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There are few more important factors in your website's success than the people who link to it. But why are links so important, and how can you get more people to link to you? Read 'The Importance of Links'.

To practically gauge the success or failure of a pay per click account, advertisers need to understand certain metrics and what they mean. Here is a simplified account on pay per click campaign optimization, focused on three factors - keyphrases, ads, and landing pages - and three metrics - click-through rate, cost per click, and conversion rate. Read 'Pay Per Click Metrics'.

I am sure that most people who have a website are looking into ways to help them to attract more people to read their site. There are many differing opinions on the best way to go about doing this but one thing that most people agree on is that it is essential to build up the number of backward links that point to your site. The question is how do we obtain these links? Read 'The Importance Of Obtaining Backward Links'.

Obtaining incoming links to your website fulfils two main objectives. Firstly it increases the traffic you could potentially receive to your site because the more links you have the more traffic you should receive, and secondly, by obtaining links from pages with a good page rank you can increase your own page rank which, although not the deciding factor, will help boost your ranking in the search engines. Read '10 Ways To Get Incoming Links To Your Website'.

Backlinks have been the subject of every successful SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) to date, and that quite simply is a fact. With constantly changing algorithms from the likes of Google, Search Engine Optimisers have to keep up with what works and what doesn't. Read 'Backlinks 101'.

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Titles and Headlines: It's Not a Newspaper

Titles are some of the most vital parts of your site, especially if it consists of a series of articles. Yet they're also some of the most ignored elements of all web pages, and more difficult than you'd think to do correctly. You have to realise that you're not writing headlines - it's more interactive than that. Read 'Titles and Headlines: It's Not a Newspaper'.

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Are You Targeting The Wrong Keywords?

Like it or not, the keywords and phrases you select to describe your site within your META tags and body text can make or break your listings in the search engines. It's a sad fact that most companies are targeting the wrong keywords and losing traffic as a result. Even sites that have excellent rankings will not benefit if those rankings are for unsuitable keywords. Read 'Are You Targeting The Wrong Keywords?'.

Professional Keyword Research Strategies

Keyword research is an integral part of any SEM initiative, whether it may be PPC or SEO, so it's important to do it right. Its also important to do it right from the start, Google spiders (the bots that indexes web pages) can takes up to months before they cycle to your site, so if you target the wrong keywords initially, it could take months to fix. Read 'Professional Keyword Research Strategies'.

Why Are Long Tail Keywords So Important?

Long tail keywords is a term you will often come across in SEO circles, and basically refers to the less popular keywords that get fewer searches per month in the search engines, but are easier to rank highly for, because there are far fewer sites competing for that term. Read 'Why Are Long Tail Keywords So Important?'.