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An E-Z Linking Strategy

In building a backlink strategy for your site, remember that there are different ways to get links. One of the easiest ways is to do a link exchange

Link exchanges are done with similar sites with both sites placing a link to the other. Link exchanges have been penalized by search engines because of heavy spam but there still benefits to doing a link exchange, so don’t be afraid to try.

Inbound one way links are, by far, the best links to get. These links are sometimes difficult to get because there is no exchange. It requires the other web site to link to you without you linking to them. Gaining one way links should rank near the top of your off-page optimization strategy.

In order to get one way links you have to get noticed. Getting noticed online is not a whole lot different than getting noticed off-line.

To gain links, you need to provide content that is unique and original to entice other sites to link to you. Adding a blog, or forum is an excellent way to continually add new content to your static site. If you have a static web site it will be much more difficult to gain links.

Applying SEO techniques such as the above can bring great benefits. As an example if you are trying to optimize a site that sells vitamins. The first step would be researching highly ranked competitors. After analyzing their sites you can use their blog or forum to determine what topics are hot. Typically in these community sites hot topics will draw quite a bit of traffic and comments from readers.

One method of gaining their attention is to look at the topics on their site that are creating the most commotion. When you find the hot topics, do a review of the site on your blog. In your review concentrate on the hot topic, but don’t just talk about their services. Point out what they have missed, or don’t have, keep in mind you want to draw their attention. The key is you’re not trying to advertise for them rather you want to establish yourself as an expert.

Often, the other site will notice your review. It’s not automatic, so you may have to bring it to their attention. Think of it as being in a crowd where everyone is talking. If you enter the conversation you must make sure to say something relevant. If you speak up and say something unrelated or meaningless people in the crowd will quickly dismiss you.

Here’s the trick to this technique, when you comment about a site or bring up a controversial point they have to link to you to reply to your review. Remember to position yourself as an expert when you do this. Don’t be rude or obnoxious, but make meaningful comments and reviews and you’re bound to get noticed.

Most Blogs track links to the site, so rest assured that if the blogger read something that needs to be addressed by them they will comment.

After you complete your review, leave a comment on the other site, don’t just leave it to fate for them to find it. You could excerpt a small portion of the review, just enough to draw attention and raise interest. This serves two purposes, primarily it will establish you as an expert, second their readers will follow the link from the comment to your site. The key is to do this on popular active sites. You wont benefit if the site is not active with members reading and commenting.

Over time this strategy will help increase traffic your site and build one way links to your site. If you do it right you’ll see the numbers jump in your traffic from other readers visiting your site to get the rest of the story.

An introduction- Forum, Fantastico and Magento hosting

It seems we all live in a world controlled by the latest technology. Information is openly and widely shared from person to person, country to country, all using the internet. Forum hosting is quickly becoming the world’s top choice for sharing with one another. Many hosting websites will offer a customer safe uploads of open source software and scripts. There are many websites to choose from when looking, so exploring a few different sites is always a good idea.

To help get you started, try looking into fantastico hosting. Fantastico charges a small fee of $3.95 a month. However, in return you gain access to over 250,000 web domains, and the number is growing all the time. The website provides you with domain names, unlimited web space, traffic, and great customer service. Fantastico has been building a reputation as a reliable script for 7 years. To ensure that their customers are receiving nothing but the highest quality service, Fantastico has four data center. All four data centers are spread across the nation, strategically placed to help the most amount of people in the quickest time possible.

Unlike many companies, the creators and staff are not afraid to hide. When you want to know about the company you can find much more than who founded it and what year it was. The staff at Fantastico makes meeting them and developing personal working relationships easy. All of the information you could possibly want to know about Fantastico can be found on their website, cirtexhosting.com/fantastico-hosting.shtml.

Magento hosting is another well known website for open source technology. Mageneto is a corporation that wanted to put control back into the hands of merchants who needed it. Their goal was to be flexible for their clients, a strategy that seems to be working. The best feature of Magento is that merchants and clients can completely control the look and content of their pages. There are templates to follow to make life easier; however, the control is left completely up to the merchant so that their online store will look and run exactly how they wish it to.

Since 2001 Magento hosting has been helping regular people turn their dreams into viable business. Magento holds a worldwide eCommerce conference every year, usually around February. If you’re looking into eCommerce professionally it’s advised to attend the conference and learn more, not only about eCommerce, but about Magento as well. For more information visit cirtexhosting.com/magento-hosting.shtml and learn about internet hosting. Fantastico and Magento are great places to start if you’re looking to start a business, network with businesses, or download the latest in open source technology.

Internet Users Face Unseen Dangers by not Hiding their IP Address (Page 1 of 2)

Many Internet users fail to realize the importance of hiding their IP address to maintain Internet privacy. Web surfers may know to maintain anonymity with a proxy server, but it is important for everyone to know the many reasons why an IP address should be masked and hidden while surfing. An Internet Protocol address is a numerical identification number given to devices in a computer network. Each device must know its own IP address and the IP address of the device with which it needs to communicate. Every person, company, device, or server that is online at has an IP address, which is similar to person’s home address. Someone must have your home address to send you a letter; much like a device must have your IP address to relay a packet of information. IP addresses hold a vast amount of information and knowing how to control the amount of information a website or company can gain on each user is up to the user.

An IP address maintains a record of geographic information based on where the user is surfing from. Many websites are readily available that allows a user to find his or her own IP address. Not only will these websites easily show a user’s IP address, but also what city, state, and country they are surfing from and the ISP they are using. A website will not be able to track a user down to their home address based on their IP, but in most cases it can get within a few miles with great accuracy, depending on the closest network hub. A subpoenaed ISP or a company checking their web logs on the other hand can easily locate the user’s home or cubicle. Some of the better websites will also give the user’s area code, geographic longitude and latitude, whether a proxy is being used, and the type of Internet connection (cable, dsl, etc.) a user has.

Users surfing from work can benefit from masking their IP address. When connecting from work, the IP address is generated from the company’s Internet server, which gives all the same information previously stated. This information is not directly tracked to a specific user, but to the company itself. If an employee is researching the competition, the competitor will see the IP address of the company and could send them to a “dummy” site with false information. Another reason an employee may want to hide their IP at work is to avoid breaking company guidelines by surfing for personal reasons. If an employee masks his or her IP while surfing it will not be tracked back to the company. A good proxy server will also hide the origin site (the site the user just came from) with a fake domain so that the company web logs will not show the real sites the employee was surfing.

Aside from work purposes, web surfers have many personal reasons to hide their IP. Search engines, marketing companies, and even their own Internet Service Provider track and record their data. Masking the IP address with an anonymous proxy is a great way to avoid being monitored by these companies. They associate the stored data with the “fake” IP address, leaving the user’s real IP address free from having been recorded or spammed. Users may also find that their IP address is blocked from accessing certain content or websites. This can be due to guideline violations, bandwidth limits, or the website blocking IPs/only allowing IPs from certain places. Surfing with an anonymous proxy will allow surfers to use a fresh IP address whenever they encounter one of these restrictions, or to avoid having their surfing habits tracked and recorded.