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If you have been doing internet marketing for a period of time, I am sure you have heard of people saying that… “Traffic is the life blood of a website”. This statement is absolutely TRUE!

Without web traffic, a website is dead! I don’t care how good-looking or gorgeous your website is, if it does not have web traffic, you are not going to make any money period!

In general, there are two types of web traffic: Free traffic and Paid traffic.

Paid traffic, as the name suggests, is traffic that you need to pay for it. Example of this type of traffic is pay-per-click, media buy, classified ads, etc.

Free traffic, on the other hand, is traffic you get from the search engines as the result of your website listed on the top positions of the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. If your website appears on the first page of these 3 search engines, you can expect to get tons of traffic for FREE!

But how do you get your website to appear on the first page of Google, Yahoo and Bing?

The answer to that question is BACKLINKS – the fuel of web traffic and the SECRET to #1 on Google!

Simply put, a backlink is a link from another website to your website. When websites link to your website, they give you their votes of credibility. Therefore, the more backlinks you get from other websites, the more CREDIBLE is your website. And, the more credible your website is, the higher is its authority in the eyes of the search engines.

As we all know, high authority websites tend to get ranked very well on Google and other search engines. Hence, giving them massive amount of quality traffic for FREE!

But the problem is…. getting backlinks from other sites is not easy and very time-consuming if you do it manually. For instance, have you ever contacted a site administrator asking if he/she will place a link back to your site? I tried it many times and had never received any response.

Fortunately, there are many AUTOMATED link building software available for internet marketers. After testing many link building software, I finally settle for a software called: SEOLinkVine – the #1 automated traffic-getting tool. It’s now my main traffic software, and I use it every single day to build backlinks to my sites automatically.

SEOLinkVine can help you build many quality backlinks quickly and boost your site ranking significantly. I have written a full review for this software, if you’re interested in learning more about it, please check out: SEOLinkVine Review + Video Demo and SEOLinkVine Review + Bonus.

One of my site is ranking well in Google search engine from last few years. But the same site could not make it into Yahoo top 100 for the same keyword(s). I have always used the regular SEO methods and have focused more on the Google side to optimize my site.

But, around 3 months back I thought of optimizing my site for yahoo as well, so that I can get a good ranking there. My work for the last 3 months has paid me back. I am able to achieve the top 5 ranking from my keywords in Yahoo.

So, what did I do to get my site up in Yahoo SERPs? I am not going to put them exactly on what I did, but I am going to put down some general Yahoo SERP guidelines, which in my opinion, works for Yahoo SEO. Let me call them “Yahoo Search Ranking Factors.”

• Correct HTML – Yahoo puts more emphasis on correct HTML. So make sure your site is W3C compliant.
• Fresh Content – Yahoo likes fresh content more than Google. So, make sure you are regularly (at-least one a week) updating your site.
• More Links From Yahoo Sites Try to get more links from Yahoo sites like Yahoo directory, Yahoo buzz, Yahoo answers, Mybloglog, Delicious.com etc. Google is “just” a search engine while Yahoo is a full fledged portal. Yahoo loves links from its own sites.
• Yahoo uses meta keywords tags for categorization of your site. Yahoo says that they do not use meta keywords for ranking, but I have seen my site ranking for a misspelling of my keywords on Yahoo just because while writing my keywords I added a misspelling. So, I don’t agree on that Yahoo.
• Yahoo gives more weightage to on-site SEO factors like title, headings, keyword-in-domain etc., than Google.
• Yahoo prefers a keyword density little higher than Google. Proper heading & structures are required too.
• Links from article directories like articlemarketer.com, isnare.com, ezinearticles.com etc. seems to have mattered more.
• More weightage to age of the site than Google.
• Yahoo considers click-popularity also in SERPs.
• Your category in yahoo directory also matters.

I hope these tips are helpful for you to rank well in Yahoo search engine.

Links are very important to increase your search engine rankings. You should focus on getting as many links as you can through legal and ethical means. One of the ways you can find places to get more links from is by doing an analysis of your competitors’ websites.

Many people are in constant search of finding more places to get a link from. However not many people realize that their competitors can give them clue about where to look for new links.

The strategy I am referring to entails finding out the websites from where your competitors are getting their links. Chances are that you too can get some links from the exact same places.

Let me outline the strategy for you in simple step by step format:

1. Search in Google for a broad or long tail keyword related to your niche.

2. Make a note of the top 10, 20 or 30 websites in the search results. The fact that these website are ranking highly indicates that they must be having lots of back-links. Let us find out where they are getting their links from.

3. Go to *Yahoo site explorer by visiting the URL listed below this article.

Now, one by one, type the urls of the top ranked websites from step 1 and 2.

4. Immediately you will get a huge list of places from where these sites are getting their links. You can visit these sites one by one to find out whether you too can gain a quick link by making a comment or through any other means.

5. Note down one by one in an Excel or Notepad file any website where you too can leave a link. Read more…

Newbies in the online business industry always have questions like what are the good SEO practices, and what are the bad ones. There is no official SEO guide till now. But now Google has come up with the one.

Google has recently launched this Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (right click and save). According to Google, it answers a very simple question asked by many people. This is the question I was asked in an email todoy and hence I am putting this post. The question is:

“What are some simple ways that I can improve my website’s performance in Google?”

This is a very basic and compact guide of best SEO practices that starter webmasters can follow to improve their website’s ranking in Google. The guide includes some hand full of common areas where webmasters can optimize their website.

Experienced people know most of these basic things, but still it doesn’t harm to read it once more. Read more…