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SEO Blues Part 3. Social Bookmarking

At first I wanted to join social bookmarking and social networking section but then decided to split into separate sections. Today we are going to discuss new fashion trend in website promotion – social bookmarking. And I am even going to reveal one of the “secrets” that some people are paying for but this time for free.

I think not many people need introduction to the Social Bookmarking, but to mention a few – Digg, Stumble, Squidoo, etc (see icons at the bottom of this post). If you want more information just search them up.

For people who do know how it … Continue Reading

SEO Blues Part 2. Links, links, links…

Now it is time to dig a bit dipper and see what the SEO companies do offer you. First and utmost service and “improvement” they offer to a desperate Webmaster is to increase number of links to the website and therefore boost your pegerank. I wouldn’t argue that links are important but… (it should always be a “but”, isn’t it?). The problem is, where your new links are coming from? In most cases you would get zillions of links from so called “link pools”, places designed especially to store links. And don’t be fooled that search engines don’t know about … Continue Reading

SEO Blues

Probably the highest number of “corporate spam” I receive these days is about SEO optimization. Some of them promise to have my websites on the first pages for the keywords (well, funny enough they are already), others to increase the elusive “page ranking”… I already put an article about Alexa, but now I think it is time to start new series on general SEO.

First of all, I don’t know what these companies are counting upon. Do they think that I would choose their service and ignore the rest of Viagras and Casinos? Why should I treat their spam differently? For … Continue Reading