If you have an online home business then you will know that it is important to have at least the very basics of search engine optimization in place for your site.

A few seeming small changes can make a big difference to  search position and traffic.

There have been many books written on the subject, some making the whole issue a lot bigger than it needs to be.

Google has released a search engine optimization guide which is aimed any-one who wants to understand some of the factors the Google search engine uses to rank sites. Read the rest of this entry

Theres been a lot written about dofollow blogs. This post is about dofollow forums. That is forums which don’t have nofollow in their signature links.

I saw an interesting post at Digital Point today about dofollow forums which provided inspiration for this post.

Making posts in forums is a good way of promoting a site.

Most forums allow you to post links in your signature (a little box after every one of your posts, where you can put a message of your choosing). Usually people put links back to their site so if readers are interested they can easily check out the writers other material. Read the rest of this entry

It’s well known that a site which gathers links too quickly can be penalised by search engines – but what about sitewide links ?

Are they just discounted to count as one link by search engines or is the effect more significant ?

Well over the last month we conducted a small experiment with a couple of sites.

Firstly we have a site which has not been highly promoted, but has been getting a trickle of natural search traffic. We added a link to it from an article directory with over 50,000 pages. Almost immediately the natural search traffic dried up. Read the rest of this entry

Want some links for free then read on…………

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When looking for links to your website the best ones are:

• Free
• One Way
• On pages with good PR
• On topic
• Relevant anchor text
• Can point to any page in your website

This software will trawl through Google listings for a supplied keyword, then list out a number of related WordPress blogs accepting comments.
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Looking for a great free seo tool? This one is worth a try.

A while ago I downloaded Firefox to see what all the fuss was about. Have to say I’ve been a convert ever since. I like the tabbed browsing, the speed and the huge number of extensions which help me customise my browser to my specific requirements.

One of my favourite extensions is called seo-for-firefox. Read the rest of this entry