Archive for the 'Link Building' Category

Using Yahoo Site Explorer

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Yahoo Site Explorer is a handy tool for examining how Yahoo has indexed a website and what sites link back to it. It is similar to Google’s Webmaster Tools. The tool can be used to show the indexed pages in a domain and all subdomains as well as “inlinks” (in-bound links) to the page or […]

New link-finding tool

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

We have launched a new link-finding tool that helps you quickly find websites that accept link requests. Simply enter a keyword or topic, then click “Go”. You’ll be provided with a long list of possible queries for various search engines that will return lists of targeted websites that you can submit your site to for back-links. […]

Top 10 SEO Factors

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

A recent article in SEOmoz provides a great deal of information about various SEO factors, identifying numerous on-site optimization techniques and off-site (linking) tactics and summarizing the combined knowledge of leading SEO practioners. The top 10 techniques, according to the article, include: The page’s title tag (include keywords) Link anchor text (include keywords) Use of […]

Craft Press Releases to Drive Traffic to Your Site

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

by Christine Slocumb, Principal, The onQuest Group As a public relations consultant, I’m amazed that large public relations firms do not craft releases that rank well in search engines. They still view releases as items that only garner media coverage. Distributing releases over PR Web allows the use of anchor-text linking resulting in quality reciprocal […]

Get Listed In Google Local

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Is your site listed in Google Local? If it’s not, you can submit it here: http://www.google.com/local/add. Once you fill out the proper online forms, Google will send you a confirmation postcard to verify the street address. This postcard will contain a PIN that you will enter at the above page to verify the listing information. […]

Directory Submissions

Monday, January 9th, 2006

There are many free directory services that serve as online yellow pages. Most of these accept free business listings. Here is a list of leading directory services with links to their submission pages: Google Local Yahoo Local SuperPages MyPages YellowPages.com You can find many more directories at the Internet Search Engine Database.