In our discussion on Link Popularity I started talking about how you can ask people for links to your website, but so far I have not jet mentioned how important it is to go out and get links.
Why are
inbound links to your website so important? It's so easy to put up a website and just let it sit there, but maintaining it, adding to it,
requesting reciprocal links is so time consuming.
Your most difficult task is telling people that your website exists.
Yes you want to tell everyone who walks in the door abou...
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The Learning the Basics course is a collection of written and recorded training intended for the absolute beginner. If you just put up a website and really need to figure out what to do, and what search engine optimization, and search engine marketing is all about, then this course is for you. A lot of topics will be covered and perhaps the information here will be beneficial for people who already have gotten started and just really need to fill in all the gaps between what they have learned.
Search engine optimization and search engine marketing is a very tedious task. It's not difficult, it just takes a while to learn all the steps and important procedures in what to do and what not to do.
Once you learn all the basics of search engine optimization it will be rather surprising how easy it is to elevate your web...
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So you just finished putting up a website.
Great!
Fantastic!
Now what?
Sorry to say you will not have visitors beating down your door right away. If you just put up a brand new domain name it will take quite a while for the search engines to find you... Actually, have you ever wondered HOW the search engines will find you?
It's not magic. The search engines will find you when you either tell them that your site exists, or when some other website links to yours. It does not happen automatically.
You could set up a Google Local account or a Google Webmaster Tools account, but neither of those accounts will help you get placed in the search engines quickly.
The best way, and perhaps the only way to get yourself found by a search engine is to go out and ge...
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