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<description>Link Trading Help Tutorials at SEO Chat.  SEO Chat is all about the latest trends, techniques and how-tos for SEO, Link Building, Google Search Optimization and Online Marketing/SEM.</description>
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<item><title>When to Use Reciprocal Links</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:00:09 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate rages on over reciprocal links, as it has for years. Many SEOs say that they're worthless; that at best, Google ignores them, and at worst, treats them as indicators for spammy websites. Guess what? It isn't that simple.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Let's start by considering why reciprocal links got a bad reputation. Way back before Google's algorithm became so sophisticated, it only considered a site's incoming links from other sites in rating quality and relevance. A link to another site was a  vote  for that site. When SEOs and site owners realized that they could simply  trade  votes with reciprocal links and improve each other's standing in the SERPs, reciprocal links became very common. Not long after that, such links began to be abused. Link farms started cropping up. Some black hat SEOs even built three-way link schemes to hide t...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Link Building is Relationship Building</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 08:30:08 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're not using social media to promote your firm, you're missing out on a fair bit of business. Even if you aren't personally using social media, you could be building links online without knowing it. If you want those links to reveal positive things about your business, you're going to have to put in some work.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Julie Joyce, writing for Search Engine Journal, offered a couple of scenarios to illustrate this point. Say you're going on vacation and looking for a bed-and-breakfast in which to stay. If you're as sophisticated as most searchers today, you've learned that the first listing you hit didn't necessarily get there because it's the best of the lot. So you click around for some reviews, perhaps at sites such as Yelp. You find a place with mostly positive reviews and relatively few negative reviews, so you book your stay. In our example, you thoroughly enjoy yourself. The food is yummy, your room i...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Eleven Link Building Tips for Headlines</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:30:11 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your article's headline gives readers their first impression of your content. A compelling headline can encourage them to click through and read the rest. If you live up to that headline, they'll even link to it and share it with friends – who will then click through and share it further as that headline continues to work its magic. So how do you write a headline worth clicking on and linking to?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Every copy writer dreams of those magic headlines, and the Internet is full of articles on how to achieve them. Rather than get deeply into the theory of what motivates us, I'm going to talk about a few things that seem to reliably pique a reader's interest. You can use these ideas singly or in combination to really grab an audience.  Before you do, however, you need to keep two things in mind. First, when you write a headline, you're making a promise. By the end of the article, you need to have delivered on that promise. If you haven't, you've cheated your reader, and they won't share your li...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Link Building Tips and Tricks</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:30:12 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this search engine optimization tutorial, we will be looking at some tips and tricks for doing DIY link building in an effort to increase your standing in the major search engines.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[The most common solution for website owners in regard to link building is to hire either an SEO company or a link builder to do the job. This approach might work, provided the techniques and methods implemented are in accordance with Google search quality guidelines. Those techniques will also work provided the links built count not only on the basis of quantity, but quality and relevance as well. The down side is that hiring SEO companies and link builders can be a very expensive investment for a beginning webmaster who does not yet have a positive return on the online business. It can also b...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>How to Get Quality Free Backlinks</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:00:12 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a webmaster, one of the most important factors that can have a strong effect on your website rankings in search engines is the backlinks pointing to it. Link building and earning website authority are among the most challenging webmaster activities. Still, building good backlinks can be as simple as building and maintaining good habits. Keep reading to find out how.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[This article does not talk about old techniques of getting links, such as reciprocal link exchange, social bookmarking, article submission, submitting links to directories, 3-way link exchange, forum posting and blog commenting. Rather, we'll examine webmaster habits, and how these habits can be used to get quality free links to your site. Some of this are not SEO techniques at all, but important habits that a webmaster must have to earn quality links for his/her website. The habits are not listed in order of importance. Habit #1: Networking with other webmasters in the same niche Some webmast...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>How Fast are You Getting Links to Your Website?</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:00:13 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting links to your website is a very important task for any webmaster working on search engine optimization. Those new to link building, however, often have many questions about the process that involve how quickly they should build links for the best results. This article will address those questions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Some of these questions include:  How fast should I get links to my website?  How many links should I build each week or each month?  Does Google penalize me for building these links very fast?  Will Google not rank me for building these links too slowly? The answer to these questions will be thoroughly examined in this article. Let's get started. The normal link building rate is  Natural   Natural  in the sense that the ideal scenario would mean that some visitor found your website, either through search engines or other sources, read your content, and liked it, so they linked to it. The impl...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Organic Link Building Tips: Guest Blogging for SEO</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:00:13 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link building is an important webmaster activity, particularly for young websites. While there are a lot of ideas on the Internet as to how to start getting links, one of the best sources of links is guest blogging. Keep reading to find out what it is, and how to start doing it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Guest blogging involves visiting a certain blog and then requesting permission from the webmaster to contribute blog posts or articles. Of course, you can include a link from your post pointing to your website. Lots of blogs and websites nowadays are in need of original, useful, quality content, so one strategy is to invite outside bloggers, also called  guest bloggers,  to register with their website and contribute content. In return, these websites allow you to link to your website, provided your website contains quality content and is directly related to the topic and content of your guest ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>More Link Building Tips from Ivan</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:00:02 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With hundreds, if not thousands of articles on link building, its hard to deliver original content that was not mentioned or discussed elsewhere. In this article you will find some  less-than-obvious link building techniques and tips.