Analyzing Backlinks: How Many Do You Need?

You know that you need backlinks to your pages in order for them to rank well in the major search engines. But how many backlinks do you need?

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Effective Link Building: One Major Ingredient

An effective link building campaign requires one major ingredient: variation. If you are getting backlinks for the purpose of higher rankings in the major search engines, then you need a variety of links from a variety of source types…

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Web Page Optimization Checklist

Web Page Optimization checklist to properly optimize your web pages and blog posts. This is Part 1 in the new Link Building series, and a necessary starting point before we begin scouting valuable incoming links…

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“Rank and Tank” – The Definition

Rank & Tank is a catchy new phrase that I came up with to describe a current ranking trend on Google, specific to blogs. We’ve discussed the Rank & Tank concept a few times on Twitter lately and several people asked me for a more detailed definition of what it is and how it works – so here goes…

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