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As many webmasters are linking only in nofollow killing the natural way of links do you think Google will penalize people who only link out with nofollow attribute in the future? Johan Tavard, Hua Hin, Thailand

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I thought that it would be a good idea to spend some time reviewing what you’ve learned in the past few months through the SEO Elite newsletter. One thing to remember in any learning process is that unless you apply what you’ve picked up on a daily basis, you’re not going to benefit from your investment. It doesn’t matter how expensive or valuable that advice is; even simple, common sense tips are rendered meaningless by a lack of application. To help you recap what you’ve learned so far, I’ve prepared a short quiz (20 questions) on the most important SEO topics. I hope that at the end of it, you will be able to better evaluate your current SEO efforts, and should be able to pinpoint the areas where you need to improve. The quiz is divided into 3 sections (On-page optimization, link building and general SEO), and is geared towards the basics – so hopefully you should all be doing pretty well in it. The answers are at the end, but please don’t peek: Let’s get started.

SEO Elite Refresher Quiz #1
On-Page Optimization

1. Your website sells Green Widgets – what is the best Title tag for your main page?
a. Get Green Widgets, Buy Green Widgets, Green Widgets, Green Widget
b. We have Cheap Green Widgets with great prices and selection
c. Buy Green Widgets | Discount Widgets
d. Home | Greenwidgets.com

2. Your site map has more than 100 links to your pages. Do you:
a. Create a hierarchy of links, and split up the site map into multiple pages.
b. Keep adding new links, no problem.
c. Add a second page to your site map and add new links to that.
d. Stop adding links to your site map completely.

3. How many words should you consider writing in a page of pure content (such as an article, a blog post or a product review)?
a. 100-200
b. 500-800
c. 200-400
d. 800+

4. What is the optimum keyword density you should aim for?
a. 2%-5%.
b. Keep the content normal, but stuff the page with hidden text in alt tags, meta tags and “white-on-white” text to maximize keyword density.
c. As much as possible, while keeping the content human-readable.
d. Forget keyword density – search engines pay very little attention to it any more. Just focus on writing content that people will want to link to.

5. What should you put inside meta tags?
a. Put your full keyword list in the meta keywords tag, and put your most important keywords in the meta description tag.
b. Ignore the meta tags – search engines don’t use them.
c. Write a short description of your website in the meta description tag, and put your most important keywords in the meta keywords tag.
d. Put your most important keywords in the meta keywords tag and don’t use a meta description tag.

6. How should you use images on your site?
a. Use the alt tag to accurately describe the each image, and include descriptive content around each image.
b. Put your most important keyword in an alt tags followed by the word “graphic”.
c. Just use them wherever it is necessary from an aesthetic perspective, without regard for alt tags because they aren’t really that important.
d. Use alt tags to “hide” your full keyword list so you can increase your page’s keyword density.

7. Which style tag is preferred by the W3C for emphasizing important text?
a. <b>
b. <strong>
c. <heavy>
d. <bold>

Link Building

8. What types of websites are most trusted by search engines (authority sites)?
a. High PR websites.
b. .edu and .gov websites.
c. Low PR websites with lots of backlinks.
d. Medium to High PR websites with lots of backlinks from other high ranking websites.
e. Both b and d

9. Which of these sites will provide the most valuable link?
a. A PR 7 website.
b. A PR 5 site closely related to your niche with strong backlinks from .edu and .gov (trusted) domains.
c. A website with hundreds of pages of duplicate content that is banned in the search engines.
d. A PR 6 website loosely related to your niche but with few ‘trusted’ backlinks.

10. Suppose that you were offered the following 4 choices as a link – which one would be the most valuable?
a. An optimized contextual link (a link as part of a page’s content with proper anchor text) from a closely related PR 5 site’s main page content.
b. A link on the links page of an unrelated PR 7 site – shared with 50 other links (and their two line descriptions).
c. A link on the links page of closely related PR 6 site – shared with 20 other links.
d. A PR 6 link from a directory page with 10 other links only.

11. If you were building links for greenwidgets.com, what would be your strategy in choosing anchor text?
a. Buy high PR links from closely related sites that offer traffic as well as link wealth.
b. Use organic marketing tactics to encourage natural link growth using your site’s content.
c. Submit articles to article directories and link to your site’s inner pages in those articles to build ‘deep’ links.
d. All of the above.

