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Dell.com is Buying Paid Links

Posted by Saad as Link Building, News, SEO 9 Comments

Philipp Lenssen points out that Dell may be buying text links from many high Page Rank Websites. Buying text links to artificially manipulate search ranking and also to increase Pagerank is openly known as a ’sin’ in the SEO industry and it is also against Google’s Official Webmaster guideline.
OpenSourceTemplates.org, which has a Page Rank [...]

Credibility is more Important than On-Page Optimization

Posted by Saad as SEO 5 Comments

This morning when I saw an article submitted by QualityGal at Sphinn which made to the Front Page. I wanted to write a comment on it, but as my comment became big I thought maybe I should just post it in my blog so that everyone can read.
So long story short - Ragan Communications, [...]

Domain Registration Info - Does it have any Impact on Rankings?

Posted by Saad as SEO 3 Comments

Barry Schwartz @ Search Engine Roundtable, raised a very interesting question that caught my attention this evening. A question that I was meaning to ask you all long time back via a Poll.
But later I did some extensive research on this and got my answer. Do I want to share the info with you? Hell [...]

Official Gmail Theme Launches

Posted by Saad as Google, News, SEO, Tips & Hacks 4 Comments

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch just reported that some lucky users were able to see a new button under their Gmail Settings Tab - Themes!

Yes thats right! It looks like Gmail Team is finally coming up with their own set of themes that Gmail users will be able to click-n-change! I guess most of the Gmail [...]

Microsoft Teaches Black Hat SEO

Posted by Saad as Microsoft, SEO, SEO Tips 12 Comments

Today I was pretty amazed to read an article by the Sr. Product Manager of Microsoft, Skip Chilcott who openly endorsed that webmasters should participate in Link Exchange as it helps to boost the rankings in search engines.
That totally contradicts with what I wrote in my complete Linkbuilding tutorial and most importantly it [...]

Official Google SEO Guide

Posted by Saad as Google, SEO 19 Comments

Google has just released an Official Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide for the webmasters. In a recent blog post at Webmaster Central blog, Brandon Falls of the Google Search Quality Team writes that many webmasters often have some basic SEO questions that goes unanswered or they just get confused due to the fact that SEO [...]

Link Building : A Complete Walkthrough

Posted by Saad as Featured, Link Building, SEO, SEO Tips 60 Comments

External Links (Links coming from other sites) was (*and still probably is) one of the major contributor of any Search Engine Optimization effort. Obviously links alone can’t help you to rank well in the Search Engines, but they do play a “major” role to push your ranking up to the top.
What is Link Building? [...]