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Christian InTech Articles - Link Popularity
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Free Ways to Promote Traffic to your Website
Website traffic has to be one of the most talked about subjects among website owners and the web marketing world. The whole purpose of being online is to get your business noticed and to drive a reasonable amount of traffic to your site. What many...
Let "Site Build It!" Be Your Internet Solution
98% of websites are NOT successful. You can be in the top 2% of all business sites. Your internet business solution is Site Build It (SBI) by Site Sell and drive visitors to your site. My Story and Your Internet Business Solution If you're like me...
Linking strategies to skyrocket to the top of Google.
If you don’t know already, one of the key success factors to getting loads of free Google traffic to your website is increasing page rank. So just how do you increase your page rank? Well, it’s all in the linking. To be honest I never could quite...
PayPal Dedication Can Leave Your Business Exposed!
To many web users, PayPal is not the kind of pal they had envisioned when starting their online business. Long on track history but overwhelmingly unpopular among merchants and buyers one is left to wonder why PayPal has continued to grow.
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What is Internet Marketing?
Since I sold my last business in 2004 I have been trying hard to make a living online. Most of my neighbors knew what my last business was as it was very obvious from the garage full of soda, water, snacks and vending machines. When I say garage...
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To Link or Not to Link? -- Webmasters and their silly ideas about reciprocal linking
Every webmaster and SEO manager in the world invented
Google....................oh wait, no they didn't! But they sure
would have you think they did!
I wonder why it is that every SEO person on the face of Planet
Earth seems to have completely differing ideas of how Google
works. It all comes down to the pages on Google's website that
are titled things like, "How Google Works," and inept
webmasters' failure to actually read and understand these pages.
But I know, you're thinking that SEO is all about figuring out
the tricks and patterns that Google doesn't want to tell you
outright. Well until you wheel Stephen Hawking over to the
computer in your basement where you run your site and have him
try to figure out Google's algorithm, you probably will never
know it (especially since it's ever-changing).
But getting to the point: Reciprocal linking is one of the most
popular and (probably) effective ways to increase your PageRank.
And although I have questions whether or not your PageRank
actually means anything, that's another article for another day.
The idea is that the more sites on the web that point to your
site, the more important your site must be. And many (including
myself) think that a site with a high PageRank is considered
"important," so your site is considered important, to some
degree, when that site links to yours. Some also would say (I'm
still on the fence with this one) that having external links on
your site in some way "hurts" your PageRank or search engine
placement results. I'm not sure about this one, but I make sure
to keep only a few external links on any given page. You can bet
that Google doesn't give a crap about your one link page that
has eight-hundred and fifty thousand links to every poker and
penis-drug website in cyberspace.
But what really confuses and amazes me is how the simplest,
widely known facts can be so misunderstood by so
many
webmasters. A webmaster who can take the time to learn html
inside and out, and perhaps programming and database management
as well, but he can't seem to grasp some very basic knowledge
about search engines. The most frequent unnecessary issue that I
encounter when managing my reciprocal linking campaign is
webmasters who deny my request to exchange links for the reason
that my page or site isn't indexed by Google yet, so they are
not interested. Let me explain something: If you type in your
URL into Google search, and your site is displayed in the
results.......Google has indexed your site!!! I hope as you read
that you think to yourself "Well duh." But sadly that is a
concept which is completely unfathomable by a LOT of site
managers. And trying to explain it to them is like pulling
teeth. I have sent them URL's to the search results page where
Google lists my site, they don't understand. I send them a .jpg
screenshot of Google's results page where my site is listed, and
they argue that it still doesn't mean I'm indexed. I think it
may come down to the fact that many SEO managers and webmasters
either do not know what it means to be indexed, or they don't
know the difference between being indexed and having a PageRank.
Indeed, if you have a PageRank of any sort, you almost certainly
are going to be indexed. But if you are indexed, you may not
have any sort of PageRank.
Once this is learned by webmasters far and wide, my job will
become a lot easier. If you are one of these inept webmasters,
please go to Google and read their "For Webmasters" sections.
About the author:
H. Balsagnia is a writer and contributor for several sites,
including the music site www.roamingbovine.com.
He writes mostly about his several and widely unique personal
interests including computers & the web, music, food, money,
security, and more.
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