I first heard about Google Ad Planner from a post on competitive web intelligence on Avinash Kaushik’s blog. Something I haven’t seen discussed before is using it for building links.
Ad Planner is the best free tool I’ve used to identify the most frequented and relevant websites in any niche. Here is how to use it to identify the most valuable link building opportunities:
Gaining lots of high quality and relevant backlinks to your website and internal pages is very important to achieve high search engine rankings. Having to build links manually would be very time consuming and frustrating. Luckily, there is an assortment of free link building tools on the market to help you with this process. Each has their strengths and weaknesses, however using them in combination fills in any potential gaps.
Here are the four best free link building tools I’ve found and use:
The mobile communications market continues to experience explosive growth during this slow economy. As more people use mobile phones to explore websites, an industry of mobile search engines has emerged. They are still in their infancy, similar to the web search market a decade ago. Being ahead of the curve by having a website optimized for mobile search today will pay dividends in the future. Just as important, is optimizing your mobile site for such search engines.
Here is an overview of the most important search engines in the Mobile Search Engine Landscape to keep an eye on:
Publishing unique articles on article submission websites can be a very effective SEO strategy. It is a great way to create high quality links back to your site, and drive relevant and targeted website traffic. Like any link building strategy, it is important to concentrate only on links from quality websites. There are a lot of article submission sites that are a waste of time, and the overall number of worthy submission sites in general is quickly diminishing. In fact, there are only a handful of reputable and worthwhile sites that are still worth your time and effort.
Here are my 5 Best Article Submissions Sites for SEO:
XML sitemaps inform search engines about the pages available to crawl on your website. Search engines find new pages by navigating links on websites. Sitemaps enhance search engine crawling by providing explicit information about the specific urls on your website. Sitemaps don’t ensure that your webpages will be indexed, but they typically increase both the chance and speed of indexing.
If you have fresh content on your blog or website, it is prudent to make sure the search engines know about this to get the content indexed as soon as possible. One way this is done is by pinging your xml sitemap. Although there are many search engines and services you can ping your sitemap to, make sure you concentrate on the big 3: Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
So, how do you automatically ping your updated sitemap each time your website updates? Read How to Ping Your Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, and Bing to find out:
