Archive for the ‘Intro to SEO Series’ Category

How to build backlinks using blog comments – Pt 4

In Part 3 of this series, I introduced you to the 3 major characteristics Google looks at when determining the value of a link. In reality there are quite a few more characteristics than 3, but those were the major ones. In this part, I’m going to

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How do you get those all-important backlinks – Pt 3

In Part 2 of this series, we discussed backlinks and why they’re so important when it comes to getting your website ranked in the search engines. I showed you what backlinks are and then explained how Google’s business model and their desire to provide “relevant” search results

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What are backlinks and why are they so important? – Pt 2

What are backlinks and why are they so important? – Pt 2

In Part 1 of this series, I gave you a brief overview of how the search engines rank websites. One of the things I briefly touched on is the importance of backlinks and how they are viewed as “votes” by the search engines. In this second part,

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How Google Rankings Work – Pt 1

How Google Rankings Work – Pt 1

One of the biggest questions we get from prospective clients is, “How do Google rankings work?” In other words, how does Google rank websites? Google, Yahoo, and Bing are pretty much all the same One thing to remember is that all 3 of the major search engines

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