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Best of 2008: SEO Link Building

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Unless you are optimizing only for some extremely niche keywords, off-page optimization—building links from other websites to yours—is a critical and significant factor for SEO success. The blog posts cited here, some of the best of 2008 on the topic of link building, provide guidance on how and where to obtain valuable external links.

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Best of 2008 - SEO Tools, Part 1

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How about tools for checking search engine rank, grading the SEO efforts on a website, developing an optimized keyword list, and link building? Find these and more in this list of some of the best SEO tools and related reviews of 2008. Counting links the easy way by Searchlight Brian R.

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 4

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and PageRank is everything (no, Google uses this, but it's only one of more than 200 factors that determine where your pages will show up in searches for specific search terms). Bookmark this page and keep it near the top of your list. In many communications, it's best to avoid jargon or at least define it.

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Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 2

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SEOpen: The SEO Firefox Extension SEOpen is a Firefox extension that combines several helpful SEO functions into one tool, including Google / Yahoo /MSN backlinks, Pagerank check, Alexa overview, DMOZ inclusion, keyword density and an HTML validator.

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 3

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TrustRank—Google and Yahoo versions), and underappreciated concepts related to modern search (for example, Yahoo Personalized PageRank and HarmonicRank) capable of inducing a deer-in-the-headlights stare from many if not most SEO practitioners.

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - SEO Guidance, Part 3

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How can you optimize SEO benefits from internal link building? When is including a meta description tag important (and when isn't it)? How does Google view search quality, from the inside? What key weapon in the SEO arsenal do many companies overlook? Udi Manber , VP of Search Quality, provides a glimpse behind the curtain.

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Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress.

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Here’s a screenshot of my setting: Changing permalinks after your blog has been live for a while can cause you to lose pagerank in search engines and generate “404 page not found” errors. What is On Site SEO? On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.