10 Rules for Link Building
John Chow published an interesting article on link building. Briefly summarized, the rules are:No comment spamming Be judicious with article marketing and guest blogging. Don’t spam forums with thousands of profiles Slowly build your social bookmarking presence Limit your directory budget to high quality directories Don’t be too concerned with page rank. Concentrate on views and SERP (search engine results page). Don’t spam for reciprocal links. Avoid link farms. Change your anchor text on different sites. Remember to use deep links within directories for specialized pages on your site.All in all a good set of reminders when trying to build links to your site. … Read entire article »
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22 Best Must Have WordPress 3 Plugins
To read the complete list click on the above title or the Read More button below When I decided to move to WordPress 3.1, I revisited all of the plugins that I have been using and started a research project to find some new must have plugins that would enhance the blog. The criteria I used for choosing these best must have plugins was that they: 1) must be popular plugins (as defined on the WordPress.org site so that I have a fair amount of confidence that they are reliable, stable, and not prone to security leaks. 2) must be coded in such a way that they do not collide with other plugins which would destabilize my blog. 3) work with the most current version of WordPress and that they have a reasonably long … Read entire article »
