Does SEO really work? The truth can be found on this very site. We don’t pay a penny for advertising. The thousands of visitors we receive are all derived from SEO efforts in one way or another.
SEO is simply a lazy persons way of saying search engine optimization. It is the procedural and artistic effort to manipulate the pages of a website in such a way that search engines such as Google and Yahoo fall in love with the pages. What happens when it is love at first sight? You …

Search engine optimization, “seo”, is a much-debated topic and there is a lot of misinformation on the net. Let’s cut through the muck and discuss seo dos and donts.
SEO Dos and Donts
Before blasting into the dos and donts, we need to define seo. Seo simply refers to the manipulation of a site to gain top rankings on the three search engines that dominate the search traffic on the net – Yahoo, Google and MSN. If you do a search on Google, the seo listings are found in the large section …

Link building simply refers to an issue in seo known as relevancy. When ranking sites in search engine results, Google tends to list the site that is the most relevant. There are a lot of factors that go into determining relevancy, but the number of other sites linking to yours is one of them. This is why a site like the one for the IRS is high in search results for tax issues even though it does not trade links per se.
Ideally, you want only inbound links from other sites …