Today's tip covers something that I've been doing for a while, but not everyone uses. Social media sites like MySpace and Facebook can be great for getting your name out. You can offer a lot of rich content that gets people excited about your brand. There are a few things that you can do though, to drive traffic from those sites over to yours. Today we're going to focus on how to get visitors from these types of sites, and how to convert those visitors to clients.

Today we're going to cover an easy self SEO tip that you can use to increase the power of pages that link to you. The first links for your web site are often the hardest to get. When a site is popular everyone wants to link to it. When you do get the first few critical links to your site, how do you make sure that they will be popular in the future? Using this tip, you can drive extra traffic to these sites and ensure better search engine power for your backlinks. You can use this on blog posts, press releases, reviews, or just about any type of web page.

I like to help people. I discovered long ago that teaching people the basics of promoting their sites saves a lot of work and headaches down the road. There are a lot of people who spend a lot of time promoting their sites the old fashioned way. Well I'm here to tell you that there are better ways to promote your site, and you've probably never heard of them. That’s why I've decided to share one of my newest backlink secrets with everyone who reads here for free.

The SEMMYS are search marketing awards dedicated to highlighting the best blog posts of the year. The best part about this web site is looking through the titles alone I see many of my favorite blog posts from the year. This page is an amazing resource for any business looking to promote on the web. While I haven't finished reading all of the posts (there are well over 100), there were some favorites that I'm about to share with you.

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce all of you to a project that I've been working on. It is a social network for people interested in promoting their own web sites. I've been experimenting with Ning.com and love how easy it is to setup a social network of your own. I used it to setup the SEO Marketing Self Help Community recently. I plan on expanding and doing some more tips and links there in the future. The Now the real question is why.

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When building links for your web site it's important to mix things up a bit. Today we're going to cover strategies for making your links more effective. We'll cover a few common problems that people new to link building often run in to. Finally, we'll discuss something you can do on your own site to help build page strength.

Getting a popular high PageRank site in your subject area to link to you can be difficult. There are probably plenty of them out there, but why would they link to you? Today we’re going to cover a very easy yet potentially powerful way to build strong links with little work. Actually the beauty of this tip is any time you don’t have something to write about, you can use it. It is guaranteed to give you something to say with out wracking your brain. You might even get a nice strong backlink for your web site. Since backlinks are critical for people finding your site naturally as well as in search engines it’s a double win.

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.