Google sees a link as a recommendation for another website. And it is best to think of links as a recommendation.
Imagine if you were trying to decide what restaurant you were going to eat at. You read a review in well respected food magazine for a lovely Italian. You also read a review of a different restaurant in a car magazine and it too recommends a restaurant only this is a Chinese restaurant now which one are you likely to believe to have the best knowledge of restaurants? That’s...

If you are remotely interested in internet marketing then you must heard the mantra that getting to the first page of Google is the key of success and the holy gray of search engine marketing on the internet. In fact there is no internet marketer today who does not tell you how getting on page one on Google can make you reach beyond your widest dream. This is even made more tantalizing because of the difficulty of getting to page one of Google. Is getting on the first page of Google really all...

I published my website about weight loss last November 2008 eyeing to earn from affiliates and Google Adsense. I of course did the usual site promotions and social networking techniques such as submitting articles and RSS feeds to dozens if not hundreds of article submission sites. And like most green apple (newbie) webmasters, I also easily became prey to Submit-your-Website-to-Hundreds-of-Thousands-of-Search-Engines schemes and spent hundreds of dollars just to make sure my website gets to top...