (more…)

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When something like link building using forum and free membership site member profiles becomes popular and hits the mainstream marketing crowd, it gets over-used and causes what is known as a decreasing rate of return for people.

Therefore, there needs to be some sort of best practices guide put out there for people who decide to add this link building method to their SEO strategy and portfolio.

Profiles link building best practices

Based on my research, there have been some common denominators for successful profiles link building:

#1 - Do not expect much from using the most popular links packets being sold because they cause a massive influx of new profiles creations of the new sites added to the lists people are getting.  When the new list of sites to create profiles on gets mailed out to people, they immediately get slammed with new membership creations, causing some alerts to go off from the site administrators. (more…)