Creating Website Backlinks – Why It Is So Important

create backlinks websiteAs you are learning about SEO for your website, you will soon come to understand the importance of creating website backlinks. Backlinks are one of the main building blocks for good Search Engine Optimization, and I’ll explain why they are so important; how to obtain them and how to avoid getting a negative reaction from search engines.

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Help Choosing a Name for your Business – Check out some awesome tips here!

Business NameDo you need help choosing a name for your business? Plenty of thought should go into this process. For instance, you should ask yourself a few simple questions:

  • Should I consider a name that relates to the type of customer I want to attract?
  • Should my business name be descriptive of what services/products that I provide?
  • Should I make up an original name comprising of parts of names/services I provide etc – something completely original and catchy?

In reality any business name can work – it really revolves around the way you market the services you provide. In developing a company name I think these few simple steps will help you in considering what name fits well for you. Any offline or online business needs to be easy to find when starting out.

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How To Find Keywords For Your Website – 3 Simple & Effective Steps

keywordHow to find keywords for your website, and how to research keywords, are important aspects to take into account when writing your blog posts. The keywords you use will play a major part in your search engine success – meaning your ranking. As we all know, it’s a big difference between ranking on the first search page in Google (yey!) and on page 30+. I’ll show you a couple of FREE keyword tools, but first I’ll demonstrate 3 simple things to look for when finding your keywords.

 

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Great Ways To Find Content for your Blog – It Really IS that Simple!

A way of increasing your Google ranking is by writing quality content. Frequently. This may sound a bit daunting at first, but fear not – There are many great ways to find content ideas for your blog.

Google Alerts

Set up Google Alerts for the main topics of your website. As an example, I have several Google Alerts in place: Work from home / work life balance / building websites / new affiliate programs / making money online…

With these alerts, you can receive daily emails from Google with posts and articles on your chosen subjects. And each day, I find new and interesting content ideas that are relevant to my business.

To set up the Google Alerts, go to http://www.google.com/alerts. Simply enter your topic in the search query field, and follow the prompts as demonstrated below.

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How To Improve SEO Ranking In Google – 5 effective steps explained

improve-rankingWhen you start building your website, it is only natural that you want the site to have a great ranking in Google immediately. Website ranking is a way of measuring the importance of website pages, and is determined by counting the number and quality of links to a page. While it’s unlikely that your page gets 1st page ranking straight away, I will now guide you through some tips on how to improve SEO ranking in Google.

Quality content

Google values unique and quality content. The use of keywords are key, however, please refrain from overusing them. In fact, Google will ‘punish’ you if you do so. Place the keywords in the 1st paragraph of your post or page, and then continue to write in a natural way. Aim for at least 400 words in each article. And ask for feedback or comments at the end of each post. These are all metrics that will improve your Google ranking.

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