Getting back links for your website is one of the most important strategies of any search engine optimization. While there are numerous sites offering advice on how to achieve this, and costly programs that claim to help you do this, if you are not aware of whether your strategy is successful all that hard work could be going to waste. If you are just starting out in SEO and are not ready to invest in costly software, or are just looking for another way to check your backlinks, then do not over look the very useful and free Yahoo Explorer!Yahoo Explorer allows you to see all indexed pages on Yahoo...

When considering the design of your website or blog functionality, usability and aesthetics are always important considerations; but how your website’s design affects your SEO strategy may not always be considered or even apparent. So how can you tell if your website’s or blog’s design is having an effect on your search engine results, and what should you consider to make your design as SEO-friendly as possible?Size MattersSearch engine ranking is based on content, so the more you have the better chance your site has of getting top results. A good way to see if adding content would help...

Finding it hard to keep up with your SEO strategy, and not convinced that all the tricks and tips you are using are getting you the results you want? Then may be is time to re-evaluate your strategy and make sure that you have covered all the easiest bases before launching into complicated programming ideas or costly SEO software packages. One of the easiest ways to get the most valuable commodity in the SEO world, backlinks, is to use forums; but using this method effectively is not always the most obvious. Before abandoning this technique here are a few tips to get the most of this fairly simple...

To keep a leg up on your competitors, you need to know what people are doing on your site.If you don’t have appropriate tracking in place on your site, now’s the time to get it. Not knowing how visitors are behaving once their visit your site is only going to hurt you. You could be monetizing basic visitor actions that would make you thousands of dollars if you were only paying attention.Here we’ll discuss a few free, basic analysis programs available for your website, and how you can best utilize the information they can provide.Google Analytics and Webmaster ToolsGoogle provides...

So, you’re coming up with a social media plan for your website or blog, and you want to ensure as many people as possible are going to find you via bookmarking, following, and connecting on various social media websites.Great – so how do you do that?There are a few approaches to getting your website out there. We all know that if you don’t start social media profiles and have links to those profiles (like the famous twitter icon), people won’t necessarily know you have a Twitter account. You don’t want your readers to dig through your text to be able to follow you on...