Guest posting has become very popular since Google started saying that they were going to pay more attention to blogs. They put a little more emphasis on blogs because they wanted to move people away from link farms, and because blogs are often updated (which is something else that Google likes). Google however are aware that low quality articles are just as likely on blogs as they are on article websites, which is why they created the AuthorRank system...

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Everybody got their confusions when it comes to optimizing content for search engines. Making it easier for the Search Bots to analyze your content will let the door of organic traffic opens to your blog and that’s how you win the pace.
But, are you really shaping your content for Search Engines?
To be frank, if you give it a try Search Engine Optimization is not such a hard thing and it’s one of the most important tactics you should give priority to in your blog promotion strategies....

If you have website a sitemap is not likely to be a new concept to you. It is simply an extra page added to your web site that links to all other pages used to let a search engine know which pages are most relevant and important. The sitemap tells the search engine exactly where all of the pages are and identifies them so they can be crawled and indexed appropriately.

Read more on web design and sitemap influence on SEO: Use a Sitemap to Improve Rankings

Here is a 1 minute video that shows about How To Be First On Google:

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