12. Which of these four is the most important in assessing a link?
a. The anchor text.
b. The PR of the page you’re getting the links from.
c. The number of outgoing links on the link page.
d. The title tag of the link page.

13. How many links should you get for your site in the first 6 months (on average)?
a. 50-70 links a month.
b. 100+ links a month.
c. As many quality links as you can.
d. 25-40 a month.

General SEO

14. What does PageRank technically measure?
a. The linking power carried by a particular link.
b. How many external, inbound links point to a particular page.
c. The number and quality of the links pointing to a particular page.
d. Your ranking position in the search engines.

15. What does the term “Sandbox” describe in reference to Google’s SERPs?
a. The ranking factors affecting all new websites that are targeting highly competitive keywords before targeting less competitive keywords.
b. Google’s system for penalizing sites exhibiting an overly-optimizing back-link structure.
c. Google’s penalty for building too many links too quickly.
d. Google’s play area for their staff during lunch break.

16. What is the best way for websites with very little content (like ecommerce stores) rank highly for competitive product terms?
a. They have a lot of natural links (one-way, contextual) with optimal anchor text from a wide variety of websites.
b. Their pages are stuffed with keywords and “white text”.
c. They use content-generating software to spam the search engines and attain false rankings.
d. They pay a lot of money to get high PR links.

17. Which of these will NOT get your site penalized in Google?
a. Thousands of automatically-generated pages built only for the search engines.
b. Building quality links at a steady pace.
c. Scraping (stealing) content from other websites.
d. Getting links from websites that Google considers to be from a ‘bad’ link neighborhood.

18. Which of these five methods will not give you an accurate estimate of the search demand in a niche?
a. Overture search term figures
b. WordTracker.com numbers
c. Nichebot.com
d. Statcounter.com

19. When designing the site structure of a website, which of the following statements is NOT a good idea?
a. Make a site map that points to each page on the site.
b. Attempt to make all pages accessible from the home page by at most 3 clicks.
c. Link all of your inner pages to all of your other websites.
d. Create a category structure that goes from broad to narrow.

20. Which is the best method of getting traffic to your site?
a. Pay-per-click ads.
b. Pay for high PR links so that you get a PR yourself, which will help boost your own search engine rankings.
c. Submit your website to search engines and popular directories, and focus on creating content.
d. Create quality content that people in your niche would want to link to, and then promote that content through article syndication, blogs and forums.
e. All of the above.

Ok, now that you’ve answered all the 20 questions, compare your answers to the answer sheet below. This was a fairly basic quiz, so if you get less than 10 right, you should seriously consider reviewing the material in this newsletter. However, if you got more than 15 right, congratulations – you’ve got the basics right. Make sure that you apply these principles to your websites as well, otherwise you wont see good rankings.

Answers Key:
1-c; 2-a; 3-b; 4-d; 5-c; 6-a; 7-b; 8-e; 9-b; 10-a; 11-d; 12-a; 13-c; 14-c; 15-a; 16-a; 17-b; 18-d; 19-c; 20-e.

Mike Benner

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Pulkit Agrawal from Ahmedabad, India asks: “Organic link building, according to me is one of the most difficult tasks for SEOs of SMEs. Can you please list 5 effective ways of organic link building other than building great content?”

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There are five simple tasks that you need to do daily to keep your site on top. Here they are:

1. You need to start off by managing your links. This involves making sure that none of your current links are dead, and you should also check if there are any sites linking to you that you don’t know about. If your site consists of a large number of links you should make sure that they aren’t getting out of control and get rid of anything that is no longer relevant. Also make sure that your links are sufficiently labeled to reflect the page that they link to. Visit now – Picmoney.com

2. Re-order your links, putting the best ones first and putting them into categories if you have a high number of links. If you have a links page with 25+ links it is a good idea to turn it into a directory of some sort. This can even help you in getting more links to your site in exchange for back links on the directory that you have created. Also check the sites that you link to and make sure that any back links that are due to you are still there as you don’t have much reason to keep a link if you aren’t getting the back link that you deserve (if the back link was, indeed, negotiated when you placed the link onto your site).

3. Process link request emails. Whenever you receive requests for a link exchange, respond quickly. Not every mail you receive will be a good one, and you should make sure to check any site that wants you to link to it. If you are declining a link request let the web master know why. Perhaps you have an incite that they do not have. They may be able to fix a few things and then become excellent link partners in the future. It is common curtsey to inform the web master as to whether or not you are willing to exchange links within two or three days of receiving a request. Web masters will be even more impressed if you send them a personalized message regarding your approval or disapproval of the link exchange.

