Page Rank has become, in it's own way, the holy grail of web marketing. Visit any SEO forum and click thru to the Link Exchange section and you will quickly see that Page Rank or PR is what every one is worried about. Personally, I have found that Page Rank is but one metric of many that Google in particular uses to attempt to establish a very rough and many times faulty level of trust that is manipulated by many.

There are many sites that I visit regularly that I trust that have not...

Is it better to submit your articles to article directories or other blogs as guest posts? Truth be told, both offer benefits though in a slightly different way. Article directories make your content available to off-site readers and guest posts make your content available to off-site readers. But, in the end. Is one better than another? Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of both.

Article marketing is essentially syndicating your content. I have personally used this method...

Regardless of what you do for a living or what niche you are in, odds are you know about something. Just because you are reading an article about Search Engine Marketing (SEM) doesn't mean that you have to be some type of Web 2.0 expert to successfully market your business. It doesn't mean that you have to be internet or search engine savvy. All this means is that you have to be able to take your knowledge and experience and clearly describe and explain what you know about your niche.
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Google Analytics (GA) is a wonderful tool. It allows you to track all of your traffic stats as well as the behavior of all of your visitors while they are on your site. It allows you to analyze where your traffic comes from, what traffic generating methods are successful and which ones are a waste of time and should be abandoned. Do you have GA installed on your site? Is it possible that Google uses the data that it collects about the site(s) that YOU track for something other than just stats?...

Ever since Google began releasing toolbar Page Rank, webmasters and internet marketers alike have been obsessed with Page Rank or PR for short. This phenomenon has become so widespread that webmasters the world over will go to just about any length to build up the Page Rank on their own sites. Many go so far as to trade links not in exchange for other links, but for money and it has become seriously big business.

However, building Page Rank is not difficult if a blogger or webmaster...