What are Authority Backlinks?

Authority backlinks are links pointing to your site from websites considered to have high authority. Usually, these are websites which have a high page rank, huge traffic (and hence high Alexa Rank) and consist of user-generated content. Some people say that leaving your link on an inner page of a high authority site (and high page rank) won’t help.  Well…they are wrong. These websites do pass link juice to your site and will help your website climb up the search engine rankings (especially Google). The most popular of these websites are:

• Blogger (PageRank 8 )
• WikiHow (PageRank6)
• 43Things (PageRank 7)
• Hubpages (PageRank 6)
  
• Squidoo (PageRank 7)
• eHow (PageRank 7)

How to get the links?

1. Go to each one of these websites and sign up for a free account.
2. Create your page using where possible they keywords you are targeting. For example if your main keyword is “Educational Toys” then your Blogger blog name should contain those two keywords. Same applies for the other authority sites: create pages and name them your with your main keyword. Obviously many times this won’t be possible because they will be taken but be creative!
3. Make sure your page is not spammy and make it as legitimate as possible. Write a small 300 word article on your subject and place 1-2 links to your site with your preferred anchor text
4. in eHow you can add your links in the Resources section

There you go - 6 high PR links pointing to your website. Of course it takes time to create the accounts, and add the articles. Then you have to make them look legitimate. It’s even more time consuming if you want to create 15-20 of these with unique articles pointing to your site.

If you want to do some quality SEO and linkbuilding feel free to contact me and I’ll get back to you to consult you and discuss the appropriate actions to propote your website through SEO

Wordpress 2.8 is out and every Wordpress blogger and his dog are talking about it. But, in reality, what difference does it make to any Wordpress blog owner?  What’s new in WP that will make blogging easier? Why should they upgrade?

Aside from upgrading for security purposes (fixing and patching old bugs and vulnerabilities), here are 3 things that I like in Wordpress 2.8 and which make it worthwhile to upgrade:

1. Installing new themes and plugins is as easy at it will ever be.  Instead of  downloading and uploading themes and plugin from wordpress, you can actually search and install them right from your blog. Just go to your left sidebar under Themes or Plugins and click on “Add New.” Search, then click on “Install” et voila!
2. CodePress Syntax highlighting in Theme and Plugin editors. If you are like me then you like to change and customize
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First things first: the method I am about to describe below is best suited for lightweight changes and customizations to your Wordpress themes. You do need to be able to read a bit of code but you don’t really need be be able to program.

Tools you need

• Firefox browser
• Firebug plugin for Firefox
• Text Editor, I recommend Notepad++

The most important tool in this process is the Firebug plugin which integrates with Firefox and allowes you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. So once you install Firefox and firebug, you are ready to go. Notepad++ will be used to finalize our changes once we are happy with the result.

Steps to customize your Wordpress/Website

1. Visit the website in question. I will use JWRMedia.com as an example
2. Right click on
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Whether you own a company (online or offline) or whether you work on your own as a freelancer there is always a time when you have to decide if you will undertake a particular part of a project or task you need to complete. In other words, you need to decide if you will outsource or not. Here is a list of 7 criteria to help you decide:

• The particular task(s) isn’t your core competence and is not a main part of your business. The task will not generate any profits and is not a source of competitive advantage. Example: you own an online store which generates its income selling products and you want to rank higher in the search engines. You should consider outsourcing Search engine optimization (SEO) to a specialized company or individual.
• The task is repetitive or routine that wastes your time and keeps you from doing what you are supposed to do. For example if you are running a small business you should consider outsourcing your accounting to a professional accountant.
• The task is only a one-time need or repeats in regular intervals. For example, you want to have a complete redesign of your website. Learning web design would not really be an option so outsourcing would be the solution.
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