Nick Stamoulis Latest search engine news blog articles from Nick Stamoulis. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/author/Nick+Stamoulis.html Nick Stamoulis News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10688 SEO is a time consuming business at the best of times, however there are some SEO practices that are simply a waste of money. In fact, I would go so far as to say they are a total scam. As you tour the web I am sure you have come across many ads claiming real SEO miracles - at a cost. Some suggest they can get your site to the front page of the search results in seven days. Others claim to be able to submit your site to hundreds of directories - for a fee. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:57:45 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10682 Every domain name requires registration and that registration can be made public, or kept private. Most website owners are unfamiliar with this option, simply filling in their contact details and putting ticks in boxes they think appropriate. SERoundTable discussed this issue and whether or not it would affect your search engine rankings. There are many valid reasons why you would keep your registration details private. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:56:19 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10679 The world of SEO is full of abbreviations and acronyms and many people find these confusing. One of the most confusing areas relates to websites (and blogs) and the search engines. Let's clear up a few off these confusions: Search Engine Crawler: A search engine crawler is really nothing more than a piece of software that sends out feelers to websites. It reads the websites and notes any changes. It also follows any links to see where they are going. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:45:13 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10674 I notice at time that website owners take on a paid search traffic campaign, often using the same keywords as their site. I can understand why since they have optimized those pages for organic search results. However, if your going to get heavily involved in search engine marketing, you need to be sure you have a good analytics package on hand. Side by side testing can often reveal some rather startling results. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:17:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10642 There are many tools in the search engine optimization cabinet, keyword stemming is just one of them. To many website owners, they will be saying, 'keyword what?". Keyword stemming is the fine art of extending a keyword by using plurals, suffixes or prefixes. It can also include the addition of words either side to extend the keywords scope. A major factor in search engine optimization is the hunt for relevant keywords that are under optimized by competitors, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:37:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10633 There have been several times when Google have stated they have no problems with SEO or SEO consultants. However, Google seem to be pushing nofollow linking whenever they can which ultimately will lead to a showdown between SEO, Google and perhaps website owners. Google seem to be pressuring social networks into apply nofollow to many of the links. The latest journey down this path occurred on Twitter. Within an hour of Matt Cutts tweeting Twitter's founders, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:16:13 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10591 A page full of text can be pretty dull, in fact it's often downright boring. Including pictures, cartoons, photos or even a video can help to break up the text and make the page visually more appealing. There are two mistakes that content authors often make, the first is the size, placement and number of images and the second is the basic SEO factors that are required. When it comes to size and placement, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:05:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10577 The forums at DigitalPoint have been discussing the apparant change in Yahoo! backlink counts. One voice appears to have lost 5000 links. From an SEO point of view, this could be a heavy loss, it really depends on what percentage those links form. If his starting point is in excess of 20,000, a 25% loss is significant. Google can be very slow at updating their backlink counts. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:12:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10539 For many website owners, social networking has been a means to a traffic building end, however, the real benefit can be in the potential it holds to boost your off page SEO strategies. If you consider the basic principles of social networking, it is a means of linking up with like minded people. Whether your social networking is through forums, sites such as Myspace or Facebook, or using social sites such as Blogcatalog or even StumbleUpon, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:41:52 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10524 Eric Ward on SearchEngineLand has written what is probably one of the best posts on link building and SEO that I have read in recent times. His philosophy is to remove link building from the SEO equation, particularly when it comes to content creation. To quote from the post: Link building is one part marketing, two parts public relations, and three parts common sense. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:51:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10501 It is hard enough to build a site that is compatible with both Firefox and Internet Explorer, we now have to get used to Google's version of a browser, Google Chrome . Google Chrome is the first browser to be built from the ground up specifically for web 2.0 It is reported to be faster than Firefox - that is not hard since it seems to get slower with age, and more user friendly that Internet Explorer - that is not hard either, it's made by Microsoft! Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:20:19 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10498 It is hard enough to build a site that is compatible with both Firefox and Internet Explorer, we now have to get used to Google's version of a browser, Google Chrome. Google Chrome may also require a little SEO tweaking along the way. Google Chrome is the first browser to be built from the ground up specifically for web 2.0 It is reported to be faster then Firefox - that is not hard since it seems to get slower with age, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:41:23 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10487 If you have done you keyword research and narrowed those keywords down to your niche then you are ready for the next search engine optimization related task. This one focuses on outlining your site. Each page within your site is going to focus on one keyword or phrase from that niche. Remember that search engines rank pages not sites so each page within your site needs to be able to rank well for that one keyword or phrase. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:08:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10459 The internet has become one of the most powerful communication tools available with the ability to outperform traditional communication channels such as radio and newspapers. Some would even argue that today's internet outperforms television when it comes to breaking news. Sitting in the middle of the traditional Labor Day weekend, the power of the internet has never been more evident. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:27:28 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10454 Yahoo! beefed up their Search Explorer a little more and now provide some useful SEO information. The information is still fairly basic when compared to the data you can collect from Google Analytics, however, seeing how other search engines view your site is equally important. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:09:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10451 If you are operating an online business then you have an opportunity to create content that is not only of value to your readers, it can be an effective SEO resource to develop links. Build a Resource Directory If you are going to build a resource directory then you need to be sure it really is a resource directory and not just a list of links. A list of useless links will do more damage to your sites credibility and provide nothing of value to your readers. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:17:57 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10446 If you are operating an online business then you have an opportunity to create content that is not only of value to your readers, it can be an effective SEO resource to develop links. Build a Resource Directory If you are going to build a resource directory then you need to be sure it really is a resource directory and not just a list of links. A list of useless links will do more damage to your sites credibility and provide nothing of value to your readers. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:29:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10442 An article by Patrick Altoft on Blogstorm seems to indicate that perhaps Google is placing less emphasis on keywords in anchor text and looking more for natural links. The article raises some interesting points and if the situation is true, it could have a major bearing on SEO and the way we try build links to out pages. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:08:45 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10441 At present, one of the major search engine optimization factors in determining website authority, and subsequently search result placement, is the number and quality and relevant links coming in to the pages of your website. If you set aside a small amount of time each day you can steadily build and manage your links effectively. These five tasks will go a long way to making you task easier. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:16:34 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10435 At present, one of the major SEO factors in determining authority, and subsequently PageRank and search result placement, is the number and quality of links coming in to your pages. If you set aside a small amount of time each day you can steadily build and manage your links effectively. These five tasks will go a long way to making you task easier. Your first task is to ensure that all current links are active and going to the right places - this includes internal links. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:19:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10407 When you set out to get a website ranking well on the search results pages, it can be a good idea to set out goals and a timetable for your SEO activities. There are times however when individuals set goals that are unrealistic and timetables for events that are out of their control. Every webmaster would like to see their sites ranking at number one for their preferred keyword. In niches that are highly competitive, achieving number one may rather difficult. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:06:28 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10393 A WebMasterWorld forum thread discussed one members view that they had run out of link building ideas. Some of the suggestions were interesting; some were also quite valuable from an search engine optimization perspective. The question was based on one member's frustration. They had done all the normal link buildings tasks such as article submission, forum participation, blogs, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:49:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10387 A WebMasterWorld forum thread discussed one members view that they had run out of link building ideas. Some of the suggestions were interesting, some were also quite valuable from an SEO perspective. The question was based on one members frustration. They had done all the normal link buildings tasks such as article submission, forum participation, blogs, directories and "traded links with pretty much every site I can find in my niche that's worth exchanging links with". Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:51:16 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10352 If you talk to bricks and mortar business owners and suggest an online presence, their first reaction is often, "why, I don't have the resources to sell online as well". It can be difficult to point out the advantages of an online presence as a pure marketing tool, especially when you then need to encourage strong search engine optimization and social marketing programs. There are thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of businesses that are bricks and mortar based, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:52:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10345 There are times when organizations question the need for search engine optimization. There can be conflicting information around that often confuses those considering search engine optimization and perhaps social marketing. One event that leaves many website owners, particularly those who also run a blog, is the freshness factor when it comes to the SERP's. A lot of content does seem to appear at the top of the SERP's within hours of publication. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:53:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10308 With Google's introduction of Suggest, it may be time to reassess the use of long tail keywords. From and SEM point of view, most long tail keywords wont result in streams of traffic. However, who said you had to use only the one long tail? As you add a word to a keyword, you almost halve the number of likely queries. By the time you get to five or six words in your long tail, the number of of search queries is likely to be small. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:07:01 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10303 When it come to search engine optimization, Google Suggest has mixed outcomes. Suggest has now become the search default for all Google search interfaces. Similar to Yahoo!'s Search Assist, Suggest brings in a drop down window with suggestions to complete your query. I am sure millions of users will find it a useful addition. Millions may also find it annoying. From a search engine optimization perspective, you can start to rethink some of your keywords, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:41:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10263 One important aspect of your search engine optimization program is how you structure your internal links. It does raise the question whether or not you can have too many internal links on the one page? I have never seen a formula for links, keywords, or any other search engine optimization tactic. Common sense would tell you that internal links should meet certain criteria such as: Relevance : One of the most important criteria. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:15:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10252 If your primary focus is regional or perhaps even focused on the one town, using local search is a must. Your keyword should include the town or regions and be a primary target of your search engine optimization strategies. One of the biggest aids to appearing near the top of the search results pages is by including your town or region in your title tags. One mistake that many web owners make is to include a town with no further information. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:48:54 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10241 Article Directories can be a great source of online publicity. Submitting articles to directories does multiple things. First it can establish you in your field as an expert. By providing information on your service or product you can make yourself known in your field of expertise as an expert. By nature the internet is an information resource. It is well known that most people turn to the internet when looking for information. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:19:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10217 There are times when you do a search and find the results less than stimulating. In fact, you have to wonder how these pages made it to the top of the SERP's. Links are one of the major factors in determining a pages rank. When scraped content is making the first or second page of the search results, you know something strange is afoot. A link check will often find several thousand links coming in to these sites, links that often appear to be from link farms. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:36:54 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10204 404's otherwise known as Page Not Found errors can have a serious effect on your SEO efforts. Google have provided a little widget that may help resolve some of these errors whilst also helping your visitors. Often a URL will get damaged in transit so a 404 error is returned instead. If the user is impatient they are just as likely to hit the back button or try a different site. This widget helps the visitor find the right page, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:09:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10201 Yahoo! Site Explorer is undergoing a makeover to provide a more dynamic interface for users. Whilst Site Explorer doesn't offer anywhere near as much information as Google Analytics, the feature can be helpful in the right hands. In the past, Site Explorer has enabled users to as submit feeds, delete URLs or report spam. One of their best functions has been the Dynamic URL Rewriting. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:01:32 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10196 Sounds like a novelty question - do you train your SEO consultant? I would hope he would train me a little so I could recognize when their work was succeeding. Believe it not, if your don't train, or perhaps a better word is educate, your SEO consultants, they will struggle to get your pages to the top of the SERP's. When I talk about educating your SEO consultants, I am of course referring to your business, your marketing methods and materials and product lines. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:48:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10143 Firefox is becoming one of the most popular browsers in use and every year it seems to drag more and more Internet Explorer users onside. One of the strengths of Firefox is the number of add-ons you can download and install. SEO tools haven't gone unnoticed and there are many add-ons written for this area. Finding the best SEO tools can be a little daunting as there are so many. If you have upgraded to Firefox 3. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:51:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10111 SeRoundTable has a series of live blog posts from the SES at San Jose that is currently underway. Some of the articles are quite fascinating and really worth a read. What is particularly fascinating is the difference of opinions between SEO professionals on a range of topics. Some of the best topics from day three include: Black Hat / White Hat: Playing Dirty with SEO: An amusing banter on this topic that really didn't define white hat or black hat. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:32:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10097 We all use search engines from time to time, and if your a frequent searcher you will know that at times the results returned can be quite frustrating. Is it the fault of the search engine, the websites, or the search engine optimization programs that are in place? The truth is, they are all to blame to a certain extent. You could also throw in the searcher too since their search phrase may have been vague. At present, this is the system we have. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:49:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10087 There are some things that will turn a prospect off before he reads the first word of your website. Some of them you probably already know but they do bear repeating. When the internet first came into being websites were patched together, and worked for their purpose since nobody knew any better. Now the internet stroller will be a more educated and discerning individual. As the user gets wiser so must the provider. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:34:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10065 Search engine optimization is not a static field. There are no rules and regulations and the major search engines will not tell you how to optimize your sites. In fact the search engines change their ranking methods at will leave us all trying to guess how to interpret the changes. The one area where search engines seem to be going is in personalization and being able to not only read content, but understand it as well. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:52:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10057 A good search engine optimization program can significantly increase your traffic flow and visitors that will generate sales for your business. More importantly, and often overlooked, is that this traffic is quality traffic. How do you define quality? Many years ago, one definition for quality was, "fulfills the purpose to which it was designed". That definition is still okay - but probably still a little stilted for what we need in today's world. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:14:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10051 A good search engine optimization program can significantly increase your traffic flow from search engines. More importantly, and often overlooked, is that this traffic is quality traffic. How do you define quality? Many years ago, one definition for quality was, "fulfills the purpose to which it was designed". That definition is still okay - but probably still a little stilted for what we need in today's world. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:35:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=10009 If you are a business owner with a brick & mortar location in the greater Boston area and have not had much success in the online space and are eagerly looking for a guiding light to help you with your online marketing knowledge or to help you launch that blog that you have been trying to get visible then the eBusiness Symposium might just be the answer for you. This Boston internet marketing event will help you get started with your online marketing campaign. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:13:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9997 Good search engine optimization practices suggest that links, particularly internal links, should have appropriate anchor text; that is, anchor text that uses keywords or keyphrases. Most website owners who are skilled in search engine optimization techniques know this already. However, sometimes the concentration is on deep content pages and the obvious links are left un-optimized. Examples that you may see frequently include the 'About' page, Sitemap and Contact pages. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:50:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9980 Having a good search engine optimization program is fine and chances are you will rank well in the search results. However, I am finding that more and more websites are concentrating too heavily on search engines. Before undertaking any website activity, your number one question has to be - "why am I doing this, who is it for?". If your answer is the search engines, then quit now, pack your website away and go home. If your answer is the reader, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:59:18 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9951 Online publicity is one of the marketing tactics that any company should take advantage of. Most of the publicity outlets online are low or no cost and very easy to use. Unfortunately if you do not plan your publicity path they can be as much an evil as they are good! Planning your online publicity track is not much different than planning the traditional track. It actually involves the same principles. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:11:10 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9925 Some META tags are used on a daily basis in SEO to fine tune a page for the search engines. There are however, several META tags that many people have never heard of, yet should probably either have in their knowledge cabinet to use where appropriate, or have already used if they new they existed. There are times when you do a search only to find the results are either out of date, or no longer available. A good example would be a blog or website that runs a competition. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:40:27 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9916 One of the core's of SEO is that content is king and that you cannot have too much content - so long as it is good content. However, anyone who is keen on analytics will know that only 20-25% of your pages actually draw significant traffic. Whether it is 20% or 50% is not relevant although the more pages you have, the more traffic you will receive. What is important is what you do with those pages that do draw the traffic. In effect, Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:21:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9909 There are many website owners that undertake their own search engine optimization programs and they get good results. There are also those that try to do it themselves, however, they spend as much time watching numbers as they do optimizing their sites. Watching numbers, in itself, is not wrong. Where DIY SEO gets into trouble is in the constant tinkering. The numbers aren't right so I have change something. But what? I know, I will try this. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:47:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9904 Human nature being what it is, we are always looking for that little extra edge, the shortcut that will get us ahead of the rest. SEO is like an Olympic sport, you can train hard, put in the extra work; and, if everything comes together on the day, you can strike gold. You can of course try a few short cuts. EPO or a similar performance enhancing substance. Rather that training harder, you let the chemicals do it for you. In SEO, this is known as 'black hat' techniques. Search Engines News SEO News Nick Stamoulis Nick Stamoulis Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:18:46 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=9903 Linking can be complex, link building can be frustrating. Here are three quick and simple linking rules that may help boost your SEO efforts. Link out: Linking to other sites does help your SEO programs. Make sure the links are to relevant content on sites with good authority. Link within: Maintain a balance of links within your own site. Where there are pages of content that relate to each other, provide links, preferably withing the content using appropriate anchor text. 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