4. Check link exchange forums. This is a similar aspect to the above except that in this case it is more difficult to keep track of all of the people who can potentially request links from your site. There is a lot of spam on these sorts of things as well as many really terrible and useless sites. If you encounter such a site or forum member, inform them of your problem with what they are doing and report them to a moderator/administrator if they do not correct their behavior in a suitable manor. It is important that these kinds of forums be kept clean or a search engine may consider it a link farm more than an exchange service.

5. Finally, you should check each feature of your website, to make sure it’s still working properly. The dynamic content that you will probably include at some point must be delivered properly. Any messages that are generated on the fly must not be generated at inopportune times. The difference between a quality dynamic site and a subpart dynamic site is that in a quality dynamic site all content is delivered at the right time and everything seems static and planned out.

Take your time with your website and make sure that you do everything you can for it each day. Keep adding anything new that you find, because updating regularly will keep search engines coming back to spider more often. Updates are crucial and if you can follow the patterns here of insuring quality and precision, you will probably be able to come up with other ways that you can insure your visitors satisfaction and your increased traffic, link count, and search engine listings.

Never agree to link to someone’s site without asking for a link in exchange, unless they offer to pay you – even then, you should think twice. All your incoming and outgoing links need to be related to your site’s content for you to be ranked high in the search engines.

Basic Link Checks.

Some sites use robots.txt to stop search engines from indexing their links pages, in the mistaken belief that outbound links will count against them. To check, just retype their URL with robots.txt on the end (for example, http://www.website.com/robots.txt). If you see a page that says ‘Disallow’ and has the URL of their links page, then they’re not letting spiders index that page. Don’t exchange links with that site.

You should also check to see if the website is being ‘cloaked’, and report it to the search engines if it is. You don’t want to get involved with these people – better to have them banned and out of the way.

Does the site offering you a link have Page Rank? Even if they do, you should look at how it drops between the front page and the links page. Be aware that new pages take a while to get ranked, so PR0 doesn’t necessarily mean a site that will never have any Page Rank.

Take a look at how many links are on the page already. There shouldn’t be more than 20 links – if the site breaks this rule, don’t even consider it. Plenty of webmasters collect links, thinking they’re helping their rankings, but it just has the effect of making them look like link farms. Many of them don’t even involve linking to the big spam industries, like casinos and adult content. There’s no point in having a link from a site that takes links from just anyone.

Gagan Kainth
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-opportunities-articles/always-try-to-make-yourself-aggressor-with-seo-software-749334.html

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www.seerinteractive.com Strategies on how to use Twitter to help you build quality links for your SEO campaign and to boost rankings.

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Do you expend your time looking for SEO tips online? How do you identify which SEO tips to trust? The truth SEO changes so fast that yesterday’s SEO tips are old news by today. To be an expert search engine optimizer you must be one step ahead. Always looking for optimization tips that improve your sites efficiency.

There are some SEO tips that will never alter and will always be applicable to your SEO efforts. These free tips will take time but will act as a magnificent investment in your business. The SEO tips that I am going to share with you today are based on linking strategy and keywords integration.

Linking Strategy:

You see lot of search engine optimizers or site owners that are new to the industry that focus all their labors on building inbound links to their home pages. This is not correct and will decline your link building effectiveness.

Before I go into how you are supposed to build links and where those links should be pointing, I want to make clear about what an effective link is. An effective link should come from a relevant page, a page that is based on a theme of a page you are linking to. The link must also come from a page with high Page Rank, this may be difficult at first but will improve as your site builds credibility. Finally a link should also be anchored with your targeted keywords, this will increase your keyword authority.

So where these links should be pointing. Well you be supposed to create a page based on one or two targeted keywords. Then you should effort to create quality links to each page that you create. So if you had 30 keywords you wanted to target you would have to create 20 – 30 pages with links going back to all of them. This is what is known as deep linking and will immensely improve your search engine marketing campaign.

Keyword Integration:

Integrate your keyword phrases into each page’s unique Title tag. Title tags are important because they’re given a lot of power to every search engine. Make sure that it precisely reflects the content of the page it’s on, while also using the keyword phrases people might be using at a search engine to find your stuff.

