From the monthly archives: September 2009

Using Article Marketing Effectively For Backlink Building

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“Hi Duncan, what is the most effective use of article marketing as used for backlink building? I am considering UAW and SubmitYourArticle.com, are either of these services worthy of your consideration, or is there another you prefer? Thanks for your time,” ~ Jay Burgess

Hi Jay,

This is an interesting question.

The first response that [...]

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Affiliate Marketing & Search Engine Optimization Issues

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“I only use Affiliate sites to market my affiliate products. Do I even need to concern myself with SEO and rankings because of the way I market? Can I get an organic search (engine ranking) with my site?“ ~ Robert Kunces

Hi Robert,

The simple answer to this one is no, not directly.

Just to [...]

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High Page Rank Valued Pages Do Not Improve Your Search Engine Rankings

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Link Building Misconception 3: Having a Website With High Valued PR Pages Will Improve Your Search Engine Rankings…

If you’re reading this and don’t know what Google Page Rank (PR) is, you’ll find plenty of information about it online so I’m not going to go into a big explanation about it here.

Back in the [...]

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Google Page Rank Disappearing

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“Hi Duncan. My name is Andrew and I work in the industry. Today a client contacted me to ask why her site that I manage dropped from PR3 to PR0. I suspect its because she has entered a competition and has so many links to that site from hers on the homepage etc. but I [...]

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Blogroll Links For Search Engine Marketing

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“Hey Duncan, I have a question regarding Link building. 3 months ago, I started buying blogroll links on high quality blogs (PR4+) through forums like DigitalPoint, V7N, WebmasterWorld, etc. This technique has been EXTREMELY useful as I gained 1st page on Google in less than 3 months for major keywords. However, I want to know [...]

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Will Incoming Links From Bad Neighborhoods Get You banned?

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Link Building Misconception 2: Incoming Links From “Bad Neighborhoods” Will Get You Penalized or Banned…

This is another very common myth and is probably also the most illogical.

The worst cases I see of this one are when you hear / read / see webmasters spending even the most minuscule amount of effort to try [...]

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Why Doesn’t Google Show Backlinks?

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“Hey Duncan, Why does Google not show any back links while yahoo and others do? Secondly, I have news releases, YouTube videos and quality articles with reputable ezine distributors and Google has not picked up any of those links either? The site is relatively new and it got hacked last month and was off line [...]

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Anchor Text & Keyword Selection

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“Hi Duncan, This one has always confused me a bit: Anchor text and keyword selection for the anchor text link. Do you use the URL for internal pages or what?” ~ Danielle

Hi Danielle,

This is a great question because if you structure this correctly in all of your link building techniques you’re going to [...]

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