It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood!
OK, we had to throw that in there.
Anyway, this post is about link building for creating your sites. I like to use Firefox with the McAfee SiteAdvisor to find good neighbors when building quality back-links for my sites. This can be easy to implement, just download Firefox [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
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Google recently published an article on the robots exclusion protocol so read up webmasters!
Interesting points to the article:
The Controlling Caching and Snippets section - as Google states a “snippet” is just a piece of text found in the site itself that is used for the search result. This makes sense because we [...]
Posted on February 27th, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
Filed under: Google, Webmasters | 2 Comments »
A 404 error is a code that means there is no longer a site at the address you typed in. Search engines also will find a 404 error if they spider your site and find a link to another page that isn’t there anymore. It is usually caused by deleting or changing a [...]
Posted on February 25th, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
Filed under: Google, SEO | 2 Comments »
Here’s an SEO tip. I’m writing this post because I recently Google’d a popular search term and saw a few links come up with .edu extensions. This proves the theory that Google ranks .edu links in high regard. This makes sense because usually info from University sites is of good quality.
So [...]
Posted on February 25th, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
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We’ve decided to take off the MyBlogLog widget from the site (though we will still keep the script) in favor for the BUMPzee! plugin. We made this decision based on a number of different factors:
1. We want to support the affiliate marketing community.
2. We like the features of the BUMPzee! community better - there [...]
Posted on February 24th, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
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Webmasters: There are many factors both good and bad that Google takes in to effect when determining Google PageRank. We’ve found a site that lists both the positive and negative factors for you so that you can design your sites better and improve SEO.
Check out the Google Ranking Factors on Vaughn’s 1 Pagers for [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
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For all you Internet marketing novices, here are some good tips and tricks you can use when promoting our affiliate programs using Google AdWords:
1. Sign up for Google Analytics and post the tracking code on your landing page - always use your own domain when buying keywords, and place your affiliate links and banners on [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
Filed under: AdWords, Google, Internet Marketing | No Comments »
Matt Cutts of Google gets a lot of questions on this subject: How can I improve my Google PageRank?
Many webmasters think they know the answer to this question. It’s no secret that many SEO techniques are pure speculation, but here is some good advice from Matt Cutts himself: rewrite your .htaccess file so that [...]
Posted on February 21st, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
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Dmoz.org is a community of editors who collectively hand-pick and verify websites to place into a “Open Directory”. The directory is edited by humans - reducing the amount of spam submissions received. Once your site has been accepted into the Open Directory, it will take a long time for [...]
Posted on February 21st, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
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I know that the Internet marketing industry can surely be a roller coaster: extreme highs and extreme lows. I’ve felt both in my career. One thing that has kept me going is positivity. Working that 9 to 5 job and and being convinced you’ll never be able to make it in this [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Firelead Affiliate Network
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