These SEO tips and tricks are those tips and tricks that will never change and tips that if completed right will leave you in advance of most competition. The main thing to remember is relevancy. The more relevant your link and keywords the more useful it will be.

As I said at the start of the article, most SEO tips will change and modify as time goes on but relevant, high quality, anchored links deep linking to your site and integrate keyword phrases into each page’s unique Title tag is something that will not be changing anytime soon.

Gaurav
http://www.articlesbase.com/seo-articles/seo-tips-and-tricks-drive-your-site-to-the-top-715735.html

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SEO Elite is a search engine optimization software product designed to get user’s websites to the top of the search engines. Unlike most SEO tools, SEO Elite appears to be created for the average webmaster. The interface is very straightforward and built with a sort of “wizard-like” appearance.

There are 8 main project types within SEO Elite. Each project type represents an entirely new software product. So, essentially SEO Elite includes 8 software programs, all rolled into 1. The project types are as follows:

1. Analyze backlinks using a specified search engine

2. Get links to your website

3. Analyze allinanchor, allintitle, and allintext

4. Verify that link partners are still linking back

5. Find where your website is ranked in the search engines

6. Find how many pages are indexed

7. Find possible authority websites

8. Submit your article to article directories

For the most part, each project type is self-explanatory, but I will do my best to briefly explain each project type in our review below:

Project 1 review: Analyze backlinks using a specified search engine

The purpose of this project is to spy on your competition in order to see who is linking to them and exactly how they’re doing it. The theory here is that the search engines rank websites based primarily on the quality and quantity of sites linking the particular site in question. If the website has more quality links than another site, it will rank higher. With this SEO Elite project, you can quickly see who is linking to whatever site you enter into the software.

Project 2 review: Get links to your website

The purpose of this project is to do just that… Get links to your website. In order to rank higher in the search engines, you need websites to link to you. This project allows you to find quality websites and gathers their contact information, and then allows you to contact them from directly within the software… cutting down on the time it takes you to contact the potential link partner.

Project 3 review: Analyze allinanchor, allintext, and allintitle

This project type allows you to compare, side by side, the regular search results for a given keyword, as compared to Google’s advanced search criteria.

Project 4 review: Monitor whether link partners are still linking back

This project type allows you to input a links page on your website and SEO Elite will then visit each link partner on that page and will tell you whether or not they are still linking back to your site. We’ve found that many times link partners will just remove your link without you knowing.

Project 5 review: Monitor where your site is ranked in the SE’s

This project is a neat one in that it allows you to see where your site ranks for as many different keyword phrases as you want. SEO Elite also gives you a very nice little graph that visually shows rises and drops in ranking.

Project 6 review: Find out how many pages are indexed

You can input either your website or a competitor’s website and see how many of the website’s pages have been indexed by all of the major search engines. You can also see which pages, and the PR and Alexa rank of those pages.

Project 7 review: Find possible authority websites

I personally like this project type the most. You can input a keyword and SEO Elite will compare all of the top ranked website’s links and will tell you which are “common links” between all of the websites. Those common links are potential authority websites and ones that you should approach for a link exchange of some sort. A link from those sites will help your ranking the most.

Project 8 review: Submit your article to article directories

There are entire software applications that do nothing but submit your articles to article directories. What’s cool about this project type is that it’s essentially a $100+ program al rolled into 1 project type. There are roughly 50 article directories within SEO Elite and this project type steps you through submitting to the directories in a very straightforward, easy way.

To conclude our review of SEO Elite, I would say that it is a solid program that was easy to use. There was a manual that came with this software, as well as many tutorial videos… but to be honest, the software was so straightforward, we found ourselves not really needing to read any help guides etc. SEO Elite gets two thumbs up.

Looking for a great SEO Elite Review Please visit http://www.seoelite.com/testimonials.htm and read all the positive SEO Elite Customer Reviews to understand the power of this great software.

Groshan Fabiola
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/seo-elite-software-review-132729.html

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www.keywordseopro.com Social network and social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube allow links to be placed on them. Do these links increase positioning? This video seeks to provide the answer.

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www.keywordseopro.com PageRank is calculated as the sum of the value of all the inbound links to the page. A link authority unit is defined as the link value from a web page with PR1 with one outbound link. PageRank of the home page is the top factor in the Google Algorithm.

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