(Guest post by Vic)
Have you heard this expression, “Link building is the most difficult part of SEO!”? We’ve heard this so many times and we even believed it a while ago. But Link Building doesn’t have to be hard. Reinventing the wheel is just a loss of time and resources but improving it a bit with some new spokes will make it run faster.
(Guest post by Susan Long)
Anyone looking for fast, easy backlinks has considered offering up those few bucks to the mighty Paul and Angela. But do Paul and Angela lists sites actually work? Sure, they’re not going to drive much referral traffic your way but on a Google level, is it worth getting in bed with Paul and Angela? Now that the hype has died down, now that there are plenty of “case studies” to look at, what results are in?
(Guest post by Susan Long)
It’s quick, it’s easy and it opens the door to a potential 500 million new customers. A well designed, engaging Facebook application spreads like a fire, from wall to wall, happily assisting potential customers to volunteer up their personal information and to view your marketing material. A poorly designed one will waste ten minutes of your time and do not much else.
Grapevine is ripe with rumours of Google vying with Yahoo in a bid to take over the URL shortener bit.ly. If you thought bloggers used bit.ly only in tweets, think again. Ahem! It’s also used to cloak the URLs of the deep linked pages containing link exchange requests and link sale offers. Now I need not tell you the consequences if Google has its way to bit.ly along with all that ‘classified’ information. Here are the top 5 sites most bloggers consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously wish Google never buys.
Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher! I laughed my ass off when this comment came up for moderation. How can such a well-written comment be a spam; Akismet must be wrong – I said to myself. Flattery had the better of me and the comment made its way to approval. Barely a day after the comment went live, I started receiving the same comment on other posts as well. Definitely not a flattering stuff any more, I had to mark off the published comment as spam and delete it.
If you are one of those WordPress bloggers who go hunting for beautiful WordPress themes outside the WordPress repository then this post is for you. I have come across many sites offering some breathtakingly beautiful themes. But these themes are never submitted to the WordPress repository. Instead they are made available for free download from the developer’s page. Have you ever thought what the catch is?
When I logged in to the admin panel today, I was excited to see the upgrade message. Hailed as the 13th major release, WordPress 3.0 is finally out for download and upgrade. In the words of Matt, it is “the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors”. So what does the new version hold in store?
How many times a day you visit your Gmail account to check for new emails ? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a light weight email client that can do that for you without eating your system resources ? The new Gmail Notifier promises to do just that. Based on the IMAP protocol it connects to Gmail and alerts for new incoming emails.
Setting up online stores seems to be in full swing nowadays. And why should not it be? You get to sell your products online right from the comfort of your home without any major investment in infrastructure. All you need is a search engine friendly website and an integrated payment gateway. There are many shopping cart software available in the market and most of them are search engine friendly by themselves. But is that enough to make your product sell? Unfortunately, not. Here are few tips to push your products online.
Having a personal computer is the very first prerequisite to start blogging. Whether to go for a desktop or a laptop is a common dilemma most of us encounter. Around the time I took up blogging, having a laptop was beyond my reach. So, I had to settle for a desktop. Getting the latest configuration desktop assembled that time had cost me around $550; accessories like UPS, speakers, table, head phone, etc. not included. I didn’t have to buy a chair as I made use of the one lying in my drawing room 
Gouri is an SEO Content Expert based out of India. He is a commerce graduate and holds an MBA in Marketing. All posts on this blog, unless otherwise mentioned, are written by him.
