Well 2008 is upon us and we are looking at a different world from what we saw in the beginning of 2007. Google made changes to it's visible rankings of pages who it considered to be selling advertising. Google says that selling links for SEO purposes is bad, and wants advertisers to tag links with a "nofollow" tag. This lowers the links value in the eyes of all search engines. So what does that mean for you? Buying links just got a lot trickier. The good news is I’ve compiled a few tips to help get some new links, and most of them are even free!

Things have been quiet on the blog lately. That's partly due to the fact that my wife is due to give birth any time now, and I've been spending less time writing here, and more time with her. I have been writing a good deal though. In fact I'm nearing completion of a new free SEO guide that I hope to have completed in the next few days. This guide is designed to answer many questions that web site owners have, and is packed with tips and links. The goal of the guide is to teach you how to determine the most important tasks of basic SEO. We cover using analytics to track visitors, making sure search engines can see you site, checking your search engine rankings, choosing keywords, examining your competitors, and that's only the first two chapters! In this guide I skip the fluff and go straight to the meat. The type of meat you can use to grow huge web site traffic. I'm releasing the guide to my newsletter readers first, so if you haven't yet subscribed, check out the subscribe link at the bottom of the article. For now, here is a sample from the introduction. It includes tips for people who don't already own a web site, but want to start one. Enjoy!

The holidays are upon us, and everyone is getting ready to start sending their holiday mail. The question is, should you? The last few weeks of December and the first few days of January are the biggest times of the year for e-mail. Inboxes are flooded with personal mail and plenty of junk. Today we're going to go over the pros and cons of sending holiday mail. Then I'll give some suggestions on things you can do to get the word out on your products and services before the holidays. Finally, I'll list a resource that you can use to keep in contact with your clients.

In the previous article part one on SEO link building for people and search engines we discussed where to look for getting good links, and what to look for to determine if the link is good. Today I'm going to discuss the types of links that are less helpful, and the types that can actually give your web site a bad reputation. I'll also get in to some resources you can use to build links for your web site.

Link building has become a major part of search engine marketing. It is used (along with many other metrics) to determine how popular a web site is. Popularity is an important thing to search engines, because popular sites are often popular for a reason. Many giving SEO advice would have you believe that you need as many links as you can get, which is partially true. Today I'm going to discuss the different types of links and the best kinds to get for your web site.

I received an e-mail from the Wordtracker keyword software that they are holding a special for the month of November. Enter the promotion code us-annual-15. This offer code provides a 15% discount on the purchase of an annual subscription if used by November 30. I've talked about Wordtracker in the past and use it regularly as part of my keyword research. For those of you who are unfamiliar here is a little overview:

Doing SEO on your own can be tough. There are plenty of "experts" in SEO waiting to milk you from your hard earned cash and leave you with no results or worse. Bad SEO can get your site banned or worse. The good news is I've compiled a few general self SEO Tips to get you rolling. With this article I hope to show you what to look for and what to avoid. While it won't replace a good search engine marketer, it will hopefully educate a few people on what to look for.

SEO Visibitly for SEO Visibility

When people are searching for things they often type something wrong. This happens every day, and it might have even happened to you right now. SEO Visibitly is optimizing content or even better pay per click ads to focus on misspellings. It is often a follow up to a main SEO strategy, but it can be quite cost effective. While researching for these terms you might even come across a new niche of traffic to draw upon.