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exchange links with business partners - Ask for a link from your business customers or contractors. You can also make linking a mandatory part of the contract; there are no rules against it. If you do include it in the contract, make sure to mention that the link must be located on a page accessible to search engines (a password-protected page or intranet does not work). Publish Technical Papers - The right technical papers can get .edu/.lib links, as well as attract occasional geeks. Post highly scientific and technical information that you have (and don't mind sharing) and shoot several link...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Proven Link Building Strategies that Work</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:00:02 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An essential aspect of any site's growth is link building. Backlinks are defined as links from other websites that point to yours, and they are probably the most important part of SEO and ranking well in the SERPs (search engine results pages). Most SEO professionals will tell you that the key to ranking well in the SERPs is to accumulate more high quality backlinks than your competitors for whatever keyword phrase you're targeting. This takes time and hard work when trying to rank for highly competitive keywords, but it can be done.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[When starting a link building campaign, it's important to lay out the keyword phrases you hope to rank high for in the SERPs. Many webmasters overlook this step, and it will make it much more difficult to rank highly in the search engines. The reason you want to know your keyword phrases ahead of time is because you will want to use these keywords as your alt text when leaving links to your site around the web. Here's an example:  I run a small student loan consolidation blog at http://consolidatingstudentloansonline.com/. The main keyword phrase that my blog is targeting is  consolidating stu...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Analyzing Inbound Links Using BacklinkWatch Data</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:00:46 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concerned that your competitors are ahead of you in the search engine results pages because they boast more backlinks than you do? This article will show you how to find out the truth with a free online backlink tool; it will also show you how to use that data in your own SEO campaigns.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Assessing the quality of backlinks is one of the most important aspects of search engine optimization. Google ranking algorithms strongly depend on links, and to beat those competitors in the Google Top 10 positions, you need a large quantity of high-quality links. Up to now there has been no tool in search engine optimization technology that offered precise and accurate measurements to assess the quality and quantity of backlinks. The good news is that http://www.backlinkwatch.com is a free backlink tool using Yahoo's Site Explorer data. The tool gives the first 1000 backlinks with URL, ancho...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Page Quality Factors for Link Building</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:00:47 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that Google uses back links to size up your website and determine its ranking. You also know that it wants to see quality back links, and if you want to rank high on the search engine results pages, you need to get quality links that are relevant to your keywords. But what is a quality link? If you're not sure how to decide whether you should try to get a back link from a particular page or web site, this article may help guide your decision.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Link building is the most important part of search engine optimization activity targeting the Google search engine. As an overview, this search engine relies on links to determine the reputation of the page. This is analogous to citations in the world of scientific or academic papers. A single quality and relevant link from a trusted and authoritative source is equivalent to thousands of low-quality and irrelevant links. It is common sense that links from these types of sources are desirable because they are powerful. Sources of such links speak with authority and are popular and expert in the...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Article Writing for Back-Links</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:00:46 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of ways you can get visitors to your website. The best way, of course, is to give them a reason to visit. Since many web users search for information, if you can show them that you have the information they're interested in, you can attract more visitors. Writing articles, especially if at least one of them goes viral, can help -- if you do it correctly.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Indeed, one traditionally strong Internet marketing technique often employed by online businesses is writing expertise articles. Someone from an online company can write an article on just about any subject imaginable, as long as they are knowledgeable about it. Once they have written it, they publish it online and it circulates around the Internet. People read this article, and then, if they want to know more or just respect the knowledge in it, they may follow a link from the bottom to the website of the article's author. The articles come in many shapes and sizes. They can be of any length,...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Requesting One-Way Links</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:00:46 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reciprocals have lost their SEO value. In fact, too many reciprocals can hurt rankings; Ive heard many SEOs state that rankings can actually go up after the removal of a reciprocals page. Instead of reciprocals, you can try getting one-way links. Here we describe how you can do that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Finding Sites to Get Links From  Go on Google and do a couple of searches with your core terms. Find leaders. Take their URLs and plug them into Yahoo Site Explorer to get back link data. Yahoo will show you the links it is aware of.  There's a lot of controversy around using Yahoo link data for Google optimization, but unfortunately Google obfuscates its data on purpose, so using the  link:site.com  command on it is pointless. You can try SEO Moz's Linkscape or Majestic SEO if you want more detailed link data. Linkscape gets data from all over, while Majestic SEO does its own crawling.  Once ...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Link Building Tips From Experts</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:00:50 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting links is one of the biggest challenges facing site owners and SEOs. However, who links to you, and how many links you have, are important parts of Google's algorithm. So you need those links to get seen by the people who are searching for what you have to offer. What can you do? Keep reading for some link building ideas.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[In this article we discuss link building tips kindly shared with us in the  quot;Link Building Secrets quot; manual. We add a little more spice and simplify some of the complex techniques described by link gurus. Using Google Alerts   You can use Google Alerts to monitor search results for high quality sites in your niche.  For example, suppose you're trying to get links for http://www.medicalnewstoday.com. You know that it's a high-quality web site and has a lot of editorial content.  Go to Google Alerts and set up this alert:       Set up one alert for  quot;Comprehensive quot; search and an...]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title>Link Building: The Anchor Text</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:00:47 -0500</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this article we will discuss link building practices. Instead of focusing on methods, however, we focus on what you need to do when you put the methods into action. Specifically, we're going to pay special attention to anchor text: what it is, why it's important, and how to use it correctly so that the search engines will notice you and not penalize you.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[Search Engines and Links In the early days search engines relied on meta-data and on-page analysis to analyze and rank websites. Search engine optimizers decoded ranking algorithms and started stuffing keywords in meta tags, titles, H tags and paragraphs, producing low value, spammy, but high-ranking pages. Search engines were flooded with spam, because it was too easy to manipulate results. There was a need for better algorithms. That's when Google arrived with Page Rank and changed the game. Instead of looking at on-page factors, page rank analyzed links throughout the World Wide Web. The fo...]]></content:encoded>
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