Link building is one of the most important parts when it comes to SEO. In fact, link building is your entire off page SEO. So without some good quality links, you will not be able to get any rankings at all. Here, I will discuss an effective, yet simple way of using your competition to find link partners to your site.

We all know that link building can be very time consuming and for most of us it can be a really boring job. But why go out and search for link partners when your competition can show you exactly where to get the links from? Think of it this way… if your on page SEO is done correctly and you can get all the links that your competition has and even more, what will stop you from outranking them in the SERPS? Continued

Today I am not going to be writing my own post but rather share one with you that I found really useful and I think that you would to. Some time ago I did some research about social bookmarking sites and how valuable their backlinks to your site are. The reason fir this is that I have been using quite a few social bookmarking sites at that stage and noticed that a lot of them provided nofollow links back to your site.

So as I was searching I came across a very interesting post. This guy did a test on +-250 social bookmarking sites to see which ones are actually worth getting backlinks from.

So this is how the guy did his criteria when he tested all of the social bookmarking sites: Continued

So the title may be a bit misleading as we all know that conventional marketing tactics is ultimately what Internet Marketing is built upon. However, there is no denying that Internet Marketing is a different animal all together. On the top of my head I can think of many reasons why I enjoy Internet Marketing way more than non-Internet marketing. Here are four of them:

Reason #1: Market Research is way more precise

There is no other place, method or business arena like the Internet when it comes to actually researching a particular market. The tools offered, many free and absolutely sufficient, is extremely effective in narrowing down a niche market.

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As you might know Social Marketing is all about getting out there and join the conversation. Facebook has many, many Internet Marketers using the platform as a Social Marketing tool. This blog post explores the new Beta-Released PeopleJar. Check it out:

PeopleJar, a startup that hopes to help users with similar interests connect using a highly-customizable search engine, has soft launched to the public.

The site is very well done, sporting a clean and intuitive interface, an exhaustively customizable search engine, and generally high production values. After creating a detailed profile that includes information on their education, country of origin, and interests, users can browse through a number of Networks ranging from Science and Technology to Yoga. Each Network behaves much like a Facebook Group, allowing users to post public messages to a Wall, and connect with other members of the same group.

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If you have a website, or just want to make money on the internet then the most important part is to get visitors to your pages. Without visitors you will not make money or generate any sales. This step is called SEO (search engine optimization).

SEO is the process in optimizing your web pages in certain ways, so that you will get more traffic from targeted keywords and at the same time optimizing it in terms of how search engines reads your pages.

I am not going into to much depth with SEO but basically there are two parts to SEO. The first one is “on page optimization” where you optimize for users via keywords etc. and for search engines. The second part is “off page optimization”. On page optimization counts for 15% and off page counts 75% when it comes to search engines.

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