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.

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.

Besides our normal client work, we've been building out our Costa Rica SEO section to include even more information. We've also organized it a bit better to make sure that the most important info doesn't get overlooked. In the next few weeks our blog posts will be slower as we expand our marketing and web design sections with more information as well. Along with these we're planning on updating our Self SEO Help section with more user requested content. So, what we would like to know is: What type of SEO advice do our readers want to see? Leave a comment here, and tell us what type of SEO questions you have. We will then take all or some of these and add them to our Self SEO Help section. Until next time, take care and Pura Vida!

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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Over the weekend we released a major update to the web site expanding the information greatly to better answer the questions we were getting from visitors. I’m going to take a few minutes to cover some of the things we added and make sure that no one misses our special offers for January, which include $500 odd web site design and 10% off of all services for all of 2008! Take a look at what’s new and enjoy the savings.

Jaco, Costa Rica January 7, 2008 – Costa Rica's amazing atmosphere and people grab people's business and attention world wide. Web development and SEO firms flourish in this hot technology climate.

Why are so many big technology companies, such as Intel and Hewlett Packard, moving resources to the small tropical country of Costa Rica? It could be for the amazing climate, but it is most likely due to the amazing people. Costa Rica has the highest educated and most technology inclined populace in Central America. The promise of a well educated and trained work force has brought many big name companies here and more coming every day.

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.

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.