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Reciprocal linking is without doubt one of the most disputed subjects in the SEO community. The reason for this is because they simultaneously can greatly contribute to your link network and also damage it pretty seriously.

One thing is certain though, Google is getting better by the semester in finding and demoting low quality link exchanges to zero and even negative values.

Search engines have not declared war to link reciprocation but rather to the unnatural linking patterns meant solely to increase the number of links and consequently, enhance rankings.  Read more... (584 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

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The movie Julie and Julia took blogging mainstream for many who had no idea that an everyday, average individual could command attention and pursue their passion using an online technology available to the masses for free.

And it’s not just movies and rare blog success stories that make people want to blog. In 2009, the job market resulted in a ton of layoffs for journalists and print newspapers and magazines went out of business. These writers will take their skills to the Internet.  Read more... (465 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

I’m gonna share with you 10 simple tips on how to optimize your home business. These tips are very simple, yet they can set the pace for your business in the long run.

First of all if you operate an offline business and you don’t yet have an online presence, its time you did. And blogging has to be one of the easiest way to set up an online identity for your business. WordPress is free to download and use, domain names and hosting costs are very low in comparison to say 5/10 years ago – so what’s holding you back?  Read more... (514 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

It is now widely accepted that the way forward in doing business, or more correctly making a business site successful is to setup and use a blog. The reason being, blogs are more dynamic, constantly updated which in turn draws in the search engines to crawl and index the new content. This then drives masses of traffic to your blog and if set up and done correctly this traffic can be channeled to your main site, giving your business a boost as most of the new visitors will turn in to customers.  Read more... (1011 words, estimated 4:03 mins reading time)

As you may have noticed here on this blog, I don’t normally review other blogger’s blog, sites or offers. But once in a while there is something so refreshing and worthy of a mention.

I must point out that this is not a paid review neither a solicitated one – infact the offers being given away are free so neither does the blog owner nor me get anything out of it but for the appreciations  Read more... (305 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Every now and then you will hear people ask these questions regarding Internet marketing:

• “Where can I get started?”

• “Who can I learn from?”

• “What do I need to do to find all the information I need?”

• “How do I learn about this method or drive traffic?”

These are the most commonly asked questions by newbies looking to step in to the Internet marketing arena. First of all, I would like to say that there is no one perfect and definitive answer to the questions above.  Read more... (463 words, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

In my previous post we looked at the 3 Simple Steps To Start A Money Making Blog (In a serious entitle “Dreams are realised by Taking action, the right action!) I mentioned that you will need to promote your blog in order to realise your dreams.

Lets face it, no matter how awesome your blog is or how valuable your content is, if you don’t promote there will be no one reading it. And if you have no traffic coming to your blog then you are going no where FAST!. Even if you only get 10 to 100 people per day visit your site, you might as well give up now.  Read more... (613 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

When you have a home business, you want to be able to create a good amount of leads, because without leads you don’t have a business.

But unfortunately a lot of people don’t know how to generate leads effectively. Here are some tips on how you can generate your leads and see where your business goes.

1. Keep track of your advertising campaigns

If you are a part of a large home based business that has a corporate office, many of them have a way that allows you to do this. See if your home business has this, and take advantage of it if it’s available.  Read more... (342 words, 1 image, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

With the economy showing no signs of improving and as the credit crunch bites even harder, more and more people are looking to the Internet and more specifically the online business arena as a means of escape. Every day hundreds of new entrepreneurs from allover the globe are springing up to start an online business to supplement their income. But as always, many of these newbies will fail!  Read more... (865 words, 1 image, estimated 3:28 mins reading time)